至死都背负着杀死亲人的罪恶感，同弟弟决裂，失去心上人，也一并丢失了少年时最狂热的理想和追求。
不知道在以后那漫长的岁月里，邓布利多有没有尝试爱过另一个人，为自己寻找一个救赎。
不，几乎不可能。他不会容许自己那样做，邓布利多这样的人怕是永远都只能生活在自己的禁锢之中了。更何况尝过了初爱的激情和野心的魔力交织，像他那样天赋才华眼高于顶的人，也许再也看不到别人了。本是愚者的他成为了吊人，从来没有停止过的折磨却让他怀揣着恶魔牌做成了世间的教皇。
我一直都相信一件事，一个头脑清醒的男人是绝对下不了手杀他真正爱的人的。虽然格林德沃明显带有希特勒的气质，光辉耀眼，对目标狂热，与他人富有煽动性，这类人很难避免带有一定程度上的沙文主义……但是若真提到两人之间有什么死生决斗，怕也绝不是那么浪漫的悲壮。

这段解说甚美甚合我心，毕竟是官方——
JKR: [re: Grindelwald] I think he was a user and a narcissist and I think someone like that would use it, would use the infatuation. I don't think that he would reciprocate in that way, although he would be as dazzled by Dumbledore as Dumbledore was by him, because he would see in Dumbledore, 'My God, I never knew there was someone as brilliant as me, as talented as me, as powerful as me. Together, we are unstoppable!' So I think he would take anything from Dumbledore to have him on his side.

He would take anything from D to have him on his side.
真是让人感慨万千的一句话。