WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:10.720 Hath still ears there are few figures in the wizarding 2 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:14.599 world who carry the kindly head master, with the silver 3 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:20.879 beard and the half moon spectacles and the long curling fingers. 4 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:25.399 He was the man who handed out lemon drops and 5 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:30.239 pulled silver instruments out of his pocket, and twinkled at 6 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:33.000 the students as though he had read the answers to 7 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:38.359 their examinations before they sat down. He was the man 8 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:44.799 who forgave, who smiled, who spoke in soft aphorisms about 9 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:51.399 choices and consequences. He was, in short, the image of 10 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:57.200 the wise grandfather. He was a chess player. He was 11 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:02.159 a man who kept secrets that cost lives. He was 12 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:06.599 a man who groomed a child for sacrifice from the 13 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:11.319 night that child was left on a door step. And 14 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:15.120 he was also, in his own strange and painful way, 15 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:19.280 a man who loved the world enough to do all 16 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:24.519 of those things. He was a choice of secrets, the builder, 17 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:31.159 the bates a round being file. We're not here to 18 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:35.400 talk about that image. We are here to talk about 19 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:40.760 what was underneath it, the widge, the lacks of trent 20 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:45.439 Vaus at home. It was enough of your myriess for 21 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:51.079 our jester standers. We are going to feel our way 22 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:56.200 along the walls. We are going to notice the things 23 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:01.480 that have been there all along, that it's something that 24 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:08.319 we are Elbus deviled, the boss of Eldest Dunbury lived 25 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:11.879 in a stone house at the bend of a lane, 26 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:16.000 and the kind of slow countryside quiet that we do 27 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:24.759 not often see anymore. Baberforth came Abbey Arbury. Ariana was 28 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:30.080 the youngest. She was six years younger than Albus. She 29 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:33.199 had a barter and more stubborn of the two brothers, 30 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.719 and who would grow up to run the hogshead in 31 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:40.879 the garden behind the house. She could not be trusted 32 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:45.240 to a look. The power came out of her, an 33 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:51.919 unpredictable burst, sometimes as bright light and sometimes as something 34 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:58.439 darker and sharper. She could not be trusted to be alone. 35 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:02.520 She could not be trusted to be safe, and so 36 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:08.680 Kendra Bambury. Arianna was the youngest. She was six years 37 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:13.919 younger than Albus. The most fragile of the three. Toronto 38 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:19.280 was damaged withdrew the families from the world. She moved 39 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:26.520 them inward. She kept Arianna at harm. Arianna was the youngest. 40 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:30.680 There are thunderness to the Ministry of Magic in some 41 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:36.560 choir's department no one ever bothered to name. But after 42 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:41.000 the incident in the garden, none of that mattered. The 43 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:46.680 family became reclusive. The aunt came when she could, the 44 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:51.280 father stayed away more and more, and the children grew 45 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.120 up in a house that was heavy with things that 46 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:57.680 no one talked about, which is the worst kind of 47 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.840 house for a child with a curious mind mind. Albas, 48 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:06.000 who had been a brilliant student even as a small boy, 49 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.759 began to read everything he could get his hands on. 50 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.719 He read the books that his mother kept on the 51 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:18.120 high shelves. He read the books that Bethilda lent him 52 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:21.759 when she visited. He read the books that he could 53 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:25.519 get his hands on. He read the books that his 54 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:31.680 mother kept on the numbers plays Apiu. He dug it away. 55 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:38.920 Arthur Coarse sentenced him to life in ascabin purseval Dumbledore 56 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:44.879 never returned. He died in that prison on a stone 57 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:51.920 floor with dementors for company. Having refused to tell the 58 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:57.720 ministry why he had done what he did, he died 59 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:05.800 protecting his daughter's seeks. And Umbus, who was nine, lend 60 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:11.399 another lesson. That night he learned that the laws of 61 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:17.120 the wizarding world were written to protect the powerful, not 62 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:21.879 the broken. He learned that the laws of the wizarding 63 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:27.519 world were written to protect the powerful, not the broken. 64 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:33.040 He learned that the world was not on his side, 65 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:36.920 and he learned it at exactly the age when a 66 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:44.240 boy like arbas family is silenced rather than the Muggle police. 