Request for new topics

[latha279]

No: HPFGUIDX 152406

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jlv230" <jlv230 at ...> wrote:
>
> Here's what I've been thinking about recently... First, from the 
> Mugglenet/Leaky JKR interview:
> 
> "ES: Dumbledore is unrivalled in his knowledge of magic – 
> "JKR: Mmhm.
> "ES: Where did he learn it all?
> "JKR: I see him primarily as someone who would be self-taught. 
> However, he in his time had access to superb teachers at Hogwarts, 
> so he was educated in the same way that everyone else is educated. 
> Dumbledore's family would be a profitable line of inquiry, more 
> profitable than sweet wrappers."
> 
> My question is why have we not actually been introduced to 
> Aberforth? We only see him, through Harry's eyes, as `the barman of 
> the Hog's Head'. We know he was in the Order, and we are told that 
> he is a rather seedy character (goats
 shudder), but why has Harry 
> not discovered who he is?
> 
> Harry saw him in the Order's photo, albeit briefly, and sees him 
> again in the Hog's Head in OotP:
> 
> "The barman...was a grumpy-looking old man with a great deal of 
long 
> grey hair and beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely 
> familiar to Harry."
> 
> Harry does not realise it is the same man, despite having seen a 
> photo of him in his younger days.
> 
> Then look at HBP ch.12 for example:
> 
> "One was very tall and thin; squinting through his rain-washed 
> glasses Harry recognised the barman who worked in the other 
> Hogsmeade pub, the Hog's Head. As Harry, Ron and Hermione drew 
> closer, the barman drew his cloak more tightly around his neck and 
> walked away, leaving the shorter man to fumble with something in 
his 
> arms."
> 
> Why make a point of the fact that Harry can hardly see the guy what 
> with the rain on his glasses and the cloak and the walking away? Is 
> it important that Harry is unaware of the barman's family 
> connection? What might be in store for Aberforth given that JKR 
> hinted that Dumbledore's family had an interesting history? Are 
> Dumbledore and Aberforth 'heirs of Gryffindor' or somesuch? Or is 
> that just silly?
> 
> Anyway, makes a change...
> JLV xx
>

Brady:

This is a welcome change :)

BTW, if Harry cn't see clearly with his glasses, why are we assuming 
that the person he saw was Aberforth and not DD himself?? Why would 
Dung be fumbling with something if it was not fear of DD?? Harry 
thought he recognises him as the barman, but the distance and the 
rain on his glasses can definitly make DD look like the barman, can't 
they?

Just my tuppence.
Brady.