Aberforth as DADA teacher/Dumbledore Muggleborn?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 115887


  
Finwitch wrote:
<snip>
> 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.

Carol responds:
While I think that DD's interest in Muggles is interesting and
significant, is it likely that a Muggle child would be named Albus
Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore? And surely Albus and Aberforth
would be members of the same social class, so if one needed to pretend
to be illiterate, so would the other. And literacy was not taken as a
sign of witchcraft when Aberforth was born (ca. 1845) regardless of
social class. (I'm guessing that since his hair is grey rather than
white, he's slightly younger than his brother). Nor were there any
systematic witch hunts in Victorian England. To my knowledge, very few
people were killed as witches in England after 1700. Neither Aberforth
nor Albus would have been in any more danger than the Muggleborns of
Harry's time or James's time.

In any case,I don't think that DD is a Muggleborn. He seems
extraordinarily well-suited to and at home in the WW. I wouldn't be
surprised, though, if he were a half-blood like Tom Riddle aka
Voldemort. That might account for his reading Muggle newspapers and
his fondness for sherbet lemons (which I think are hard on the outside
like lemon drops but fizzy on the inside)?

Carol, throwing in that last bit for the benefit of those of us whose
editions say "lemon drops" in hopes that the Brits on the list will
correct me if I'm in error