Armando Dippet

[phillyman]

THE PLAYER

• What can we call you OOC: Phil.
  
  
• Anyway to contact you: [e-mail]
  
  
• Your real age: 19. (This is my real age. The year of birth I submitted upon the registration of this user account is NOT my actual date of birth.)
  
  
• Have you role-played before: Yes, ever since I was eleven.
  
  
• Where did you hear about us: Oh, you know, surfing on the net gives you some pleasent suprises from time to time.
  

THE CHARACTER

• Book Character, or Original: Book.
  
  
• Full Name: Armando Dippet.
  
  
• Nicknames: None.
  
  
• Age: 358.
  
  
• Date of birth: September 1, 1637.
  
  
• Occupation: Former Charms Master and Head of Ravenclaw under no less than six heads of Hogwarts. He was also made Deputy Headmaster by Headmistress Eupraxia Mole in 1876 after having served as professor in Charms since 1703. Later he served as Headmaster himself from 1925 to 1955 when he was threatened to leave his post by the Board of Governors. After this, he decided to remain and worked for the Board as Chief Attendant of Witchcraft Provisions until 1990, where he resigned and was replaced by Lucinda Thomsonicle-Pocus.
  
  
• Alliance: His loyalty remains with Hogwarts, and thus he will protect the school and its student no matter what, be it against corruption or the Dark Forces of Tom Riddle, also known as Lord Voldemort the Great.
  
  
• Pets (if any): Great Gray Owl.
  
  
• Blood Lines: Unknown, but claimed Pure-Blood.
  
  
• Physical Appearance: Armando Dippet is an ancient wizard, being very frail and feeble-looking with silver hair and beard. He can be surprisingly agile for a man his age, and appears to have very accurate reflexes when the situation requires it. However, due to his advanced age, though he certainly is able to push himself until he has achieved what he is trying to accomplish, he is always very exhausted afterward, since such physical activity, despite the fact that it is within his reach, is a great physical effort.
  
  
• Personality
  Professor Armando Dippet is a very old, experienced, and highly intelligent and powerful wizard, if somewhat weakened by his advanced age. He is often underestimated due to this, which is not a wise thing to do at all. While he's by surely is inferior to the likes of Albus Dumbledore and Lord Voldemort, he is none the less a formidable wizard.
  
  He is a strict disciplinarian and have always considered himself to be a man of priciple. His twisted morality and veiw of right and wrong came most clear when he was shown by his tenure as Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. During this time, the school was marked by a cynical acceptance of severe punishment, as professor Dippet allowed Caretaker Apollyon Pringle to use corporal punishment on students. Early in 1940, Armando got into an argument with former Transfiguration professor, Albus Dumbledore. The reason for this was due to the fact that Armando Dippet refused to let a young boy attend Hogwarts, as he was a Half-Giant, and Armando strongly believed he would undoubtedly either have, or develop the same taste for blood as regular Giants have. Professor Dippet expressed his disagreement by reminding him that it matters not what one is born, but what one grows to become. After eight hours long conversation, Armando agreed, though reluctantly, on letting Rubeus Hagrid attend Hogwarts. Professor Dippet did not have a high opinion of Hagrid, however, and treated him with disdain and rudely instructed the boy to leave his office without hearing him out whenever he had a request that one would have to talk to the Headmaster directly, or he was looking for a teacher which was in the Headmaster's Office at the time.
  
  However, in spite of his somewhat brutal view on dicipline, he did not take the safety of his students lightly. When the Chamber of Secrets was opened by Tom Riddle, Armando, like all his employees, did everything in his power to apprehend the perpetrator. An example on this was when he realised that no one had seen Myrtle for a couple of hours, Professor Dippet asked fellow student and Prefect Olive Hornby to go and look for her. Also by him rejecting Tom Riddle's request of staying at school over the summer holidays due to the situation, but did comment that he would have given him special permission if the school were much safer. However: The moment Tom Riddle declared Hagrid a suspect, Dippet promptly expelled the latter without putting much effort in investigating the matter, and told professor Dumbledore, who rushed to Hagrid's defence, that the expulsion was fully justifeid and that the event just proved the point he had made three years earlier.
  