67 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:51.199 His parents, her soldiers, and his sister. He stayed with 68 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:55.560 him when he came back to Britain as the conqueror 69 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:59.879 of Grindewald, and it stayed with him when he put 70 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:04.639 Harry Potter on a door step nearly eighty years later. 71 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:11.839 When his mother died three years after Perceval, Albus was 72 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:19.319 left with the responsibility of caring for Ariana alone. Abberforth 73 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:24.040 had already been pulled out of Hogwarts to help. He 74 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:29.079 had finished his schooling by correspondents or not at all, 75 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:34.079 the records are unclear, but he was never again the 76 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:38.839 scholar that his older brother was. The two brothers took 77 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:42.920 care of their sister in shifts. They took care of 78 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:47.959 the house. They took care of the house. They took 79 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:52.680 care of the few possessions they had inherited. They did 80 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:58.399 not for several years do anything else. Albus had been 81 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:02.720 a brilliant student. He had been offered a job at 82 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:07.079 the ministry. He had been offered at Thin came the 83 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:15.040 summer of eighteen ninety nine. Almbus was seventeen. He had 84 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:20.879 finished his schooling of Hogwarts two years earlier, having left 85 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:24.600 with no real plan except a care for his mother 86 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:29.720 and his damaged sister while his brother finished at the school. 87 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:37.000 He had no money, he had no prospects, He had 88 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:41.639 no real hope of leaving Goderich's Hollow for any reason 89 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:48.879 other than the slow grind of family obligation. And then 90 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:55.600 one afternoon in June, his aunts came to visit. His 91 00:07:55.720 --> 00:08:01.959 aunt's was called Bathtilda Bagshot. She lived not far from 92 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:08.040 Godric's Hollow. She lived not far Grandebald had been expelled 93 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:12.839 from Domstag. He had come to Godric's Hollow to stay 94 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:17.040 with his great arm Bethilda for the summer, and he 95 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:23.079 had no intention of spending that summer quietly. He was already, 96 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:29.519 by seventeen, the most ambitious wizard of his generation. He 97 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:34.240 had read more than most adults, He had thought more 98 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:38.720 than most adults. He had a plan for the world, 99 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:42.080 and he was looking for some one to share it. 100 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:48.759 He found Albus. Within hours of meeting him, the two 101 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:53.519 boys walked in the garden together. They talked about magic, 102 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.519 and about the future, and about the terrible things that 103 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:03.440 wizards had done to each other in the past. Within 104 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:06.600 a few days, they were sharing a single note book. 105 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:12.840 Within a few weeks, they were writing a manifesto that 106 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:18.320 would have changed the wizarding World forever. They called their 107 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:22.879 manifesto in the slightly theatrical way that young men with 108 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:29.399 grand ambitions sometimes do the greater good. They would I 109 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:32.120 do that? Why you had a have to lass? They 110 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:35.759 are spiritual. They agreed that the wizarding World had hidden 111 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:39.440 itself away for too long. They agreed that muggles had 112 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:43.039 grown dangerous and powerful, and that the wizarding World had 113 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:48.200 a responsibility to take control before muggles destroyed themselves and 114 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:52.000 everyone else with them. They made a blood pack that summer. 115 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:55.320 The details of that pact have never been shared with 116 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:59.200 the public, but the records of the Wizarding World confirmed 117 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:02.600 that there was one. The two boys promised each other 118 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:06.440 something in blood that they could not break, even if 119 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:10.799 they wanted to. Whatever the promise was, it bound them 120 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:14.600 together for the rest of Grandewald's life. There were nights 121 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:18.279 in those weeks when Abbas stayed up until the small 122 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:22.320 hours talking with grand to Wald in the garden while 123 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:31.600 the moon went down. They talked about the courteted a brecture, 124 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:36.759 about how things ought to be. And in those talks, 125 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:41.159 Ablis Dambledore was, for once in his life, not the 126 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:45.960 lonely boy with the broken sister. He was the brilliant 127 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.279 young wizard with the brilliant young friend, and the two 128 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:54.000 of them were going to fix the world together. There 129 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:57.559 were no fears of Lance and the giants of the 130 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:02.159 mountains and the ware will that lived in the wild places, 131 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:06.200 and how all of these creatures had been abandoned by 132 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:11.679 a wizarding world that had broke fat and powerful, and 133 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:14.360 the two of them were going to fix the world together. 