The plan for Ankles Dumbledore's trial is to strip away all the legends he made up about himself being the 'Leader of the Light' and the 'Greatest Wizard since Merlin' and show the world what a MOB he was, so it'll be dredging up over a century of Dumbledore's crimes and misdemeanours. Anyone who for any reason likes Ankles' character will not like this chapter, you have been warned!
If anyone wants an image of what he was like in his younger days (in this world), think Gilderoy Lockhart with Percy Weasley and Draco Malfoy's puffed up sense of self importance and superiority.
Usual disclaimers, no rights to anything from JKR's stories.
The Wizengamot benches and gallery were packed for Albus Dumbledore's trial, half wanted to see him get his just deserts, but the other half still believed all of the manipulative old bastard's shite. It didn't take long for this to come to a head, because the list of charges against him was too long to read out, so copies of the charges were just sent to the Wizengamot seats and the Clerk of the Court announced that Albus Percival Dumbledore was being tried for those charges.
Alphias Doge leapt to his feet and shook the sheaf of parchment that made up the list of charges angrily at the Chief Witch and Chief Warlock's bench, shouting that all these so-called charges against Albus were obviously nothing more than a fabrication to try and damage the reputation of a great wizard….. And furthermore! None of these procedures were legal because they weren't using his proper name of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. He didn't know what to say when the Chief Witch burst out laughing at that, but collapsed into his chair, stunned, when Griselda finally managed to control herself enough to respond.
"I have it on good authority that the DMLE has ample evidence to prove that each and every one of those charges is valid Mister Doge, and from what I have been shown, they have in fact restricted the list in front of you to only the more serious charges…. Because even if it was limited to actual crimes, if they had all been included, that list would have been many times larger than it currently is because the defendant has apparently been quite an active criminal for over a hundred years now. And as for your other point, the official Ministry and Gringotts records have both confirmed that Albus Percival Dumbledore is his proper name, he apparently added the other two names himself in some attempt to make himself appear more important."
She waved at the Clerk of the Court to finish initiating the session and when he had done so, silenced the defendant and indicated for Harry and Aberforth Dumbledore to come forward. It soon became clear to most in the chamber that the questions Harry was asking and Aberforth was answering were part of some ancient ritual but the nature of the ritual wasn't clear until Abe put his hands on the Stone and said. "The only surviving members of the Magical Dumbledore Family of Britain at this time are Albus Percival Dumbledore, the Head of the Family Dumbledore and myself, Aberforth Percival Dumbledore. I accuse Albus Percival Dumbledore of causing the family honour of the Dumbledore Family to be damaged beyond redemption. I call for the family magic of the Dumbledores to judge the surviving members of the Magical Dumbledore Family and their actions. If the family magic of the Dumbledores is in agreement with me, I call for the ruling that the Dumbledore Family be eradicated here and now!"
Abe, Harry, the Stone and Albus Dumbledore all disappeared in the brilliant light emitting from the Stone as the family magic probed both Dumbledore brothers, then the light died down and the voice of the Stone rang out. "The Dumbledore Family Magic has judged the surviving members of the Magical Dumbledore Family and concurs with the last worthy member of the Dumbledore Family, Aberforth Percival Dumbledore. The actions of the last Head of the Dumbledore Family, Albus Percival Dumbledore, have damaged the honour of the Dumbledore Family beyond redemption and therefore the Magical Dumbledore Family of Britain is hereby eradicated! From this point forth, the Family Name of the Brothers Dumbledore will revert to that of their maternal bloodline, Jones!"
At that moment, the name Albus Percival Dumbledore was changed to Albus Percival Jones on all magical documents in the chamber and Albus Jones slumped in the Accused's Chair as he was stripped of the family magic of the Head of the Family Dumbledore. As the only Dumbledore family member judged to be worthy, Aberforth didn't lose what he had of the Dumbledore family magic, but his ancestors and brother had jealously restricted the majority of the family magic to the Head and Heir of the family only, so he wouldn't have had much to lose anyway.
Harry was actually impacted far more than Aberforth, because he wasn't expecting to be hit with the family magic that was taken from the Head of the Family Dumbledore. The Family Judgement Ritual, which was being used for the first time since the Druid Laws were created, had to be initiated by the magic of one of the original Druid Lords, and Sirius had insisted that he be the one to do it as Dumbledore had hurt him more. The thing was, what they hadn't realised was that the family magic didn't just disappear, it was transferred like it was when a house was eradicated by right of conquest, and as the Dumbledore family had been eradicated, the only place it could be transferred to was the House of the Druid Lord who initiated the ritual.
Albus Dumbledore had manipulated or removed every record he could find that related to the Dumbledore family in an attempt to hide their family secrets, so most of the people in the chamber had no idea that the Dumbledores had in fact been much like the Gaunts, an old Pureblood family who were so inbred that they almost died out. They probably would have if Kendra Jones hadn't managed to convince her housemates in Slytherin that she was a Pureblood like them when she was in fact a Muggleborn.
Kendra had been well endowed with the cunning and ambition that Slytherins were meant to have so she investigated what all the old families were famous for. This led to her setting her cap for her housemate Percival Dumbledore as the best of a bad lot. Percival himself was no prize, being much like what was left of the Flint Family in their time, but the Dumbledores were traditionally known for being masters of mind magic, so she was banking on being able to use the family mind magic to improve their station once she became the Consort of the Head of the Dumbledore Family. That didn't work out the way she planned though, as the Consort of the Head of the Family got no access to the family's special mind magics and she was largely relegated to bearing heirs for her husband.
