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Perhaps I am reading too much into this, but one of Dumbledore's middle names is "Brian". He has all of those other more "magical community"-esque names, but suddenly "Brian" is right in the middle of it. Does this mean our great headmaster is half-blood?

Also something that came up in a conversation on SS:
"You flatter me. Voldemort had powers I will never have." (Dumbledore)
"Only because you're too--well--NOBLE to use them." (McGonagall)

Was McGonagall just searching for a word better than "nice or good", or was she referring to the fact that he really is nobility and it came out as 'pardon-the-pun-but-I'm-saying-it-anyway'?

And something else that's bothering me: Dumbledore was the Transfiguration Teacher at Hogwarts in CoS. In the OotP, he was about to arrested and suddenly he just disappeared! Everyone says that you can't apperate or disapperate around/in Hogwarts, so am I the only one who thinks he transfigured himself into something and was whisked away by Fawkes (who, btw, is VERY loyal--look at how he took a direct shot from Voldemort for Dumbledore)??