134 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:20.159 But Albas had not told grind Alboard everything. He had 135 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:24.879 not told him about Arianna, and that his mother was 136 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:29.320 already exhausted by the long hours of caring for her. 137 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:36.159 And when Aberforth found out that summer, the way brothers 138 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:41.919 always find out about such things, he confronted Albus about it. 139 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:47.279 He asked Albus how he could possibly go off on 140 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:52.919 adventures with a stranger while their mother was dying and 141 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:58.759 their sister was hurting. He asked Albus what kind of 142 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:03.360 man he was but coming, and the answer in the 143 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:10.919 end was a duel three ones, the two brothers and 144 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:14.159 the stranger in the garden at the back of the house. 145 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:23.879 The fight that followed was not clean. Spells flew, one's cracked, 146 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:29.200 and in the middle of it all, Ariana walked out 147 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:33.399 of the house to see what was happening. One of 148 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:38.399 the spells that flew that afternoon struck her. We do 149 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:42.360 not know that Arianna died at the end of that duel, 150 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:47.679 and that the three men who were there never recovered 151 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:51.840 from the part they played in it. Gruntwald left Godric's 152 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:56.440 hollow the next morning. He did not stay for the funeral. 153 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:03.240 He did not stay to apologize. He left, and Albus 154 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:08.159 let him leave because the blood packed between them forbade 155 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:12.799 them from fighting each other, and because Albus could not 156 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.879 bring himself to look the other man in the eye 157 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:21.159 and called him to account. The summer of eighteen ninety 158 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:25.440 nine ended the way those kinds of summers always end, 159 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:31.639 with one dead and two broken, and a third walking 160 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:35.120 away into a life that would cost the world another 161 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:40.080 sixty years of fear, and in the stone house at 162 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:44.480 the bend of the lane Albus Dumbledore, who had been 163 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:49.200 seventeen years old and brilliant and in love with nothing 164 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:54.720 at all, and in love with nothing at all. What 165 00:13:54.919 --> 00:14:02.399 happened next is harder to talk about than the drool it. Instead, 166 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:09.919 he wandered, He traveled through Europe, He stayed with old friends. 167 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:13.639 He wrote letters that no one was meant to read. 168 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:18.120 He did not speak about the death of his sister, 169 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:22.519 and he did not speak about the death of his sister, 170 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:27.240 And he did not speak about grendel Wald, and he 171 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:30.120 did not speak about the plan that the two of 172 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:34.559 them had written down in Bathilde Bagshot's garden that summer. 173 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:40.720 He stayed out of the public eye. He stayed out 174 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:43.679 of every kind of life that required him to care 175 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:48.120 about what other people thought of him. There is a 176 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:53.559 portrait of him painted in those years that hangs now 177 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:58.360 in a museum of wizarding history. The man in the 178 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:03.080 portrait is thin, the man in the portrait is bearded. 179 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:08.480 But then, in the autumn of nineteen forty five, he 180 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:13.720 finally did what the wizarding world had been waiting for 181 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:20.480 some one to do. He went to face his old friend, 182 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:25.360 the Hounk, pleasured into a war that had already lasted 183 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:32.120 nearly two decades. He had stolen the Elder wand he 184 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:35.960 had plunged the wizarding world into a war that had 185 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:41.399 offered about in Betheld's garden, except that the man he 186 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:46.559 had become was a tyrant rather than a savior, and 187 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:52.919 Elbas Dumbledore was in chains and Elba's garden, except that 188 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:56.480 the man he had become, with a past behind him, 189 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:02.639 finally came. He came alone. He came into the highest 190 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:08.039 tower of Noumngard. That day he was also walking out 191 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:12.840 of the longest lie he had ever told, the lie 192 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:15.399 that he was the kind of wizard who could be 193 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:20.159 trusted with the welfare of the whole world. In that 194 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:26.360 day forward, Balpous Dumbledore would spend every waking hour of 195 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:30.639 his life trying to undo what he and Grande Wad 196 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:35.559 had done together that summer. He would do it in private. 