By Aberforth Dumbledore

  I am just finished re-reading the Order of the Phoenix, and have started on the Chamber of Secrets again. Why? If you have heard the many confirmed facts by JK Rowling, the Half Blood Prince was the former title of the Chamber of Secrets (2nd Book). But she has most recently confirmed that the relevence of the Chamber of Secrets is something Harry discovers/learns of/meets in the Chamber of Secrets. And so in the 2nd very chapter I read of something odd, very wild yes, but odd.
 To roughly quote "Voldemort hasn't got a brother has he?" Said Harry. Dobby's eyes became very wide....  This I saw as important. Dobby's wide eyes hinting? Or maybe he became big-eyed at the name (Or Harry might not have said 'Voldemort' I haven't gotten a direct quote from the book). Could a 'Brother' be a half blood prince? But it is haxy, Voldemorts family is very odd, some speculate it is intertwined with Lily Potter's green eyes, as if she was part of it somehow. The eyes of Lily and the eyes of Petunia Dursley are distinct in difference, but then, that is a whole other theory.
 (Coming Soon.... "Why Remus Lupin is not the Half Blood Prince" And... "The Fact of Snapes Status with Voldemort: Hard Evidence")

By Aberforth Dumbledore

     This is something I have said before for some who may have seen it. The fact that the mentioned Aberforth Dumbledore (My Humble Character) will play into the next books, and has already in fact, been found at an occupation. I am speaking of: The Hogs Head Barman Harry describes him to have long hair and a long grey beard - Sort of like Albus Dumbledore - And in the Goblet of Fire, Albus tells Hagrid his brother, Aberforth, was shunned for performing charms on goats. And....? When entering the Hogs Head for the DA gathering in the Order of the Phoenix, the inn is described to smell like goats.
    Furthermore, Aberforth is renewed in being mentioned, Moody showing Harry the old photograph of the order, Aberforth being in the picture- and moody mentioning how odd he was.
   But to top it off, JK Rowling added in there how 'Vaguely familuar' the barman himself looked to harry
 After seeing the photograph, and being around Albus Dumbledore, what more is worthy to prove this?
 The fact that the meeting of Trelawny and Dumbledore took place in a room there for the job interview, and that the spy on the prophecy was 'apprehended' (By Aberforth?).
  And when in the office of umbridge when Harry and co. were caught, and they told umbridge they were trying to contact Dumbledore, Hermione said they had tried the Hogs Head and 3 Broomsticks, and Umbridge went to say 'You silly girl, dumbledore would not be hiding in a pub when the entire ministry is searching for him'....I think that is exactly what he was doing.

By Aberforth Dumbledore
  
  I have read around, and put together a theory now on the relavence of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Mostly from a new statment on JKRowling.com
 'Rather it relates to a discovery harry made in 'Chamber'' She posted when speaking about the reason HBP was the first thought title of Chamber of Secrets. What discovery? Moreso, what item discovered? The Sword of Godric Gryffindor for almost an eternity I have ranted on how clear it was that: Harry Potter is the Heir of Godric Gryffindor (Just as Voldemort/Riddle is the heir of Salazar Slytherin). The support?
-Harry Potter was sorted into Gryffindor House in the end.
-Harry pulled the sword from the hat - And may I say! Who has overlooked the songs of the sorting hat? The hat told that 'T'was Gryffindor.....pulled me from his head and put some brains in me!...' . So actually TWO Items of gryffindor were taken to Harry in the chamber, in the chamber of Salazar Slytherin I will add.
-Harry's parents lived in Godrics Hollow - Notice the name Godric Gryffindor
And as JK states the somewhat ties between them, how can this be overlooked? Something is to it, something more than meets the eye...

By Aberforth Dumbledore

  There are a few more things to be given attention in the department of mysteries, and one person who may hold the answers, but is not let say them by mere reputation.

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 After the group leaves the locked door in the Department of Mysteries - "You know what could be in there?" Said Luna eagerly, as the wall started to spin yet again."Something blibbering no doubt" Said Hermione under her breath.

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  Luna Lovegood, is one who may give us the knowledge in later books on what was in that room. May harry think to ask her after hearing about a 'locked room' in the department of mysteries from Dumbledore? She has had wild thoughts, but could some be right? She seems to know more than some credit, dazed all of the time though. Something has to explain this, and in later articles I hope to do just that.
       But for now, I continue with the department of mysteries. To the prophecy room, where one question I ask. When the spells hit the 2 other prophecys, and they broke, you could hear the prophecy. So why did they not knock down Harry and Voldemort's? Odd thought there. But in my looking close, I take to the two hinted verse's of those broken spheres, and what they said

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"....at the solstice will come a new....." said the figure of an Old Bearded Man"
    "...and none will come after..." said the figure of a young woman.

