Aberforth as DADA teacher/Dumbledore Muggleborn?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 115615


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" 
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> Please believe me when I say I mean absolutely no offence by this, 
> but those arguments apply equally to every other peripheral 
> character in the books, including the giant squid.

Finwitch:

LOL- but Giant Squid is was NEVER a member of the Order of Phoenix,
whereas Aberforth has been. (Or what was he doing in the picture?)
 
> (And Aberforth wasn't just accused, he was prosecuted too.)

Is there a difference? Albus used the word "accused". And while that
was in papers (like the article revealing Hagrid's heritage) Aberforth
ignored it completely and went about his business as usual. Much like
with all those articles about Harry - Harry didn't even *notice* them
in the paper, he was just trying to find news about Voldemort. If
Aberforth does read, maybe same thing happened to him; maybe he
doesn't read Daily Prophet (or whatever published it) because of all
that corruption in WW... 

And just adding something to this illeterate in Hogwarts-thing:

How about a spell that makes a text auditive? And a magic quill to
write for him? After all, illiteracy was far more common 100 years ago
than it is today, and ability to read was certainly not taken for
granted and certainly not 1000 years ago when Hogwarts was founded.
What did they do with the illiterate magical children then?

Also, if Aberforth was Muggleborn (and therefore, his brother Albus is
too), and not just Muggle, but also of a social class that was
generally illiterate those days. More so, a literate of that class
would have been burned at the stake or something due to all those
witch-hunts.

So even if Aberforth (like Albus?) learned how to read, he certainly
would have *pretended* he didn't know how.

Finwitch