Aberforth Dumbledore

[iris_ft]

No: HPFGUIDX 72433

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ereturtle18" 
<ereturtle18 at y...> wrote:
> Reading a series of posts about Aberforth Dumbledore being the 
Hog's 
> Head bartentder and possibly being on Voldemort's side got me 
> thinking. I might just have another fact that could back up this 
> theory. In GoF, when the Trio burst into Hagrid's hut to convince 
> him to show his face after "that Skeeter cow" published an article 
> about him, Dumbledore used his brother as an example for Hagrid. 
> Could Aberforth have been persecuted because he was suspected to 
be 
> a DE? Oh, no, that was for practicing inappropriate charms on a 
> goat. But that means he was a little *unusual*, so could Voldemort 
> have taken advantage of that? OK, that's really farfetched, but I 
> just thought I'd mention it. One other thing, Dumbledore wasn't 
sure 
> Aberforth could read. An illiterate wouldn't be able to get a job 
> much better than bartender, would he?
> 

Now me:

A little unusual? That's interesting. Could it be possible that he 
was a mentally handicapped person? Being "unusual" in that way, he 
would have been a perfect target for twisted minds like Voldemort 
and his Death Eaters. They consider that difference is a flow in the 
wizard society,  and a mentally handicapped person is inevitably 
different. Did they kill him for that reason? Did they consider he 
was unworthy of living in the society they pretended to impose?
After all, that wouldn't be new: we all know that handicapped 
persons were victims of nazism, just because they didn't fit with 
its conception of a society. And we didn't see yet that kind of 
character in the series, so it could be a new possibility to explore 
the topic of intolerance.

By the way: could someone tell me what "Aberforth" means, or tell me 
where to find an explanation? Thank you!

Amicalement,

Iris