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  First I look at the people described saying the small faded lines. An old bearded man, and I come to: The man who run the Hogs Head is bearded, and the prophecy from Trelawny came from the hogs head, and so here is my theory on what this first broken prophecy means: At the solstice will come anew. The word stolsice means: The time of a sun's passing , to come to a stop, cause to stand] And will come anew, relates to Albus Dumbledore meaning Dumbledore will die, and harry will be 'anew' the powerful wizard of the magical world  Now I take that small line to such height, I next look at the 2nd line, and yes, it is done by another described person, but both won't get from my mind as important. But perhaps none will come after Dumbledore? Harry? Voldemort? Or maybe, these both or one relate to the Half Blood Prince? I may make a part three to this after some digging, I hope I have left you thinking.....

By Aberforth Dumbledore


   I have recently taken a strong notice to the Department of Mysteries while re-reading the Order of the Phoenix. One such passage gave me many thoughts.
 

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 The room was larger than the last, dimly lit and rectangular, and the center of it was sunken, forming a great stone pit some twenty feet below them. They were standing on the topmost tier of what seemed to be stone benches running all around the room and descending in the steep steps like an amphitheater, or the courtroom in which Harry had been tried by Wizengamot. Instead of a chained chair, however, there was a raised stone dias in the center of the lowered floor, and upon this dias stoond a stone archway that looked so ancient, cracked, and crumbling that harry was amazed that it was still standing. Unsupported by any surrounding wall, the archway was hung with a tattered black curtain or veil, which, despite the complete stillness of the cold surrounding air, was fluttering very slightly as though it had just been touched.

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This may be one of the most important things situated with the archway, not much of it, as the room it is placed in. I take notice to how it is described as a theater like room. With the veil in the center, like a amphitheater or courtroom: Do people view the dead here? Or gather to view something with this archway?   The bench like surrounding makes this almost certain. I would ask myself, could this be where the living can contact the dead? Or be a room used for possible funeral like events? But then comes the word 'Courtroom' And I am forced to think, is this an old method of execution? Or trying a ghost? Sending a ghost to the 'other side' or a place those who choose to be ghosts come from this veil? Ghosts come to my mind when it is described.
     Then you look at worded description of the archway: Ancient, old.  And then I come to: Harry was protected by an ancient magic, the room locked in the department contains this ancient magic as dumbledore said.  Would this be a part of the 'Ancient' protection, the 'Ancient' force that can defeat voldemort? It is clearly described as old, old used? Still used?
     And the connection of this veil to the ability to see thestrals, seeing death. Harry and Luna can hear the whispers coming from behind the veil, they can also see the thestrals, and have seen death. You notice the ones who have not are perplexed at why harry wanted to stay. This is proof to it being the room of death, we saw the room of time, of prophecy, of knowledge.
 And as Nearly Headless Nick told harry: Learned wizards study the matter in the department of mysteries. They study the  matter of ghosts to death, life and death.  So what could come of this room? Of the archway?
 Could it be a connection to the dead, for a fleeting second, and by a thread? Such as the moment of wand connection between Harry and Voldemort. Or could it go from the mirror of sirius to.....The Mirror of Erised.  
 Part 2 will come next article!

By Aberforth Dumbledore

   About everyone knows now the title of book 6 will be 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince'. And about everyone has that one person they want it to be, and that one person they think it could be. I personally would like it to be Lupin. He is a good enjoyable character, who doesn't get his fill most of the time.
 But who I think it is? Tom Riddle. This was sparked by several things. One, that JK gave us one hint, that it was neither Harry nor Voldemort. So I know many of you are saying "Well Tom Riddle's Voldemort!". But I see this as a twist. Tom Riddle was human, mortal, different than voldemort in the modern times of the books. And by how Dumbledore reffered to Voldemort in the end of book five: "It was foolish to come here Tom". Tom, Dumbledore called voldemort, Tom. Odd how it was only to 'Tom' himself, he called tom Voldemort like everyone else the rest of the time. Either dumbledore has some hope for Tom Riddle, and if so, I think it is the purpose of Voldemort, of Riddle.

By Aberforth Dumbledore
                 
               We can most of us remember the mirror Sirius gave Harry in the Order of the Phoenix to contact him with. If you look at the, I think it is the FAQ section of JKRowling.com, you will see she stated that the mirror will become usefull/important in the books to come.
                 One thing the mirrors for contacting can be used for would be contact between harry and the order (Grimmauld place). If he always has it, he is almost always safe. He can use it at privet drive to talk with whoever is on the other end (Possibly Lupin? He was said to have a large role after Sirius' death).
                This is not much of a theory theory, more of an article to inform that it was confirmed that the mirror will be important, and that there are many things to be done with its usefulness.