Griselda didn't give Albus Jones a chance to recover from the shock of losing his family magic, as soon as Harry and Abe had taken her seats she signalled Amelia to make her opening address. They were expecting the defence's opening address to be long, largely unrelated to the matter at hand and heavily laden with attempts at emotional blackmail, because Albus Dumbledore had decreed that no-one could defend him as well as he could himself… But that had been a large part of the reason for stripping the Dumbledore Family mind magics from him before the proceedings started, to throw him off balance and prevent him using them to twist the perceptions of the Wizengamot members in particular. With the possible exception of Alphias Doge though, he would have had a hard time finding anyone who was both qualified and willing to represent him anyway.
Amelia wasn't far into her opening address before Jones interrupted her with a loud shout of. "Objection!" Griselda went to snap at him but the Chief Warlock's hand on her arm was a subtle but emphatic 'My turn!'.
"How is it possible for you to have been the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot of Magical Britain for over forty years without learning anything about the process of law in the Wizarding World Mister Jones? Madam Bones is merely making her opening address, you have no grounds to object to anything as yet and what's more, it is a major breach of protocol to interrupt opposing council while they are making their address as you have done!"
"She is talking about raking up things from my past that she is not allowed to prosecute me for!"
"Yes…. Madam Bones has already stated that she is quite aware of that fact, and that her reason for doing this is to establish the pattern of behaviour that led to the matters that we will be addressing today. Madam Bones has explained her reasoning to My Lady Chief Witch, our esteemed colleagues from the International Confederation of Wizards' Judiciary and myself and we have all agreed to allow her to follow this through. Madam Bones is not making any accusations against you at this point, she is merely advising the sitting Wizengamot members that she will be presenting verified evidence to show this pattern of behaviour…. And I will give you a warning here and now Mister Jones, if you make any unfounded accusations against Madam Bones or the Department of Magical Law Enforcement in your opening address, I will immediately terminate your opening address and silence you until we agree that you have reason to speak!"
Jones shut up and slunk down in his seat, suddenly remembering how much he had enjoyed riding roughshod over Earl Ogden and everyone else in the Wizengamot for the forty years or so that he had held the power of the Chief Warlock's position….. Which was apparently coming back to bite him now. Between that and losing his family's mind magics, he had a very bad feeling about how this was going to go.
When Amelia finished, Jones stumbled through a rather cut down and more humble version of the opening address that he had been planning to give, and then the Chief Witch and Chief Warlock asked Amelia to call her first witness. As a fiery, resolute and frighteningly clear eyed Bathilda Bagshot took the stand and glared at him, Jones had the urge to throw himself on the mercy of the court, the only thing that stopped him was the fact that he rather doubted that he would be receiving any mercy from them.
Tiberius had Jones silenced and bound when he tried to raise an objection again because Amelia explained that they had certified evidence that Bathilda had been held under memory charms for most of the time since the turn of the century, which had only recently been cleared from her (the glares they both shot Jones' way at that left no doubt as to who'd done that to her). She had Bathilda the start her testimony at the point where Kendra Dumbledore arrived in Godric's Hollow in 1891 with her three children to start over after her husband had been thrown into Azkaban (where he died less than a year later) for very publicly torturing and killing three Muggle children in a violent Muggle baiting incident, describing Albus as a puffed up little peacock who was using his new power over the family magic as the head of the family to lord it over his mother and siblings.
Bathilda explained that, like many Half-bloods, by the standards of the run of the mill Purebloods Albus had come into his magic early and was rather powerful, so when Head of the Dumbledore family and its family magic passed to him at the age of ten because his father was sentenced to Azkaban for twenty years, he had little trouble reading and manipulating the minds and memories of many Muggles and average Witches and Wizards. He'd also acquired more than a dollop of his mother's cunning and believed himself to be a Pureblood so he'd manipulated enough people to have all the trappings of a rich and powerful young Head of House by the time he started at Hogwarts the next year, and he ruled the roost when he was sorted into Slytherin. He was an above average student, but judicious use of compulsion and memory charms on the students and staff had his record showing that he was an outstanding one.
Back in Godric's Hollow, his mother and siblings were living well enough, even though the purse strings had to be held tight. His brother Aberforth followed in Albus' footsteps in getting his magic early and being more powerful than most, but his personality was more like his rough father's than his puffed up peacock of a brother's. Their little sister Ariana came into her magic even earlier, but she had a tendency for uncontrolled outbursts of magic that were very difficult to cover up. This created a problem for a family that had moved to a new village to hide from the stigma of a father in Azkaban with a reputation for threatening the Statute of Secrecy with his murderous Muggle baiting, so Albus used the family magic to bind Ariana's magic so tight that she was no more than a squib.
Over the next five years or so, Ariana's magic kept straining against its bindings and the outbursts of magic grew ever more wild and uncontrolled but Albus, as the Head of the Family, refused to listen to any of the people advising him that Ariana needed to be trained in how to handle her magic so that she could become the powerful witch she was obviously destined to be, he just wiped the incidents from everyone's memories and bound Ariana's magic even tighter. So when she turned eleven, Ariana was written off as a Squib and remained at home with her mother.
