Regardless, the curse left his hand blackened and dead-looking, and no amount of healing could repair the appearance. It's unknown whether Credence/Aurelius' mother was on the ship that sank on its way to New York. This love acts as a sort of protection and is a deep kind of magic. Even a slight exertion of Dumbledore's serious side and anger could intimidate the likes of Harry Potter, and even the Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge, evidenced when they both were shocked when Dumbledore made it clear quite firmly that Hagrid did not open the Chamber of Secrets, despite Dumbledore not openly showing anger. Harry and Snape hated each other, so their exceptionally-important lessons went poorly. It was in that moment that Harry realised exactly why Dumbledore was the only wizard that Voldemort ever feared. Dumbledore avoided Harry because he thought that Voldemort may be able to use their connection against him. Dumbledore, while often kind and calm, did have a very serious side of himself and was capable of a terrifying wrath. In the instructions Dumbledore ordered her to make some copies of Newt's suitcase. ), S. of Mag.Q. The drink also was weakening him and made him extremely thirsty as well and caused him great pain (the whole purpose of the potion). One night, Albus sent a letter by owl to Gellert in the 'dead of night'. Who better to face Lord Voldemort? Scan this QR code to download the app now. Death, however, served to restore him to full health and strength: his spirit was described as walking sprightly and upright, with hands that were both whole and white and undamaged, and looking exactly how Harry remembered him to be. [90] It was most likely also Dumbledore who instructed Jacob's sibling's Head of House to not permit them to go on Hogsmeade trips due to them breaking school rules and not focusing on their studies. Crouch put Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire and helped him with the tasks of the Triwizard Tournament, sending him to Voldemort. Some had reportedly even gone mad; not knowing if what it showed them was real or even possible. His eyes were described to be a brilliant, soul-piercing shade of blue, and usually twinkled with kindness and mischief. The fact that Dumbledore himself was there to meet Harry in a place between life and death attests to the bond of fellowship between them, not to mention Dumbledore had been waiting nearly a year for Harry in limbo. It does, however, reframe certain events, with Aberforth's bitterness towards his brother over his secrecy feeling somewhat different in light of his own secrets. One thing that really irked me was his bias towards his house. However, Dumbledore did not take the bait as he cared for Harry too much to do it. Gellert Grindelwald, his former lover and great enemy. But did he really? Can we blame him for being young and in love? Most importantly, he still didn't let the loss of this love stop him from loving again. [62], Dumbledore trying on Marvolo Gaunt's Ring, activating a nasty curse, During the summer of 1996, Dumbledore tracked one of Voldemort's Horcruxes to the house of the Gaunts. Dumbledore always looked after Fawkes when he was reborn after his countless deaths and in return Fawkes was extremely loyal to him. A year later, the Malfoy family changed sides. He did not realise that Harry Potter had won the allegiance of the wand from Draco during a skirmish in the Malfoy Manor not long before. Throughout Dumbledore's efforts to undermine the Dark Lord's rise to power, a great many witches and wizards passed was educated at Hogwarts: Some of these became staunchly loyal to him and what he stood for, whereas others would become enemies, allying themselves with Lord Voldemort. What about Dumbledore's own personal love story? While we lost . He sent Newt to Paris to rescue Credence, who survived battle in New York, but Newt was reluctant, nevertheless he was willing to accept the address of a safe-house. Since that time Dumbledore has shown many examples of his faith in Hagrid. And that is exactly what we got in Deathly Hallows and especially the chapter Kings Cross. And there you have it, folks. Even though it's been over a decade sinceHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallowshit bookshelves worldwide and brought J.K. Rowling's beloved series about the Boy Who Lived to an end, us fanshave understandably refused tomove on. Another very loyal Death Eater was Barty Crouch Jnr, who was imprisoned in Azkaban by his father, but escaped with the help of his mother. Minerva McGonagall: his friend, colleague, and former student, Minerva McGonagall knew Dumbledore for the majority of her life. However, as Dumbledore was about to leave, Trelawney fell into a real trance and made a prophecy about the birth of the one that would have the power to vanquish the Dark Lord, who would be born to those "who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies". In the "Harry Potter" books and films, Voldemort and Dumbledore first meet when the former was 11 years old, in an orphanage, and went by his birth name of Tom Riddle. [64], Having sensed his underlying decency of instinct despite his disregard for the school rules and, more importantly, fully recongised that there had been no malintent on his part when he had triggered the safeguards of the vaults, having done so on accident, Dumbledore was very lenient with the boy. Barty Crouch was given the Dementor's Kiss in 1995. After Ariana's death, Albus and Aberforth's relationship became very estranged, as Aberforth blamed Albus for the death of the sister he and his mother spent so much time caring for. [46], Dumbledore and Harry Potter in the Crystal Cave, After much