Too cute I will eventually learn how to make the dolls but now am clueless. Would you make me one with a bit longer hair and the start of a beard.

I'm sure he got into his share of trouble! He has that bit of mischieviousness in him for sure. After all, he did "accidently" set the curtains on his bed on fire in his fourth year...and he did hate them!
But he was also extremely intelligent, so I could see him passing all his exams with high marks, especially his OWLs and Newts. I could also see his as a Prefect and Head Boy during his time. I think he took his studies seriously and I could see him in a role of authority that way.

Strict, but fair, I think! Definately. But I can't say no-nonsense because i think he's capable of enjoying a good prank every now and then!

I picture Dumbledore more like Remus was in school he would have loved being with his friends and was not afraid of a bit of mischief. He was there grounding force. He did set his curtains on fire but it was not on purpase. I think that he was very powerful even when he was younger and it was sometimes hard for him to control his magic.
I could see him as Head boy and Prefect but I think that he would have been friend first. I wonder who was Dumbledore's Draco in school. That one person that was just opposite in every way and no matter how hard that he tried he just couldn't get past the fact that they got on his last nerve. Also did he and Minerva go to Hogwarts at the same time?

I totally agree, Oona! Great comparison! I don't think McGonagall and Dumbledore went to Hogwarts together though, mainly because he was 150 years old, and I don't think McGonagall was nearly that old! She was more likely one of his early students and he taught her Transfiguration and helped get her the job at Hogwarts. I have never heard of Rowling giving her an age. Maybe Dumbledore's antagonist was that evil wizard he later defeated, which would fit into my theory that Dumbledore's family was harmed by that wizard somehow!

I have a question.

If you could choose one sentence from the Harry Potter books that most relates, describes or goes with Dumbledore, what would it be?

For example, here's one I'd give to Voldemort: "There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it..."

I have developed another theory about Dumbledore and McGonagall. It makes some sense, anyway. Remember how tortured Dumbldore was when he drank that potion protecting the Horcrux inside the cave? Well, I have always thought that it related back to an attack on his family by the dark wizard Grindelwald. I think a lot of his family was killed that day, and there was little Dumbledore could do to help them. So far, we know that two would have survived any attack....Dumbledore and his brother Aberforth, and it seems as if Aberforth did not come out of it without some mental scars (goat incident?) But what if there was another survivor that was hidden away for their own protection, as we all know how dark wizards operate, going after family members to get to the one they want to hurt. What if that survivor was a sister - named Minerva (Dumbledore) McGonagall! She was probably young enough before 1945 (When Dumbledore defeated the dark wizard) to have been raised secretly by another family from whom she took the name McGonagall, if she wasn't married at any time, or the family name for protection! It is definately something an older brother like Dumbledore would do! Any thoughts on this? It would explain their closeness very well.
"Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"

oh! oh! Pick me!! I got one!!! I put it on one of my earlier siggies.



This one, I think names Dumbledore to a T

I don't know about that theory, Tatewin, it's something to think about ... But it just seems so far-fetched.

On the quote wild_prairie_gal, I completely agree.

I agree with tatewin on the first part

An attack on his family by the dark wizard Grindelwald. I think a lot of his family was killed that day, and there was little Dumbledore could do to help them. So far, we know that two would have survived any attack....Dumbledore and his brother Aberforth, and it seems as if Aberforth did not come out of it without some mental scars (goat incident)

but I don't think that Minerva is a sister to either one of them. I would like to think that she was in love with Dumbledore however.

Here is a question that JK thought should have been asked but no one seemed to think to ask in interviews.

Why did Dumbledore have James's invisablity cloak when he could be invisable at will. In the first book he said that not all wizards needed a cloak to be unseen or something to that effect.

That is a very interesting thought! I wonder, though, since James and Lily both knew they had been marked for death by Voldemort, that James gave the cloak to Dumbledore to give to Harry, just in case, so to speak. But, that would imply that they didn't know about the prophecy, and that Voldemort was really after Harry! Did they know? If they did, one would think they would try to keep the cloak in order to cover and protect Harry with when Voldemort made his attack. And, of course, that brings up another question! Would Voldemort have been powerful enough to be able to see through the cloak? So many unanswered questions! I tend to believe that James gave the cloak to Dumbledore in order for Dumbledore to enhance its abilities somehow and it will come to somehow protect Harry even further in Book 7...a dad's final gift to his son, so to speak.

Great post there still are alot of unanswered questions about the cloak but since she brought it up on her site maybe she will give the answer to that question in the final book. I am going to head to a few other fanclubs but wanted to say goodbye and have a good weekend to everyone here first see you all on Monday.

Me too! I can't WAIT for Book Seven so we can really know the answers!!!!

Rowling has told us certain characters would die and that one would get a reprieve! It is difficult to imagine whom she has chosen to elliminate! I just pray it's not Ron, Hermione or Ginny. As for Harry, I believe he will live! If it has to be anyone, let it be Wormtail, Lucious and Voldemort!

i think Lupin & peter will die...snape too. I also thought of ron too but i dont want him to die...*prays ron doesnt die*