Lily Cole does creditably in her role as the coquettish Valentina; Christopher Plummer, enjoying a great "late" period, has the look of a soup-kitchen Dumbledore.
Supermarkets now account for a fifth of books sold in the U.K. Gandalf versus Dumbledore.
There is electronic razzmatazz aimed at a young audience, along with a short film that stars Ben Kingsley, giving a performance that is more Dumbledore than Gandhi.
As Dumbledore tells Harry Potter: "Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself".
The author claims Albus Dumbledore left his copy to Hermione Granger (though the auctioneer offers no external proof of this transaction).
Competition is fierce between such online outfits as Vox.com (run by Ezra Klein, formerly of the Washington Post) and fivethirtyeight.com (the brainchild of Nate Silver, the Dumbledore of the in-data-we-trust school of political analysis).
He is taken under the wing of the school's headmaster, Albus Dumbledore.
Irish actor Richard Harris assumed the role of Dumbledore for the first two films and was replaced after his death by Michael Gambon for the remainder of the series.
Dumbledore liked to put Hagrid's more foolish acquisitions back where they belong - not the forest.
And while I agree – they certainly aren't real – why is attachment to characters in GoT such a bad thing, given the monumental outpouring of grief for Fred Weasley, or Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series?
