Intellectual genius: Dumbledore was not only a great wizard, but also possessed an exceptional intellect,

being considered to be the one of the most brilliant students to ever attend Hogwarts (along with Tom
Riddle), and, as an adult, was regarded by many as cleverer than almost any other wizard alive. His
intelligence were especially evident through his tactical and strategic genius, proving himself capable of
devising elaborate master plans to defeat the most powerful Dark Wizards seen for centuries and
oppose their seemingly unstoppable ascensions to power. Particularly good at guessing, hypothesising,
and predicting, Dumbledore informed his former student Newt Scamander about where he could find
an illegally trafficked Thunderbird, knowing that Newt would make haste to save it and take it to
America to set it free once it was nursed back to health, and, aware of Grindelwald's intention of
infiltrating MACUSA while looking for the Obscurial in New York, hoping his former student would find a
way to thwart him. The results of this ploy ultimately culminated in the capture of Gellert Grindelwald
and the nine months-delay[37] in Grindelwald getting his hand on Credence Barebone, and the
prevention of the exposure of wizardkind to the non-magical world following the Obscurial attack on
New York of 1926. Following this, he was also able to follow Grindelwald's train of thought in regard to
how he would go about recruiting his followers, and guessed correctly that his old friend would set up
the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy to be this tool of suppression and offer people freedom
from it. Despite his Blood pact with Grindelwald limiting Dumbledore's ability to get directly involved, as
well as the constant Ministry surveillance of him, Dumbledore's tactical advice to then Head of the Auror
Office, Theseus Scamander, that if he and his men resorted to excessive force to deal with Grindelwald
and his followers during the latter's rally, it would only serve to reinforce the point Grindelwald was
making about the supposed totalitarian regime of the International Confederation of Wizards and the
magical governments that supports it in the minds of those who chose to follow him. Dumbledore
continued to play an important, if indirect, role throughout the Global Wizarding War, with his tactical
expertise granting the wizarding world the ability to hold against Grindelwald for sixteen years, buying
him enough time to destroy the Blood Pact and finally defeat Grindelwald. When Lord Voldemort rose
to power one generation later, Dumbledore's strategic brilliance successfully lead the Order of the
Phoenix against Lord Voldemort's forces for eleven years during the First Wizarding War. This was seen
quite predominantly again during the events surrounding the Second Wizarding War, when
Dumbledore, through various strategical plans and an almost Machiavellian manipulation of key persons
(such as Severus Snape and Harry Potter) before his death, was able to set the path for Harry Potter to
locate Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes, and defeat the Dark Lord. Dumbledore's intellect, his strategic
thinking in particular, is one of his key talents. A lesser but still very remarkable testament to his
strategical aptitude was his ability to come up with a master plan to save Sirius immediately after
learning of his innocence by giving subtle hints to Hermione Granger regarding the Time Turner and
later effectively avoid capture from the Ministry while doing jobs for the Order. His genius was mainly
noticeable even after his death, through his will. Dumbledore displayed himself to be immensely
foresightful, as he was able to accurately predict the possibility of Ron Weasley initially walking out on
the Horcrux hunt and understand that he would be just as likely to return to it and gave him his
Deluminator to help him find his way back to Harry and Hermione and use Hermione Granger's thirst for
knowledge to lead her to becoming curious about the symbol of the Deathly Hallows by drawing it in the
copy of that he left her, which ultimately led to Harry not only learning of the Deathly Hallows and
finally having inserted the Resurrection Stone into the Golden Snitch that Harry first caught, learned on
how to remove it, thus giving Harry the emotional support he needed to sacrifice himself to the Dark
Lord. Dumbledore also possessed an exceptional amount of emotional intelligence and deductive
abilities and immense intellectual perception, as he was able to completely see through Voldemort's
charismatic mask of being a model student and had a considerable understanding of Voldemort's
nature, something that allowed him to accurately deduce the location of his Horcruxes. In addition, he
was intelligent enough to keep such a watchful eye over Riddle ever since his first opening of the
Chamber of Secrets that he effectively kept the Heir of Slytherin from opening the Chamber the second
time. He was also the only wizard who was not fooled by Gilderoy Lockhart's tall tales and was able to
easily work out that Lockhart was a fraud from his personal knowledge of him and of two wizards whose
memories had been modified by Lockhart. Dumbledore was also not fooled by Quirinus Quirrell's timid
guise, correctly deducing that he had been working for Voldemort ever since he finished his journey, and
although he was initially fooled by Quirell's false letter that said the Ministry needed him, Dumbledore
was able to quickly figure it out and return to Hogwarts in time to save Harry. He managed to eventually
see through Bartemius Crouch Junior's disguise as Alastor Moody when he took Harry from him, which
he said the real Moody never would have done, whereas Snape and McGonagall couldn't see through
the disguise, and only followed Dumbledore when he ordered it, coming up with a clever plan to
overpower the latter's Occlumency by first heavily weakening him with his Stunning Spell before having
him exposed to Veritaserum and also swiftly deducing the pieces of the simple but brilliant plan Crouch
used to disguise himself by keeping Moody alive but Imperiused and very weakened in order to ensure
he couldn't overpower him and also insert the Polyjuice Potion inside his flask to drink without
suspicion. He could easily identify whatever form Jacob's sibling took using the Polyjuice Potion, even if
said disguise could fool the likes of Mcgonagall and Snape, and was able to easily help them get away
unpunished by slyly revealing his knowledge of their disguise and even rewarding as well as warning
them without any suspicion. He was also able to easily outwit the notoriously famous hack journalist
Rita Skeeter, having easily caught up with all her escapades at Hogwarts and quickly luring her into a
position where he could have easily had her arrested by revealing his knowledge of her Animagus
power, therefore leaving Rita effectively at his mercy and preventing her from writing anything directly
antagonising towards him, doing so much faster than the also highly intelligent Hermione Granger.
Additionally, even Cornelius Fudge admired Dumbledore's genius, and thus bombarded Dumbledore
with letters asking for advice early into his Minister of Magic career.

