Time travel is dangerous! (part 1)

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No: HPFGUIDX 88986

> Phanbu wrote:
> I wrote this mostly in jest, but decided that there needs to be a
> brother sent along with Ron.  It doesn't matter which brother, but 
> someone has to be Aberforth.  He can't just magically appear from 
> thin air. ...or can he?  ;)
> 
> vmonte responds:
> Unless there was something critical that needed to be done the day 
> that Aberforth was spotted by Moody. Supposedly that is the only 
time 
> Aberforth was ever seen.  DD may have needed to come back twice to 
> correct a mistake.  It could be DD playing Aberforth--is he an 
> identical twin?  I guess this will be answered in book 6. 
> 
> I hate time travel !!!
> 
> vmonte

Neri adds:
As a SF reader I also used to hate time travel, until I read "The 
door into summer" by R. Heinlein. Highly recommended while waiting 
for Book 6. It is also the most cheerful story that Heinlein wrote.

Regarding Aberforth, DD mentions him in GoF with a strange mixture of 
ridicule and affection. I can't think of any brother of Ron who would 
fit. Well, maybe Percy, but Percy certainly knows how to read. If the 
Ron!DD twist is true, I suspect Aberforth is not a biological 
brother. I suspect that there was a real Dumbledore family back in 
the past that adopted Ron, and Aberforth is one of them. After all, 
Ron could hardly become DD out of the blue, without any background, 
and go take the NEWTs.

Unless Aberforth is DD's alter ago, which is very likely.

Neri