Bathilda sneered at Albus Jones and told how he had refused to pay his brother Aberforth's tuition at Hogwarts past his OWLs, even though Aberforth had scored quite well. He did so well in fact that the Care of Magical Creatures Master talked the then Headmaster, Phineas Black, into giving him a job as Apprentice Gamekeeper and allowing the professors to tutor him so that he could complete his NEWTs, as well as his Mastery in Care of Magical Creatures, while he was working there.
She became a little emotional as she explained that in early Eighteen Ninety Eight, her Great Nephew Gellert Grindlewald became her ward after he was expelled from Durmstrang because his parents had died from a bout of Dragon Pox a couple of years earlier. There was little communication between the schools in those days, so he was accepted at Hogwarts, even though he had been expelled because even the Headmaster and staff of Durmstrang believed that his experiments were too dark to be countenanced. Even though he had managed to secure a betrothal to the only child of a rich but junior Noble House by that stage, Albus took the younger boy as his lover and consort when he arrived at Hogwarts.
Albus and Gellert worked together on their plan to take their rightful positions as wizards with great power over the Wizarding world. By normal standards, they were both intelligent and powerful wizards, and the cunning he'd acquired from his mother told Albus that they would need to divide and conquer the Wizarding world if they wanted to override the expected opposition, so he came up with a plan for an event to supposedly create a split between the two of them. That plan was for his useless sister to become collateral damage in an impromptu duel between the two friends. This would serve two purposes, first it would get rid of the embarrassment she caused with her outbreaks of wild magic, and provide a reason for the two of them to very publicly go their separate ways, Gellert would track down the Deathly Hallows that they needed to get the power to defeat the powers that be of their world, while he would establish himself as a pillar of strength and wisdom, he had already snared apprenticeships with impressionable masters of a number of subjects which would allow him to gain masteries in a number of fields and establish his reputation as a notable Wizarding scholar.
While that was a good plan, he hadn't counted on his family messing it up. His mother had been concerned about Ariana and interrupted them just before they killed her, and the sounds of spellfire drew Aberforth into the altercation as well. This made it escalate into enough of a battle to come to the Aurors' attention and Gellert had only just managed to escape being captured. Albus thought that it had actually worked out quite well in the end, a public incident to create a split between him and Gellert and his mother and siblings no longer in any position to cause him trouble, but then he discovered that his brother wasn't dead, he was in St Mungo's and they were confident that he would recover. Shite! That could ruin everything!
He rushed to St Mungo's, but there was no way of finishing Aberforth off without drawing suspicion upon himself, so Albus altered his brother's memories to show that Ariana had another violent outburst of accidental magic that killed their mother, which led to their argument with Gellert when he said that Ariana was dangerous and needed to be in St Mungo's where she couldn't harm anyone else, which in turn escalated into a fight that left Ariana dead, him in St Mungo's and Gellert on the run from the Aurors.
Aberforth fought the false memories and that had led to a physical altercation at their mother and sister's funeral. There had been too many people at the funeral to remove the event from everyone's memories so he just solidified the implanted memory of Ariana accidentally killing their mother and the subsequent fight, expanding it to show that he blamed Albus for Ariana's death in that fight. He kept the broken nose Aberforth gave him at the funeral to reinforce the story, and because he thought it made him look more roguish and dashing.
The next year his betrothed came of age to marry when she turned sixteen and they were wed, making the Dumbledore Family the Minor House of Dumbledore. When her father died it would become the Noble House of Dumbledore, and even if his wife would be the one who actually held the title until his Heir was old enough to take it, he would be able to claim the title of Lord Dumbledore. He went through the unpleasant necessity of consummating the marriage enough times for her to become pregnant and then promptly forgot about her as he used her dowry to build the House of Dumbledore into what it was meant to be.
Aurelius Dumbledore was born in 1901, but his sixteen year old mother died in childbirth. Her father was furious that his daughter had died as a result of being forced to have a baby before she was ready and as testing of the baby showed no latent magic at all, so he appeared to be a Squib, called for the disillusion of her marriage to Albus Dumbledore, cutting off all ties and reclaiming everything that had been granted to Dumbledore Family with his daughter's hand.
Dumbledore had to sell the house in Godric's Hollow to repay the dowry, because he had already spent much of it. And he traded Aurelius to a childless American couple for a family heirloom that he sensed was actually a magical artefact because he had no use for a squib son who couldn't be used to keep the title and dowry he'd married the child's mother for.
For the next ten or fifteen years, Albus Dumbledore concentrated on manipulating memories and doctoring records to cover up his failures and build the image that he needed for his and Gellert's plans. While in Paris one time with Gellert, he stumbled across Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel's trail and managed to engineer a meeting that he could use to induce the famous Alchemist to take him on as his apprentice for an Alchemy Mastery. He was never anything more than mediocre as an Alchemist, but once he had a foot in the door he had little trouble manipulating the Flamels and others so that he gained his mastery.
