Abstract
The stories teachers tell can reveal the epistemological dilemmas they encounter along the professional landscape, such as possessing knowledge that others do not. To explore this type of knowledge dilemma, the teacher stories of a fictional character, Harry Potter's Albus Dumbledore, are examined. Dumbledore's stories reveal his attempts to navigate knowledge asymmetries between himself and others. The knowledge stances taken up in these stories signal the relational issues that underlie the dilemmas and influence Dumbledore's professional actions. To provide real-world relevance to the fictional examples, the paper ends by highlighting similar dilemmas that surface in the stories of real-life teachers.
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