[HPforGrownups] What do we know about Aberforth?

[RSFJenny19 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 68541

In a message dated 7/8/2003 3:16:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
valkyrievixen at yahoo.com writes:


> 
> I am hoping some others might be able to recall some canon for me.
> Is there any evidence in the books so far to suggest Aberforth 
> Dumbledore might be deaf?
> 
> It is a context question, but the context is still in the design 
> process and can't really be revealed yet. I just need a little help 
> finding any minute scrap of canon support for this theory.
> 
> Valky
> 

Well, no canon, that I know of about him being deaf, but there is canon where 
DD says he isn't sure Aberforth knows how to read.  
In GoF, DD says "My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing 
inappropriate charms on a goat.  It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth 
hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as 
usual!  Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been 
bravery..."
After DD's Yule Ball speech about the chamber pot room, which turned out to 
be the *very* important Room of Requirement, I'm convinced that Aberforth's 
reference has significance (that and the fact that we know for OotP that he was 
in the Order - too many references not to be clues to something, IMO).

Sorry it's not what you're looking for...

~Jenny


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