Hermione's fun / Lupin / Aberforth / Shipping Susan Bones

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 127983


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
 
> 
> Finwitch wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/127903 :
> 
> << I hope we'll properly meet Aberforth Dumbledore, and find out
> whether he can read or not. That comment from Albus REALLY got me
> curious. >>
> 
> I don't understand why so many listies don't share my certainty that
> Albus knows perfectly well that Aberforth can read perfectly well, and
> was just making a joke.
> 

Hickengruendler:

Because almost every time Dumbledore seemingly makes a joke, it turns 
out to be the truth. This started back during the Sorting in Harry's 
first year, when he said that every student who goes into the Third 
Floor is in danger of dieing a gruesome death. I grinned after this 
statement and so did Harry, but the students who knew him better did 
not and rightfully so. Dumbledore was absolutely serious.

And then during the Yule Ball he said that even he didn't know all the 
secrets of Hogwarts and told Karkaroff (?) about the Chamber-Pot room, 
and again I thought he was making a joke. Comes OotP and we see again 
that he was serious.

I can't remember a Dumbledore statement that didn't turn out to be the 
truth, (well, maybe that he saw a pair of socks in the Mirror of 
Erised, but even this could be the truth).
 
Therefore I'm inclined to take most of Dumbledore's "funny" statements 
as the truth until proven otherwise.

Hickengruendler