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In Aberforth's Mind
By: ChoCedric
Aberforth Dumbledore, at the funeral of his little sister Ariana, punches his brother Albus in the nose.
Why does he do this? It is because his brother was a complete idiot, an utter fool. The fact that he fell for someone like Grindelwald is totally unfathomable to him. The fact that he could listen to someone like him, the fact that he could even consider something like conquering the world, taking over the Muggles, hurts him more than anything. Albus didn't even seem to care about his own family, he was too busy thinking about running away with his wild-hearted beauty.
Ariana was so ill, and Kendra, their mother, couldn't handle all the stress and strain. Their father, Percival, was sent to Azkaban for seeking vengeance upon the Muggles who hurt little Ariana. Aberforth doesn't even want to think about what they did to her. They took her innocence, took her wide-eyed wonder, and smashed it to a pulp, totally destroyed it. Now she is dead, and it is all his brother's fault. Aberforth wants to smash him to the ground, to stamp on him, to take that infuriating twinkle out of his eyes. For it is his fault that their sweet little sister is no more.
When the funeral is over, the two glare at each other, and Aberforth hopes he doesn't have to speak to Albus for a long time. Albus looks horribly guilty, and he is white and shaken. But Aberforth is too angry to care right now. All he cares about is the fact that six feet underground, Ariana Dumbledore is lying, and he wonders hopelessly what her last moments were like. Could there have been anything done at all to help her? He ponders over this endlessly as more dirt is tossed onto her grave.
Even years after the incident, Aberforth finds it hard to forgive Albus. It's true that people make stupid mistakes when they're young, but why couldn't Albus have known better than to be totally blown away by a wizard set on destruction and devastation? He knows that Albus has spent the rest of his life paying for his error in judgment, and feels glad for that. But he knows, as he gets up each morning and prepares for another day, that he will never, ever forget the disaster that was his family.