Charisma: While not famous for his abilities as a manipulator, due to Dumbledore's exceptional amount
of emotional intelligence, he was nevertheless exceptionally adept at manipulating others, which he was
perfectly willing to do for the greater good, and displayed an immense amount of charisma, able to
effectively use a person's characteristics to his advantage to get them to do what must be done and
inspire loyalty in others. Unlike Voldemort, Dumbledore always seeked and used the best within people
to get them to do his good-intended bidding and used his charisma to get many to the side of good
instead of evil. He was able to effortlessly manipulate Newton Scamander into believing his intentions
when telling him about the illegally trafficked Thunderbird were purely to just safe the poor creature
while actually he was also intending for Newt to stop Grindelwald from discovering the Obscurial's
identity. He could also successfully convince the people he met to tell him about Voldemort and his time
outside school despite the fear Voldemort inflicted upon them. The most notable display of his
masterful manipulating abilities was that he was able to effectively manipulate Severus Snape into
agreeing to protect Harry Potter and act as a spy in Voldemort's ranks for Dumbledore despite Snape's
bitterness and hatred towards Harry's father and full knowledge of the risks his job had by using Snape's
love for Lily Evans. Another display of his consummate manipulation skills was that he effortlessly
manipulated Gilderoy Lockhart into becoming a teacher at Hogwarts by just slyly hinting that Harry
Potter was a second-year student at the school, and being a teacher to the "famous Harry" would propel
Lockhart's fame into the stratosphere, notably taking advantage of Lockhart's hunger for more fame and
ego to get him to agree to take the job so he can expose him despite Lockhart not being eager to take
the job due to being more intrested in his career as an author. Dumbledore's charisma garnered him so
much respect and loyalty from his allies that most of them still proved loyal to Dumbledore even after
Dumbledore had died and valiantly fought in the Battle of Hogwarts for him. He particularly succesfully
quickly befriended Harry Potter and inspired so much loyalty from his protegé that he was able to
succesfully get him to continue the hunt for Horcruxes, despite Harry's resentment of Dumbledore's
secrecy, and even eventually sacrifice himself as Dumbledore had planned.

Teaching skills: Having apparently always been highly interested in teaching, from a young age,
Dumbledore already displayed the ability to be a good mentor-like figure and model to his fellow
student friends, as noted by Elphias Doge, and as an adult, Dumbledore's teaching talents coupled with
his extraordinary magical capabilities made him fully capable of managing the position of the Professor
of Defence Against the Dark Arts and of Transfiguration at Hogwarts so well as to be considered the
greatest teacher at Hogwarts during his time as an instructor. Indeed, even the two rather mistrusting
and strict headmasters Dumbledore served under, respected his competence as a teacher, to the point
that Dumbledore was thus able to convince them to change their opinions or at least reconsider and
lessen the punishment of a student who had done a seemingly bad deed, as shown by how Dumbledore
managed to at least persuade Phineas Nigellus Black to not destroy Newt's wand when he was
sentenced to be expelled and also convince Armando Dippet to allowing Rubeus Hagrid to at least stay
at Hogwarts as Gamekeeper, henceforth earning the undying respect and loyalty of both his former
students. Dumbledore also successfully guided Minerva McGonagall into becoming an Animagus, which
was known to be very difficult to do, by the age of 17. He also noted that he was fully confident that had
he been the one who taught Harry Potter Occlumency, he would have been able to mould Harry into a
successful enough of an Occlumens to resist Voldemort. Hermione and Ron was also sure that when
Dumbledore gave Harry private lessons, he wanted to teach Harry the most advanced martial magic and
was confident that Harry would have learned enough from Dumbledore to be capable of fulfilling the
Prophecy. Due to his emotional wisdom and ability to show compassion to all, Dumbledore was also
highly adept at offering emotional guidance and also teaching others how to perceive the emotional
state of others to the point of making even some of the most reclusive students opening up to him, as
displayed by his ability to get Leta Lestrange to open up about her brother's death by revealing his own
mistakes of not loving Ariana enough, which ultimately allowed Leta to save Credence Barebone from
Yusuf Kama's revenge, and gave her the mental fortitude to resist Gellert Grindelwald's persuasive
speech, and also effectively teach Harry into understanding Voldemort from their private lessons
together, which was undoubtedly helpful in Harry's victory over the Dark Lord, as well as grant him the
fortitude needed to remain steadfast against Voldemort no matter what happened. As Headmaster,
Dumbledore even agreed to admit werewolf Remus Lupin to Hogwarts, taking the necessary precautions
to avoid Remus' monthly transformations from endangering the other students, and forbidding Severus
Snape to reveal Remus' secret, which made Remus fully loyal and highly respectful to him.

