Albus Dumbledore

**Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore**, O.M. (First Class), Grand Sorc., D. Wiz., X.J. (sorc.), S. of Mag.Q., is a canonical wizard and headmaster of Hogwarts. He became famous as the man who defeated Gellert Grindelwald, and had a major role in the resistance against Voldemort's two attempts to take power in Magical Britain. Beside his career at Hogwarts, he also served as Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot and Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards. He was killed by Severus Snape on 30 June 1997 at the Hogwarts Astronomy Tower.

## Canonical information

Main article: **Albus Dumbledore** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Albus was born in late August of 1881, and was thus 115 years old when he died.

Due to his conflict with Minister Fudge, he was removed from the posts as Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot and Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards in July 1995, being succeeded on the latter by Babajide Akingbade; he was restored to the former in June 1996, as well as to that of British *delegate* to the ICW.

## Non-canonical information

### *The Girl Who Loved* and *Violence Inherent in the System*

In these stories, Dumbledore is initially presented as somewhat naive in his over-all approach to turning Dark wizards to the Light, and easily manipulated by Snape who has not, in fact, reformed. (This, and possibly many other oddities in the wizarding world, is explained by an avid use – both medicinal and recreational – of marijuana and, in some cases, stronger drugs.)

Here, Dumbledore is made out to be older than in canon: Hermione Granger thinks that had he been "one hundred and thirty years younger", she might have given up her resistance against marrying "a successful older man", and Albus himself notes that if he had been "one hundred and twenty years younger" he might have tried to hit on Snape; both implying a birth sometime around 1840. He also claims to have "stopped chasing young girls before the muggles learned how to fly", but given that he goes on to contrast this with his "desire to chase grown women" (and explicitly decides not to mention his attraction to men), this might well be true of the canonical Dumbledore as well (at least if it refers to the Wright brothers in 1903 rather than, say, Henri Giffard crossing the English Channel in 1853 – presumably, it was not the Montgolfier brothers in 1783 or Jean-Pierre Blanchard in 1785).

## *The Power of Seven*

Having overcome the curse on Marvolo Gaunt's ring, he uses the Resurrection Stone to talk to what he believes is the spirit of Gellert Grindelwald but which in reality is the horcrux slowly invading his mind. When he learns that there is a way to get rid of the horcrux in Harry without killing him, he strongly argues against it on the grounds that anything affecting the soul is inherently dark, even if powered by love, but also because it goes against his own plan of killing Voldemort after *he* kills Harry (thus fulfilling the prophecy that one must kill the other, while not letting the war drag out for the time it would take to train Harry to the point where he can defeat Voldemort), and when he realizes that Harry and his friends have gone ahead with the plan anyway, he conspires with Bill Weasley to collapse the blood wards at 4 Privet Drive to destroy Harry's sex drive and thus prevent him from continuing.

However, Harry escapes and moves into Bones Manor instead, and so Dumbledore turns to plan C: luring Harry into a trap where Voldemort can kill him. Only, to do so he must coordinate with the latter, a mission from which he does not return, and when Harry and his girls eventually breach the Dark Lord's lair they find the latter's dead body and his spirit possessing Dumbledore. Of course, unlike the body created from "the bones of the father", this body does not contain Harry's blood and thus is not protected from the sacrificial magic that killed Quirinus Quirrell... Luckily, this time Harry is able to control it so that it only burns away the dark parts and leaves the real Dumbledore mostly untouched. Once he recovers, he apologizes to Harry for his actions and, now feeling his age, retires from his posts as Headmaster, Chief Warlock and Supreme Mugwump (although, since he canonically had already been succeeded in the last one by Babajide Akingbade, this should probably rather read "ICW delegate").

### Minor details

* In *Ignore the Dementor*, he is said to sing in his sleep.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *The Girl Who Loved*, Chapter 3
2. ↑ *The Girl Who Loved*, Chapter 6
3. ↑ *The Girl Who Loved*, Chapter 16
4. ↑ *The Girl Who Loved*, Chapter 13
5. ↑ *The Girl Who Loved*, Chapter 17
6. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 20 (last scene of the chapter)
7. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 29
8. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 46 (last scene of the chapter)
9. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 57 (last scene of the chapter)
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 80
11. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 2
12. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 46
13. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 57 (second-to-last scene of the chapter)
14. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 69
15. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 78
16. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 79
17. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 17