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This unidentified individual was a wizard who was Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry sometime before Armando Dippet. His portrait hung in the Headmaster's office in order to give advice to the current Head.[2] An inscription on his portrait read "Atatis XXXV,"[3] indicating that he was aged thirty-five when he died,[4] as atatis is a Latin form of "aetatis", meaning "at the age of."[5]

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Notes and references

  1. In interviews, J.K. Rowling has stated that "all the portraits you see in the headmaster's study are all headmasters and mistresses who died".
  2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) DVD (Disc 2 - Dumbledore's Office)
  3. See this image.
  4. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named interviews
  5. "List of Latin Phrases: A" on Wikipedia
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