Leadership skills: Even during his youth, Dumbledore was already an excellent leader, having been good
enough to be appointed the British Youth Representative to the Wizengamot and he and Grindelwald
were confident they would be fully capable of quickly starting the For the Greater Good revolution to
conquer the wizarding world and put down the Muggles. However, he quickly learned his lesson from
this mistake and while he had acquired the understanding of what being a leader truly was, he still
acknowledged the potential of Newton Scamander and Harry Potter as being greater than his, as they
quickly proved themselves to be more qualified from the beginning due to their lack of lust for power
and their willingness to accept any responsibility given to them no matter how large. Nevertheless, the
lessons he had learned from his youthful mistakes made him an extraordinarily skilful leader indeed and
he was well-respected and feared by many and with his uncanny ability to quickly get his followers to
trust him, to the point his skills as a leader was held in such a high regard that he was even offered the
position of Minister for Magic many times and would have most definitely greatly excelled, with Harry
adamantly acknowledging that Dumbledore would have been a far better Minister than Cornelius Fudge
and Rufus Scrimgeour without hesitation, despite his great anger at Dumbledore at the time, therefore
acknowledging his inferiority to Dumbledore as a leader despite Dumbledore's own acknowledgment of
Harry being more gifted than he was. Fudge himself held Dumbledore's leadership brilliance in such a
high regard to the point that he would often ask for his advice. During the Global Wizarding War,
Dumbledore was able to give useful leadership advice to both Head Auror Theseus Scamander, and
Head of Magical Law Enforcement Torquil Travers concerning how to best combat Gellert Grindelwald,
though Travers would disregard it but his advice allowed Theseus and most of his allies to survive
unscathed Grindelwald's rally in Paris and it was his leadership expertise giving advice to the wizarding
authorities that allowed the wizarding world to be not conquered by Grindelwald for long enough for
him to abolish the Blood Pact and defeat Grindelwald personally. It was around this time that
Dumbledore also personally taught the prodigious young Tom Riddle, who would ironically grow up to
be the most powerful dark wizard of all time, and Dumbledore‘s greatest rival. After Dumbledore's
promotion to Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he lead the school so
effectively, that many considered him the greatest headmaster Hogwarts will ever see. Dumbledore's
leadership expertise also allowed him to handle the responsibilities of the Chief Warlock of the
Wizengamot and Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards with such
effectiveness as to be well-respected for it by many, according to his friend Elphias Doge. Later on, a
more experienced Dumbledore was able to found and effectively lead the Order of the Phoenix against
Lord Voldemort and the latter's Death Eaters in both the First and Second Wizarding Wars, in secret. His
leadership allowed Dumbledore to stand against the overwhelming forces of darkness at both the First
and Second Wizarding War, despite also having to avoid the Ministry of Magic's eyes, inspiring enough
loyalty into his allies to make them be fearless and determined that the cause they were fighting for was
right even with the massive losses of their loved ones. Due to Dumbledore's leadership expertise, many
high-ranking Ministry officials, such as Torquil Travers, Dolores Umbridge, and Cornelius Fudge was
shown to fear what would happen if Dumbledore was plotting to overthrow the Ministry, implying that
had Dumbledore wanted to, he could easily have overthrown the British Ministry of Magic but he never
had any intention to.

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Dumbledore pushing back Lord Voldemort in a clash of magical power

Duelling: Albus Dumbledore was a duellist of extraordinary, almost unrivalled skill. Even at a young age,
Dumbledore was already a highly proficient duellist, as he held his own against Grindelwald and
Aberforth in their three-way duel. As an adult, in addition to having achieved great success in teaching
the Hogwarts students in the art of martial magic during his time as the Defence Against the Dark Arts
professor, as displayed by the level of ability shown by his students Newt, Theseus and Leta, all of whom
became seasoned Ministry magical combatants during the Global Wizarding War, Dumbledore was
acknowledged by even Torquil Travers to be the only one skilful enough to fight and bring Grindelwald
in. Even Grindelwald himself acknowledged Dumbledore would be easily capable of overpowering any
of his followers, which made him a threat to his revolution even though at the time they could not fight
each other directly due to their blood pact, and noted that apart from himself, only Credence
Barebone's Obscurus form would be capable of slaying Dumbledore in magical combat. Even at the
height of Grindelwald's power, where the Dark Wizard had killed so many, the whole wizarding world
still acknowledged Dumbledore could defeat him and indeed, despite Grindelwald's mastery of the Elder
Wand, Albus ultimately proved capable of beating him in what many considered to be the greatest duel
ever to be fought, with him describing himself as being a "shade more skillful" than Grindelwald. Prior to
his injury and consuming the Drink of Despair in 1996, it remained a fact that any witch or wizard would,
regardless of skill, would be no match for him,[38] to the point that even the extraordinarily powerful
Lord Voldemort strongly preferred to refrain from a face to face confrontation with Dumbledore. During
the First Wizarding War, when confronting Severus Snape over the Prophecy, who was a very
accomplished wizard even then, Dumbledore instantly disarmed and grounded him before his adversary
could react. During the time where Patricia Rakepick was present in Hogwarts, Snape noted that
Dumbledore was the only one who would certainly defeat the extremely deadly curse-breaker and even
Rakepick appeared to be unwilling to confront Dumbledore directly. Jacob's sibling, perhaps the best
student duellist, noted they would certainly be dead if Dumbledore had caught them. He swiftly dealt
with five werewolves that attacked Hagrid's hut during Fenrir Greyback's attack on Hogwarts without a
single scratch. Following the Return of Lord Voldemort, upon discovering that one of the teaching staff
were in fact a Death Eater impersonating ex-Auror Alastor Moody, Dumbledore quickly blindsided and
subdued Bartemius Crouch Junior with a single Stunning Spell of such power that it blasted apart the
magically sealed door to the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor's office and immediately floored
said Azkaban escapee, knocking him unconscious. During his attempted arrest by the Ministry of Magic
during the 1995–1996 school year, Dumbledore, with a single spell, instantly defeated Cornelius Fudge,
Dolores Umbridge, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and John Dawlish when they attempted to arrest him (though
Kingsley was secretly on Dumbledore's side) and escaped. During the Battle of the Department of
Mysteries, Dumbledore soundly rounded up all of the Death Eaters who had earlier managed to avoid
capture from the other Order members just before the following Duel in the Ministry Atrium took place,
during which he swiftly incapacitated the extremely powerful Bellatrix Lestrange, one of Lord
Voldemort's most dangerous followers. He subsequently calmly duelled and dominated Voldemort
himself, easily countering his attacks and responding with such powerful assault as to force the Dark
Lord into constant defence before eventually trapping him in an orb or water, forcing him to disapparate
and to try and possess Harry to get Dumbledore to mercy kill the boy, with the duel causing Voldemort
to resort to using Draco Malfoy to kill Dumbledore rather than facing Dumbledore again, which Narcissa
would note it was a suicide mission. This duel would make Voldemort chose. Even with his wand hand
irreparably injured, he still remained an extremely skilful duelist, as he noted he was fully confident he
could repel any attack attempted on him and Harry by Voldemort‘s followers in case it happened when
they travelled to find Slughorn and escort Harry to the Burrow and effortlessly defeated Dawlish again,
showing he still could overpower even a seasoned Auror in such a condition rather easily. Dumbledore's
duelling style was extremely versatile and dexterous, effortlessly capable of flawlessly adapting to the
situation shown during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, where while fighting the lesser
threats posed by the Death Eaters, Dumbledore would simply immediately use powerful magic to
incapacitate them, but when fighting the tremendously powerful Dark Lord himself, Dumbledore not
only used some of his most powerful spells but also manipulated the environment into securing Bellatrix
was out of the fight and Harry was safe, used Fawkes by taking advantage of the latter's immortality to
block Voldemort's Killing Curse, and apparating at times to dodge Voldemort's spells before swiftly
counter-attacking, a method of duelling that proved considerably efficient when used against the Dark
Lord.