After that, he returned to Hogwarts as he had decided that moulding the next generation would be the best way to establish his reputation, and it was easier to manipulate the authorities in Magical Britain. The only role open at Hogwarts at the time that he could pull off was the Defence Against the Dark Arts Master, so he took that. He tried to get rid of his brother numerous times, but the Headmaster was no fool and he remembered quite well that Aberforth had had to take a job as an Apprentice Gamekeeper at Sixteen to finish his education because his puffed up peacock of a brother was using all the family money to maintain his own image so he squashed all his efforts. Professor Black informed Armando Dippet of Professor Dumbledore's campaign to have his brother fired when he took over as Headmaster, so it didn't work with him either.
Over the next thirty years or so, Albus managed to get the more prestigious Transfiguration Master and Deputy Headmaster roles, and build a reputation as a noted scholar in Transfiguration and other fields. He also managed to get himself made one of Magical Britain's ICW representatives so that he had an excuse to go to Europe more often to see his lover.
In Thirty Nine he went to a Muggle Orphanage to introduce one of the boys there to their world, a deliciously twisted little morsel by the name of Tom Riddle. He decided when the boy was sorted into Slytherin that he would allow Horace Slughorn to play with him as well while he was at Hogwarts, so long as it was understood that he would ultimately belong to himself and Gellert.
Albus had often had trouble keeping himself from laughing out loud at Dippet and the other fools when they fell for his spiel about the Greater Good being the only thing that could hold back the dark, especially when he was using it to mould Riddle and a few other students who were powerful enough to be useful and not unduly handicapped by morals into what he wanted them to be…. Like convincing Dippet to send Riddle back to that orphanage every break to ensure that the boy didn't go soft on Muggles. After all, the 'Greater Good' needed him to understand that Muggles were the enemy if he was to become an able lieutenant for himself and Gellert when they took their positions as the Leaders of the Magical World….
Bathilda broke off at this point to explain that Albus had often made a point of telling her everything he'd done and was planning to do just before he manipulated her memories, as that meant that he could complain or boast about everything without risking the stories getting out, and he got her to put his fabricated stories into her 'history' books. However, after her mind was healed of all his manipulations, everything he had told her going back to around the turn of the century in his boasting and complaints had come back to her.
Another boy started at Hogwarts a few years after Riddle, a Part-Giant by the name of Rubeus Hagrid… Bathilda glared at Albus again, saying that Rubeus was officially classed as a Half-Giant but it was his mother Fridwulfa who was the Half-Giantess…. Her great nephew had recreated the ancient troll breeding process by setting up a witch to be raped by a Giant sometime around Nineteen Ten and she died bearing Fridwulfa, then the Great Albus Dumbledore had bred Fridwulfa to a wizard in the late Twenties because he and Gellert wanted people who could get the Giants on their side. Olympe Maxime, the Part-Giantess Headmistress at Beauxbatons, was another result of Gellert's breeding experiments… As was Filius Flitwick, though he was actually the result of a Common Goblin renegade of the Flitwick Family that Gellert had turned being mated to a witch who's mind Albus had manipulated in the Twenties to breed someone to act as an intermediary with the Goblins.
Young Rubeus had proven too intelligent and magically strong for the type of tool they wanted though so Albus had bound his intelligence, memory retention and magical strength down to that of an average student and then used the family mind magics to induce Armando Dippet to accept him as a student at Hogwarts. When Rubeus showed an interest in and affinity with magical creatures in his Third Year at Hogwarts, Albus arranged for him to 'find' the egg of a wild Acromantula and twisted his love for magical creatures into one for the more dangerous kinds, reasoning that he could be even more useful if he could also be used to induce dark creatures to help them.
In early Forty Five, Albus had a falling out with Gellert, because he believed that Gellert was planning to go ahead with their plan without him. There was a lot of outrage about what Gellert and his followers were doing in Europe at the time, so Albus decided to remind him that their plan was to rule together. He knew that he couldn't defeat Gellert in an outright confrontation, as Gellert had been more powerful than him before he….. acquired….. the Elder Wand in the late Twenties, so he went to him as his long term lover… and then cursed him while he was thoroughly sated and laying there in a happy daze….. When Gellert was revived he was in a cell (which he later discovered was in Nurmengard) surrounded by runes to suppress his magic, and the Elder Wand and everything else had been taken from him. That was where he stayed until the day he was tried and executed forty odd years later, and the only visitor he ever got was Albus coming for his conjugal visits at least four or five times a year.
Albus was happy, as his plans were back on track and he was being hailed as a Leader of the Light (a catchy little title he'd thought up himself), and the Greatest Wizard since Merlin. He also knew that he wasn't likely to get another chance like this any time soon, being hailed as the saviour of the Wizarding World as he was. He hadn't even had to do anything to get himself awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class, which in turn elevated the Dumbledore Family to a Minor House and gave him a Wizengamot seat again. Never one to pass up an opportunity like that, he used a bit of judicious memory manipulation to make everyone forget that he'd lost his seat and Minor House status back in 1901 and have vague memories of him being a quiet and dependable Wizengamot member for the last fifty years or so.
It was actually Horace Slughorn who gave him the opportunity he needed to take his place as a major figure in the Magical World. Unbeknownst to him, young Tom Riddle had researched his own Wizarding history and found Gaunts' claims to be the descendants of Salazar Slytherin (they weren't, they were descended from one of his Squib sisters, but they had acquired some Slytherin family traits like being Parselmouths). That in turn had led to him discovering Salazar's Chamber of Secrets and the mind magics that Albus had secretly taught him had let him get control of the Basilisk in the Chamber, which had been Salazar's Familiar when he died a crazy man. Albus was by then aware that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened and he had a good idea that it was Tom, but he was taking it slowly to avoid scaring the boy off before he could get into the Chamber of Secrets and plunder it.