  Professor Dippet did not limit his strict demeanor to the students, as he was never known to hesitate to give those he belived deserve punishment for their actions exactly what he feel is a suitable price to pay for their stupidity or insolence. During Dippet's tenure as placed professor Silvanus Kettleburn on sixty-two periods of probation. One known time was after he provided an Ashwinder with an Engorgement Charm on it instead of a worm for the The Fountain of Fair Fortune pantomime. After the chaos, Armando placed a permanent ban on pantomimes from thereon. The very same night, Armando summoned the Herbology professor to his office for a "small talk". At some point, Armando had become so angery that he had drawn his wand, but apperently not used it and apologized for the outburst. However: Beery later confessed to Dumbledore that this confrontation caused his later productions to become as unlucky as the first. Soon after, he no longer wished to mount the performances due to the supposed bad luck which accompanied them and was replaced by Pomona Sprout. Many of the teachers had suspected Armando of cursing him, although there was no actual evidence to support the theory. In addition, as the school was currently under the administration of the man in question, no one, not even professor Dumbledore, dared to confront him about it.
  
  Headmaster Dippet retired in 1955, leaving Professor Dumbledore to take his position of head of his old school. Follwing his retirement Dippet went to live in Budleigh Babberton. However, after buying a house there, he left it empty, still being the legal owner, so that he had a place to return to after he returned from his travels. The same year, on his way on foot to King's Cross Station, (as he intended to take the train from platform Seven and a Half to travel to Europe), he encountered a particulary nasty witch in Bath who mocked him for his bad flying and came with loud comments of his capabilities as a wizard according to his description from Armando Dippet: Master or Moron? by Rita Skeeter. The result was that Armando decided to show her exactly how inadept of a wizard he truely was, and did so by cursing her copy of the book so that once she began reading it out loud to mock him, she was rendered incapable of putting it down or close it. The result was that the witch was forced to wander around reading the book and trying to do her everyday tasks with one hand for the rest of her life.
  
  
• Background:
  No one really know how the man who one day would end up being the strict and intolerant Headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Many have heard different stories about what really happened. Stories goes from man to man, and which all has changed over the past couple of centuries. So what do we know for sure? Not much. Just histories and tales of the life of this old and noble sorcerer's life. They are all marked by various degrees of pain, love, betrayal and bitterness. But they all start the same way:
  
  It was in the year 1673, where a ship is said to have sailed across the North Sea from a foreign country far away. No one knows quite how it happened, or why for that matter, but it is said that on the legendary island of Avalon, which was once ruled by the Dark Witch Morgan le Fay during the time of King Arthur, the attention was drawn to something far out there. The fort which once belonged to Morgana had been transformed into a towering building in black stone that is perhaps the most dreaded place in British History of Magic. The guards at the wizarding prison of Azkaban was excited and agitated by the sound of loud bangs, and the flash of fire and smoke out on the sea not too far away.
  
  Elfrida Clagg, Chief of the Sorcerer Council of Britain, ordered one of her many special advisor, in this case a young man who went by the name of Brian Dumbledore to investigate. When Mr. Dumbledore arrived at the scene, he found an infant wrapped in a woolen blanket which apparently had been washed ashore. Dumbledore immediately brought the child before the Council and informed them that it was his belife that the child undoubtedly had to be of magical origin, otherwise the magical protections of Azkaban would have forced the waves to wash boy away from the island, if he had been a Muggle. Also, he explained that the child was found on the seashore, which further proved that the child was magical, as when he picked up the boy, the baby blanket was completely warm and dry.
  