Defence Against the Dark Arts: With the subject apparently being his most prominent expertise out of
his many magical abilities, Albus Dumbledore held the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts
Professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for more than twenty years and excelled to the
point of being deemed the best teacher in the whole school during his time teaching the subject,
showcasing his expertise in fending off Dark Forces, up until Torquil Travers banned Dumbledore from
teaching the subject. This was shown by how Leta and Newt, who were both among Dumbledore's best
students, proved themselves to be highly skilful in the field to the point that they proved capable of
having enough confidence in their abilities to stand up to even Gellert Grindelwald himself. The full
extent of Dumbledore's abilities in this field were perhaps best shown during the uprisings of Gellert
Grindelwald and Lord Voldemort, who were both regarded at the time of their respective rebellions as
the most dangerous Dark Wizard of all time, during which not only did popular opinion quickly grow
during both conflicts that Albus Dumbledore would be the only one who could possibly put an end to
their respective and seemingly unstoppable reigns of terror. Indeed: It is known that both of the
aforementioned dark wizards feared Dumbledore and were unwilling to challenge him directly, and that
those who opposed said dangerous criminals were also often quick to rally at his side and his ability to
overcome them was proven to be true. His knowledge and ability where protective enchantments was
concerned was perhaps best shown during his time as Headmaster of Hogwarts, when was personally
responsible for upholding the magical protections around the school, and many felt that there were no
safer place in the world than Hogwarts Castle, which was even said to be more secure than Gringotts
Wizarding Bank, as the castle's defences were of a standard the likes of which, most likely, no other
previous Headmaster had achieved. Indeed, Dumbledore's defensive spellwork was so powerful and
sophisticated, that not even Voldemort himself could find a way through them. In addition, Dumbledore
was apparently the primary leader of the staff's efforts in containing the damage unleashed by the
opening of the Cursed Vaults and the staff noted repeatedly that had Dumbledore not been absent, he
could have succeeded where they had trouble in doing easily. Dumbledore was also highly accomplished
and knowledgeable in fending off Dark creatures, as shown by him successfully mentoring his students,
including the unique Newt Scamander, on how to overcome a Boggart, only failing with Leta Lestrange
due to the tremendous guilt she had over her brother's death, and later by his ability to produce an
extremely powerful Patronus Charm capable of single-handedly chasing away all of the Dementors that
Cornelius Fudge had ordered stationed around Hogwarts without it even being a corporeal one.
Dumbledore also was highly familiar with the concept of Inferi and how to defend against them using
fire and in addition to thoroughly explaining to Harry Potter how they were created by Voldemort, he
was able to swiftly force off the large army of Inferi in the Horcrux Cave with a single Firestorm.
Dumbledore was also aware that an Obscurus can be potentially healed by replacing the feelings that
made that person an Obscurial with a sense of love and belonging, hence he gave such advice to Newt
Scamander concerning Credence. Dumbledore's knowledge and ability to counter the after-effects of
various spells of dark origin was exceptional, as he was quick to recognise the attack of Mrs Norris as a
case of petrification rather than murder after a quick examination of the cat, and knew the only way to
undo the attack were to use a Mandrake Restorative Draught after trying to undo it with a spell that
should have normally reversed petrification, as well as quickly identified the real Moody was under the
Imperius Curse and lifted it from him after discovering Crouch had been disguising himself as the
seasoned Auror. He also knew that the Killing Curse cannot kill those covered by objects nor truly
destroy a Phoenix, henceforth using the Fountain of Magical Brethren's statues and Fawkes to
effectively neutralise Voldemort's Killing Curses. He was also capable of identifying the exceptionally
powerful curse on Marvolo Gaunt's ring quickly enough that he was able to suppress its effects long
enough to return from the village of Little Hangleton in Yorkshire to Hogwarts, in spite of his injuries for
further treatment from Severus Snape, with him having previously managed to easily bypass the many
powerful dark defences set up by Voldemort around the Gaunt Cottage without being harmed and doing
the same to all but the enchantment on the Potion of Despair when he invaded the Cave. Uniquely,
Dumbledore was even capable of ripping out the piece of Voldemort's soul from the ring in order to
destroy it without destroying the Resurrection Stone. In addition, he was also extremely competent in
safely removing curses from dark objects, as he was capable of removing the curses in Rakepick's dark
artefacts to study them, which not even Snape was able to do. His understanding of human nature also
allowed him to understand and effectively take advantage of the functions of ancient magic that wards
from any treat that few witches and wizards even knew about: taking advantage of the magical
protection that lingered over Harry due to his mother's sacrifice, Dumbledore was even able to
effectively ensure that for the next sixteen years he would be safe from both Voldemort and his
followers as long as he lived where a blood relative of his mother resided, highlighting his knowledge
and proficiency in the subject. Dumbledore was also exceptionally skilled with the understanding and
repelling of dark creatures. He was very skilful in dealing with Werewolves, as he effortlessly dispatched
five werewolves in Hagrid's Hut, and simply arriving to Jacob's Sibling's aid sent the notoriously powerful
Fenrir Greyback running from Hogwarts. Nevertheless of his resentment of dark creatures such as
Dementors due to their untrustworthy nature, Dumbledore was still extremely knowledgeable and
skilful in their nature and how to deal with them, as he thoroughly explained to Jacob's sibling on
Boggarts and why they cannot be destroyed and can only be banished by Boggart-Banishing Spell, which
during his time as DATDA, he effectively instructed students how to deal with, swiftly repelled a large
amount of Dementors with a single non-corporeal Patronus Charm, and thoroughly explained the nature
of Inferius to Harry Potter, later swiftly repelling an entire army of them with a conjured firestorm.

