Michael Gambon credited as playing...
Professor Albus Dumbledore
- [in the hospital wing, Ron stirs]
- Lavender Brown: Ah! See? He senses my presence.
- [leans down]
- Lavender Brown: Don't worry, Won-Won! I'm here. I'm here.
- Ron Weasley: [croaks] Her... my... nee. Hermione...
- [Hermione takes Ron's hand. Lavender runs out, sobbing. Awkward silence]
- Albus Dumbledore: Oh, to be young and to feel love's keen sting.
- Albus Dumbledore: [about Hermione] Are you and her...?
- Harry Potter: Oh no, no, no. I mean, she's brilliant, but we're friends.
- Albus Dumbledore: Take my arm.
- [apparates]
- Harry Potter: I just apparated, didn't I?
- Albus Dumbledore: Indeed. Quite successfully, I might add. Most people vomit their first time.
- Harry Potter: [dry-heaving] I can't imagine why.
- Harry Potter: But, Sir, I thought we weren't allowed to apparate on Hogwarts' grounds.
- Albus Dumbledore: Well, being me... has its privileges.
- Mrs. Cole: I must admit to some confusion receiving your letter, Professor Dumbledore. In all the years Tom's been here, he's never once had a family visitor. There have been... incidents with the other children. Nasty things.
- [opens the door]
- Mrs. Cole: Tom? You have a visitor.
- Albus Dumbledore: How do you do, Tom?
- Tom Riddle - Age 11: [without turning around] Go.
- [cut to a short time later, as Dumbledore sits opposite Tom]
- Tom Riddle - Age 11: You're the doctor, aren't you?
- Albus Dumbledore: No, I'm a professor.
- Tom Riddle - Age 11: I don't believe you. She wants me looked at. They think I'm... different.
- Albus Dumbledore: Well, perhaps they're right.
- Tom Riddle - Age 11: I'm not mad.
- Albus Dumbledore: Hogwarts is not a place for mad people. Hogwarts is a school. A school of magic. You can do things can't you, Tom? That other children can't.
- Tom Riddle - Age 11: I can make things move without touching them. I can make animals do what I want without training them. I can make bad things happen to people who are mean to me. I can make them hurt, if I want... Who are you?
- Albus Dumbledore: Well, I'm like you, Tom. I'm different.
- Tom Riddle - Age 11: Prove it.
- [Dumbledore turns and looks at the wardrobe, which bursts into flames. Something rattles on the inside]
- Albus Dumbledore: I think there's something in the wardrobe trying to get out, Tom.
- [Tom opens the wardrobe, and dumps out the contents]
- Albus Dumbledore: Thievery is not tolerated at Hogwarts, Tom. At Hogwarts you will be taught not only how to use magic, but how to control it. Do you understand me?
- [Dumbledore starts to leave]
- Tom Riddle - Age 11: I can speak to snakes, too. They find me... whisper things.
- [Dumbledore stops, looking surprised]
- Tom Riddle - Age 11: Is that normal, for someone like me?
- Albus Dumbledore: Draco, years ago I knew a boy who made all the wrong choices. Please let me help you!
- Draco Malfoy: [crying] I don't need your help! Don't you understand? I have to do this! I have to kill you... or he's gonna kill me!
- Harry Potter: Did you know, sir? Then?
- Albus Dumbledore: Did I know that I just met the most dangerous dark wizard of all time? No. If I had...
- [he lets the sentence hang]
- Albus Dumbledore: [holding up a Muggle magazine] Horace, do you mind if I take this? I do love knitting patterns.
- Severus Snape: Has it ever crossed your brilliant mind that I don't want to do this anymore?
- Albus Dumbledore: Whether it has or it hasn't is irrelevant; you gave me your word.
- Albus Dumbledore: Severus... please...
- Severus Snape: [Pointing his wand at Dumbledore] Avada Kedavra!
- [Light shoots out of his wand, killing Dumbledore]
- Bellatrix Lestrange: [walking into the astronomy tower followed by Death Eaters] Well look what we have here. Dumbledore wandless, alone and cornered in his own castle! Well done, Draco!