  The Concuil had the greatest confidence in Brian Dumbledore, and allowed him to keep the child. Dumbledore and his wife Aberia then adopted the boy, who not long afterwards became the older sibling of a one year younger sibling by the name of Wulfrick. Orginally, Aberia wished for the boy to be named Dumbledore to truely be a part of their family. Brian on the other hand was not so sure. After further discussing the matter, they agreed to disagree. Brian approached a friend of the family. A respected Warlock who went by the name of Almerick Sawbridge. Almerick suggested that they should know more about the child's background and where he came from, and decided to go down to the wreck, which he did using Gillyweed. It is said that he did not sight any of the drowned bodies, but their ship was called Dippet. The boy, who had no memory of who he was, was then named Armando, after Brian's own father. The surname came from the ship in which the boy had traveled with, which was the only link to his own past. And so Armando grew up under the watchful eye of the Dumbledores.
  
  Armando was unfortunate to have been born into a time of much fear and terror. Ever since the early fifteenth century, the persecution of witches and wizards gathered pace all over Europe, making many in the wizarding community feel that offering to aid their Muggle neighbours with their magic was tantamount to volunteering to fetch the firewood for one's own funeral pyre: many witches and wizards were locked up and sentenced to death on the charge of witchcraft, and while some managed to use magic to escape, others were not as lucky. As of to day, it is common knowledge that Wizarding families were particularly prone to losing younger family members due to their inability to control their own magic. As the witch-hunts grew ever fiercer, wizarding families began to live double lives, using charms of concealment to protect themselves and their families. By the seventeenth century, any witch or wizard who chose to fraternise with Muggles became suspect, even an outcast in his or her own community. Widespread persecution of wizarding children by Muggles, escalating attempts by Muggles to force witches and wizards to perform magic for Muggle ends and teach them magic, increasing numbers of witch-burnings, including those of Muggles mistakenly burned as witches were the catalysts for some kind of measure to be taken.
  
  Armando attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and were sorted into Ravenclaw House in 1649. During his time as student at Hogwarts, Armando was not very popular. It is said that fellow students did indeed admire both his magical abillities and intellect, however he was highly disliked for having been so competitive when it came to his academics that he tended backstab other students in order to get the top marks. However, he was indeed made Prefect in his fifth year at the school. During his time at school, he befriended - despite the fact that the both of them were several years older - Thaddeus Thurkell and Havelock Sweeting. During his fifth year, Armando also got acquainted with the boy who would one day be known as Lord Stoddard Withers.
  
  Little is known about what Professor Dippet spent his time doing after his graduation in 1654, though it is indeed known Armando Dippet was believed to be one of the most powerful and notorius Warlocks of his time. Although he might deny it, or excuse it, he was indeed a feared man once. He were easily recognized by his appearence. He was young, though very large and broad-shouldered, with long, lustrous brown hair and beard. He was known for his distrusting, cynical and ruthless treatment his enemies. Between 1655 and 1717, Armando was infamous within the Wizarding World for challenging those who treatet him with disrespect or otherwise insulted his honour, family or threatened them, or him, to a duel. These were notably short ones, as Armando had a habbit of to make short work of his opponents. When he in 1717 learned that the three dark curses became exclusively known as Unforgivable, he then was brought in for questioning by the Ministry for Magic, being interrogated by Minister Lorcan McLaird. It were recorded no less than ninety-four deaths caused by Armando. However, as he pointed out, he could not be punished because the Unforgivable Curses at that time was not illegal, and that he had never taken another man's life other than the one agreed magical confrontation, after which his opponent was equally intent on murdering him that Armando was to respond in kind. In 1655, he met and befriended Mungo Bonham, before he and his younger "brother" took the Grand Tour of the world, a popular wizarding tradition at the time.
  
  They returned from it in 1659, in time for Armando to attend Mr. Bonham's funeral. He then decided to apply for the position of Charms Master at Hogwarts, after the late predecessor had passed away after a severe case of Dragon Pox. However, he soon discovered that during a job interview with the then Headmaster of Hogwarts, professor Vindictus Veridian, the latter is not considered Armando as the best candidate for the job. Armando was furious to be overlooked and cursed the professor, which meant that the latter never again was able to make a successful potion because he had a tendency to either forget or confuse what ingredients were used, no matter how many times he read the recipe to assure him that he did it right. At the age of twenty nine joined one of the many voluntary groups among civilians wizards to help the Ministry to extinguish the Great Fire of London. Here would he was suprised to see the newly appointed Head of the Department of Magical Accident and Catastrophes, his now accomplished younger brother, working together with both him and countless others to stop it. He attended the funeral of Almerick Sawbridge in 1699.
  