Dark Arts: While not an active practitioner of the Dark Arts, and seldom ever known to have used dark
spells of any kind, Dumbledore was nevertheless exceptionally talented in the field of magic, with
Minerva McGonagall, a long-time colleague of Dumbledore who knew him for most of her life, even
insinuating at one point that Dumbledore was fully capable of utilising the same destructive dark powers
that Lord Voldemort wielded, but that he chose not to do so, being "too noble to use them".
Dumbledore's extensive knowledge on the topic of Dark Magic allowed him to fully understanding the
scarcely known and extremely advanced piece of old magic used to create Horcrux, and he was able to
quickly identify that Mrs Norris had been petrified upon a brief inspection, whereas others incorrectly
believed the cat to be dead when they found her lifeless body. Even while limited by his good nature,
Dumbledore still proved to be quite capable of casting powerful hexes and jinxes, as shown when he
swiftly incapacitated Fudge, Umbridge, Dawlish, and Kingsley with a powerful hex that emitted a streak
of silver light, and was described as having the force of a gunshot, and caused the floor to tremble when
they tried to arrest him and later easily jinxed Dawlish once again when tailed by him. He seemed to
have the capability to perform the Killing Curse, as Severus Snape feared Dumbledore was going to kill
him after he had been disarmed and brought to his knees by the headmaster when straying too close to
the school during his time as a Death Eater. Dumbledore even appeared to have mastered what
appeared to be a harmless branch of Necromancy used for comedic purposes, as he effortlessly
animated several pieces of skeletons into individual skeletons and controlled them to dance for
Hallowe'en before undoing the magic and having them crumble back.

Occlumency and Legilimency: Dumbledore was also impeccably adept in both Occlumency and
Legilimency. Capable of using Legilimency without needing to use his wand or speak the incantation,
many people, particularly Harry Potter, often noted that Dumbledore sometimes seemed to see right
into their mind and correctly decipher what they were thinking.[32] However, some of Lord Voldemort's
followers, such as Barty Crouch Jr, and his staff members, such as Horace Slughorn, proved to be
excellent Occlumens capable of effectively hiding their thoughts from him. His skills in Legilimency was
great enough that he was capable of extracting the true version of modified memories even if it was
powerfully done, coaxing out from Morfin Gaunt and later Hokey the true version of the memories that
Voldemort used powerful magic to falsify, something which he said needed a "great deal of skilled
Legilimency" to accomplish, although he did admit that he was not able to do so without difficulty. He
also trained Jacob, a natural Legilimens, in the art. Dumbledore's skill in Occlumency was so great that
he was among the very few (together with Gellert Grindelwald and Severus Snape) skilled enough in the
art to conceal thoughts from Voldemort himself, who was the most powerful Legillimens of all time. At
one point, he noted to Harry that he was confident that he was capable enough in Occlumency to train
him successfully to resist Voldemort but due to his fear of Voldemort's reaction to their closeness, he
made the ill-fated decision of appointing Snape to train Harry. He could also lower his staunch mind
defence enough to allow a lesser Legilimens to enter his mind but still limiting what they see, enabling
Jacob's sibling to enter his mind but preventing him from seeing too much.

