Here's the tenth chapter of Dumbledore! As always, it's also up on fanfiction.net.

( Dumbledore (Part I - The Phoenix) Chapter X )

Author's Note: Back again, and it is indeed Friday! I think I can safely say now that Friday will be Update Day, unless something happens to delay my posting.

I'm also going to start posting the chapters in my livejournal. That way it's all backed up somewhere else as well, and people have two different places to read it. All of the chapters will be in my livejournal memories, and I'll update my livejournal on the same day I update here. The address of my livejournal can be found in my profile.

Once again, thank you to everyone who has been reading and reviewing. I'm shocked at the reception my story has got, really, and just thrilled. It's had over a thousand hits now, and I know that's not much compared to a lot of fan fictions, but I honestly expected to get maybe two or three reviews on the whole thing. Thank you!

Author's Note: Well, I seem to be updating every Friday night. I hesitate to say that I'm going to make that the official 'update day', so to speak, because next thing you know something will probably go wrong and I won't be able to update on Friday after all, but that's the way it's looking right now. As it is, the next update should appear on Friday, because I should be considerably less busy, what with the election being over and such.

Once again, thank you to everyone who's reading and reviewing! Oh, and hey, someone actually friended me on livejournal! I have a friend! And now, on with the story...

Author's Note: Somebody asked if I was intending to have a lot of the characters be ancestors of people who are around at Harry's time. The simple answer for this is, yes. Most of the characters will be ancestors of characters who actually appear in the books. The reason for this is mostly because the old wizarding families have to play a large role, and this is in part because there aren't a lot of Muggleborns attending Hogwarts at the moment. So we've got a lot of characters called Dumbledore and Ollivander (obviously), and Potter, and Malfoy, and Black, and Lestrange and such running about.

Aside from that, I hope you enjoy this chapter. Review and tell me what you think! Thanks to everyone who's reading! Oh, and to everyone who wants me to review their stuff, I promise I will, I've just been so busy lately! I'll definitely get round to it soon.

( Chapter VII )

Author’s Note: Hello again! Thank you so much to everyone who’s been reading and reviewing this story. I honestly thought I’d get maybe one or two reviews. I’m so glad that people seem to be enjoying it.

So did the last chapter leave you suitably confused? I hope I didn’t lose anyone there – I needed things to be a bit chaotic. And, well, there’s not much else to say right now... enjoy this next chapter!

Author’s Note: Hello again! Now, apparently it’s against the rules to answer reviews in an author’s note, so I won’t. I will, however, provide some answers to questions which simply popped into my mind, that I thought some of you might be wondering about. I could be completely wrong, of course, since I just randomly thought up these questions, but hey!

Clarification is a wonderful thing, and makes reading a story much better than when you have no idea what’s going on. First of all, yes, Part I, which is this fan fiction, is about Albus Dumbledore’s father. Percival is Albus Dumbledore’s father. That’s not a secret, so I’m just going to say it. Obviously Albus Dumbledore isn’t born yet, as Percival is only sixteen at the moment. :P

Secondly, the chapter you’re about to read takes place in 1825. Since it’s late in the year, the next chapter will take place in 1826. I honestly didn’t mean to have my updates coincide with the time of the year that the chapters take place in, it just worked out like that, interestingly enough.

If you go to my livejournal, you’ll find a (partial) Dumbledore/Clarkend family tree. I’m posting it because I know that all the various relations can be terribly confusing, especially as there are a lot of girl cousins currently about. Check out the family tree if you’re confused about who’s who.

If you’re ever confused about anything at all, please don’t hesitate to ask. The question might magically pop into my head all on its own and the answer may very well wind up here. Of course, if you really want to know something, you can always just comment in my livejournal, and I can answer you in a more direct and speedy manner. But I’m not giving out any spoilers!

Enough with the author’s note! This is the last update of 2005, so I’ll see you all in the new year!

Author's Note: How was everyone's Christmas? Mine was great! And if you celebrate something other than Christmas, I hope you had a good Whatever-You-Celebrate. I'm personally quite keen on Festivus. Oh, and Happy Boxing Day, as it's the 26th.

One again, if you have any comments/questions/etc., review! Or you can e-mail me or contact me through my livejournal. All of my stuff in in my profile.

Author's Note: Here's Chapter III, as promised. I like this chapter better than the last one. It's also a bit shorter. Chapter IV will be up either on Christmas day or Boxing Day, depending on how much fun I'm having with my presents.

I'd just like to say thanks again to everyone who's reading and reviewing. I can't tell you how glad I am that people seem to like it! I'm having so much fun writing this. In fact, I'm off to write some more now. Anyway, enjoy this chapter!

Author's Note: Still reading? Huzzah! Yes, we're back again now, with the second chapter! I think this is the longest of all the chapters I've written yet, except maybe the fifth one. Yes, I'm writing ahead. This won't be one of those fan fictions that the author abandons part way through. That's always frustrating, isn't it? Of course, I can't make any promises - if I get decapitated, for example, I can't see how I'd continue to write. But I'd certainly try.

I haven't yet worked out a solid schedule for updating, but the next chapter should appear either on Thursday or Friday. I meant to wait till Wednesday with this one, but I couldn't resist. Chapter IV will probably appear on Saturday or Sunday, because it takes place on Christmas Eve and Christmas, and, well, why not?

Anyway, this note has been too long as it is. If you have any comments, questions, criticisms, or inane babble you'd like to throw my way, review! I won't pretend I don't love reviews. You can also e-mail me or comment in my livejournal if you like.