1) Albus’s Order of Merlin was upgraded to First Class when he defeated Grindewald, but he kept his old medal in a box in his desk.

12) He met Fawkes in Tibet when he was visiting the seventeenth Magi Lama. After the bird became his familiar, Albus’s patronus became a phoenix.

13) The Magi Lama taught Albus to use many aspects of his magic that had lain dormant, including the ability to sense Dark and Light intentions within a person. It was this power that allowed him to trust Severus.

14) Albus’s animagus form is a swan: deceptively innocent with its pure white feathers, but vicious when threatened.

15) Albus truly does see himself holding a pair of warm woolen socks in the Mirror of Erised, and was thrilled when Harry gave him some for Christmas his sixth year.