What Horace had done though was tell Tom about some of the more arcane Dark Arts in an attempt to seduce the boy, and one of those was the ritual required to create a soul anchor called a horcrux. This ritual required the murder of an innocent to be successfully completed, and Tom had decided that, as he was the Heir of Slytherin (Yeah, right!), that it would be more meaningful if the innocent used to create his first horcrux was killed by Salazar's familiar. That was why he engineered a situation for a virgin Mudblood witch from Ravenclaw to be taunted by another student until she ran crying into the girls' toilets where the access tunnels from the Chamber of Secrets came into the castle, and then called Salazar's familiar to the toilets and ordered it to kill her.
Tom had been shocked by how much impact having his soul ripped in two and one half being transferred to the artefact he'd prepared to be used as his first soul anchor had on him, but he managed to close the entrance to the access tunnels and get away from the toilets before anyone saw him there. The girl's body was found soon enough but even though she was nothing but a Mudblood, the Headmaster ordered a full investigation. Tom always made sure he knew what was going on in the castle, so he knew that that Hufflepuff Half-Breed Hagrid was secretly raising an Acromantula. It wasn't difficult to confront him and accuse him of opening the Chamber of Secrets and his pet of killing the girl, throwing enough spells the creature's way to make it run off…. Because if anyone actually thought things out they'd realise that there was no way for an Acromantula to have killed the girl without leaving a mark, but if Hagrid's pet had disappeared, there was no way of proving that it had been an Acromantula.
On Tom's word, Rubeus was expelled and his wand snapped. The Headmaster also wanted him sent to Azkaban at Fourteen for killing the girl (as Halfbreeds were even lower than Mudbloods in traditional Purebloods' eyes), but Albus still had plans for Hagrid and saw this as a way to get rid of his brother who was always watching him suspiciously. Therefore Albus dug up the charms to transfigure some goats into living sex dolls and spent some time taking them violently until they were broken and bleeding, then inserted the memories into his brother and called the Aurors.
The scandal of Hogwarts' Gamekeeper turning out to be a sex fiend who did unnatural things with goats took all the attention off of Hagrid, and once Aberforth had been sent to Azkaban in his place, Albus convinced Dippet to take Hagrid on as an Apprentice Gamekeeper and got the Gamekeeper who Aberforth had taken over from to come out of retirement long enough to teach the boy the ropes.
Albus then used the fact that Dippet had failed to prevent a student being murdered inside the castle to get him fired and take over from him, and used that prestigious position and the supporters he'd been cultivating ever since he started at Hogwarts to get himself made Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot of Magical Britain. The elevation of his position in Magical Britain and his fame as the Vanquisher of Grindelwald also got him elected as the Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards, so his star had risen quite quickly.
Things had gone fairly quietly for Albus over the next twenty five years or so, in Fifty Five the Gamekeeper had retired again and Hagrid took over as Gamekeeper. Albus used the Elder Wand to repair his wand and transfigure it into a child's brolly, manipulating Hagrid's memories to show that he'd kept the pieces of his wand and somehow did it himself in secret. Albus didn't regard the oaf having a wand as a major threat, as with the cold iron umbrella ribs interfering with the magic it was rather less effective than it had been before, and he'd placed a compulsion on Ollivander to make sure that he gave him a wand that wasn't a good match for him in the first place.
Tom was building his following in this period, using the same principles as Gellert had, and Albus saw this as an opportunity to create the scenario that he and Gellert had been working towards, but with him keeping enough power to control the situation this time. In the mid Sixties he'd engineered the creation of more potential liaisons with dark creatures. He'd gotten a number of children of respected and solid families without any real power bitten by werewolves and vampires and then sat back to see how many of them survived being turned and showed enough potential to be useful.
Unfortunately, of all the candidates, only one boy, Remus Lupin, showed any real promise for becoming a useful liaison after he was turned into a werewolf. Therefore Albus had the rest of them eliminated and set things up at Hogwarts to allow the boy's monthly transformations to happen in controlled circumstances, so that he could be allowed to attend school and get a proper magical education, starting in 1970. He milked the boy's parents for all the financial and political support he could get out of them of course, but the main point was to mould the boy into a faithful servant who could talk the werewolf packs around to his side.
He had a few other plans in play for the students who would be starting with Lupin though. Tom pretty much controlled the current crowd in Slytherin through their parents, and Albus wasn't going to lose the fortunes of the richest houses to him without a fight, so he used the Elder Wand to place strong compulsions on the Sorting Hat to force the Heirs to the Houses of Potter and Black into Gryffindor rather than Slytherin like their parents. Lupin would also be going into Gryffindor to ensure that he would be befriended by Potter and Black and they would learn how caring and enlightened the great Albus Dumbledore was, and there was a fourth boy, mousey little Peter Pettigrew, who would be placed there with them as his eyes and ears to make sure that he knew everything that went on around the Heirs to the Houses of Potter and Black.
