Aberforth.

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 164183

 "finwitch" <finwitch at ...> wrote:

> maybe Aberforth has a difficulty when it comes to
> reading? One that would, perhaps, also occur so
> that he couldn't learn any *standard* spells,
> but was all the more creative, doing things
> with his wand that none of the professors had
> seen before? 

Well put. I always thought of Aberforth as a man who could easily do
things normal wizards found difficult but couldn't do things other
wizards found easy; a sort of magical Rainman.  He must have
considerable talents to be in the Order of the Phoenix and he must be
very odd indeed if even Mad Eye calls him strange. For some reason he
also reminds me of Sherlock Holmes's older and smarter brother Mycroft. 

Eggplant