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'''Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore''' (Born c. [[Dates in Harry Potter|1840]] - [[Dates in Harry Potter|June 1997]]) is a [[fictional character]] in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series of [[book]]s written by [[J. K. Rowling]].

'''Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore''' (Born c. [[Dates in Harry Potter|1840]] - [[Dates in Harry Potter|June 1997]]) is a [[fictional character]] in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series of [[book]]s written by [[J. K. Rowling]].

Dumbledore is benevolent, slightly eccentric, and powerful. As such he resembles an archetypal [[Goodness and value theory|good]] [[wizard]] in the style of [[Merlin (wizard)|Merlin]] or [[Gandalf]]. He is often sympathetic to Harry Potter's difficulties, and, as such, occasionally allows the young wizard more leeway than he would with others. He is also the only wizard [[Lord Voldemort]] ever feared.

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==Early life and career==

Comparatively little is revealed about Dumbledore's early history or family, but he is known to have entered Hogwarts around [[Dates in Harry Potter|1851]], perhaps being [[Sorting Hat|sorted]] into [[Gryffindor]] House. His brother, [[Aberforth Dumbledore|Aberforth]], was prosecuted for "practising inappropriate charms on a goat," may be [[illiterate]], and (as confirmed by Rowling) is the bartender at the [[Hog's Head]] Inn in [[Hogsmeade]]. Dumbledore's extraordinary magical talents were apparent from an early age, as later described by the elderly [[Griselda Marchbanks]], Head of the [[Wizarding Examinations Authority]], who had personally examined the school-age Dumbledore for his [[N.E.W.T.]] exams in [[Charms]] and [[Transfiguration]]. Marchbanks recalled that the young Dumbledore had "done things with a wand I'd never seen before."{{HP5}}

Some time after his graduation from Hogwarts, he returned to the faculty as Professor of Transfiguration, and in this capacity also served in recruiting students for the school. He identified [[Tom Marvolo Riddle]] and offered him a place at Hogwarts, glimpsing the true nature of the boy who was to become [[Lord Voldemort]]. His keen observations of Riddle's student years led Dumbledore to influence Hogwarts' headmaster, [[Armando Dippet]], not to offer Riddle a faculty position.

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'''Dumbledore's death'''

[[Image:fleurbartysnr&dumbledore.jpg|thumb|300px|Dumbledore with Barty Crouch Snr. and Fleur Delacour.]]

In June, 1997, Dumbledore was killed with an ''[[Avada Kedavra]]'' spell by [[Severus Snape]], a member of the [[Order of the Phoenix]] whom Dumbledore trusts implicitly, at the end of [[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince|book six]]. His murder leaves the future of Hogwarts in question, as well as the safety of Harry Potter and the magical population as a whole. In the [[Scholastic]] publishing version of [[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]], Dumbledore dies in Chapter [[27]] The Lightning-Struck Tower Page [[596]].

Dumbledore's funeral was attended by students, teachers, members of the Ministry of Magic, giants, ghosts, and other non-humans alike, which conveyed the message that in a time of such uncertainty, the memory of one very great man shines through the quarrels and differences of others to bring about unity that the man advocated for his entire life.

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{{succession box | before = [[Dippet|Armando Dippet]] | title = [[Hogwarts]] [[Head teacher|Headmaster]] | years = [[December]], [[1956]] - [[Spring]] [[1996]]| after = [[Dolores Umbridge]]}}

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{{succession box | before = ''[[Dippet|Armando Dippet]] (?)'' | title = [[Hogwarts subjects|Transfiguration Master]] | years = '''late [[1930]]s ?''' - [[December]], [[1956]] | after = [[Minerva McGonagall]]}}

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