 This is related to his habit of springing up behind would-be assassins, shouting loudly at them and banging their head repeatedly in the door.He is also known as Ridcully the Brown (a possible reference to "Radagast the Brown" from Lord of the Rings).At the time he became Archchancellor, he had not been seen at the University for forty years, having become a Seventh Level Wizard at the exceptionally young age of twenty-seven, before leaving the university to look after his family's land.