Myrddin got him back for forcing it to place those four boys in Gryffindor though, because the best placement for James Charlus Potter and Remus John Lupin would have been Ravenclaw, Sirius Orion Black was fifty/fifty Slytherin or Gryffindor and Peter Cyril Pettigrew had none of the qualities of any of the Houses so by rights he should have been one of Helga's charity placements in Hufflepuff. That was why Myrddin decided to upset the applecart a little.
While by the current classifications in Magical Britain, Lily Rose Evans was supposedly a Muggleborn, she was in fact the true Heir of Salazar Slytherin. Her thirst for knowledge made her well suited to Ravenclaw and with her sense of fair play and justice she would have fitted into Hufflepuff well too... But she was full of fire and a drive to fight injustice and thanks to the Headmaster's machinations the biggest festering mess of injustice in Hogwarts at the moment was in Gryffindor, so that was where Myrddin put her. Myrddin was especially glad that it hadn't put her in the house she had the highest claim to rule over when he sorted Severus Tobias Snape there, because that bitter and twisted individual had been so obsessed with her that he believed he had some claim over her, so she wouldn't have had a moment's rest in their quarters.
(Myrddin has also happy that the accepted Lord Gryffindor was exempted from the restrictions against telling anyone but the student in question about their sorting, as this meant that he could let him in on the secret that Albus Percival Dumbledore had in fact been placed in Slytherin, not Gryffindor as all the books stated. Myrddin was well aware of how much time and effort Albus Dumbledore had put into doctoring all the written records and people's memories to prevent the fact that he had been in Slytherin effecting the image he was trying to sell the Magical World on and was happy to scuttle those efforts. He also enjoyed telling Lord Gryffindor about the very profitable scam Dumbledore had run for about forty years, getting paid to give his supporters with money's sons and daughters private sortings in his office for a fee to ensure that they didn't get embarrassed in front of everyone in the Great Hall. If the private sorting didn't give them the results they wanted and they had a big enough purse, he would guarantee the child was sorted into whatever house they wanted if they paid enough…. And for that matter it wasn't unusual for him to compel Myrddin to announce an unacceptable house at the private sorting to ensure that they would pay up to get their children into another house.
That so-called Ravenclaw peacock Gilderoy Evelyn Lockhart was the worst. Lockhart definitely had nothing that made him qualified to be in Ravenclaw, though it could be argued that he had rat cunning and enough ambition to drive him to agree to anything if it got him ahead, which made him suited for Slytherin, but the Headmaster had been paid quite a bit by his family to force him to be placed in Ravenclaw because being known as a Ravenclaw would give him a much better reputation than he would have as a Slytherin. But those 'private lessons' he was getting on the Headmaster's desk meant that he was learning the Dumbledore Family mind magic, just as Tom Riddle had. Snape didn't know how lucky he was as he got training in the Dumbledore Family mind magic without having to endure those 'private lessons' because he wasn't pretty enough.
Myrddin enjoyed hearing about how they investigated Lockhart after he told Lord Gryffindor about the mind magic and when he was tried for the numerous crimes that he thought he'd wiped out all evidence of by obliviating his victims, he was stripped of his magic and thrown into Azkaban for life. Everything belonging to him and the Lockhart Family was forfeited to his victims and the Lockhart Family was eradicated in Magical Britain because he'd become the Head of the Family.)
Myrddin's revenge did quite a good job of upsetting Dumbledore's plans, because placing Lily Evans in Gryffindor placed a blazing star right in front of James Potter and Sirius Black so they couldn't miss her. Dumbledore's plan had been to have those two in Gryffindor where he'd made sure that there should be no-one to attract their attention, and the now established culture of dog eat dog inter-house competition should keep them from establishing relationships with witches from other houses. The Potters traditionally rejected the Noble practice of betrothals for their sons and daughters and the scuttlebutt about Sirius Black was that he, like his Grandfather the current Duke Black, was most likely to reject the beliefs of his parents, so the houses they were aligned with would not be likely to allow their daughters to be betrothed him unless he changed his beliefs. This should have meant that all Dumbledore had to do was keep them isolated from outside influences and mould them in to the soldiers he wanted, then have them leave everything to him when they died fighting for the mighty cause…. And of course by then they would have taken over as heads of their houses and therefore be in charge of the house fortunes.
Lily Evans was a problem though, as her beauty, fire and brilliance enchanted James Potter as soon as he met her, and Sirius Black was drawn to her charms as well so Dumbledore had to ensure that their behaviour repulsed her. He also manipulated the girl to make her blind to her childhood friend Severus Snape's seriously flawed personality and stay close friends with him, making him and Potter and Black hated enemies to ensure that they would clash all the time and keep driving a wedge between Evans and Potter, and Black as well. By third year though, he had had to start teaching Snape enough of the Dumbledore mind magics to let him to cover up the mistakes he made in front of Evans, but then he ruined everything by dropping all his shields and letting Evans see him as he truly was when he lashed out at her in Fifth Year and called her a filthy Mudblood.
That was when Albus discovered that Evans had been learning how to protect her mind, and that she was so strong that he couldn't break though her protections to remove her memories of what she'd seen in Snape, any more than he could remove Potter's deep seated knowledge that she was the one he lived for. Evans' parents and adopted sister had no such protections though and while he could do no more than implant doubts about the direction their daughter was heading in in her parents' minds, he did quite a good job of twisting the adopted sister's jealousy and spite into full blown hatred, and did even better with the simple minded oaf that she took up with because he hated anyone who was better than him.
