- "Now approaching his eighteenth birthday, Dumbledore left Hogwarts in a blaze of glory — Head Boy, Prefect, Winner of the Barnabus Finkley Prize for Exceptional Spell-Casting, British Youth Representative to the Wizengamot, Gold Medal-Winner for Ground-Breaking Contribution to the International Alchemical Conference in Cairo."
- — Rita Skeeter, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore.[src]
The International Alchemical Conference was a formal event that took place in the 1890s, in Cairo, Egypt, where experts in the field of Alchemy presented and discussed their work.[1]
History[]
Albus Dumbledore, while still in the course of his student years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, took part in this symposium, where he was the Gold Medal-Winner for Ground-Breaking Contribution.[1]
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First mentioned)