Wandless and non-verbal magic: Albus was highly proficient at both non-verbal and wandless magic,
both of which were highly advanced and difficult to perform; his prowess was great enough for him to
be fully capable of using both simultaneously. While some people, such as Antonin Dolohov, as seen
during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries,[32] seemed to produce lesser magic when using it
non-verbally, Dumbledore was capable of extraordinary feats such as conjuring hundreds of squishy
purple sleeping bags to accommodate the students of Hogwarts, without saying a word.[34] During the
Ending Feast in 1992, he only had to clap his hands to transform the banners of the Great Hall from
Slytherin to Gryffindor. In addition, during the Welcome Feast in 1993, he extinguished and lit a candle
with a mere wave of his hand. While in The Cave, Dumbledore easily foiled the defences set up by Lord
Voldemort using only wandless and nonverbal magic. He later cast the Freezing Charm nonverbally to
keep Harry unable to intervene in his death. He could cast the Human-presence-revealing Spell
wandlessly and nonverbally. He also duelled Voldemort and defeated the Death Eaters during the Battle
of the Department of Mysteries without ever uttering any incantation.[32] In the film animation,
Dumbledore repeatedly flung Harry away to keep him out of his duel with Voldemort with a mere
gesture. He was also able to dim the Great Hall's light sources and summon the names of the Champions
of the Triwizard Tournament to his hand. He even set Riddle's Wardrobe to fire without bothering to
look. With sheer will, while having his Admonitors vanished by Theseus, Dumbledore kept the blood
pact vial levitated without even having to look or wave his hand.
Spell creation: Dumbledore was known for his ability to create unique magical spells and devices and
modify already existing spells. He was the inventor of the Deluminator, which was considered to be
unique. Not only could it remove light sources from the Deluminator's immediate surroundings, as well
as bestow them, after it had been bequeathed to Ron Weasley, he discovered that he could sometimes
hear Harry and Hermione's voices through it, and that it also allowed him to Apparate to their location, a
function that Dumbledore likely added before his death. He also developed a method to communicate
using Patronus Charms, which he taught to the members of the Order of the Phoenix.

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Dumbledore conjuring a firestorm to ward off the Inferi and protect Harry Potter

Elemental magic affinity: Dumbledore was extremely capable in using magic to manipulate the
elements, especially fire, water and wind, although he seemed to prefer the former, for both combative
and supplementary purposes, as it seems that when straying away from more conventional combative
spellwork, Dumbledore would skillfully use the power of the elements to attack his adversary. In order
to converse secretly with Newt Scamander, Dumbledore combined both water and wind to form a thick
mist and easily dispersed it after he had finished. He displayed particularly incredible skill in controlling
fire, as shown when he easily set ablaze Riddle's wardrobe without actually burning anything in order to
display his wizarding powers to him and was able to generate a ring of fire to hold off a throng of Inferi
in the Horcrux Cave, which was potent enough to remain unquenchable by the vast ocean that
surrounded them. In the film, he displayed the power to launch fireballs into the water to free Harry
from the Inferi holding him. At one point in the films, he generated wind to extinguish a candle and
easily lit it up again with a mere gesture. He was also capable of conjuring the everlasting Gubraithian
Fire, an incredibly advanced piece of magic that extreme few could accomplish, greatly impressing
Hermione Granger. In his duel against Voldemort, he used a fiery rope that managed to overshadow the
silver shield Voldemort had conjured, forcing him to transfigure it in order to repel the attack, and easily
manipulated the considerable amount of water contained inside the Fountain of Magical Brethren to
rise up and cover Voldemort "like a cocoon of molten glass". In the film, Dumbledore was able to non-
verbally and wandlessly dissipate the huge Basilisk-shaped Fiendfyre construct send at him by
Voldemort, and then gather up the flames and blast them at Voldemort in the form of a gigantic wave of
fire.

Magical Multilingualist: Dumbledore had an uncanny expertise in mastering many foreign magical
languages, as not only could he speak Mermish[39] and Gobbledegook, but he was even among the very
few able to recognise and understand Parseltongue, the language of snakes, as while he and Harry were
inside Bob Ogden's stored memory, he instantly recognised that Marvolo was speaking Parseltongue
whereas Harry didin't even realise until Dumbledore pointed it out; he was able to quote verbatim a
Parseltongue phrase uttered by Morfin Gaunt in a later stored memory, implying at least a level of
ability to speak it.[25]

