[HPforGrownups] Young Dumbledore (wasRe: Why Leave Harry at HW at the End of HBP?)

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 148434

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From: "gelite67" <gelite67 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Young Dumbledore (wasRe: Why Leave Harry at HW at
the End of HBP?)


> Angie here:
>
> First, to ponder a moment on the source of DD's fame.  OK, according
> to his chocolate frog card, he is "particularly famous" for defeating
> Grindewald in 1945.  According to Lockhart, fame is a fickle friend
> in the WW (as it is in the Muggle world) -- so how far did
> Grindewald's defeat get DD in the WW?  Saying he is particularly
> famous for defeating a Dark Wizard clearly implies that he was also
> famous for some other reason(s), but what are those other reasons?
> I don't know when DD started teaching at HW, but his reputation seems
> to have preceded him -- what else did he do to gain his reputation?
> Was that one defeat of Grindewald sufficient to have DD crowned the
> most powerful wizard of the age?  When else in the past has DD
> demonstrated how powerful he is (in a non-OWL setting)?
> I just can't see how DD being headmaster of HW sustains his
> reputation.

We actually know nothing at all about the young Dumbledore. He was born
around 1840 so at the time of his campaign against Grindelwald he was
actually over 100 so slightly over halfway through his natural life. We also
know that he was already teaching at Hogwarts in the 1930s, and must have
been there at least a year before his first meeting with Tom Riddle at the
orphanage - possibly longer as the scenes where he appears (both in CoS and
HBP) show him as being confident in his role at the school.

But what happened in the interim years is a complete blank, unless anyone
else has any ingenious speculations...

hwyl

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