Aberforth Dumbledore

And George is like, well, what made you see sense, purse? And Percy was like, yeah, I saw the writing on the wall, but it was hard to get out at that point.

And then he said he made contact with Aberforth, who tipped him off as to what was happening.

And I want to know, how did that relationship start? Isn't that like such a random pairing? Percy Weasley and Aberforth Dumbledore, like in, I don't want to say cahoots, because they weren't cahootling, but...

Like they were on talking basis.

Like they were like feeding information.

If he, if he didn't know until after he graduated Hogwarts, he certainly knew once he started working for the ministry, you know? Um, yeah.

It's just such an odd pairing, but I love it.

Aberforth and Percy, pen pals, prefect pals, maybe.

Fly count.

Uh, Eric, I, I think the point that you raise is, is a great one because we could talk about Ariana, we could talk about Aberforth, we could talk about the Dumbledore family, and I think a lot of that's really there for us as the reader, but the thing that really, really hurts Harry is Godric's Hollow, and the fact that Dumbledore never revealed to him that they grew up or they at least lived in the same place, that, that's a huge point of connection for Harry, and I think would've meant so much to him if that was something that Dumbledore had revealed to him early on.

Um-

Yeah.

If Harry were more Hermione, he- here's the thing.

He's got a good rapport with Doge.

Not tonight, but at some point later in this book, Harry could actually use Elphias because Elphias was present at the funeral, uh, for Ariana that led to, uh, Aberforth punching and breaking Dumbledore's nose.

There was, uh, the, you know, this is something that Muriel and Doge argue about, uh, as far as, like, what the contents of it were.

He claims that he sees socks.

Then Harry in the seventh book to Aberforth says, actually, I know what he saw.

He saw.

Aberforth or he saw sorry Ariana and you know what he what he really wanted there that's kind of a mixed in with when him drinking the potion

doesn't say that's what he saw Harry finally says he understands after Harry like surmises that after talking to Aberforth I agree.

I could hear myself misconstruing it as I was saying it, but it was too late, where Harry talks about Dumbledore's torture while drinking the potion.

He explains that to Aberforth, and then, yes, realizes in his own head that he saw Ariana and his family... do you think that the HBO show would like, I'm picturing like Harry leaves the room and, you know, in the book, Harry's like, you know, it just occurred to me that maybe he wasn't telling the truth.

And then instead of that, it just flashes to Dumbledore and he's standing by himself and he's got like his arm around Ariana and that's how the

So our three heroes manage to get themselves off to Hogwarts.

They bump into Aberforth and have a truly baffling discussion.

There seem to be accusations going left, right and centre.

I don't know if anybody actually says anything in that conversation.

Lucy is our Harry Potter expert after having read all the novels multiple times maybe.

Yeah.

There's a whole lot of backstory there to why Aberforth feels that way.

Yes.

That's, that's where I

mean, I mean, at, at, does he find the back way in, does he blast Aberforth and find his way through that tunnel through Ariana and then come in that way?

Something, but that's what, that's where, I mean, I, I feel like at some points push comes to shove.

Snape would have dropped the, the charade and, uh, shown his true colors to protect the students.

That's my favorite line.

I liked that part, how they explored if he should keep it to himself or if he should let the others in.

And he thought of like what Aberforth was saying about Albus, like secrecy and lies.

Like, like, should I, am I being too much like Albus in this moment? Or can I give a little bit? Because again, he doesn't have to share all of the information,

So, kind of, yeah, Trelawney was right, as is often the case, actually.

The other thing I wanted to mention is that the smell of goats in the Hogshead Inn, you know, we know that We didn't mention in the show, but we know that the owner is actually Aberforth.

And there's that whole lore, and Dumbledore even mentioned that he got in trouble by doing some sort of magic with a goat.

It's a really strange topic to get into.

There's a lot of silly ones, a lot of fun ones, and a lot of really weird ones.

But, yeah, it's smelling like goats there.

Well, that makes sense, because Aberforth...

Likes goats.

The job really is cursed.

but if kit harrington is as amped as he sounds that's a good sign yeah i think he's gonna be great no doubt i can see what brent is talking about with the aberforth testing harry but i do think aberforth is just a jaded old man because it doesn't make sense for someone who's quote unquote given up to then in less than 12 hours be running in a battle but he is still good at heart and will help the school kids I always presumed Aberforth, and probably every other Hogsmeade resident, was peeking through the windows and he

saw Harry's Patronus.

Yeah, possibly.

... as like a, as like a piece of his final argument with, with-

With Aberforth, right

rightOh, is it Aberforth or is it, um...

I think it's both Aberforth and Voldemort-

Yeah

...

the final fight.

Right.

And the setting is just delightfully grim.

It's a dusty room on the upper floor of the Hog's Head, which is a pub owned by Albus' brother, Aberforth.

Not exactly a sacred space.

Far from it.