searching, Dumbledore eventually tracked another of Voldemort's Horcruxes to a cave that as a young orphan, he had once visited. Nevertheless, Dumbledore tried to indirectly participate in Grindelwald's defeat, and he used Newt to do it by sending him to America with the injured Thunderbird Frank, knowing somehow Grindelwald had infiltrated America in search for the Obscurial there, which Dumbledore knew he intended to use against him. He lies to him about only finding one qilin (the key magical creature in Fantastic Beasts 3) and he lets Newt and Aberforth know he wants to come home via Aberforth's magical two-way mirror in Hog's Head Inn. [31], Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald's restaurant meeting, He ordered a cup of tea for himself and informed the waitress that he was waiting for somebody, who was Gellert Grindelwald. He was loved in Philosopher's Stone, when he comforted Harry about the loss of his parents; he was loved in Order of the Phoenix, where he faced off against Lord . [35], In 1913, one of Leta's experiments with a Jarvey went too far endangering the life of another student. Dumbledore reluctantly tolerated the Dementors on school grounds but refused to allow them within the school itself. [46], Harry and Dumbledore discussing memories of Tom Riddle, Throughout the 19961997 school year, Dumbledore passed on certain pieces of information to Harry Potter that would be important for the boy in his quest to destroy the Dark Lord. Dumbledore mentioned that rumours about her brother Corvus Lestrange, who was now believed to be Credence Barebone, must have been painful for her, which angered the witch, who interrupted his statement and added that he could not understand her, because he did not lose his brother. To which Rowling responded: "My truthful answer to you . Per the plan, Dumbledore was killed by Snape during the Battle of the Astronomy Tower. Dumbledore met Tom Riddle for the first time there and was unaware at the time that he had just met the person who would become the most powerful and dangerous Dark wizard of all time. This boy could have been part of our lives, part of our family." Its really dangerous and kids have died competing in it and Harrys name came out as a magically impossible fourth competitor. During an ill-fated Summer in Godric's Hollow, the teenage boys fostered a friendship that bordered on fanatic; the two became obsessed with finding the Deathly Hallows and mastering Death. [28] Unlike many of the wand's previous owners, Dumbledore kept its identity a closely guarded secret. While he hardly ever spoke of this guilt to anyone, Dumbledore admitted it to Leta Lestrange in an effort to get her to open up about her own guilt and admitted that he had not loved Ariana enough during her life. Ever since Johnny Depp's Gellert Grindelwald revealed Credence's identity as Aurelius Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, viewers have been criticizing the huge plot twist for its potential to hurt the Harry Pottercanon. Dumbledore doesn't always wear his spectacles in the films (except the third where he was wearing them during every on-screen appearance in that film, while in the fourth film he wore his spectacles at different times, in the fifth film he wore them only during the Start-of-Term Feast and in the sixth film, he wore them just during the Start-of-Term Feast and for a brief moment in his office examining Tom Riddle's diary just before Harry entered and sees Dumbledore's memory of meeting Riddle. He also adopted the role of secret agent for Voldemort and supplied him with strategic scraps of information about the Order. Albus Dumbledore locked in combat with Voldemort. [62], The year after, the Ministry of Magic took it upon itself to increase security around Hogwarts. [32], Before the Start-of-Term Feast of the 19861987 school year, Professor Dumbledore spoke to the students, confirming the existence of the Cursed Vaults and imposing a blanket ban on all future attempts to look for the rest of them. [35] Albus, who would henceforth come to be known to successive generations of students as 'Professor Dumbledore', was granted Classroom 3C on the third-floor and an office. After Aberforth left the room, Albus told Newt the truth about Credence and that the boy was dying and could not be saved. Harry found the locket and read a letter written by R.A.B. Some praised his father's actions, hoping to gain his trust, but they would not find favour with the young Dumbledore this way. ), Dumbledore in-between Professors McGonagall and Sinistra. Hagrid in return greatly admired and trusted Dumbledore and took extreme offence to anyone who dared insult the Headmaster. During the last year of his life, Dumbledore's right hand was scarred when he donned the cursed Marvolo Gaunt's Ring. When he and Gellert Grindelwald were in school, they made plans to enslave Muggles and re-establish wizards as the natural rulers of the world. Dumbledore admired him, because he didn't care about power or popularity, which is quite ironic as Dumbledore once craved at least one of these things. Albus expressed his sadness over Leta's death at Grindelwald's hands. Elphias also told Harry to never believe Rita Skeeter and Muriel's slanders about Albus Dumbledore's family life, including that Ariana was a Squib. Classic Ravenclaw who loves capybaras, QOTSA, Fargo, and Breaking Bad. His desire to see his family overrode his common sense for just a moment and he placed the ring on his finger, forgetting that the ring had been cursed by Voldemort. It is very likely that he also had a good relationship with Charlie. Today, reader, Im here to share with you something shocking, and Id advise that you take a seat and