Prof. Albus Dumbledore

 Albus Dumbledore

General information

Full Name

Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

Nickname(s)

• Dumbly-dorr (by Madame Maxime)

• Dumby (by Amycus Carrow)

• Your Headship and Professorhead (both by Peeves)

Born

July or August, 1881, Mould-on-the-Wold

Died

June 30, 1997, Astronomy Tower, Hogwarts Castle

Blood status

Half-blood

Marital status

Unmarried

Title(s)

• Professor

• Head of Department

• Headmaster

• Grand Sorcerer

• Supreme Mugwump

• Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot

• Head Boy

• Perfect

Physical information

Species

Human

Gender

Male

Hair color

• Silver

• Auburn (formerly)

Eye color

Blue

Skin color

Light

Family information

Siblings

• Aberforth "Abe" Dumbledore (brother)

• Ariana Dumbledore † (sister)

Parents

• Percival Dumbledore † (father)

• Kendra Dumbledore † (mother)

Aunts/Uncles

Honoria † (aunt)

Relationships

Allies/Friends

• Gellert Grindelwald † (formerly; turned out to be his enemy later on)

• Prof. Minerva McGonagall (his former co-worker)

• Hermione Granger (he gives her a mission to go back in time to change Riddle, but eventually, they both fall in love)

• Prof. Armando Dippet † (his former boss)

• Prof. Horace Slughorn (his former co-worker)

• Prof. Galatea Merrythought † (his former co-worker)

• Tom Riddle (proved himself to be good eventually)

• Harry Potter (helped him in the future to destroy all of Voldemort's Horcruxes)

• House of Weasley

• Order of the Phoenix (his allies)

Romances

Gellert Grindelwald † (pure-blood; ex-lover)

Enemies

• Gellert Grindelwald † (was obsessed with dark arts)

• Tom Riddle (former dislike; thought he was infected with too much dark arts)

Magical characteristics

Boggart

The corpse of his sister, Ariana.

Wand

• Unknown (formerly)

• 15", Elder, Thestral tail hair core (1945 - 1998)

Patronus

Phoenix

Affiliation

Occupation

• Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts (1910s - c. 1926)

• Professor of Transfiguration (1926 - c. 1955)

• Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (before 1971-1997)

• Columnist for Transfiguration Today (1926-?)

House

Gryffindor

Loyalty

• Dumbledore family

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

• Gryffindor

• Transfiguration department

• Ministry of Magic

• Council of Magical Law

• Wizengamot

• International Confederation of Wizards

• Order of Merlin

• Order of the Phoenix 

• Harry Potter

• Gellert Grindelwald (formerly)

Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (c. Summer,1881 – 30 June 1997) was the Transfiguration Professor, and later Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Professor Dumbledore also served as Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards (?–1995) and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot (?-1995; 1996-1997). He was a half-blood, Muggle-supporting wizard, the son of Percival and Kendra Dumbledore, and the elder brother of Aberforth and Ariana. His father died in Azkaban when Dumbledore was young, while his mother and sister were later accidentally killed. His early losses greatly affected him early on, even at his death, but in turn made him a better person. Albus Dumbledore was considered to be the most powerful wizard of his time. He was most famous for defeating Gellert Grindelwald, discovering the twelve uses of dragon blood, and working on alchemy with Nicolas Flamel.

It was through Dumbledore that resistance to the rise of Lord Voldemort was formed, as he founded and led both the first and second Order of the Elementals. Because he had a keen mind and legendary power, Dumbledore became the only wizard that Voldemort ever feared. He was the wielder and the master of the Elder Wand from 1945 until 1997 and is considered by many as the greatest Headmaster to ever grace Hogwarts. As he was about to die from a cursed ring, he planned his death with Severus Snape. He was killed by Snape during the Battle of the Astronomy Tower.

Although he was no longer alive at the time, it was through Dumbledore's manipulations that Voldemort was ultimately defeated and peace restored to the wizarding world. He is the only Headmaster who was laid to rest at Hogwarts. Albus Dumbledore's portrait remains at Hogwarts. Harry Potter later named his second son Albus Severus Potter after him. 

