Aberforth Dumbledore

 Aberforth Dumbledore

Biographical Information

Full name

Aberforth Dumbledore

Nickname

Abe (by Neville)

Date of Birth

Between 1 September 1883 and 31 August 1884, Mould-on-the-Wold, England, Great Britain (presumably)

Blood status

Half-Blood

Nationality

English

Physical information

Species

Human

Gender

Male

Hair Color

• Gray

• Brown (formerly; originally)

Family information

Children

Aurelius Dumbledore † (son)

Siblings

• Albus Dumbledore † (older brother)

• Ariana Dumbledore † (younger sister)

Parents

• Percival Dumbledore † (father)

• Kendra Dumbledore † (mother)

Aunts/Uncles

Honoria (aunt)

Pets

Goats

Relationships

Allies

• Dobby † 
• Harry Potter
• Hermione Granger
• Ron Weasley
• Order of the Phoenix members
• Minerva McGonagall
• Ariana Dumbledore
• Neville Longbottom
• Seamus Finnigan
• Luna Lovegood
• Ginny Weasley
• Dumbledore's Army
• Tom Riddle

Romances

Unnamed Woman † (possible witch, a lover until she was sent away)

Enemies

• Lord Voldemort † 

• Death Eaters

• Tom Riddle (former dislike)

• Gellert Grindelwald † 

Magical characteristics

Powers/skills

• Duelling
• Charms
• Nonverbal magic
• Care of Magical Creatures
• Wizard's Chess
• Legilimency

Wand

Unknown length, wood and core

Patronus

Goat

Affiliation

Residences

Hogshead in Hogsmeade village

Occupation

Owner and Barman of the Hog's Head Inn

House

Gryffindor

Alignment

Good

Loyalty

• Dumbledore's family

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

• Gryffindor

• Hog's Head Inn

• Order of the Phoenix

• Dumbledore's Army

Aberforth Dumbledore (b. c. 1884) was an English half-blood wizard, the second son of Percival and Kendra Dumbledore, younger brother of Albus, older brother of Ariana, and biological father of Aurelius. He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry between 1895 and 1902. His father — who had been sentenced to prison for attacking three Muggles — died in Azkaban when Aberforth was young, and his mother and sister were later accidentally killed. Aberforth blamed his brother Albus for the death of their sister, Ariana, and thus their relationship was rather strained.

Aberforth was the owner and barman of the Hog's Head Inn in Hogsmeade and was a member of the original Order of the Phoenix during the First Wizarding War.

In 1998, he assisted Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Tom Riddle from a distance during their Horcrux hunt, sending the House-elf Dobby to help them escape from Malfoy Manor. He later allowed them to use a secret tunnel that connected the Hog's Head to Hogwarts when the trio arrived in Hogsmeade. He subsequently fought in the Battle of Hogwarts and survived the Second Wizarding War. He continued to live in Hogsmeade, tending to his goats.

Second Wizarding War

Harry Potter: "It's... he left me a job."

Aberforth: "Did he now? Nice job, I hope? Pleasant? Easy? Sort of thing you'd expect an unqualified wizard kid to be able to do without over-stretching themselves?"

Harry Potter: "I — I-it's not easy, no."

— Aberforth regarding the task his brother left to Harry Potter

In 1995, Harry Potter and a large number of students arrived in the Hog's Head to discuss learning Defence Against the Dark Arts from Harry. Aberforth served the large group Butterbeer, even though some of the group considered ordering Firewhisky.[22] Mundungus Fletcher was also present, acting as an informant for the Order of the Phoenix.

In 1996, Aberforth met with Mundungus outside the Three Broomsticks Inn, who appeared to be selling stolen goods from 12 Grimmauld Place to him; one of those items was Sirius Black's two-way mirror. The exchange was observed by Harry Potter, who attempted to confront Mundungus following Aberforth's departure.[23]

In 1997, the Battle of the Astronomy Tower took place at Hogwarts, culminating with the death of Albus Dumbledore at the hands of Severus Snape, who (although this was unknown to everyone else at the time besides the deceased Dumbledore) was working under Albus's orders. A great number of people attended his funeral, including Aberforth, Hogwarts students, professors, old friends, Hogsmeade residents, Order of the Phoenix members, and Ministry of Magic officials.[24] After his brother's death, Aberforth had no family left.

