Albus Dumbledore — Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Character Profile

Albus Dumbledore — Character Profile

Affiliations

• Hogwarts
• Order of the Phoenix
• Gryffindor
• Wizengamot
• Harry Potter universe

Quick Facts about Albus Dumbledore

Full Name

Albus Percival Wulfric<br>Brian Dumbledore<ref name=Hirsch2008 >{{cite book

Education

Hogwarts

Occupation

professor, auror, head teacher

First Appearance

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Manner of Death

Homicide

Nationality

British

Albus Dumbledore's Known Relations

• Kendra Dumbledore — Mother
• Percival Dumbledore — Father
• Newt Scamander — Student
• Hogwarts — Employer
• Gellert Grindelwald — Significant person
• Ariana Dumbledore — Significant person
• Harry Potter — Significant person
• Lord Voldemort — Enemy
• Death Eater — Enemy
• Gellert Grindelwald — Enemy
• Aberforth Dumbledore — Sibling
• Ariana Dumbledore — Sibling
• International Confederation of Wizards — Affiliation
• Order of the Phoenix — Member of
• Gryffindor — Member of
• Wizengamot — Member of

Albus Dumbledore appears in 10 titles

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) — character page
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) — character page
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) — character page
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) — character page
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) — character page
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) — character page
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) — character page
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) — character page
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) — character page

Character Facts

Played by

Michael Gambon

Appears in

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (6)

• Albus Dumbledore — related — Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint)
• Albus Dumbledore — related — Hermione Granger (Emma Watson)
• Albus Dumbledore — Professional Student And Mentor — Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe)

  Dumbledore guides Harry through increasingly dangerous investigations.

  Albus Dumbledore asks Harry Potter to help persuade Horace Slughorn to return and later assigns him the mission to retrieve Slughorn's memory.

• Albus Dumbledore — Professional Former Colleagues — Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent)

  Dumbledore recruits a former Hogwarts colleague for the school.

  Dumbledore and Harry persuade former Potions professor Horace Slughorn to return to Hogwarts.

• Albus Dumbledore — Conflict Would-Be Assassin — Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton)

  Draco is compelled into a lethal confrontation with Dumbledore.

  Draco disarms Dumbledore and reveals that he was chosen to kill him, but he hesitates before carrying out the order.

• Albus Dumbledore — Conflict Killer — Severus Snape (Alan Rickman)

  Snape's action causes the film's central tragedy.

  Snape arrives after Draco hesitates and kills Dumbledore on the Hogwarts tower.

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