  After the death of professor Viridian in 1703, Armando approched the the Hogwarts Board of Governors and offered to serve as acting head of school until they found a suitable replacement. During his first tenure as Headmaster of Hogwarts, Armando made a proposal to install an elaborate plumbing system at Hogwarts Castle, an idea that made him earn the full confidence from all the Governors. At some point, he was one of the many unidentified participants of the Warlocks' Convention of 1709, where he agreed with the majority to outlaw artificial dragon breeding. When Armando was told that they had a possible candidate for the Headmaster job the same year, and summoned the twelve members to a meeting in the Headmaster's Tower. Once there, he proceeded to confounding all the governors to postpone his deposition. He did this until 1723, after which a wizard named professor Amrose Swott filled his shoes. After being stripped off the title of Headmaster, Armando approched Wulfrick Dumbledore and asked if he could put in a good word for him to get him a job in the Ministry of Magic. Wulfrick however, had long since seen through Armando's immoral ways, and understod how Armando could have been an acting headmaster over such a long period of time, and refused.
  
  Armando then left England to travel to Egypt to study the ancient art and science taught at the Egyptian Centre for Alchemical Studies where he remained until 1729, before leaving for Germany, where he entered the Black Forest to study vampires. Then he returned to Great Britain in order to study how music and magic are connected. By 1792, he had heard that the Triwizard Tournament would take place under the school. Professor Swott's successor, Walter Aragon was now Headmaster of Hogwarts, and thus was one of the judges in the tournament. Armando attended as a guest, intrigued by the ancient symbol of eternal glory. After a
  cockatrice escaped and went on a rampage and injured three of the judges, the Heads of Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, Armando left the place, convinced that professor Aragon was not worthy of the Headmaster Tower. After all: how could he have kept his students safe if he did not manage to protect himself? The same year the International Statue of Wizarding Secrecy was passed, and Armando, like everyone else, went into hiding.
  
  Little is known about what happened to Armando between 1800 and 1805, where no one knows where he went. However, in 1806, he went to attend Institute of Muggle Studies before graduating in 1810. Armando, who always have been very fond of Quidditch, was very dissapointed when The Banchory Bangers were banned from playing in 1814 after breaching Department of Magical Games and Sports regulations. He also befriended Elliot Smethwyck in 1820. In 1870, he applied for the post as Astronomy professor. Headmistress Eupraxia Mole, who naturally had access to all student record, felt that an Acceptable on his N.E.W.T did not qualify him for the job. She was however a good judge of character, and believed that despite his advanced age was an excellent candidate for the post as Charms Master at Hogwarts. The very same year, he befriended a young wizard named Percival Dumbledore. During professor Dippet's sixth year of teaching, the Caretaker named Rancorous Carpe designed an elaborate trap in an attempt to capture and remove Peeves from Hogwarts; the trap included an assortment of weapons which the caretaker believed would be irresistible to Peeves, as well as a vast enchanted bell jar reinforced by various Containment Charms. Peeves burst through the bell jar, shattering the corridor with glass and firing random weapons from the trap, and thus the castle was evacuated. Armando went to a distressed professor Mole, and reminded her that as an indestructible spirit of chaos, he felt it was advisable to make a deal with him rather than to ask the Ministry of Magic try to intervene, as it would further delay the examination preparations, since both O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. approached. Armando then continued with informing her that he had become acquainted with a French hat-maker on a vication in Parice by the name of Madame Bonhabille. With this in mind, the Headmistress went to the angry Poltergeist. By the terms of the contract, Peeves agreed to stop his relentless, murderous attacks on the castle's population and to surrender the weapons he had obtained in exchange for certain privileges. Peeves was granted a weekly swim in the ground floor boy's lavatory, free choice of the school's stale bread for "throwing purposes", as well as a custom-made hat by Madam Bonhabille.
  
