DUMBLEDORES BROTHER

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 162013

 "chawesome100"  wrote:
>
>    The questions that I have pertains to Dumbledore. Well not exactly
> him but his brother. In the sixth book Moody shows Harry a picture of
> the original Order. He specifically points out DD's brother. When I
> was rereading the book, I realized that there is no mention that his
> brother came to the funeral. Isn't it a bit odd that when the whole
> wizarding world is mourning the loss of the world's greatest wizard of
> all time, that wizards own brother doesn't even show up for the
> funeral. In fact the only time we hear about him is from Moody. Is
> dd's brother going to play a bigger role in the books? 

Potioncat:
It's almost a consensus here that the barman at the Hog's Head is 
Aberforth Dumbledore. It's based on his description and what appears to 
be JKR's acknowledgement of his identity in an interview.

Harry doesn't know that, of course. We do and I suppose many others in 
the WW know it as well. As to the funeral, we have this, after a long 
line of names of people Harry recognised, "...and some people whom 
Harry merely knew by sight, such as the barman of the Hog's Head and 
the witch who pushed the trolly on the Hogwarts Express."

Because we only know what Harry knows, we weren't told it was DD's 
brother. No one mentioned it to Harry. But I'm sure most of the other 
members of the funeral knew who he was.