He led a celibate and a bookish life.' Appearances Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Rowling explains this further by elaborating on the motivations behind Dumbledore's flirtation with the idea of wizard domination of Muggles: 'He lost his moral compass completely when he fell in love and I think subsequently became very mistrustful of his own judgement in those matters so became quite asexual. Rowling said that she always thought of Dumbledore as being homosexual and that he had fallen in love with the corrupt wizard Gellert Grindelwald, which was Dumbledore's 'great tragedy' Rowling did not explicitly state whether Grindelwald returned his affections.

On 19 October 2007, Rowling was asked by a young fan whether Dumbledore finds 'true love'. However, on her website, she states that Dumbledore was born in 1881, making him either 115 or 116 at the time of his death. Rowling said in an interview that Dumbledore was about 150 years old. He allows Harry to get into what he wouldn't allow another pupil to do, and he also unwillingly permits Harry to confront things he'd rather protect him from.' In a 1999 interview, Rowling stated that she imagined Dumbledore 'more as a John Gielgud type, you know, quite elderly and – and quite stately.' During his time as a student, Dumbledore was in Gryffindor House. And he would rather not know.' As a mentor to the central character Harry Potter, 'Dumbledore is a very wise man who knows that Harry is going to have to learn a few hard lessons to prepare him for what may be coming in his life. Rowling mentioned that Dumbledore regrets 'that he has always had to be the one who knew, and who had the burden of knowing.

Rowling said she enjoyed writing Dumbledore because he 'is the epitome of goodness.' She said that Dumbledore speaks for her, as he 'knows pretty much everything' about the Harry Potter universe.

Rowling stated she chose the name Dumbledore, which is a dialectal word for ' bumblebee', because of Dumbledore's love of music: she imagined him walking around 'humming to himself a lot'. Jude Law portrayed Dumbledore as a middle-aged man in the prequel films Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022). Following Harris' death in October 2002, Michael Gambon portrayed Dumbledore in the six remaining Harry Potter films from 2004 to 2011. As part of his backstory, it is revealed that he is the founder and leader of the Order of the Phoenix, an organisation dedicated to fighting Lord Voldemort, the main antagonist of the series.ĭumbledore was portrayed by Richard Harris in the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). For most of the series, he is the headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is a fictional character in J.

Fire & Fury by K. de Long