Transfiguration: Dumbledore was known to be highly accomplished and knowledgeable in the incredibly
complex art of Transfiguration even before graduating, as his knowledge and proficiency on the subject
was already sufficient for him to be allowed to submit some papers to the Transfiguration Today, all of
which, particularly his pages on Trans-Species Transformation, were of a remarkably high standard, to
the point that Bathilda Bagshot was impressed enough to contact him and his N.E.W.T. Examinor
Professor Marchbanks was so impressed by his display during his Transfiguration N.E.W.T. Exam, that
she would note that Dumbledore had performed transfiguration magic that "[she] had never seen
before." As an adult, Transfiguration had became one of Dumbledore's most prominent areas of
expertise, as ever since he was banned from teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts by Torquil Travers,
Dumbledore chose Transfiguration as his next subject to teach and did so magnificently enough to
quickly be promoted to the Head of Transfiguration department of the school, holding the position up
for many years to come until his ascending to the position of Headmaster of the School. He was
seemingly deemed the greatest teacher of the field in Hogwarts's history, as Harry Potter stated
Dumbledore had been the best while only aware of Dumbledore's carreer as Professor of
Transfiguration, and having also trained the especially talented Minerva Mcgonagall into becoming an
excellent master of the field and his successor later on. In addition, Dumbledore had been a famously
regular and successful columnist to the Transfiguration Today to the point his contribution was deemed
good enough to be published among the news of Daily Prophet. He was quite knowledgeable in the field
of Animagus Transformation, having successfully guided Minerva Mcgonagall into becoming one at the
age of seventeen, despite the notorious difficulty and known dangers of that ability. Dumbledore was
particularly proficient in Conjuration and also accomplished in Vanishment, as he could effortlessly and
non-verbally conjure a stretcher to transport the unconscious Harry, several hats for the charmed
skeletons he enchanted for Hallowe'en Feast Entertainment that he easily vanished upon finishing,
hundreds of squishy purple bags to accommodate the Gryffindor students in the Great Hall when Sirius
Black broke into the Castle, two armchairs for Mrs Figg and himself to sit on during Harry's disciplinary
hearing, at one instance quickly vanishing the container of the Goblet of Fire, a tea tray when the trio
came to visit Hagrid, several glasses and a bottle containing Rosmerta's mead, which he later on easily
vanished, a bottle of gin and several glasses to accommodate Cole, and a goblet to drink the Emerald
Potion. His mastery of Transfiguration allowed him to make very good use of it in combat, as shown
when Dumbledore seamlessly cast the Piertotum Locomotor spell to animate the statues of the
Fountain of Magical Brehtren to subdue Belatrix, protect Harry and repel Voldemort's curses and
conjured a large rope of fire that Voldemort had to transfigure into a snake to repel the attack, which
Dumbledore easily vanished, during his duel with the Dark Lord. In the film, Dumbledore was able to
immediately transfigure all the glass shards sent at him by Voldemort into sand with a single shielding
spell. He also effortlessly transformed the banners of the Great Hall from representing Slytherin to
Gryffindor with a mere clap of his hands. Dumbledore also had an uncanny knack for immediately
figuring out and countering Transfiguration spells done by others, as shown by how he quickly deduced
Horace Slughorn had turned himself into a chair and easily undid it with a simple jab of his wand and
later on casually figured out the beetle watching over him and Jacob's Sibling as being Rita Skeeter using
her Animagus power and called her out on it to make her revert back to her true form. He presumably
also undid the transfiguration spell Mcgonagall used on the Chessboard Chamber to quickly pass
through them and get to Harry on time. In order to sing the school song, Dumbledore conjured and
animated a ribbon that he twisted to form the lyrics into the air.

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Albus's Patronus in the shape of the Phoenix