197 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:40.159 He would do it slowly. He would do it with 198 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:43.559 a smile on his face and a kind word for 199 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:48.159 every one he met, and a sadness in his eyes 200 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:52.159 that only the very closest of his friends ever saw. 201 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:58.879 By the harp to be dinner more than once. He refused. 202 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:04.240 Every time he received. Every time he was asked to 203 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:08.079 be Minister of Magic, more than once he refused. Every 204 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:14.160 time he was offered the position of Supreme Mougump of 205 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:21.319 the International Confederation of Wizards. He accepted it steff alone 206 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:24.279 to do the work he had set himself to do, 207 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:28.759 and he knew that power, especially the kind of power 208 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:31.960 that comes from being Minister of Magic, would get in 209 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:38.400 the way of that work. He taught, he watched, he waited. 210 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:43.680 There were in those years at Hogwarts students who remembered 211 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:47.759 him long after they left. There was a boy called 212 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:54.000 Elfhare's Doge who was at school with Elphus oberstock test 213 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:58.119 and the long stone corridors that echoed when it rained. 214 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:07.240 He he watched, he waited, he waited. There were in 215 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:12.119 those years at Hogwarts students who remembered him long after 216 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:17.640 they left. There was a boy called Elphire's Doge who 217 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:21.440 was at school with Elphas, the talking portraits, and the 218 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:27.480 long stone corridors that echoed when it rained. He taught, 219 00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:34.079 he watched, he waited. There were in those years at 220 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:40.839 Hogwarts students who remembered him long after they left. There 221 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:44.839 was even then the kind of man who cut stecres 222 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:47.720 but on magic in the wage than parlace from a 223 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:52.640 few years by then, and he had been hiding things, 224 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:57.720 He had been stealing things, He had been using dark 225 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:01.759 magic and other students when he thought no one was looking. 226 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:07.119 And Albus, who had seen this kind of boy before, 227 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:11.039 who had once been this kind of boy, help self 228 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:18.599 decimated to take a particular interest in him. He did 229 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:23.039 not expel tom Riddle, he did not turn him into 230 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:27.599 the force of Priphets, and he let Tom Riddle apply 231 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:32.680 for the post of defense against the dark art students. 232 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:40.519 He watched, he waited, He cupped the post of defense 233 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:44.759 against the Dark Art's teacher at the s world without 234 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:49.680 rizarding world then think, and then on the seventh of 235 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:55.079 November in the year nineteen eighty one, ready to face 236 00:19:55.160 --> 00:20:00.079 the dark Lord. He was somewhere else. We are not 237 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:05.839 entirely sure where. What we do know is that he 238 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:09.880 arrived at the ruins of the Potter House after the 239 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:14.720 fight was already over, and that he was somewhere else 240 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:20.400 We are not entirely sure where. What we do know 241 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:24.240 is that he arrived at the ruins of the Potter 242 00:20:24.319 --> 00:20:30.519 house after the fight was already over, and then was 243 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:35.200 the one who carried the child out of the wreckage. 244 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:38.759 He was the one who put Harry Potter on the 245 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:46.279 family with a letter, and that he had done here 246 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:49.079 now we should not be too quick to judge him 247 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:54.039 for that the killing curse had just rebounded off Harry 248 00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:59.440 and destroyed Vulamort's body. But the dark Lord was not dead. 249 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:05.839 He was somewhere else waiting to return. And the prophecy, 250 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:10.559 the prophecy that Dumbledore had heard from Siby Trilrnady in 251 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:14.920 the winter of nineteen eighty, said that neither could live 252 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:20.079 while the other survived. So the protection had to last. 253 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:24.400 It had to last until Harry was old enough to 254 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:29.079 face the dark Lord himself. And the only magic that 255 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.119 could keep a one year old wizard alive through the 256 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:36.519 years when the dark Lord's followers were still hunting him 257 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:41.680 was the old magic of love. So Albus made the 258 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:46.440 cold calculation that a child's suffering was the price worth paying, 259 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:51.440 and he made it alone. He did not ask any 260 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:55.000 one's permission, He did not tell any one what he 261 00:21:55.039 --> 00:22:00.000 had done. He simply made the choice, and he put 262 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:04.079 Harry Potter on the doorstep, and he walked away. But 263 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:08.400 that is not the end of the story. The end 264 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:13.279 of the story is that Albus Dumbler kept the secret. 