From that point, all he could do was place compulsions on her, Potter and Black to try and force them apart, but what he didn't realise was that Remus Lupin was telling her what Potter was really like while they were on their prefect patrols together, and Lily's brilliant mind started to smell a rat. That was why she gave Remus the books she'd used to learn how to protect her mind and encouraged him and his friends to learn how to protect themselves as well. They discussed what to do about Pettigrew, because neither of them trusted him the way that James and Sirius seemed to, but they agreed that Remus would have to talk to the others about including him in private. When he did so, they didn't see any way of excluding him without him seeing what they were doing so he learned how to protect his mind as well, something that came back to bite them in a few short years. As James and Sirius worked on learning to protect their minds, their behaviour became less extreme and James and Lily grew closer, but they kept up the pretence of being at odds with each other in public, so Dumbledore had felt safe in giving Potter the Head Boy's position in Seventh Year. He couldn't stop Evans being Head Girl because she was the most outstanding student Hogwarts had had in living memory, but he was sure that they couldn't stand each other so he decided that he could afford to build himself up in Potter's eyes by rewarding him over everyone else with the Head Boy's position.
Of course that didn't work out at all the way that Dumbledore had planned, because they had become a betrothed couple by Samhain to give Evans the protection of the Most Noble and Most Ancient House of Potter. Dumbledore tore into Pettigrew for not telling him about Potter and Evans getting closer but the idiot boy just said that no-one had told him anything about it. That made it obvious that Pettigrew was no longer a core member of that group, but at least he hadn't been pushed out as yet so Dumbledore decided to use him in a wider plan by getting him accepted into Tom's core group of followers like the Snape boy. Pettigrew didn't have any real talent like Snape's Potions ability to make him interesting to Tom, but already having an Animagus form should be useful enough to make Tom take him.
As he had acquired a Potions Mastery like he had his other masteries, Dumbledore offered Snape a Potions apprenticeship as a bribe to get him to brew the more complex loyalty and other potions he needed to manipulate Potter, Black and Evans, now that they'd learned to protect their minds against him.
After they finished at Hogwarts, Dumbledore recruited Potter, Black, Evans and Pettigrew into his Order of the Phoenix to ensure that he still had enough access to them to keep up the compulsions and potions he was using to keep them under his control. He had used a virulent and untreatable form of dragonpox to kill off Potter's parents in Seventy Seven, and his Uncle and Aunt in Seventy Nine, so he implanted the fear that they had contracted the dragonpox at Potter Manor to convince the Potters to move into a cottage in Godric's Hollow after the new Lady Potter became pregnant and he'd set up a 'prophecy' that supposedly related to their unborn son and 'Lord' Voldemort. He'd also convinced Potter that going to Gringotts or the Ministry or having Potter elves or familiars around would lead Voldemort's people to them and set up wards to mask their magical signatures and separate them from the loyal Potter retainers, so he managed to keep them largely ignorant of the protections the House of Potter could give them.
It was pure luck that Frank and Alice Longbottom, who were both Aurors like Potter and Black (he had his suspicions about Evans, as Slughorn had been boasting about her getting her Potions Mastery just after her NEWTs and when he checked she'd obtained her Charms and Runes Masteries at the same time…. But they never talked about her having a job, and people of that calibre with no obvious job were often unspeakables), had a son due around the same time as the Potters. This meant that he could manipulate both families into positions where Tom could get to them, because he'd made sure that the 'prophecy' was given to him somewhere that Snape would hear the first half of it before he was chased off and of course he ran straight to Tom with what he'd heard.
It wasn't too hard to convince both couples that the best way to protect their families was the Fidelius Charm. With Evans' mind he needed to distance himself a little, but they'd been potioned and compelled to trust Pettigrew and it hadn't be hard to point any suspicions about who was leaking the Order's secrets to Voldemort at Black, as the son of a known dark family, and Lupin as a werewolf so Pettigrew was the Potter's secret keeper and he was the Longbottom's secret keeper, so Snape had 'accidentally' gotten his hands on a piece of parchment with their secret written on it.
He set it up for Tom to strike on Samhain, or rather Halloween because he supposedly used the Muggle festivals now. The wards on the Potters' cottage, the Potters themselves and their brat all had monitoring charms placed on them and he had a portkey ready to take the Half-Breed there and get rid of any evidence that could be traced back to him before the Aurors got there. He had something similar set up for the Longbottoms, but he'd used Snape and Pettigrew to convince Tom that the Potter brat was a bigger threat so he'd go after them first, because with all of them gone the Potter fortune would be up for grabs and he had a will that Potter had signed in blood that said that it would all go to support the fight against Voldemort.
Once again, it didn't work out at all the way he'd planned because Evans (presumably) had managed to put some form of protection over the brat which saved him. He quickly changed the Half-Breed's instructions to grab the brat and bring him straight back (along with removing the more questionable devices used for monitoring them) and sent him off. He didn't think anyone but the brat would be there, as the monitors were only showing him alive there, but the brat and his monitors were more important than the Half-Breed if any of Tom's people came for him.
