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Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. In this video we’re going to be discussing beloved Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore-and diving deep in to the question: Did he ever kill anyone?
Now, the Dumbledore that we come to know and love in the books and films is a calm, cool, gentle and most of all calculated man. He has more wisdom than he knows what to do with, and he is widely considered to be the most powerful wizard of all time. It seems like he’s got it all figured out, and he gives us the impression that he has ALWAYS had it figured out. But, if we claw back just a little in to Albus Dumbledore’s past, we can quickly find out that things were not always so peachy keen for Albus Dumbledore. Like everyone else, Albus too had to find his way in the world, and to ultimately achieve what he did, he made a few mistakes along the way. At the end of the day, he is only human, just like the rest of us.
Albus Dumbledore was born in late August 1881 in a town called Mould-on-the-Would, a mainly wizarding town in the UK. In the autumn of 1892, at the age of 11, Albus began attending Hogwarts. When he first started attending Hogwarts he had a bit of a hard time, this stemmed from stigma surrounding his father, Percival, who was sent to Azkaban for attacking 3 muggle children. Percival’s actions were in response to muggle children in his home town attacking his daughter, and Albus’s sister, Ariana. People were under the impression that the Dumbledore family hated muggles, Albus included, and this made his formative year at Hogwarts difficult.
After finishing school in the year 1899, Albus returned to his home town of Godric’s Hollow to be with his family after the death of his mother, Kendra Dumbledore.
It was during this time that Albus became friends with Gellert Grindelwald, a young man who had moved to his small village to live with his aunt Bathilda Bagshot, who was a family friend of the Dumbledore’s and Grindelwald’s great-aunt. Immediately recognizing each other’s magical prowess and amazing magical capabilities, the two boys hit it off immediately. Despite being very close, the pair eventually hit a crossroads. They hit a point where their paths would diverge in a very big way. It was Grindelwald’s intention to find the deathly Hallows, then lead a wizarding revolution that would effectively put an end to the international statute of secrecy, breaking down the ‘secretive’ divide between the two worlds- muggle and magical. This revolution would create a global power hierarchy that would place powerful witches and wizards at the top of the food chain, effectively giving them full control of muggles and muggle affairs. What may surprise you most about this plan, is that Dumbledore was fully on-board with it. What we see Grindelwald trying to accomplish in Fantastic Beasts as the antagonist, is something that our very own beloved Hogwarts headmaster almost contributed towards. It’s hard to believe that the gentle, kind old man that looks after the Hogwarts student body once wanted control over muggles. It seems so out of character, and it’s really a huge blemish on Dumbledore’s record.
Dumbledore is known to be the only person that Voldemort ever feared- even the death eaters feared him, and their whole thing is that they are pure evil, and don’t fear anything. Interesting that they would fear a wise old wizard, regardless of how powerful he is, if he is just pure in the greatest sense of the word. Surely, Dumbledore must have an edge. Though this ‘edge’ isn’t exposed to us directly, there is a clue in the Deathly Hallows which suggests that Dumbledore may even be capable of murder.
"Of course you were," said Harry. "Of course - how can you ask that? You never killed if you could avoid it!"
"True, true," said Dumbledore, and he was like a child seeking reassurance.
In this passage, with the utterance of just two words, Dumbledore effectively exposes an entirely new side of himself to the reader. ‘And he was like a child seeking reassurance’ is just a slightly less direct way of saying yes, Dumbledore had killed before.
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