The next year, since Dumbledore had died and could not protect the school from Death Eaters, Lord Voldemort managed to take over Hogwarts. Snape became Headmaster, and Alecto and Amycus Carrow, two Death Eaters, became Deputy Headmaster and Deputy Headmistress. The Carrows enjoyed punishing students and were cruel and sadistic. They used their power to torture the students who opposed them. Aberforth's pub was used as a passageway into Hogwarts to the Room of Requirement; he supplied the students in hiding with food and water.

The eye in the mirror

"Help us! We're in the cellar of Malfoy Manor, help us!"

— Harry screaming for help into his two-way mirror

Aberforth came into possession of one fragment of the two-way mirror, using it to watch over Harry, just as his brother had done, through the other half. Harry was unaware of the details but occasionally looked at the mirror, thinking the eyes might belong to Albus.[4] When Harry desperately requested help from the mirror whilst trapped at Malfoy Manor, Aberforth sent Dobby to the rescue.[25] He was sad to learn the house-elf died in action.

Deciding to look for the next of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes in the Death Eater-controlled Hogwarts Castle, Harry, Hermione, Tom, and Ron Apparated into Hogsmeade village, setting off a Caterwauling Charm that alerted Death Eaters to their arrival. As they were hidden under the Invisibility Cloak, the Death Eaters decided to send Dementors to find Harry. The Dementors, sensing fear, rapidly closed in, and Harry cast a Patronus along with the Tom Riddle Charm to repel them. A door creaked open behind, and Aberforth waved the trio in. Aberforth then convinced the Death Eaters that he set off the alarm by letting his cat out, and it was his goat Patronus, not Harry's stag, that they actually saw.

Harry recognised the man as Aberforth Dumbledore, Albus's younger brother. Aberforth wanted them to escape the village the next morning, believing the Order of the Phoenix finished, Voldemort had already won the war, and those still fighting were only deluding themselves. When Harry refused, saying he must complete Dumbledore's mission, Aberforth berated Harry for following his brother and asked if he knew the entire truth about him. Harry, already doubting Dumbledore's intentions, was unable to respond. With little prodding, Aberforth indicated he knew Rita Skeeter's book, and related the true story about their childhood, and was shocked when Harry told him afterwards of Albus taking the Drink of Despair, which revealed how much he still suffered great remorse for his past actions.

Despite hearing of Dumbledore's past, Harry intended to complete Dumbledore's mission, with or without Aberforth's help, to get inside Hogwarts. While slowly forgiving his late brother after learning of Albus's remorse from Harry, Aberforth bowed to the inevitable and addressed Ariana's portrait. She disappeared down a long, dark tunnel, soon returning with another figure: Neville Longbottom. Neville led the four back to the Room of Requirement and alerted the Order of the Phoenix that Harry had arrived at the school. The Hog's Head then became the main transportation hub for the outgoing students and the incoming Order members before the Battle of Hogwarts through a secret passageway behind a portrait of his sister Ariana.

Battle of Hogwarts

Aberforth: "Potter! I’ve had hundreds of kids thundering through my pub, Potter!"

Harry Potter: "I know, we’re evacuating, Voldemort’s —"

Aberforth: "— attacking because they haven’t handed you over, yeah. I’m not deaf; the whole of Hogsmeade heard him. And it never occurred to any of you to keep a few Slytherins hostage? There are kids of Death Eaters you’ve just sent to safety."

Harry Potter: "It wouldn’t stop Voldemort, and your brother would never have done it."

— Aberforth joins the defenders of Hogwarts during the battle

Aberforth fought in the battle; he entered Hogwarts to complain to Harry about how hundreds of evacuating students were thundering through his pub, and that they should have kept some Slytherin students as hostages against parenting Death Eaters. Harry countered that it would not stop Voldemort and that Albus would never do it. Although he had already forgiven his brother, Aberforth sneered at the latter's theory before leaving to defend the castle.

During the battle, he offered encouragement to Ginny when she fought some Death Eaters. When Tonks asked if he had seen Remus, Aberforth replied that he was last seen duelling Dolohov. In the renewed battle, Aberforth stunned Rookwood as he headed into the Great Hall.

After the war

Aberforth survived the final battle of the Second Wizarding War. After the battle, he talked with Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan while in the Great Hall. He later returned to his former life at the Hog's Head with his goats.