Characters' pasts and Dumbledore's future

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 126878


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> wrote:

> I would sorely love to hear Dumbledore's back story, but waver on 
> whether this is in the cards. Just as with more information on the 
> Marauder generation, it may just not be important to the larger 
> story.

Finwitch:

So would I - I'd love to hear about Albus and Aberforth's time
together as children; What ar we to make of Albus' hair being auburn
at the age of 100 and completely white 50 years later? Yes, I do know
that age tends to turn some people's hair white - but some are *born*
so. Maybe Albus (his name means WHITE) was BORN an Albino (blue eyes
for humans, white hair, and no pigment whatsoever..) and just dyed his
hair with magic? Or someone else had, as a prank... (Tom Riddle?
Minerva? Someone else?)

Aberforth, his brother (the bar-tender), has greying - hair (aging, I
think). They could be twins, and either one could be older. Don't let
the hair-colour lure you...

Not that it matters, of course -- but I'd like to hear of Albus' early
life. And Aberforth's for that matter. How did they ever end up in a
situation where Albus doesn't know whether or not his brother can
read?? And what's with the thick, woollen socks? Maybe Aberforth used
to give him those socks for Christmas (if he can't read, how would he
go about giving BOOKS?) but due to some arguement (possibly about
Sirius, and how Albus did nothing to get him a trial, which Aberforth
insisted on principle), stopped sending him anything. And Albus, in
PS, would like nothing more than being at peace with his brother
again... (Sirius may have stopped at Hog's Head while escaping, right?)

Finwitch