Aberforth Dumbledore
| Harry Potter character | |
| Aberforth Dumbledore | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Hair colour | Grey |
| Eye colour | Unknown |
| House | Unknown |
| Parentage | Unknown |
| Loyalty | member of Order of the Phoenix |
| Film portrayer | None |
| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (mentioned), Harry Potter and |
Aberforth Dumbledore, a fictional character of the Harry
Potter fantasy book series written by J. K.
Rowling, is the brother of Albus Dumbledore. He was a member of the
original Order of the Phoenix, and still may be
but it is not mentioned.
He is briefly mentioned in Harry Potter and the Goblet
of Fire: Dumbledore tells Harry and Hagrid that
Aberforth was not bothered by nasty letters he had received after
being prosecuted for practising inappropriate charms on a goat. Not
much else is known about him other than that he is odd and may or
may not be literate.
ending details follow.
Aberforth is the bartender at the Hog's Head in Hogsmeade,
as revealed by J. K. Rowling in an interview. She first provided hints of this in
Harry Potter and
the Order of the Phoenix, when Harry noted a strong odour
of goats in his bar and felt that he looked familiar (he had been
shown a photo of Aberforth earlier in the book, and as Albus
Dumbledore's brother, he looks like him). In Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince, Harry sees him in the company of
Mundungus Fletcher, who appeared to be
selling stolen goods from Grimmauld Place. This, despite Sirius telling
Harry that Mundungus has a life time ban from the Hog's Head for
offending Aberforth and that Aberforth has a long memory. The last
we've seen of him is at the end of Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince attending his brother's funeral.
Although not referred to as Aberforth, the bartender of the
Hog's Head is mentioned occasionally by Dumbledore as a source of
information. When Voldemort returned to Hogwarts to ask
Dumbledore for a teaching job some ten years after leaving school,
Dumbledore shows that he has unexpected knowledge of Voldemort's
meetings at the Hog's Head. He explains his knowledge by saying
that he is 'friendly with the local barmen'.
Sybill Trelawney told Harry that when she
was being interviewed for a job at Hogwarts at the Hog's Head, and
just after she had (unknowingly) spoken the prophecy involving
Harry and Lord Voldemort to Albus, that they were interrupted when
the 'rather uncouth barman' burst in the room along with Severus
Snape. Severus claimed to have become lost on the stairs.
It may be possible that Aberforth is currently in possession of
the real version of the fake Horcrux found by Harry Potter and Albus
Dumbledore at the end of Half-Blood Prince. Leaving Mundungus in
Hogsmeade in Half-Blood Prince, he was described as "drawing his
cloak more tightly around his neck" as he walked away. Since the
Horcrux is a locket, it's possible that he purchased from Mundungus
the unopenable locket found by Harry and the others at Grimmauld
Place in Order of the Phoenix. If this is the case, it raises
further questions as to why Aberforth did not inform his brother
about the locket, or, if he did, why Dumbledore went to the trouble
of acquiring the fake. It is expected that we will learn more about
Aberforth in the seventh and final Harry Potter book.
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