In the fifth book Dumbledore explains that he ignored Harry to protect Harry from being used by Voldemort. He realized that there was a strong bond between Harry and Voldemort. He also told Harry to take Occlumency lessons to protect Harry's mind better.
He has grown afraid of Harry's connection to Voldemort. Perhaps Voldemort, knowing Dumbledore's love for Harry, would possess Harry and provoke Dumbledore to kill him. So, Dumbledore attempted to avoid Harry throughout Book 5 for Harry's own good.
Dumbledore reveals how thoroughly he loves Harry. Harry is brave, and Dumbledore is proud as any father would be. More than that, Dumbledore succumbs to a parent's weakness; he cares more about Harry's happiness and wellbeing than the wizarding world he is trying to protect.
Dumbledore explained that he decided to leave Harry with Vernon, Petunia, and Dudley Dursley because of the blood wards.
Question number one: Why didn't Dumbledore just give the sword of Gryffindor to Harry instead of leaving it to him in his will? He knew even before his death that Harry would need the sword to destroy Horcruxes, and he must have known that the Ministry would not let Harry get the sword.
Dumbledore knew that destroying Voldemort's horcruxes was the only way to truly defeat him. He believed that Harry was the one person who was smart, courageous, and perhaps lucky enough to find and eliminate all the horcruxes.
He finds out for sure immediately after Nagini's attack on Arthur Weasley. This night is significant in many ways. While Harry sleeps, he enters Nagini's mind.
Keeping secrets is one of Albus Dumbledore's biggest problems. He refuses to tell anyone the entire truth, choosing instead to be the lone keeper of the most essential secrets. But, because of this, no one actually knows the whole story about what is going on.
Petunia seemed to hold a sense of loyalty towards Harry, but she locked those feelings deep inside. Before the Second Wizarding War, Rowling shared that Dudley went on to marry and had two children. Harry was supposedly on amicable terms with the Dursley family, claiming they were on his Christmas card list.
Because Harry saw that Dumbledore's actions were necessary, and called him out on the more questionable ones. Harry wasn't blinded by Dumbledore; he could see Dumbledore's faults, but that didn't stop him trusting that Dumbledore knew what was best. Harry trusted and loved Dumbledore.
In the new clip from Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Albus Dumbledore can be seen admitting to being in love with Grindelwald.
Albus ended up in Slytherin because he couldn't stop thinking about ending up in Slytherin, and so the Sorting Hat couldn't grasp anything other than his thoughts about being in Slytherin.
Because the biggest secret being kept inside the Princess Theatre is the secret love that the play's two young protagonists – Albus Severus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy – have for one another. We are not the first people to notice this, and certainly weren't the only ones talking about it at this weekend's opening gala.
Lucius Malfoy had a strong dislike of Albus Dumbledore. This is due to two reasons – Dumbledore believed in Muggle rights which contradicted Malfoy's pure blood beliefs. In addition, Lucius was a Death Eater, so he believed that Lord Voldemort was a much more powerful wizard than Dumbledore.
He was emotionally and physically strained from having seen Sirius get killed and from dueling the all the death eaters. Harry was already having trouble keeping Voldemort outside his head. This is the reason why Dumbledore stayed away from him through the majority of the year.
Dumbledore wasn't just a purely good and helpful mentor, but he was actually rather manipulative with a dark past. Instead of just guiding Harry, he also lied to him, and other people, many times.
The acclaimed author explained that Harry paid tribute to Snape because of “forgiveness and gratitude.” Though Snape bullied Harry, he also saved him. “Harry hoped in his heart that he too would be forgiven.
Petunia's disdain for Harry was most likely born from a long-standing jealousy of her magical sister, Lily. A Howler from Dumbledore, addressed to Petunia, said 'Remember my last' – no doubt referring to the letter which he left with baby Harry, on the doorstep of Privet Drive.
To make matters worse, Lily Evans befriended a bedraggled boy named Severus Snape who didn't think Lily was strange at all, and told her all about 'magic'. As Petunia was the Muggle sister, it wasn't long before Snape turned on her, using his power to make a branch fall and hit her.
Now, as firmly established, Snape was not the greatest fan of Harry, but that didn't mean that he ever stopped loving Lily. Dumbledore was surprised that Snape seemed to care for the boy. With a swish of his wand, Snape conjured up a Patronus – Lily's Patronus, a doe. 'Always,' he said.
At the end of the series, Dumbledore admits to Harry that power is his ultimate weakness. He was always conscious of it, and he feared that power had the potential to corrupt him beyond help. That's why he never accepted the Ministry of Magic position even after it was offered several times.
“Dumbledore didn't want to lose his wand at that point and Draco disarmed him. So that meant that the wand gave Draco its allegiance, even though Draco never knew it, even though Draco never touched it. “From that moment on, that wand gave its allegiance to Draco, and it wouldn't work as well for anyone but Draco.”
Voldemort intentionally made six Horcruxes, but when he used Avada Kedavra on Harry, he unintentionally created a seventh Horcrux. Instead of dying, Lily's love for Harry created a counter 'curse' known as Sacrificial Protection and saved Harry.
For the first five films, we never truly understand how Voldemort was able to survive after a baby Harry seemingly destroyed him. But in the The Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore introduces Harry to the complicated piece of magic known as horcruxes.