Albus Dumbledore

***“I have long thought that “for the Greater Good” were the four most dangerous words in the English language”***

*- Albus Dumbledore to Rufus Scrimigour on his opinion of “The Greater Good”*

**Albus Brian Wulfric Percival Dumbledore** is the Headmaster of Hogwarts, Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, and the founder of the vigilante group known as Order of the Phoenix who combated the Dark Lord Voldemort during the British Wizarding War.

## Biography

### Family Lineage

The Dumbledore family are not a Noble family, but they were Purebloods before Albus' father, Percival Dumbledore, married a Muggleborn. This made Albus and his siblings half-bloods.

### Early Life

He was born in the village of Mould-on-the-Wold to Percival and Kendra Dumbledore. He later had 2 younger siblings, a brother named Aberforth and a sister named Ariana.

His early years were marked by tragedy when his younger sister Ariana was attacked by two Muggle boys who saw her use magic and were frightened by what they saw. Ariana was left mentally and emotionally damaged by the event and her magic was altered, only manifesting on random occasions, usually in violent or destructive ways. Albus' father attacked the two Muggle boys in revenge and was sent to Azkaban for the crime.

In the aftermath of the sentencing, Albus developed a disdain for muggles that lasted through his adolescence and Kendra decided to relocate the children to Godric's Hollow. There Ariana was kept hidden for her own safety while Kendra learned to care for Ariana and her condition.

Albus attended Hogwarts in 1892 and was sorted into Gryffindor House. He excelled in all of his subjects, lauded by his teachers and peers as a once a generation magical prodigy and was likely a Prefect and later Head Boy. At one point he entered a romantic relationship that ended badly, he turned to opium and later alcohol to cope until after he graduated.

In the summer after he graduated Hogwarts, Kendra, his mother, was killed by an outburst of Ariana's magic. Albus had been planning to travel the world with his school friend Elphias Doge, but cancelled his plans to take care of his family. The same summer, Albus met Gellert Grindelwald, his neighbour Bathilda Bagshot's great-nephew. They bonded over a shared academic and magical brilliance and Albus became attracted to Gellert. They entered a romantic relationship and Albus abandoned the bottle in pursuit of grand ambitions he developed with Gellert.

The partners made plans to find The Deathly Hallows, strike down the Statute of Secrecy and reestablish the world as a Wizarding Supremest society with themselves "For the Greater Good”, a phrase Albus was the first to use as justification. Aberforth was angry at Albus for what he perceived as abandoning the family in pursuit of disgusting ambitions and a duel broke out between Aberforth, Albus and Grindelwald when he called them out on how they have no way of properly taking care of Ariana while carrying out their megalomaniacal plans. Ariana attempted to break up the fight, but was struck by a stray curse and killed. Albus never knew who fired the spell that killed her. Grindelwad fled Britain and Albus and Aberforth buried their sister, with Aberforth starting a brawl with Albus during the funeral in a fit of rage for all the damage Albus caused by bringing a psychopath into their home and letting him fuel his own ego.

After the incident he decided to use his Occlumency skills to erase his capacity for romantic love lest he be manipulated again by someone like Gellert Grindelwad.

He later left Godric’s Hollow and studied Alchemy under Nicholas and Pernelle Flamel before returning to England and becoming the Transfiguration Professor at Hogwarts.

On December 31, 1937 he was assigned by Headmaster Dippet to inform a muggleborn student of their magic and enrolment at Hogwarts, he travelled to Wool’s Orphanage in London to meet with the prospective student Tom Riddle. He informed him of his magic, and the 2 struck up a conversation where Albus told him how to get to Diagon Alley and reprimanded Tom for stealing, and Tom revealed his nature as a Parselmouth, his unprecedented control over his accidental magic and heavily implied to using said magic to hurt the other children at the orphanage. He kept an eye on the boy during his early years as a student and was proud to see him lean away from the blood purist agenda of his inbred ancestors and develop an incredible affinity for magic of all branches.

As Gellert Grindelwad’s increasingly violent Wizarding Supremacy movement spread across Europe and he became a Dark Lord “For the Greater Good”, Albus stepped up to combat the monstrous threat to the world his former lover had become. Among other accomplishments from recruiting several talented wizards into the war and serving as a key leader and tactician for over a decade.

He joined the British Wizarding Expedition in the summer of 1943 to take to the frontlines, showcasing his talent as one of, if not the best fighter the Allied Forced had against the Dark Lord Grindelwad.

He defeated Gellert Grindelwad during a legendary in Berlin in May of 1945. He presumably became the Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation Of Wizards in the decade following.

He later inquired about Tom Riddle who had graduated in June of 1945, he learned that Tom took a job at a shop in Knockturn Alley post graduation despite access to Horace Slughorns connections and was rumoured to be consorting with unsavoury magics and wizards and was a suspect in 3 murders and 1 theft before disappearing in 1953.

By 1957 he was the Headmaster of Hogwarts and had arranged a meeting with Tom Riddle for an interview for the position of Defence against the Dark Arts position. Due to all the mysterious incidents surrounding Riddle before his disappearance and the fact that Albus had no clue what on earth he’d been doing for the last 4 years, he denied Tom Riddle’s application. Since that year no one has held the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor longer than a year.

He Founded The Order of The Phoenix in the 1970s to combat the increasingly dangerous threat of the mysterious Dark Lord Voldemort.

He became the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot sometime after 1975

## Physical Appearance

Albus is described as being tall, with long, silver-white hair and a long beard of the same colour. He has piercing blue eyes that are often described as twinkling. He wears half-moon spectacles.

## Personality & Traits

Albus is very intelligent. He cares a lot for those around him. He is anti-blood purity and has helped Muggleborns gain greater rights in Wizarding Britain as a result of this.

## Magical Abilities & Skills

Albus is one of the most powerful wizards alive. He was able to defeat Gellert Grindelwald and duelled Voldemort to a standstill. He was the apprentice of Nicholas Flamel, who trained him in Alchemy. He is a Transfiguration Master and taught Transfiguration at Hogwarts.