Even with the most talented and skilled witches in the Order of the Phoenix at his disposal, Dumbledore rarely seemed to involve anyone else in his grand plans.
These people were ready to lay down their lives at his command, but Dumbledore gave them only enough information to make their next assigned move on his board. The headmaster could have told the order about Voldemort's Horcruxes. But instead, he vaguely tells Remus Lupin, "Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him," once again putting all the responsibility and pressure on a teenage boy. Before his death, Dumbledore believed Draco Malfoy was tasked with his murder, but he didn't try to stop his advances all year, putting students' lives in danger.
Then he went about planning his own demise with little regard for Harry, Severus Snape , or the students at Hogwarts. He essentially guilts Snape into killing him, and to top it off, he puts Harry under a freezing charm nearby, effectively forcing him to watch powerlessly with no explanation.
Harry later learns that Snape actually called Dumbledore out for his less-than-transparent methods before his death. Snape tells Dumbledore, "I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter's son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter. And Snape had little to show for the years of risking his life and bowing to Dumbledore's whims - aside from landing the long-coveted role of defense against the dark arts professor.
Dumbledore's brother, Aberforth perhaps puts it best when he tells Harry about Albus' long history with secrecy. At the end of the series , Dumbledore admits to Harry that power is his ultimate weakness. He was always conscious of it, and he feared that power had the potential to corrupt him beyond help.
That's why he never accepted the Ministry of Magic position even after it was offered several times. Although it's refreshing that he realized his shortcomings, he never quite grasped their impact. He had his eyes fixed on a goal and destroyed many lives in pursuit of it. Harry was a loyal soldier; he was "Dumbledore's man through and through," and the headmaster took advantage of that. Dumbledore knew that nothing bound the soul more surely than love - a lesson he sought to teach Harry throughout his life - and so he used Harry's love for him as a weapon just as he used Snape's love for Lily to persuade him to do his bidding.
Some might argue that Dumbledore was doing what had to be done to defeat Voldemort - he was doing what any good and ultimately successful general of war would do. But he constantly crossed the line between a stoic general and a scheming conspirator by never giving his followers enough information to make a free choice. Read the original article on Insider.
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Kesha, 34, shows off her strength while climbing a tree wearing just a scarf in a new Instagram snap. Also keeping his friendship with Grindelwald in mind, I would say that he was around years old when he died. Question: How old is old in the wizarding world, and how old are Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall? Rowling: Dumbledore is a hundred and fifty, and Professor McGonagall is a sprightly seventy.
Wizards have a much longer life expectancy than Muggles. Harry hasn't found out about that yet. Scholastic Chat - I'll add this from the Harry Potter Lexicon, which addresses the fact that Dumbledore's age seems to be less than at the time of his death:. This date supercedes Jo's statement in that Dumbledore was "about years old" Blue Nose Day and fits better with the dates that appear in Book 7. Harry Potter Lexicon - Albus Dumbledore.
The site no longer has the article but I have summoned it back with the Wayback Machine. Dumbledore's self-proclaimed proudest achievement, however, was featuring on a Famous Wizards Chocolate Frog Card. According to the Harry Potter Wikia , he died at the age of Even more solid proof has arisen from Pottermore about Dumbledore's age from his character page.
His year of birth is listed as and his year of death is listed as Dumbledore finishes his 7th year at Hogwarts.. His mother dies.. He stays home to take care of his sister and befriends Grindelwald.
That lil three-way fight happens between Aberforth, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald and someone kills Ariana accidently in late summer. Grindelwald flees and then five years later Dumbledore defeats Grindelwald and gets the Elder Wand in That would mean he was around 22 or 23 in Making him much younger than Jo Rowling said. Also making him around 75 at the time of his death. Putting all the clues together, I conclude that Dumbledore was 19 year old in He died in This tells that he was only 5 years older than Voldemort Voldemort was 72 when he died and that his character would not be possible to even exist in the Harry Potter series.
Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. What age did Dumbledore live to? Dumbledore had a long life, witnessed many conflicts in the Wizarding World , and lived through many tragedies. His official birth year is listed as , meaning he was years old when he was killed.
Luckily, the Fantastic Beasts films brought him back, and as these films are set before the events in Harry Potter , viewers have now met a younger Dumbledore. Fantastic Beasts 2 is set in , so this version of Dumbledore is 46 years-old. Dumbledore is expected to return in Fantastic Beasts 3 , which will hopefully expand his backstory a bit more, allowing viewers to learn more about all the battles and events he witnessed and experienced.
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