prepare yourself before you read it. Today, reader, I'm here to share with you something shocking, and I'd advise that you take a seat and . This tradition would be continued for the following few years. Following Voldemort's return and the start of the Second Wizarding War after the resignation of Cornelius Fudge, Dumbledore swiftly formed and led the second Order of the Phoenix. Harry was only able to tip the water over Dumbledore's face before the Inferi climbed up out of the lake and attacked them. Contains SPOILERS for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. It is possible that Elphias Doge fought in the Battle of Hogwarts. She only stepped back at Dumbledore's insistence when he reminded her that Hogwarts and her students would need her in his absence. Dumbledore figured out that when Voldemort cast a Killing Curse on baby Harry, he accidentally turned Harry into his final Horcrux. However, Snape knew and told Dumbledore that the curse would get stronger and stronger and eventually kill him painfully, giving him a prognosis of about a year. She attended Hogwarts as a student during Dumbledore's time as the Transfiguration Professor and later went on to replace him when he took the position of Head of the school. Dumbledore agreed, on the basis that Snape worked as a double agent for the Order. Sometime between Albus and Gellert's relationship, Aberforth fell in love also, with a girl from Godric's Hollow, and their relationship led to her becoming pregnant with Aberforth's child. Aberforth's character appeared in the Harry Potter series quite late, Albus first mentioning him in The Goblet of Fire, and making his first brief appearance in The Order of Phoenix. "He'd probably blast us through the door if we wake him at the crack of dawn; he'll think we're trying to attack him while he's asleep. When Dumbledore's yearning to see his dead sister convinced him to put on an enchanted ring which contained the Resurrection Stone, he was immediately subjected to a fatal curse. [63] Between the latter's arrival in 1974 and his eventual banishment from the castle in 1980, not only had this trio of friends managed to penetrate one of the oldest and most dangerous secrets that the ancient castle had to offer, but they had also broken countless school rules and inadvertently endangered their peers by tampering with the vaults by unleashing a myriad devastating curses upon the school. They were introduced by Grindelwald's great aunt, Bathilda Bagshot. Fortunately, Severus Snape was able to alert the Order to this and several members arrived in the Ministry where they battled with the Death Eaters. His great-great grandfather was said to have owned a phoenix[16], as did his alleged relative Credence Barebone/Aurelius Dumbledore. [46], However, Snape who had been called by Filius Flitwick to assist the Order of the Phoenix, sometime previously arrived at the Tower and, after Dumbledore pleaded with him, in a way that did not expose Snape's true intentions, killed the Headmaster, blasting his body off the tower and falling to the ground below. When one of Leta Lestrange's experiments involving a magical beast went too far, endangering the life of another student. As an adult, Dumbledore had become an extraordinarily powerful and accomplished wizard, deeply knowledgeable and and proficient in all areas of magic. While he apparently disliked Lockhart's deeds, he nevertheless did not seem to truly hate Lockhart, as he was cordial and polite to him whenever they interacted and after the Memory Charm completely wiped out Lockhart's memories, Dumbledore was compassionate enough that he decided to leave Lockhart in peace and did not expose his crimes, likely as he pitied Lockhart and saw that having completely lost all of his popularity and with the remnants of his magical brilliance now lost to him and his cunning now harmless, to condemn him to being eternally despised by the wizarding community would be unnecessarily cruel, not to say that if he did reveal what Lockhart had did, he would likely be either sentenced to Azkaban or heavily secured in St Mungo, both fates that he seemingly deemed too cruel of a punishment for what Lockhart did. While this was partially due to the Blood Pact, which also kept Britain safe as Grindelwald couldn't attempt an attack as it would mean a duel with Albus, which would violate the Pact, Dumbledore showed he still had lingering affection for Grindelwald, as when he looked at the Mirror of Erised at this time in his life, he saw Grindelwald. The three suitcases contained enchanted books, Quaffle, Bludgers, and Jacob's pastries that would attack the Grindelwald's acolytes in case of trouble. Dumbledore was incapable of over-ruling the Ministry's decision despite him being Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot. This caused some friction between the two. [75][76][77], Albus Dumbledore in 1981, at age 100, during the trial of Igor Karkaroff. He had a great friendship with Hagrid, despite many not trusting the half-Giant.The greatest example of this, however, is Dumbledore's relationship with Severus Snape, in whom Dumbledore was willing to hold a considerable amount of faith after Severus had shown remorse. Grindelwald lost control during the argument and attacked Aberforth. The two of them spent days together, sharing ideas and talking, and building their relationship. They had a baby boy together, but the woman was sent away before she gave birth, and Aberforth never got to be a father. After the end of his relationship with Grindelwald and his heartbreak over that and the passing of his sister, Dumbledore set out to become the Dumbledore the wizarding world knew him to be: moral, wise, great, and kind.