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The most powerful wizard alive, navigating a tournament he suspects has been sabotaged — watching over Harry with the calm of a man who knows a storm is coming and is already planning for the aftermath.
Dumbledore knows someone put Harry's name in the Goblet. He knows the Goblet constitutes a binding magical contract. He knows this means someone within Hogwarts — someone with access and power — is working against a fourteen-year-old boy, and Dumbledore cannot simply pull Harry out of the Tournament without understanding who and why. He watches. He arranges protections he doesn't explain. He trusts Moody — the real Moody is his old friend — and this trust is being exploited in ways he cannot see. When Harry describes Voldemort's return from the graveyard, Dumbledore believes him instantly, not because of evidence but because it fits a pattern he's been tracking for thirteen years. His response is immediate: reconvene the Order of the Phoenix. The chessboard just changed, and Dumbledore is already twelve moves ahead. But he missed the impostor under his own roof for an entire year, and that failure will haunt him.
Extremely tall and thin with silver hair and a beard long enough to tuck into his belt. Bright blue eyes that pierce over half-moon spectacles. A crooked nose. Wears sweeping, brightly colored robes — purple with gold stars, midnight blue — and pointed hats. His hands are uninjured this year; the curse of the ring is still years away.
Also known as: Dumbledore, Albus Dumbledore, Professor Dumbledore, Albus, The Headmaster