OoP: Chapter Sixteen (Minor Spoiler)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jmgarciaiii" 
<jmgarciaiii at y...> wrote:> I'm also quite curious about the 
relationship between the Brothers 
> Dumbledore. For some odd reason, I see Aberforth as the equivalent 
> of Mycroft Holmes.
> 
> Discuss.
> 
> -Joe in SoFla

Ha! Me too! In fact, I was confused that we'd never seen Aberforth 
before, because I reread the entire Holmes canon around the time I 
first read the HP books, and actually thought I HAD heard of a 
brilliant but odd loner brother.