Talk: Albus Dumbledore

Revision as of 17:54, 2 October 2007

Better picture neaded

Somebody, can you change the picture of Dumbledore from the prisonor of azkaban to the one from the sorcreres stone. It looks better than this one.
put the one from jos site

Subheading

I need help on organizing this article. It's got good content, just needs some paraphrasing and lots of subheadings.--Joank 02:50, 18 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Actors

Does anybody like the new actor for dumbledore?

No, I wish they had got the actor who played Gandalf, Sir Ian McKellen. The old one was really good too because he seemed older, wiser, and more patient, the new one acts a little bit too young. Colonel Burnsides 02:13, 1 Nov 2005 (UTC)
Yeah,I agree.Padme829 19:56, 11 Nov 2005 (UTC)Padme829
I concur. Dumbledore had too much energy for someone who's supposedly as old as Yoda.--Joank 02:50, 18 Nov 2005 (UTC)
He happens to be 750 years younger than Yoda thank ya very much.
The new Dumbledore is too easily angered.Dumbledore in the books doesn't ever get angry and would never grab Harry like he did in the GoF film.
He has very often the same expression on his face : as if he was surprised or absent-minded. If you don't read the book, you can't imagine that Dumbledore is one of the cleverest wizards.

Name?

Albus actually, means "white", or shining white (much like Gandalf the White?), and Rubeus means "red", I believe. Makes me think of White Mages and Red Mages from Final Fantasy, but anyway I found this out from studying geomancy, actually. (okay, it was in a witches almanac) Some of the passwords for the painting to get into the Gryffindor dorms have also been geomancy patterns. (Fortuna Major is one geomantic pattern) I might be wrong, but is Geomancy one of the classes? Just throwing hints in. Travlr23 03:12, 7 Dec 2005 (UTC)

He isn't dead!!

Have a look at this site, its very convincing: [1]

- I'm with ya on that!

Snape is not dead, so Dumbledore is. Dead as Aeris.One Star Bandit 23:23, 10 August 2006 (UTC) There is a page here discussing the theory that Dumbledore isn't dead: Is Dumbledore dead?

Philosophers Stone

Dumbledore did not help create the philosophers stone, it was Flamel, in the book it simply states that he and Dumbledore worked together. Flamel is 666 in the first book and would have had to use the stone long before Dumbledore was born to stay alive

Age/Schooling WTF?

Dumbledore was born in the 1840s but started at Hogwarts in 1938 - possibly at the age of 93? That doesn't make any sense. --Forgottenlord 20:28, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Kingsley's comment

In the movies Kinsley says:

"You may not like him, Minister, but you can't deny: Dumbledore's got style."

— Kingsley Shacklebolt to Cornelius Fudge^[src]

In the book it is Phineas Nigellus. Should this be changed? {{SUBST:Nosubst|Template:Signatures/Syugecin}} 14:54, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

I'd say it should either be changed or the source can be changed to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film). -- DarkJedi613 ^(Talk) 19:33, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Quotes from the books should be used exlusively in my opinion. Hufflepuff Half-Giant 19:15, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

I second that. the movies have some non-canon elements. Admiral Carth Onasi 20:49, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

I think it might make more sense to say the books are more canon than the movies. In places where the movies and books do not conflict both are canon, yet where they do the books rule. -- DarkJedi613 ^(Talk) 22:15, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

That's true. Where the books and films don't clash at all, the films can be cannon. Hufflepuff Half-Giant 06:36, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Biography needed

their is only a biography of his early life we need the rest of it. Me_Potter_Fan 05:07, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Blood status?

Why is Dumbledore's blood status given as "half-blood"? There's no indication that he was - both his parents are clearly Wizards, for one thing, and have very wizard-like names. If this is from an interview or some comment by JKR, could someone please put in a reference? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.67.144.40 (talk • contribs).

He's a Pureblood. His father used magic against kids, and his mother would have been ashamed to have a squib child. Hufflepuff Half-Giant 19:12, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

His mother was a muggle born, that makes him a half blood.--\\Captain KAJ// 14:37, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Then I am confused. I thought a half-blood was someone who had a magical parent and a muggle parent, like Severus Snape and Voldemort. I figured that if both parents are magical, you're pureblood. Yet, I guess if one of your parents is muggle-born and the other is pureblood, that still makes you half-blood? Is that how it is? Hufflepuff Half-Giant 17:54, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

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 :He's a Pureblood.  His father used magic against kids, and his mother would have been ashamed to have a squib child. [[User:Hufflepuff Half-Giant|Hufflepuff Half-Giant]] 19:12, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 ::His mother was a muggle born, that makes him a half blood.--'''\\[[User:KickAssJedi|Captain KAJ]]//''' 14:37, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
+:::Then I am confused.  I thought a half-blood was someone who had a magical parent and a muggle parent, like [[Severus Snape]] and [[Voldemort]].  I figured that if both parents are magical, you're pureblood.  Yet, I guess if one of your parents is muggle-born and the other is pureblood, that still makes you half-blood?  Is that how it is? [[User:Hufflepuff Half-Giant|Hufflepuff Half-Giant]] 17:54, 2 October 2007 (UTC)