How old is Dumbledore?

During his time as a student, Dumbledore was in Gryffindor House. Rowling said in an interview that Dumbledore was about 150 years old. However, on her website, she states that Dumbledore was born in 1881, making him either 115 or 116 at the time of his death.
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How old was Dumbledore 1927?

I've said this before: Dumbledore was born in 1881, by 1927 he was 46 and by 1943 he was 62, but time didn't age him. Dumbledore had lived through WW1, was living through WW2 and was still Teaching. In that short of a time the man aged a lot primarily for 2 reason.
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How old is Dumbledore and McGonagall?

“Question: How old is old in the wizarding world, and how old are Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall? J.K. Rowling responds: Dumbledore is a hundred and fifty, and Professor McGonagall is a sprightly seventy. Wizards have a much longer life expectancy than Muggles.
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How old is Grindelwald?

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them takes place in 1926, making Grindelwald 44 to 45 years old as he attempts to capture an obscurial to use against Dumbledore. His later capture and escape take the film series into 1927 in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, making the dark wizard 45 or 46 years old.
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How old is Voldemort?

How old is Voldemort in the Harry Potter movies? Voldemort is 65 years old when we meet him in the Philosopher's Stone, and he was 71 when he died.
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How old is Snape when he dies?

According to the author, Severus Snape's birthday is 9 January 1960 and he died on 2 May 1998 at the age of 38.
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How old is McGonagall?

According to the author, Minerva McGonagall's birthday is 4 October, and she is about seventy years old when the series begins.
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Is Dumbledore love Grindelwald?

Is Dumbledore In Love With Grindelwald? Warner Bros. Dumbledore and Grindelwald only spent about two months together, but the two canonically became lovers in that time. Their relationship was passionate and intense, and each wizard helped shape the philosophies of the other.
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Is credence a Snape?

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore confirmed that Credence Barebone/Aurelius Dumbledore (Ezra Miller) is the new Snape (Alan Rickman) through a very familiar line delivered by Aberforth Dumbledore (Richard Coyle). Fantastic Beasts 3 finally shed light on the Credence being Aurelius Dumbledore plot twist.
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Is Grindelwald Voldemort's brother?

Perhaps Muggles and Wizards alike should be thankful the two of them are not related.
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How old is Dumbledore when he dies?

While she originally said in an interview that Dumbledore was around 150 years old when he died, we know from Pottermore that he was actually around 115 years old when Snape fired the killing curse at him on top of Hogwarts' astronomy tower.
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How old is Hagrid?

According to the author, Hagrid's birthday is December 6th; events in the stories lead us to believe he is approximately 60 years old when Harry first attends Hogwarts.
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Is filch McGonagall's son?

No, McGonagall wasn't Filch's mom. She never had a child. Filch belonged to a completely different wizarding family and was a squib.
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Did Albus Dumbledore have a child?

However, Credence being Dumbledore's son in Fantastic Beasts does fit into the timeline. Assuming the year of Credence's birth is correct, which can be seen via the official birth certificate prop by MinaLima for the Fantastic Beasts movie, Dumbledore would have certainly been old enough to father a child.
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How many kids Dumbledore have?

In his later life, he married a Muggle-born witch named Kendra with whom he had three children: Albus (who bore the same as his second name), Aberforth, and Ariana.
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Is Credence Voldemort's Father?

Before Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them came out, it seemed like the story's only real Potter connection would be Newt Scamander's relation to Luna Lovegood and a Dumbledore name-drop.
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Is Credence Snape's dad?

However, there is one Potter character where a shared bloodline would not be a stretch: Snape. Recall that, as the “Half-Blood Prince,” Snape was born to a witch and a Muggle. His mother Eileen Prince was born in the 1930s. As Fantastic Beasts is set in 1926, the timing checks out for Credence to be her father.
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Who is Credence Dumbledores son?

It is explained that Credence is the illegitimate son of Albus's younger brother, Aberforth (Richard Coyle). His real name is Aurelius Dumbledore. Aberforth's wife was murdered, and Aurelius was raised under the name Credance as an orphan.
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Did Grindelwald and Dumbledore kiss?

While their romantic relationship doesn't progress farther than those pained one-liners in the movie — they don't kiss, but they're far from together in this film — the extra layer of shared history, and nuance, makes the relationship between the two men that much more compelling.
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Is Dumbledore A Pureblood?

No, Dumbledore is not a pure-blood, but in fact, he is a half-blood. Although both of his parents were magical, his mother was a Muggle-born, which technically gives Albus the status of a half-blood.
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Is Newt Scamander autistic?

The writer of the Fantastic Beasts series, J.K. Rowling has never publicly stated that Newt has autism or was written to be autistic.
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How old is Sirius Black?

Sirius Orion Black (born November 3, 1959 - died June 18, 1996, aged 36), also known by his nickname Padfoot, is a major character from the Harry Potter series.
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Is JK Rowling a Gryffindor?

And, naturally, J.K. Rowling herself is a Gryffindor.

Rowling revealed her house during a livestream in 2012.
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Does Hagrid ever marry?

At Carnegie Hall in 2007, J.K. Rowling later confirmed that Hagrid did not marry.
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