Characters' pasts and Dumbledore's future

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 126858


I've been wondering something about the last two books.  Do people 
think we will learn anything about Dumbledore's past?

We have several characters for whom the past is very important.  
These include:

HARRY - the boy definitely has a past.  How and to what extent it 
effects him is controversial, but with the prophecy, his parents' 
murder, the Dursleys, etc., I think it's clear his past is important.

NEVILLE - very similar to Harry in this regard.

SNAPE - possibly the most past-haunted character in the series.

PERCY - many speculate his past with his family determined his 
behavior in the last couple of books.

LUPIN - his story is entangled with Snape and Harry.

HAGRID - a character who has largely overcome his past, until Grawp 
showed up, anyway.

And yet Dumbledore, one of the most important characters of the 
series, has a past of which we know little.  Is this to set him 
apart?  To let him "float above" the kind of entanglements with which 
other characters wrestle?

Or is his past simply yet to be revealed?  Is the humanizing of 
Dumbledore in OOTP a prelude to further revelations that will bring 
him, in this regard, more in line with the other characters?

Personally, I lean toward the latter, but what does everyone else 
think?

Lupinlore