Nah the whole point was that dumbledore was a sleeper build. Elderly, frail looking, and weird in a way that suggested he wasn’t all there in the head despite still being basically the apex of the Wizarding world at the time. I don’t think we ever saw him do anything truly powerful until his showdown in the ministry in book 5. Gambon kind of dicked that up in the very beginning. He spoke with way too much poise and power. It was easy to believe he was a strong wizard, which again was not the point.
Nah the whole point was that dumbledore was a sleeper build. Elderly, frail looking, and weird in a way that suggested he wasn’t all there in the head despite still being basically the apex of the Wizarding world at the time. I don’t think we ever saw him do anything truly powerful until his showdown in the ministry in book 5. Gambon kind of dicked that up in the very beginning. He spoke with way too much poise and power. It was easy to believe he was a strong wizard, which again was not the point.