  In 1876, professor Mole retired and was replaced by the former Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Phineas Nigellus Black, but not before making Armando the Deputy Headmaster and Head of Ravenclaw House. Armando and Phineas had always had a very strained relationship due to the latter's cold demeanor and disproportionate favoritism of the students in his house. In addition, Armando distrusted his ability to lead the school when the Muggle-Borns were treated as a little more than house-elves and he allowed his sons Arcturus and Cygnus to curse other students for fun, while those who fought back or insulted them were severly punished. When the professor of Herbology at the time gave Arcturus attempted to deduct points from Slytherin after he had interupted her class, the good Headmaster quickly gave the house the double of what they lost and forbade the said professor be deducted from any more house points ever again. When the other staff members started to complain, he simply dismissed them and told them to leave campus for good, though some submitted their resignations in protest. Hogwarts's Headmaster just saw this as an opportunity to "renew the staff" and hired only like-minded individuals who were also Pure-blood supremacists. He also spent flogging and other unethical physical punishment against students, and even to interrogate them for mischief. It also happened that he got the caretaker to do it for him while he stood to oversaw what happened, while being very smug about it. In 1878 professor Black, who admitted that his cruelty towards his students was because he simply did not like the youth, resigned. The famed famed Magizoologist Newton Scamander was offered to be the acting Headmaster until the Board of Governors found a suitable replacement. The next year, Armando was given the job. During his second tenure as Headmaster of Hogwarts, Armando sacked all of professor Black's little friends and was responsible for the employment of Horace Slughorn, Albus Dumbledore, Herbert Beery, Silvanus Kettleburn and Galatea Merrythought.
  
  While Armando was indeed very respected in his position, he was known to be a very strict disciplinarian and a very firm leader of the school. During this time, the school was marked by a cynical acceptance of severe punishment, as professor Dippet allowed Caretaker Apollyon Pringle to use corporal punishment on students. Professor Dippet did by no means limit his strict demeanor to the students. Professor Dippet was very distrusting, even of his employees, confiding only in a few professors, which included the Transfiguration teacher Albus Dumbledore. Nor was he ever known to hesitate to give those he belived deserve punishment for their actions exactly what he feel is a suitable price to pay for their stupidity or insolence. During Dippet's tenure as placed professor Silvanus Kettleburn on sixty-two periods of probation. One known time was after he provided an Ashwinder with an Engorgement Charm on it instead of a worm for the The Fountain of Fair Fortune pantomime. After the chaos, Armando placed a permanent ban on pantomimes from thereon. The very same night, Armando summoned the Herbology professor to his office for a "small talk". At some point, Armando had become so angery that he had drawn his wand, but apperently not used it and apologized for the outburst. However: Beery later confessed to Dumbledore that this confrontation caused his later productions to become as unlucky as the first. Soon after, he no longer wished to mount the performances due to the supposed bad luck which accompanied them. Many of the teachers had suspected Armando of cursing him, although there was no actual evidence to support the theory. In addition, as the school was currently under the administration of the man in question, no one, not even professor Dumbledore, dared to confront him about it.
  
  Early in 1940, Armando got into an argument with former Transfiguration professor, Albus Dumbledore. The reason for this was due to the fact that Armando Dippet refused to let a young boy attend Hogwarts, as he was a Half-Giant, and Armando strongly believed he would undoubtedly either have, or develop the same taste for blood as regular Giants have. Professor Dippet expressed his disagreement by reminding him that it matters not what one is born, but what one grows to become. After eight hours long conversation, Armando agreed, though reluctantly, on letting Rubeus Hagrid attend Hogwarts. However, in spite of his somewhat brutal view on dicipline, he did not take the safety of his students lightly. When the Chamber of Secrets was opened by Tom Riddle, Armando, like all his employees, did everything in his power to apprehend the perpetrator. An example on this was when he realised that no one had seen Myrtle for a couple of hours, Professor Dippet asked fellow student and Prefect Olive Hornby to go and look for her. Also by him rejecting Tom Riddle's request of staying at school over the summer holidays due to the situation, but did comment that he would have given him special permission if the school were much safer. However: The moment Tom Riddle declared Hagrid a suspect, Dippet promptly expelled the latter without putting much effort in investigating the matter, and told professor Dumbledore, who rushed to Hagrid's defence, that the expulsion was fully justifeid and that the event just proved the point he had made three years earlier.
  