- Albus Dumbledore: Good evening, Bellatrix. I think introductions are in order.
- Bellatrix Lestrange: Love to, Albus, but I'm afraid we're on a bit of a tight schedule.
- [to Draco]
- Bellatrix Lestrange: Do it!
- Fenrir Greyback: He doesn't have the stomach, like his father. Let me finish him in my own way.
- Bellatrix Lestrange: No! The Dark Lord was clear, the boy's to do it.
- Albus Dumbledore: [talking about Tom Riddle in the Great Hall] Every day, every hour, this very minute, perhaps, dark forces attempt to penetrate this castle's walls.
- [pause]
- Albus Dumbledore: But in the end, their greatest weapon... is you.
- Albus Dumbledore: [as Draco tries to muster the nerve to kill him] Draco... you are no assassin.
- Draco Malfoy: [fearfully] How do you know what I am! I've done things that would shock you!
- Albus Dumbledore: [knowingly] Like cursing Katie Bell and hoping that in return she'd bear a cursed necklace to me? Like replacing a bottle of mead with one laced with poison? Forgive me, Draco, I cannot help feeling these actions are so weak that your heart can't really have been in them.
- Draco Malfoy: He trusts me! I was chosen!
- [Draco exposes his newly Dark Mark tattoo on his left arm to Dumbledore]
- Albus Dumbledore: [pulls out his wand] Then I shall make it easy for you.
- Draco Malfoy: EXPELLIARMUS!
- [Dumbledore's wand flies out of his hand]
- Albus Dumbledore: [calmly] Very good, very good.
- [after exposing Slughorn's disguise]
- Albus Dumbledore: I must say, Horace, you make a very convincing armchair.
- Horace Slughorn: Oh, thank you. It's all in the upholstry.
- [pats his stomach]
- Horace Slughorn: I come about the stuffing naturally.
- Harry Potter: [after looking at Slughorn's memory of Tom Riddle in the Pensieve, sees Dumbledore] Sir...
- [Dumbledore holds his hand out then slows turns away and sits on the step with shock in his face]
- Albus Dumbledore: This is beyond anything I imagined.
- Harry Potter: You mean to say he succeeded, sir, in making a Horcrux?
- Albus Dumbledore: Oh, yes, he succeeded, all right, and not just once.
- Harry Potter: What are they, exactly?
- Albus Dumbledore: Could be anything. Most commonplace in objects.
- [Dumbledore goes to his desk and pulls out a couple objects]
- Albus Dumbledore: A ring, for example, or a book.
- Harry Potter: [recognizes it] Tom Riddle's diary.
- Albus Dumbledore: It's a Horcrux, yes. Four years ago, when you saved Ginny Weasley's life in the Chamber of Secrets, you brought me this. I knew then this was a different kind of magic; very dark, very powerful. But until tonight, I had no idea just how powerful.
- Harry Potter: And the ring?
- Albus Dumbledore: Belonged to Voldemort's mother. Difficult to find--even more difficult to destroy.
- [shows Harry his own blackened hand]
- Harry Potter: But if you could find them all, if you did destroy each Horcrux...
- Albus Dumbledore: One destroys Voldemort.
- Harry Potter: But how would you find them? They could be hidden anywhere.
- Albus Dumbledore: True, but magic, especially dark magic...
- [Harry touches the ring, which spins quickly by itself until it stops]
- Albus Dumbledore: ...leaves traces.
- Harry Potter: [after a long pause] It's where you've been going, isn't it, sir? When you leave the school?
- Harry Potter: Yes. And I think perhaps I may have found another. But this time, I cannot hope to destroy it alone. Once again... I ask too much of you, Harry.
- Albus Dumbledore: [from trailer]
- [to Harry]
- Albus Dumbledore: What you are looking at are memories. In this case containing to one individual.
- [takes a memory out]
- Albus Dumbledore: This is perhaps the most important memory I've collected. I'd like you to see it.
- Albus Dumbledore: [from trailer] Years ago, I met a boy. He made all the wrong choices. You see, a student, like any other... his name was Tom Riddle. Today, the world knows him by another name... Voldemort.