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[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 116687


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...>
wrote:

> > Finwitch:
> > 
> > I think it's more of a case of 'depends on the people involved'. 
> > Using someone's surname only does not necessarily mean enmity or
> even distance as such...
> > 
> ><snip> 
> > 2)We might also look on *other* british books like those of Sherlock 
> > Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes and Watson address each 
> > other by last names all the time, and they ARE friends.
> > ,snip>
> > > Anyway, I'm positive that Aberforth Dumbledore calls him Albus or 
> > possibly some nickname - honest, two brothers referring to each
> other by surname - the surname they both *share*?
> 
> Carol responds:
> I'm not sure why you think that I think Albus and Aberforth would call
> each other by their shared last name.
 
Finwitch:
I don't. It would be silly... but at least ONE person would regularly
call the old Headmaster by first name.

Fred&George OTOH, might stage a conversation and call each other as Mr
Weasley... or call Percy Weatherby (like Crouch) to tease him.

Albus&Aberforth? No, think not. But I'm curious as to how their
relationship is and what the not-so-sure-if-he-can-read Aberforth is
sending Albus for christmas if Albus complains he only gets books for
gifts? Or was Aberforth of a custom to give his brother *socks* but
for some reason stopped doing so - possibly after being at odds with
his brother? (And of course, Albus would desire that he and his
brother were on good terms again, seeing himself holding a pair of
socks in the mirror).

Of course, that would raise the question as to WHY. Aberforth didn't
want Harry to be raised at Dursleys? Didn't agree in trusting Snape,
the nasty potionmaker- who might be after getting bezoars out of *his*
goats? I *hope* Aberforth Dumbledore is going to be present in the
next book... I think watching him and Albus talk would reveal much
much more than Albus tells others. Even with Harry watching (because
Aberforth holds firmly the belief that warned is armed).

Besides, Albus did refer to his brother as Aberforth. Curiously
enough, we have this tendency to refer Albus Dumbledore as surname,
while the brother Aberforth is referred to by first name. And we know
Albus way better. Curious, isn't it, how we refer to fictional characters?

And um - if Aberforth were to be the new DADA teacher, how would the
students refer to him? Or would they just start refering to old Albus
Dumbledore as a Headmaster?

I guess Snape *has* met Aberforth, so he isn't calling one brother
Dumbledore - though he isn't calling him Albus either. I think he
*might* indeed be related to Dumbledores - maybe his mother was
daughter or granddaughter to one of them?

Finwitch