265 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:18.640 He kept it for another four years, while Harry went 266 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:24.279 to Hogwatts and learned about the world of magic. He 267 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:29.599 kept it while Harry asked him year after year why 268 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:33.960 the killing curse had not killed him. He kept it 269 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:37.960 while Harry looked at him with those green eyes and 270 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:43.839 waited for an answer, And Albus smiled, and Albus gave 271 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:47.799 him a lemon drop, and Albus told him that they 272 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:52.640 would talk about it when Harry was older. The truth 273 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:56.680 was that Albus Dumbler did not want Harry to know. 274 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:00.359 He did not want Harry to know that he had 275 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:05.160 been placed at the Dursleys on purpose. He did not 276 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:10.200 want Harry to know, because if Harry knew, the chess 277 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:15.759 game would fall apart. The protection would not work, the 278 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:21.279 prophecy would not come true. And so Albus Stumbler lied, 279 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:26.960 and he kept lying year after year, until the lie 280 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:31.200 had become so familiar that he could no longer remember 281 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:37.880 how to tell the truth. There were other lies, too, 282 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:42.720 the lie about the Sword of Griffinder, the lie about 283 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:46.839 the Diary the lie about who put the curse on 284 00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:51.200 the ring that was slowly killing him, and how Albus 285 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:54.119 had found it, and why he had put it on 286 00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:58.960 in the first place. By the time Harry was sixteen, 287 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:02.680 the lie eyes were beginning to pile up around Albus 288 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:08.359 like snow. He knew it. He knew that Harry would 289 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:12.680 find out eventually. He knew that the boy would look 290 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:15.839 at him one day and see for the first time 291 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:21.759 what was actually underneath the kindly grandfather mask. And he 292 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:25.640 was right. On the night that Harry came to him 293 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:28.599 with the prophecy in his hand and said that he 294 00:24:28.599 --> 00:24:31.839 would not let Volnorpud use the prophecy to find him, 295 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:38.319 Albus Dumbledore finally told Harry the secret of Harcrux. He 296 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:40.759 had to tell Harry that the prophecy could not be 297 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:44.799 defeated by running. He had to tell Harry that the 298 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:49.240 only way to win was to face it. And then, 299 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:52.440 because he had run out of other ways to delay, 300 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:57.559 Albus Dumbledore finally told Harry the secret of the Harcrux, 301 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:03.079 and he was right on the night that Harry came 302 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:06.559 to him with the prophecy in his hand and said 303 00:25:06.599 --> 00:25:09.559 that he would not let Vonorport use the prophecy to 304 00:25:09.640 --> 00:25:14.359 find him no matter where he went. He had to 305 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:17.799 tell Harry that the only way to win was to 306 00:25:17.880 --> 00:25:22.799 face it. And then, because he had run out of 307 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:26.920 other way. It was the most painful scene in all 308 00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:32.640 seven books. Harry, who had spent the whole summer enjoying 309 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:39.319 his BlackBerry juice and his lemon drops, finally answered because 310 00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:43.480 he said he had wanted Harry to have a childhood, 311 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:47.839 because he had wanted Harry to have a few more 312 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:52.000 weeks of being a child before the burden settled on 313 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:57.039 his shoulders, because he had wanted Harry to forgive him 314 00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:02.480 eventually for what he had done. And then in the 315 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:07.960 same conversation, Abbas did something else that no one ever 316 00:26:08.079 --> 00:26:12.960 quite forgave him for what he had done. And then 317 00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:18.680 in the same conversation, Abbas did something else that no 318 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:23.839 one ever quite forgave him for, but that the sorting 319 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:27.240 hat had placed on him was heavier than Harry had 320 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:32.559 been told. He looked Harry in the scyhe to fess 321 00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:37.920 a darkness that might be his own. And then in 322 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:42.599 the same conversation, Habas did something else that no one 323 00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:46.480 ever quite forgave him, for he looked Harry in the 324 00:26:46.559 --> 00:26:50.200 eye and told him that he had to be sorted 325 00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:54.759 into slatherin, and that ful Martyr had been a slatherin, 326 00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:59.160 and that Harry had to face the possibility that he 327 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:03.119 carried some of the dark Lord's nature inside him. We 328 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:05.920 should look a young wizard who had loved a woman 329 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:10.599 his whole life, and he used that love as a tool. 330 00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:17.279 He gave Snape a job, He gave Snape a purpose. 