Defeat of Gellert Grindelwald

As Dumbledore was educating young wizards and witches, Gellert Grindelwald was still at large in Europe, building up his army, and had already found one of the Deathly Hallows, the Elder Wand, which he used to continue terrorising the continent. Initially prevented from opposing Grindelwald directly because of the blood pact they once made, Dumbledore still felt conflicted about going after his old friend even once that was destroyed. Despite himself, he still felt a lingering love for the man Grindelwald had been, or rather, the man he had once convinced himself Grindelwald was and/or could be. More than anything, however, Dumbledore feared facing Grindelwald. While secure in his ability to defeat him in battle if it came to it, more than anything, Dumbledore was afraid Grindelwald could reveal to him that it had, in fact, been he who had cast the curse that killed Ariana.

Having delayed pursuing him as long as he could, however, at the height of Grindelwald's power, in 1945, Albus could no longer, in good conscience, turn a blind eye to the many atrocities of Grindelwald and his followers, and so he finally tracked his old friend down. Upon finding Grindelwald, Dumbledore engaged him in what would later be widely considered the greatest duel ever fought between two wizards. Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald and then brought him before the authorities of the magical world. Grindelwald was imprisoned in the uppermost cell at Nurmengard, while Dumbledore kept the Elder Wand for himself. Celebrated worldwide as the hero who put to rest the Global Wizarding War and ended Grindelwald's For the Greater Good revolution of wizarding dominance over Muggles, Dumbledore was awarded the Order of Merlin (First Class) by Leonard Spencer-Moon's administration.

In Limbo

Albus Dumbledore: "Harry. You wonderful boy. You brave, brave man. Let us walk."

Harry Potter: "But you're dead."

Albus Dumbledore: "Oh yes."

Harry Potter: "Then... I'm dead too?"

Albus Dumbledore: "Ah. That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not."

— Dumbledore greeting Harry Potter in Limbo

As it turned out, the night of Dumbledore's death was not the last time Harry saw him. After finding out he was one of Voldemort's Horcruxes (Voldemort having accidentally made him one of the night he tried to kill him), Harry bravely walked into Voldemort's camp to be killed, just as Dumbledore had (reluctantly) planned. But Voldemort's Killing Curse once again failed to kill Harry. Instead, Harry entered a limbo state, where he spoke with Dumbledore's spirit. Dumbledore explained to Harry everything he had not told him when he was alive: the nature of the Deathly Hallows, his friendship with Gellert Grindelwald, and some other things.

Most significantly, he revealed that Harry was not dead because, when Voldemort had used Harry's blood to restore his body, he had unintentionally linked Harry's life to his own, with the result that Voldemort's curse had "killed" only the fragment of his soul that had remained in Harry all these years. Despite the anger and resentment he felt toward his old mentor, Harry also attempted to console Dumbledore when asked if he had been any better than Voldemort in his quest for power; Harry pointed out that Dumbledore had never killed if he could avoid it, and argued that Dumbledore's search for the Hallows, as opposed to any attempts to create Horcruxes, made him completely different from Voldemort, fully reconciling with his protégé.[28]

After he had finished their talk, Dumbledore and Harry parted ways for the time being: Harry returned to the mortal world, and Dumbledore moved, as he would put it, "on". He was the only Headmaster to be laid to rest on the Hogwarts grounds, after Hagrid argued that no other Headmaster had ever given as much to the school as Dumbledore had. His portrait also remained at Hogwarts. After Voldemort's death and Harry revealing that he was the true master of the Elder Wand, he said to Dumbledore's portrait that he was going to return the wand to his tomb, where it would remain until he died, and should he be undefeated, he would be the wand's last master, which would break its power. He only used the wand for one feat: to repair his own wand, which had been broken earlier.

Harry and Ginny Potter's second son was named Albus Severus Potter, after Dumbledore and Severus Snape.