[HPforGrownups] Re: Regulus Black / Significance of DD & Sirius having

[Maria Holub]

No: HPFGUIDX 147476

> kchuplis:
> 
> You know *I* kept wondering why everyone kept
> referring to the barman as
> Aberforth and I read the book at least a couple of
> times. I'm on it again
> and the other night read the meeting section and saw
> the one little blurb
> where Harry thinks he looks vaguely familiar. I
> guess put that together with
> the fact we know Albus goes there for mead off and
> on and that is the
> "cannon" that the barman is Aberforth. Not real
> convincing but I can see why
> people think that now.

In one of her public Q&A sessions, the transcript of
which was posted on jkrowling.com (I think it's on the
News page), someone asked Jo if the barman at the
Hog's Head was Aberforth Dumbledore. Her response
neatly tapdanced a straight answer in my opinion. She
asked the questioner why they though that, and then
said she was proud of the goat question and that was
all she was going to say on the subject. For some
reason many readers took that as confirmation. I took
it as something she WANTED us to think (for whatever
reason, either because it was a red herring, which
didn't make sense to me, or because he actually WAS
Aberforth, but it was supposed to come out in some
highly significant way in book 7). Anyways, later when
Melissa and Emerson interviewed Jo just after the
release of HBP (a transcript of which is available on
mugglenet.com if you haven't read it yet), they all
spoke as if it was confirmed fact that the barman IS
Aberforth, so I would think that counts....

Flop

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