[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore & Power / Serpensortia / Crouch Sr / Parselmouth

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 189129

Pippin:
How would Aberforth know what position on "the great wizarding issues of the
day" was the responsible one? He never cared. By his own account, he only
tried to stop Albus and Grindelwald because they proposed to involve Ariana.

The trouble with advice from friends in general is that friends generally
share the same blind spots and prejudices. None of Draco's friends tell him
it would be a bad idea to get involved with Voldemort, and I suppose
Lucius's friends were the same.


Lynda:
Sometimes people who "don't know" something simply choose not to become
involved. Aberforth did not care about "the great wizarding issues of the
day" and so did not become involved until his brother started to consider
involving Ariana, but that does not mean he did not have an inkling about
what was happening. Certainly as an adult he chose a profession in which
knowledge of what people were involved in and thinking about was going to
come his way. He even promotes certain aspects of it by allowing back alley
deals of all sorts in his pub, and then again by allowing the pub to become
a doorway to and from Hogwarts when he passivily does not stop the students
coming through for food and even abets their behavior.  Nope. He didn't lack
knowledge. He simply made decisions to stay as out of things as much as
possible.

As for your comment on advice from friends:  you're right to an extent, but
no one is going to agree with you all the time, friend or not, and some of
your friends might even disagree with you on key philosophical points.  This
is a good thing, unless you want to go through life without learning the
value of opinions and judgments other than yours, which is always
shortsighted.


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