When I was a little kid, I thought Gandalf and Dumbledore were the same person ... with Ian McKellen’s Lord of the Rings istar and MichaelGambon’s take on Hogwarts’ Headmaster.
“Do not pity the dead, Harry," Dumbledore once told Potter ... "We are incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of Sir MichaelGambon," the official Harry Potter account posted on X.