Albus Dumbledore

* FBAWTFT
* Harry Potter

***Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them:*** 47 years old with dark brown hair, and short beard, blue trenchcoat, bola hat with a suit

### Home

Godric's Hollow (formerly)
Hogwarts Castle
Mould-on-the-Wold (formerly)

### Goal

To defeat Lord Voldemort by destroying his horcruxes (succeeded)
Break the Blood Pact between himself and Grindelwald (succeeded)
To stop Gellert Grindelwald. (Succeeded)

## Relationships

### Relatives

Percival Dumbledore † (father)
Kendra Dumbledore † (mother)
Credence Barebone (alleged relative)
Aberforth Dumbledore (younger brother)
Ariana Dumbledore † (Younger sister)
Honoria (aunt)

### **Enemies**

Gellert Grindelwald, Tom Riddle/Lord Voldemort, Bellatrix Lestrange, Lucius Malfoy, Death Eaters, Peter Pettigrew, Quirinus Quirrell, Barty Crouch Jr., Cornelius Fudge, Dolores Umbridge, Fenrir Greyback, John Dawlish

## Personal Information

### Occupation

Student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (formerly)
Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts (formerly)
Head of the Transfiguration Department (formerly)
Headmaster of Hogwarts
Columnist for Transfiguration Today (formerly)

### Affiliations

Good
Hogwarts
Harry Potter
Newt Scamander
Order of the Phoenix

### Paraphernalia

The Invisibility Cloak (formerly)
The Elder Wand
The Pensieve
Deluminator
Pocket Watch with Telve Hands

### Powers/Abilities

Magic
Incredible duals skills
Transplanage
Pyrokinesis
Occlumency and Legilimency
Spell Creation
Transfiguring
Healing
Flight
Deathly Hollow Mastery
Incredible Genius Intelligence
Incredible Charisma
Leadership Skills
Teaching skills

### Likes

Lemon drops, Gellert Grindelwald (formerly), power (former), Newt Scamander, Harry Potter, love, to have his family whole again, Harry succeeding, Newt succeeding, teaching

### Dislikes

His family broken apart, Ariana's death, Aberforth's grudge, dark magic, danger

## Character Information

### **Origin**

*Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone*

### **Portrayed by**

Richard Harris (films 1 & 2)
Michael Gambon (films 3–8)
Jude Law (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald)
Toby Regbo (young, film 7, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald)

### Created By

J.K. Rowling

**Albus Dumbledore** is one of the protagonists of *Harry Potter* books and film series and a pivotal character in the *Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them* franchise. He mentored both Harry Potter and Newt Scamander and sought to defeat Voldemort and his former friend Gellert Grindelwald.

## Background

Albus was the first-born son of Kenra and Percival Dumbledore. His younger siblings included a brother, Aberforth and a younger sister, Ariana. At age eighteen, Dumbledore met Gellert Grindelwald. They both created a blood pact to never fight one another, both appearing unbreakable.

However, his younger sister, Ariana, was killed in a three-way-duel between Albus and Aberforth and Gellert Grindelwald. Unaware of which spell killed her, Grindelwald fled the scene, which haunted Albus in his older years.

## JK Rowling's *Harry Potter*

### *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone*

Albus Dumbledore makes his début appearance in the 1998 novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling. He, Rubeus Hagrid and Minerva McGonagall leave Harry at his aunt and uncle's house. He later appears when Harry first appears at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He finds Harry one night during Christmas looking at the Mirror of Erised. He advises Harry to never look for the mirror again, as it will be moved somewhere else. Dumbledore enchanted the mirror for the Philosopher's Stone to be stored in.

Dumbledore later rescues Harry from Professor Quirrel when he is able to take the Philosopher's Stone, as the enchantment would only let someone who would not want the stone for selfish reasons. Dumbledore also reveals he was the one to give Harry the invisibility cloak,a s his father would have wanted his son to have it. At the end of the year feast, Dumbeldore proclaims Gryffindor the winners for the House Cup that school year.

### *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*

During the course of the second novel, innocent muggle-born students are petrified by an unknown creature in attacks, Dumbledore begins to suspect that Tom Riddle is behind them. He also refuses to believe Harry is responsible for the attacks as well. During the last half of the novel, Lucius Malfoy forces the other school's eleven governors to suspend Dumbledore as the Chamber of Secrets is opened. However, he is reinstated after Ginny Weasley was kidnapped by the Basilisk.

## *Harry Potter*film series

Dumbledore appears in all eight films and is one of the thirteen characters to do so. He is portrayed by the late Richard Harris in the first film and second films. After Harris' passing, he was replaced by Michael Gambon for the rest of the series.

One of the most notable differences in *The Goblet of Fire* was that Dumbledore yelled at Harry when it was discovered that he put his name in the Goblet of Fire. Fans of the novel pointed out that Dumbeldore would never have reacted like that.

## *Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them* film series

### *Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them*

Dumbledore is only mentioned in *Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them*. Disguised as Percival Graves, Grindelwald asks Newt why Dumbledore is so fond of him.

### *Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald*

Dumbledore appeared in the second film, *The Crimes of Grindelwald*, where he was portrayed by Jude Law, who also portrays Dr John Watson from *Sherlock Holmes* and Mar-Vell from *Captain Marvel*.

In the film, Dumbledore has Newt travel to Paris. It is revealed that he and Grindelwald created a blood pact to never harm each other.

Albus and Credence Barebone are heavily implied to be related.

## Trivia

* Harry and Ginevra Weasley named their second son, Albus, after Dumbledore and Severus Snape, two headmasters of Hogwarts, giving him their first names.