331 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:22.559 He gave Snape the role of double agent, and the 332 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:25.960 promise that he was protecting the son of the woman 333 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:31.279 Snape had loved. And then when the moment finally came, 334 00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:36.039 he looked Snape in the eye and asked him to 335 00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:41.160 be the one to kill him. He asked him knowing 336 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:43.920 that this was the last thing the man would ever 337 00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:48.759 do for the woman he had loved, and Snape ats 338 00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:56.480 it always. There were people who argued afterwards that Alpus 339 00:27:56.559 --> 00:28:02.000 Dumbledore asked and Snape did what he asked, and the 340 00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:05.359 dark Lord as a mother, told the truth of how 341 00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:10.799 Alpus died. That is the kind of trade that Alpus 342 00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:15.440 was willing to make. It is not the kind of 343 00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:18.359 trade that most of us would be willing to make, 344 00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:26.279 but Alpus was not most of us. There were people 345 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:30.960 who argued afterwards that Alpus had no right to ask. 346 00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:36.519 There were people who argued that the whole arrangement was 347 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:42.640 a kind of cruelty dressed up as heroism. They may 348 00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:48.839 have been right, We will never know for certain. What 349 00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:52.400 we do know is we come now to the end 350 00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:58.079 of the story. After the killing in the Astronomy Tower, 351 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:02.720 after the fly of the Dark Lord from the grounds 352 00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:07.839 of Hogwarts, after the search for the haw cruxes that 353 00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:14.599 Harry and his friends undertook at Albas's instruction, the final 354 00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:20.160 battle came. It came at the end of a long 355 00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:25.720 year of running. It came in the grounds of Hogwarts, 356 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:31.400 in the Great Hall, in the corridors and the towers 357 00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:35.559 of the school that Albus had loved for so long. 358 00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:42.519 The dark Lord came with his army. The Defenders came 359 00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:49.079 with theirs. The fighting went on for hours, and at 360 00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:52.480 the end of the fighting, when the last of the 361 00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:57.559 hawkcruxes had been destroyed and the dark Lord was finally 362 00:29:58.039 --> 00:30:04.759 truly mortal, we know how that ended. We know that 363 00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:10.519 the wizarding world was free. We know that the wizarding 364 00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:17.359 world was free, Know that the killing curse that the 365 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:21.039 dark log but with Eblorus had We passed through the 366 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:25.519 white limbo that recalled King's Cross. There was a bench, 367 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.680 there was a stone, and there was a man sitting 368 00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:36.279 on the bench waiting for him. The man had silver 369 00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:42.960 hair and half moon spectacles. The man was smiling. The 370 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:46.720 man stood up and offered Harry a seat, and he 371 00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:51.759 asked if Harry had any questions, and he answered them patiently, 372 00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:55.279 and he told the boy what he needed to know 373 00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:00.480 before he went back. He told him that the choice 374 00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:04.079 he had made to walk back into the forest and 375 00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:09.839 face the dark Lord was the right choice. And then 376 00:31:09.920 --> 00:31:14.920 he asked Harry if he had any other questions, and 377 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:20.519 he answered them patiently. He said after that, we do 378 00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:26.559 not see Alba Stambodore again. He does not return in 379 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:32.599 the body. He does not speak from a portrait. He 380 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:38.279 does not advise anyone about what to do next. The 381 00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:43.200 man who spent his whole life running the wizarding world 382 00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:49.519 and manipulating the people in it and carrying the secrets 383 00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:55.880 of the future, finally steps out of the story. The 384 00:31:56.039 --> 00:32:01.359 chess game is over, the piece is are off the board, 385 00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:07.440 and what is left is the man himself. Sitting on 386 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:10.960 a bench in a place that looks like King's Cross, 387 00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:19.400 waiting for nothing, asking for nothing, simply being what who 388 00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:25.880 always was underneath it all, a tired wizard who loved 389 00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:29.359 the world more than he knew how to say. We 390 00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:33.359 should pause before we close this story to ask ourselves 391 00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:38.279 the harder question. The question is where the goodness, the 392 00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:41.519 way we usually mean the word is the right measure 393 00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:45.720 for a man like him, Because the truth is that 394 00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:50.960 Albus Dumbledore was not good in the simple sense. He 395 00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:55.200 was not gentle in the simple sense. He did not 396 00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:59.559 love his sister in the simple sense. He did not 397 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:03.880 love his sister in the simple sense. He did not 398 00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:08.279 love his sister in the simple sense. He did not 399 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:12.880 love his sister in the simple sense. He did not 400 00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:18.200 even love Harry Potter in the simple sense. He did 401 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:23.079