Dumbledore sends Harry's aunt, Petunia Dursley, a Howler in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to remind her of the agreement to allow Harry to live at Privet Drive when Harry's Uncle Vernon attempts to throw him out.

The books, which are referenced many times in the Harry Potter books, even have footnotes about other books, which do not exist, for future reading, and a foreword by Albus Dumbledore, which explains why they are releasing the book to a muggle audience.

Examples would be: Tolkien's Gandalf of The Lord of the Rings, Dumbledore of Harry Potter series, Merlin of Arthurian Legends, Lasky's Ezylryb of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks ' Allanon of The Sword of Shannara, Eddings ' Belgarath and Polgara of The Belgariad, Feist's Macros the Black of the Riftwar Saga, Jordan's Moiraine of The Wheel of Time ( who at least starts out as this kind of character ), Goodkind's Zeddicus Zu ' l Zorander of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Thorn / Angaver, and Paolini's Brom and Oromis of The Inheritance Cycle.

In the Harry Potter novel series, the character Albus Dumbledore has a scar on his left knee that resembles a perfect map of the London Underground.

* In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter, still alive, was seen walking through Limbo with Professor Albus Dumbledore, who was dead at the time.

For example, in the Harry Potter novels, J. K. Rowling reshapes a standard English proverb into “ It ’ s no good crying over spilt potion ” and Dumbledore

Another episode, " The Mysterious Ticking Noise ", shows Snape, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Dumbledore being killed by a pipe bomb placed by Voldemort inside a turducken ; the episode being the seventeenth most viewed video of all time as of 2008 and the winner for " Best Comedy " of the year 2007 at YouTube.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Dumbledore leaves to Harry in his will the first Snitch Harry had caught, inside of which he had hidden the Resurrection Stone.

Some examples of an antithesis in popular literature include the characters of Dumbledore and Voldemort in Harry Potter, the doctor and Kino in The Pearl, and Aslan and the White Witch in " The Chronicles of Narnia ".

Surbiton station features in the 2009 film version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Blood Prince with actors Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter and Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore.

He is also known for playing Albus Dumbledore in the first two films in the Harry Potter series, his final works.

After Gladiator, Harris gained further fame playing the supporting role of Albus Dumbledore in the first two of the Harry Potter films, and as Abbé Faria in Kevin Reynolds ' 2002 film adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo.

Harris was a lifelong friend of actor Peter O ' Toole, and his family reportedly hoped that O ' Toole would replace Harris as Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

As Harry learns from his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger The Order is a group of witches and wizards, led by Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore, dedicated to fighting the evil Lord Voldemort and his followers.

In addition, Harry learns that he and Dumbledore have been made victims of a ministry smear campaign aimed at discrediting them and their beliefs about Voldemort.

Harry wakes up horrified, and Professor McGonagall takes him to Dumbledore immediately.

Afterwards, Dumbledore demands that Harry take Occlumency lessons with Professor Snape, for the purpose of protecting his mind against further invasions by Lord Voldemort.

Hermione and Harry convince Umbridge to follow them into the forest, where they claim to be hiding a weapon for Dumbledore which they had just finished and wanted to tell him about.

Employing all of their Defence skills, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, and Neville have moderate success fighting the Death Eaters, but they are ultimately helped enormously by the arrival of several members of the Order, including Dumbledore.

Voldemort fights Dumbledore to stalemate, then possesses Harry in an attempt to get Dumbledore to sacrifice Harry in the hope of killing him.

The Minister for Magic ( Cornelius Fudge ) deluded himself into believing that Voldemort could not have come back and that it was all a lie cooked up by Dumbledore, whom Fudge believed had designs on his political office.

Harry and Hermione protest, claiming Black's innocence, but to no avail ; then Dumbledore enters the room, shoos out the others, and mysteriously suggests that Harry and Hermione travel back through Hermione's time-turning device, and save both Black and Buckbeak.

On the way back, when Krum pulls Harry away to talk, they find a dishevelled Mr Crouch, who is speaking to trees and demanding to see Dumbledore.

Upon arriving at Hogwarts, Professor Dumbledore announces that the Triwizard Tournament will take place at Hogwarts throughout the school year.

The head wizard Professor Stumblesnore is a spoof of Professor Dumbledore, and the wizard school that Sharri goes to is called Frogsnorts, a spoof of Hogwarts.

After author JK Rowling of the Harry Potter series revealed that she always thought of the character Albus Dumbledore as being homosexual, Harvey asked, " Will we allow our kids to believe it would be perfectly appropriate for the headmaster of any school to be homosexual?

In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Dumbledore uses the Deluminator ( then known only as the Put-Outer ) to darken Privet Drive, where the Dursley family household is located.

It was next seen in Order of the Phoenix where Dumbledore loans the Deluminator to Moody, who uses it when transporting Harry from the Dursleys ' home to Number 12, Grimmauld Place.

* " Mugwump ", a fictional rank / title in the Harry Potter books, where Albus Dumbledore is described as ' Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards '

Dumbledore appears shortly after Voldemort and the two engage in an intense duel.

Dumbledore captured eleven of the twelve Death Eaters, sending Voldemort and Bellatrix fleeing after a fierce duel with the former, and ending the Death Eaters ' enjoyed secrecy.

In 2004, he began playing Albus Dumbledore, Hogwarts's headmaster in the third installment of J. K. Rowling's franchise, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, taking over the role after the death of Richard Harris.

Soon after, Dumbledore and other teachers burst into the room, stunning Moody and saving Harry.

Draco Malfoy becomes the master of the Elder Wand when he disarms Dumbledore, but it transfers its loyalty to Harry after he takes Draco's wand in a later fight at Malfoy Manor.

Additionally, in Deathly Hallows, Rita mentions in her Daily Prophet interview concerning her posthumous biography of Dumbledore that her Quick Quotes Quill helped her to write the book so quickly after his death.

Harry runs to get Dumbledore while Krum waits with Crouch ; when Harry returns, Krum has been stunned and Mr Crouch gone.

However, Dumbledore explains to Harry that the Ministry cannot tell who exactly uses magic in a given area, only that it has been used, meaning that Muggle-born wizard minors are more likely than others to be caught if they use magic.

Dumbledore has long – for about 50 years – held the position of Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, but was removed during the period coinciding with Order of the Phoenix.

to Darfur, claiming, " With both the Ministry of Magic and the Daily Prophet ( the Wizarding World ’ s mainstream news source ) in denial that Voldemort has returned and evil is afoot, Harry and his underground rebel group, ' Dumbledore ’ s Army ,' work with the adult group, ' The Order of the Phoenix ,' to awake the world.

He does not know until the end of the novel that he has been carrying the Resurrection Stone in the Golden Snitch bequeathed to him by Dumbledore.

Dumbledore explains that the stone has been destroyed but it wouldn't stop Voldemort from returning.

Albus Dumbledore has expressed interest in Muggle knitting patterns and ten pin bowling.

However, Rowling has strongly implied that the rise of the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald and his defeat by Dumbledore in 1945 were related to the rise and fall of the Third Reich.