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.

* 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.

After the completion of the series, Rowling began to speak openly about Snape and admitted that she was particularly pleased with the way Snape's story played out throughout the course of the series, contrasting his character arc with that of Albus Dumbledore.

Concerning his role as Dumbledore, Harris had stated that he did not intend to take the part at first, since he knew that his own health was in decline, but he relented and accepted it because his 10-year-old granddaughter threatened never to speak to him again if he did not take it.

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.

There were, however, worries of insuring O ' Toole for the six remaining films in the series, and he was ultimately replaced as Dumbledore by the Irish-born actor Sir Michael Gambon.

Dumbledore sends Harry back to school, where, after Harry has a breakdown, screaming that " he's had enough " of all the pain and anguish and death and destruction, he explains that the sphere was a prophecy which stated that Harry has a power that Voldemort will never know: the power of love, given to him by his mother's sacrifice fifteen years earlier.

) Gambon reprised the role of Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which was released in November 2005 in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Rowling commented on this phenomenon in Conversations with J. K. Rowling, in which she complained that the Italian translation of Professor Dumbledore's last name was " Silente "; rather than recognizing that " Dumbledore " was an old Devon word for " bumblebee ," the translator took the word " dumb " and translated it as " silent ".

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Minister Fudge takes a long while to respond to the attacks on Hogwarts ( however it could be argued that Fudge was willing to give Albus Dumbledore a fair chance to deal with the crisis within his ( Dumbledore's ) own power ).

Albus Dumbledore was offered the job of Minister and refused it at least three times.

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.

and is reputed to have based much of her character, Albus Dumbledore, on Alfred Dunn, who was headmaster at the time.

After Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald, the prisoners were released and Grindelwald himself was imprisoned in the top-most cell.

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.

It also nearly killed Katie Bell in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, as Malfoy was trying to get it to Dumbledore.

It is supposedly the most powerful wand in existence, and when used by its true master, he or she cannot be defeated in a duel ; though according to Dumbledore, this is false, for he was able to defeat the legendary dark wizard Grindelwald, who was master of the Elder Wand at that point.

Ultimately Grindelwald was defeated by Dumbledore, who then assumed control of the wand.

Dumbledore considered it the " only hallow was fit to possess, not to boast of it or kill with it, but to tame it.

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.

Because of the Ministry's refusal to remove the Dementors from Azkaban, which Dumbledore advised immediately following Voldemort's return, the Death Eaters recruited the Dementors to their cause and made similar progress with the giants ; the Dementors ' revolt against the Ministry of Magic also allowed the Death Eaters to bolster their ranks with the mass break-out of several imprisoned Death Eaters.

* In Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort heard a prophecy ( made by Sybill Trelawney to Dumbledore ) that a boy born at the end of July, whose parents had defied Voldemort thrice and survived, would have the power to defeat Lord Voldemort.

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.

Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, provides the Foreword and explains the purpose of the special edition of this book ( the Comic Relief charity ).

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.

At the end of Deathly Hallows, Dumbledore explains to Harry that the Cloak's true magic is that it can shield and protect others as well as its owner.

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

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.

", as the official name for the group, but Ginny Weasley's suggestion of " Dumbledore's Army ", in order to mock the Ministry's paranoia and to show the group's loyalty to Dumbledore, is chosen.

An example of this is the Harry Potter story " A Moth to the Fire ", by Sera dy Relandrant, in which Ariana Dumbledore does not go out to play on the day she is attacked by muggle children in canon, and thus does not lose control of her magic, altering the life of her brother, Albus Dumbledore, and eventually the entire world.

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

In the books the Wizengamot is a wizard council and court, of which Albus Dumbledore is a senior warlock.

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.

In fiction, due to the influence of Merlin, a wise old man is often presented in the form of a wizard or other magician in medieval chivalric romance and modern fantasy literature and films ( e. g. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Gandalf, or Albus Dumbledore ) See List of magicians in fantasy for more examples.

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.

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.

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.

The Cloak was not in James's possession the night he was murdered ; he had previously lent it to Dumbledore, who was greatly interested in the Deathly Hallows.

The head, Griselda Marchbanks, is an elderly witch who examined a school-aged Dumbledore in his N. E. W. T. s.

Several times in the series, characters have been shown to either suspect or in some other fashion " sense " that Harry is wearing his cloak: Snape is seen to be suspicious when being followed by Harry, even reaching out to grab at ( what would appear to be ) thin air ; in Half-Blood Prince, Draco Malfoy realises Harry is in his train carriage and successfully immobilises him with a Petrificus Totalus ( Body-Bind ) curse, despite Harry wearing his cloak ; and in The Chamber of Secrets, Albus Dumbledore senses Harry and Ron beneath it in Hagrid's cabin while talking to Lucius Malfoy during the event when Cornelius Fudge comes to take Hagrid to Azkaban and Lucius Malfoy hands over to Dumbledore his suspension letter.

" Because his death would not have been the result of his defeat, Dumbledore hoped this might break the wand's power.

An example of this would be the characterisation of Merlin in The Sword in the Stone — particularly the Disney adaptation — and Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter.

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?