CHAPDISC: DH28, THE MISSING MIRROR

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No: HPFGUIDX 184281

Alla:

I figure I will share some of my tentative answers I had in mind when 
I wrote some questions, because for some of them I had no clue.

Hmmm, and I did not combine this answer with the previous one why 
exactly?


> 2. Was Aberforth really sincere in his urging of Harry to abandon 
his
> quest? That is, did Aberforth really think Harry should just stop?


Alla:

See, for the longest time I have not had a slightest hesitation that 
Aberforth was absolutely sincere and I cheered him on his every word. 
I still do not think that he was manipulating Harry or anything and 
really do think that he was sincere.

But having said that, sometimes I do think that maybe he indeed was 
testing Harry's resolve to continue fighting. I mean, I do not mean 
that he was testing Harry for his own manipulative purposes like 
Albus would have done or anything like that. I just speculate ( and 
honestly, I am not sure, he is straightforward guy and I am most 
likely very wrong) that he wanted to see for himself how strong this 
Boy who lived really is.

Let me explain how I encountered that tiny doubt about whether 
Aberforth was sincere. It is just for someone who claims to give up 
fighting and that everything is done and over with, he really does 
not give up, no?

He continues helping Neville and other kids, and I just started 
wondering when I was doing questions for this chapter.


> 6. We hear the words "greater good" from both Aberforth and Harry in
> this chapter. Are they talking about the same thing? Why or why not?

Alla:

I agree that they are not talking about same thing at all and I 
really do like Harry's definition of the greater good much better ( 
definition as I perceive it that Harry has), but I also think that 
Aberforth was being sarcastic about Albus' definition of greater good 
and that he really has the same one as Harry has. Speculating again.


> 10. By the end of this chapter, we and Harry have heard three
> accounts of the Dumbledores, from Doge, Skeeter, and Aberforth. 
Which
> account did you find most credible, and why?

Alla:

Funny I completely believed Aberforth, except that I thought for 
quite some time that maybe Albus knew that his brother killed Ariana 
and Aberforth blocked it out.