<Tr> <Th> Species </Th> <Td> Wizard </Td> </Tr> <P> Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is a fictional character in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series . For most of the series, he is the headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts . As part of his backstory, it is revealed that he is the founder and leader of the Order of the Phoenix, an organisation dedicated to fighting Lord Voldemort . </P> <P> Dumbledore is portrayed by Richard Harris in the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets . After Harris' death, Michael Gambon portrayed Dumbledore for all of the remaining Harry Potter films . Jude Law will portray Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald . </P> <P> Rowling stated she chose the name Dumbledore, which is a dialectal word for "bumblebee", because of Dumbledore's love of music: she imagined him walking around "humming to himself a lot". </P>

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