  In 1945, Albus Dumbledore became immensely famous for his victory over the Dark Wizard Gellert Grindelwald, and it became clear that the Board of Governors wanted Albus to take over the position. Though Dumbledore after allegedly declined repeatedly, Armando was under great pressure from the board. Desperate to keep his favorite job, Armando approached Abraxas Malfoy and asked him for assistance. Malfoy received a significant amount of gold from Armando and used his influence to expose Dumbledore much sought promotion. He managed to remain for eleven years, before the Board decided to give him the choice of either being dismissed or resign. Armando, who wanted something people could put a finger on regarding his career, chose the latter, though very reluctantly. In 1970, Armando experienced Lord Voldemort's first rise to power. A dark time marked by of terror and bloodshed. Voldemort's followers, the Death Eaters, tortured and murdered many Muggles and Muggle-borns for sport, and due to extensive use of the Imperius Curse, it was hard to tell who was on which side. The Death Eaters originally attacked mostly Muggles and Muggle-born wizards and witches, while using the Imperius Curse and blackmail to gain secret servants in high places, intending to destabilise the Ministry, while Barty Crouch, the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, fought the Death Eaters with an iron fist, often sending innocent people to Azkaban without a trial. Fearing for the safety of Hogwarts, as well as not believing the rumours that the fearsome Dark Lord was afraid to attack Hogwarts under the protection of Albus Dumbledore, he convinced Dumbledore to become the new Chief Attendant of Witchcraft Provisions, and although his only job was to write the list of supplies required for Hogwarts students, it made him able to enter Hogwarts whenever he wanted to talk with professor Dumbledore on how the school was going and its magical protections. In 1975, Armando went to Egypt and accompanied a Curse-Breaker from Gringotts down in an ancient tomb, where he found a mysterious mirror. Armando did not understand how it worked, nor the powers, believing the words Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi was a part of some ancient language that was unknown to him. Therefore, he brought it to professor Dumbledore to ask his opinion. When the two of them finally worked it out, Armando asked Dumbledore to look after it, believing that the extradonary and certainly most valuable artefact would be safer within the walls of Hogwarts than in his own home. And thus, he left the Mirror of Erised in the Headmaster's Office. In 1945, Voldemort returned to Hogwarts after his graduation to apply for the post of professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts, after Galatea Merrythought retired. Professor Dippet denied him the position for being too young, but invited him to reapply in a few years, despite being advised against it by Albus Dumbledore.
  
  Shortly into the school year of 1992, Armando was very angry when he saw his name printed on the front-page article of the Evening Prophet on 1 September, 1992, in which the Flying Ford Anglia incident was blamed on Dippet by his neighbours Leonora Gore and Daphne Maubyslin, as he was known for erratic flying. As a result, Armando was not only publicly humiliated, but he also had to face a disciplinary hearing at the Ministry, after which he got his broom confiscated until he had pass the Ancient Age Flying Test in order to continue legally operating his broomstick. When the students of Hogwarts again fell under attack from a beast released from the Chamber of Secrets. Under the influence of Lucius Malfoy, the Hogwarts board of governors voted to remove Dumbledore from his position as Headmaster when he proved unable to uncover the culprit. When Minerva McGonagall was placed as acting Headmistress after the dismissal, Armando sent a letter to Mr. Malfoy and told that he would be happy to take up his old position, assuring him that he had many years experience running Hogwarts and that he was familiar with the current situation. Mr. Malfoy, knowing that Armando knew his father, promised to talk to his fellow governors. However, Dumbledore returned to his position as Headmaster after the memory of Riddle was revealed as being behind the attacks, to professor Dippet's dismay.
  