When the Half-Breed returned on Black's enchanted Muggle motorcycle Dumbledore knew that he was in trouble, so he quickly gave the Aurors the story that Black was the Potters' secret keeper and he had obviously turned and become one of Voldemort's followers because he'd led him straight to them. He changed the Half-Breed's memories and sent him off while he examined the brat. The fact that Tom had somehow made him into some form of soul anchor when he tried to kill him gave him the seeds of a new idea, but he had to fob McGonagall off with a story about the brat needing the protection of the blood of family, and Evans' sister was the only blood relation he had left, so he would have to go to her to protect him from Voldemort. McGonagall obviously didn't like that idea, but he didn't find out until he arrived to set things up the next day that she'd taken it upon herself to go and investigate Lily's sister's family before the boy was placed with them.
Using the Elder Wand, it wasn't too hard to compel her to leave Privet Drive with a different set of memories while he set up the blood wards. Everyone was told that these wards were meant to protect the brat from Voldemort and anyone else who had evil intentions towards him, but they were actually to mask his magical signature so that the Potter elves and familiars couldn't find him, and to ensure that his Aunt and her family wouldn't go soft on him, he needed the brat to be broken and weak when he arrived at Hogwarts so that he could get his plan back on track. He'd also bound the brat's memory, intellect and magic enough to make him into an idiot Squib who couldn't do anything to fight back.
Everyone knew how Dumbledore had illegally bound the Potters' wills and proclaimed himself Harry Potter's Magical Guardian to try and get his hands on the Potter votes and fortune, but the Goblins had kept him away from their fortune and magic had refused to accept him as the guardian so he'd forced through manual procedures to use their votes. They also heard that he'd gone back to Harry Potter's Muggle relatives' home several times over the next six years to renew the bindings because the young Duke Potter's magic had kept growing and breaking free of its bindings. They also knew about how he, Bagnold and Crouch had had the Black Heir thrown into Azkaban for over six years without a trial or even investigation and how the Longbottoms had been attacked and cursed into what was believed to be a permanently insensible state until they were retrieved from St Mungo's and restored to healthy minds, bodies and souls. The fact that he'd placed the Death Eater who gave the so-called prophecy about the Potter and Longbottom Heirs to Voldemort in a position of power to abuse and denigrate the children of Magical Britain for six years, and he'd effectively ruined the potions training in Magical Britain caused more of an outrage, because it had effected all of their children except for some who were placed in Slytherin and Ravenclaw.
Bathilda's testimony wound up around the point where Dumbledore stopped being the Chief Warlock, because that was when the memory charms he had used to manipulate her for nearly a century were removed. Amelia acknowledged that Albus Jones could not be prosecuted for his criminal activities prior to his being removed as the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot of Magical Britain, but reiterated that the purpose of that had been to establish the true nature of the so-called 'Leader of the Light' and 'the Greatest Wizard since Merlin' which were both in fact titles he had given himself. She pointed out that it was only the power of the Elder Wand, which he cursed his lover in the back to get after distracting him with sex, that allowed him to pull off 'the Greatest Wizard since Merlin', because without the advantage of that wand he was not a very strong wizard, and the majority of his OWL, NEWT and Mastery scores had been falsified. The only thing he was ever a true master of was mind magics, and now that the Dumbledore Family magic been stripped from him because it had agreed with the last worthy member of the Dumbledore Family, his brother Aberforth, he didn't even have that. The Elder Wand had been recalled by its true master and sent off to another realm that only he could call it from so Albus Jones had now been reduced to what he truly was, a mediocre fraud who barely knew enough to teach a few subjects at Hogwarts, and wouldn't be accepted as a teacher under the new standards that Hogwarts required.
With that, Amelia began calling witnesses to testify about Albus Jones' criminal activities since he was dismissed as the Chief Warlock. They'd already heard that he had been the primary driver behind the revival of the Triwizard Tournament, the contest that had been abolished nearly two hundred years ago because of the toll the pointless deaths in the tournament were taking on the best and brightest of Magical Europe. Once they ripped the truth out of his head that confirmed that he and the ones he had been working with had been doing this to kill off Harry Potter and Fleur Delacour and their families, they made sure that they had every other name and fact he knew in regard to the plots behind the tournament and against Magical Britain, stripped his magic from him and put him through the Veil of Death before losing his magic could kill him. This was to ensure that he was truly gone, because even if he had managed to get some sort of safeguards in place, once you go through the Veil you don't come back unless Death chooses to release your soul as it did Harry's.
AN: Quite possibly a little dry, sorry, but I wanted to get my vision of what Ankles Dumbledore was really like out. Hopefully this meshes well enough with the events of canon to work. I know I've shifted a few dates a little, but who's to know what Dumbledore fed Bathilda was right? ;^)
BTW: When Aberforth got out of Azkaban, he got a job working at the Hogs Head in Hogsmeade to keep an eye on his brother because he knew what the 'Leader of the Light' was really like, even if he couldn't get anyone else to believe him.
NB: According to the latest Fantastic Beasts movie, Aurelius Dumbledore was the birth name of Creedence Barebone, Leta Lestrange switched him for her brother with accidental magic on the boat to America as a child because her brother wouldn't stop crying.
AN2: As some may have noted, I've stopped removing the so-called 'guest reviews' to shut up the trolls who claim that I was trying to cover up anyone who didn't agree with me. I'll only remove things which would IMHO be bad enough to really offend decent people on here.