Charms: Albus was known to be extremely accomplished in Charms even as a young man as articles that
he wrote about the branch of magic were published in the scholarly journal Challenges in Charming and
his N.E.W.T examinors Professor Marchbanks was so impressed by his display during his Charms N.E.W.T
Exam that he said that Dumbledore "did things with a wand that [she] had never seen before". He also
earned the Barnabus Finkley Prize for Exceptional Spell-Casting and could already cast such a strong
Disillusionment Charm that he was effectively able to render himself invisible without needing an
Invisibility Cloak, which was a tremendous feat.[40] As an adult, Dumbledore's mastery of Charms was
sufficient to earn him the illustrious title of Grand Sorcerer. His proficiency in the incredibly complex
Patronus Charm was so advanced that he was able to devise new uses for this charm, allowing it to be
used as a form of communication (with the caster speaking with their own voice through the
Patronus).[39] Dumbledore was also capable of effectively performing the extremely complex Fidelius
Charm, acting as the Secret Keeper to 12 Grimmauld Place after it was made the Headquarters of the
Order of Phoenix. He was even capable of performing the extremely powerful and ancient bond of blood
charm to further ensure Harry's protection from Voldemort for 17 years while he lived with his aunt,
Petunia Dursley. He could easily perform the Portus Charm succesfully to create Portkeys, using it to
turn a black kettle in his office to a Portkey that sent Harry and the Weasley children to Grimmauld Place
and later the head of the golden wizard statue into a Portkey that took Harry back to Hogwarts. Even
without the Deluminator, Dumbledore could easily put out light sources with an unknown charm, which
he could do twice while in his office and also while announcing the Triwizard Champions with a mere
gesture, and seemed to have been the one who enchanted the device with such ability. He also was
responsible for the additional charm cast on the Deluminator that allowed it to guide Ron back to Harry
and Hermione after he left. He could cast a variety of powerful and unique enchantments, shown when
he enchanted the Mirror of Erised to only give the Philosopher's Stone to a person who wished to find it
but not to use it, which held firm even against Quirell when he had both the knowledge of Voldemort
and his own experience, which had allowed him to easily bypass the other enchantments put in place to
protect the artefact, manifested a hand to Newt's location capable of taking Newt to Dumbledore's
location and conjured a thick mist capable of hiding him and Newt from magical detection in order to
prevent the Ministry from locating them. Dumbledore's mastery and knowledge of all forms of
defensive charms was unparalleled, as while he was Headmaster of Hogwarts, Dumbledore was in
charge of controlling the protective measures of the castle and the standard of his magic was so strong
that not even Voldemort could breach them, with Hogwarts thus being considered the safest it had ever
been with Dumbledore in charge. He could easily lift and recast them, evidenced when he temporarily
lifted the Anti-Apparition Charm to allow the students to learn how to Apparate. He was also capable of
locking doors to prevent them from being opened by seemingly any means apart from Dumbledore
himself undoing the enchantment, as he did to further made it look like Harry and Hermione had not
done anything to help Sirius escape and Hermione feared the idea of Dumbledore locking the doors of
the Hospital Wing before they could get there after succeeding, with Snape and Fudge only able to
access the door, despite Snape's rage and Fudge's exasperation, when Dumbledore calmly let them in,
and later enchanting the entrance door to Hogwarts to be impenetrable to the Unlocking Charm and
making the walls reject any attempt of anyone to climb up. He also was able to cast a powerful Age Line
around the Goblet of Fire to ensure no one under the age of 17 could cross, with it being such a flawless
enchantment that in addition to being humorously enchanted to both repel Ageing Potions and cause
those who had used them to cross the line to grow beards, Mcgonagall adamantly defended that the
Age Line Dumbledore had put had no flaws in it when the under-aged Harry Potter became Hogwarts's
second champion, with Barty Crouch, while disguised as Moody, therefore being forced to risk exposure
by putting Harry's name into the Goblet of Fire personally. He also understood the nature of the Goblet
of Fire perfectly, acknowledging that there was no way for them to prevent Harry from competing after
he had been chosen, and was able to easily unlock the chest containing the magical object by tapping it
three times. Even while not yet Headmaster, Dumbledore was still apparently in charge of the school's
protective spells, which proved sufficient to keep out Gellert Grindelwald, and could undo the
protection around the school multiple times at whim - allowing Torquil Travers and Theseus Scamander
to arrive to question him, allowing Newton Scamander, Tina Goldstein, and their allies to arrive for
advice after Grindelwald's Paris rally, and years later allowing Harry Potter to breach the perimeter on a
broomstick. Indeed, Dumbledore was even able to make the usually Unplottable Hogwarts Castle
temporarily Plottable, so as to allow the No-Maj Jacob Kowalski to join Newt in visiting the castle for
advice. In the film, Dumbledore single-handedly repaired the large torn house Slughorn was in swiftly,
although in the book he instead had help from Slughorn to do so. In the film adaptation, Dumbledore
could use the Partis Temporus Charm to part the firestorm he created to fend off the Inferi, allowing
him and Harry to reach their boat safely. Dumbledore often extracted his memories and put them inside
his Pensieve and was able to project the image of his memory regarding the Prophecy of the Chosen
One from it for Harry to see. In order to entrance the sharp Mrs Cole, Dumbledore non-verbally cast the
very complex Confundus Charm with ease to successfully confound her into believing the blank paper
was sufficient to allow a talk between them, a noteworthy feat as even the very skilled and powerful
Severus Snape had trouble using the advanced charm. He also was capable of inserting the Ressurection
Stone into the Snitch he gave Harry and enchanting it to only reveal itself when Harry was about to
make the ultimate sacrifice, preventing any attempt from Harry to open it. His mastery of the Human-
presence-revealing Spell was very potent, having been the only wizard seen thus far capable of
penetrating the powerful magic of the Cloak of Invisibility, henceforth successfully sensing the presence
of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley while they had the Cloak on. He was proficient enough in the Slowing
Charm to perform it quickly and without his wand to slow down Harry Potter's swift descent after he
was knocked off his broom by the Dementors effectively enough to make him land without any injuries,
not even breaking his glass, which Harry's friends commented on, and was able to levitate and carry the
stretcher holding Harry's unconcincious body all the way back to school without strain for further
treatment from Madam Pomfrey. He also effortlessly summoned the names of the Champions of the
Triwizard Tournament with a simple gesture, showing he could easily cast simple charms without
needing his wand but preferred to do so with it. This was also shown years before, where Dumbledore
levitated the vial containing the blood pact between him and Gellert without even needing to gesture,
simply through sheer will. In addition, Dumbledore swiftly summoned the sofa in the house of the
Dursleys in order to force them to sit on it, enchanted the glasses he filled with Rosmerta's mead to stay
suspended in mid-air and repeatedly knock over the Dursleys, and transported the belongings of Harry
Potter to the Burrow with ease. In the film, Dumbledore unleashed such a powerful Disarming Charm to
blast down the door to Crouch's office while he was disguised as Moody and send the fake Moody flying
a considerable distance away, the impact of him hitting the nearby chair being enough to make the chair
stumble backwards and stun him long enough for Dumbledore to breach the distance between them. He
simultaneously disarmed and grounded Severus Snape when meeting with him with a single Disarming
Charm. He was also able to cast an unknown charm that effortlessly pulled back a fleeing Death Eater
during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. Dumbledore could cast a seemingly modified version
of the Silencing Charm that instead of silencing a target, made the surrounding environment's natural
events happen without causing any sound and seemingly rendered any sound coming from the area
unable to be heard by all but the ones standing in said place, as he did to ensure he and Severus Snape
were not disturbed when they conversed about Snape relying the Prophecy to Voldemort. In addition to
making normal use of the Wand-Lighting Charm for light in the dark areas of the Horcrux Cave and
Forbidden Forest, Dumbledore was also able to throw the light created by the charm at the centre of the
ocean to light the whole cave up. Dumbledore was also very accomplished with the Piertotum
Locomotor Charm, as he was able to do so seamlessly and in an instant with ease to animate and
manipulate the statues of the Fountain of Magical Brehtren during his duel with Voldemort.
Dumbledore was also able to skillfully perform the Reviving Spell, as he instantly un-stunned Viktor
Krum after Barty Crouch Jr knocked him out and even managed to partially revive the latter from an
extremely powerful Stunning Spell he had unleashed while taking care to not revive him enough to allow
Crouch any chance to resist. He warmed up Harry and dried his clothes upon noticing the latter was
shivering with a single spell. When playing the Hoggy Warty Hogwarts song, Dumbledore was capable of
simultaneously making the entire school rumble.