  On 22 August, 1994, Armando Dippet attended the final of 422nd Quidditch World Cup, where he was happy for the Irish victory against Bulgaria. He had done a bet against then Head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports, Ludovic Bagman, where he bet on Ireland's victory. Mr. Bagman, however, meant that the Bulgarian seeker, Viktor Krum, was completely superior and would easily catch the snitch long before the Irish seeker Aidan Lynch would have time to even spot it. Armando won, and to no ones suprise, Mr. Bagman never payed up. Shortly after the final match at the World Cup, a riot broke out, and Armando woke up to the sound of running steps, loud bangs and screams. He got dressed and exited his tent, and was disturbed to see masked men burning tents and causing much commotion. They became particularly horrified when they discovered the mob torturing a Muggle family. Seeing the rioters approaching, Armando immediately apparated closer, being incapable of forcing his way through the crowd physically, and were met by a red-haired man he vaguely remembered was called Arthur Weasley, and three young men who undoubtedly had to be his sons. He joined them in attempting to help the Ministry. First Mr. Weasly, not realizing who Armando was, told him to to escape into the forest, however, when the then Head of Department of International Magical Cooperation could identify him Mr. Weasley, the latter suddenly happy to receive Professor Dipper's assistance. The Ministry officials were able to rescue the Roberts family, but the sudden appearance of the Dark Mark prevented them from apprehending the rioters, who apparently were frightened off at the sight of their former master's emblem. Armando was subsequently met by Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge, who thanked him for his assistance.
  
  Sine 1990, he have lived peacefully in the charming village of Budleigh Babberton in a little house.
  
  
  Sample:
  
  The lives of the British Muggles in London went on as usual, and slowly but surely approach the the end of their all too short period of existence on this Earth. It was still quite chilly outside, so it was no surprise that the many non-magical was wearing thick winter jackets, scarfs and hats. Most were also wearing thick gloves and mitts, as if to shield themselves against the relentless and unpredictable change of weather. Only last week, could Muggles read in their newspapers that according to the employees responsible for weather forecasts, the temperature would rise gradually. It had not. On the contrary, it had dropped considerably, and the sun was usually out of reach for people, hidden behind gray clouds because of the many unforeseen periods of the Muggles called for Light Showers. The Muggles continued their most... ordinary lives, and in today had little to nothing remarkable or noteworthy happened. Apart from what is now took place:
  
  Down from the graying sky, which fortunately had not released any rain so far, there was something. A cloud of silvery smoke rushes with a tremendous speed through the air, and the group of Muggles divided with screams of panic, and all those poor, terrified people jumped out of the way to avoid whatever this strange phenomenon was, afraid it might be of a hazardous nature. The silvery smoke was now dangerously close, but then it vanished. Or - no, not quite. In fact, it was still there, but it had moved so fast that the Muggles who had spotted it, suddenly believed it to have disappeared. Suddenly it could be seen in knee height, moving rapidly between the legs of the unsuspecting people, who still continued to glance nervously up at the sky. The cloud moved inaudibly, and abruptly turned it into a cramped, deserted alley, where it took the form. The silver cloud seemed to grow, and slowly, it sort of just fell to the ground, where it began to decompose and dissapear. In the center of the place where the cloud had been a moment before, stood now a tall old man, whose clothing consisted of long majestic robes of blue and bronze. His silvery hair fluttered gently in the wind, although unlike that of Albus Dumbledore, the luxuriant beard that covered much of the lower part of the ancient and wrinkled face was not long enough to do that. His dark brown eyes were sharp and piercing, and his facial expression inscrutable. Armando Dippet had just performed a completely error-free attempt at Inter-continental Apparition. The man moved quickly towards the open street, but had no more than just reached the crowded sidewalk, before he felt someone bumping into him. He slowly turned to the stranger with a sharp glance, but said nothing. His gaze moved thus to the direction where the Muggle man came from, and then the elderly man muttered to himself: "Muggles..." Armando felt genuinely stated, and began to stroll towards the Leaky Cauldron, continuing to talk to himself even further, looking at the not very appealing contrast between new and modern office buildings and old houses that were located not too far from each other. "Just look at that! You live a mere couple of centuries, and suddenly they change everything." He sighed heavily and shook his head with evident reluctance. "It is indeed a most tragic time we live in."