Originally Posted by Pinky

Looking around the room she smiled at some of the younger students. "If any of you who cannot cast a Patronus would like some help perhaps looking into totems and whatnot... I would be more than happy to help you." Yerp. She would.

Violet was only a First Year and knew she wasn't even close to producing a Patronus yet, never mind a corporeal one. Since she had brought Aberforth Dumbledore in class, she decided to investigate his further. She turned over the pages of her book till she found the entry on Goat and read the meanings, trying to compare them with what she knew about the former owner of The Hog's Head: ''Abundance'--well, he owned his own tavern, so I guess that fits...'Independence'--yes, everything I've ever read or hear about him indicates he kind of liked to go his own way...'Surefootedness'--hmm, not sure about that one, except that he did survive the Final Battle of Hogwarts, so he must've been able to stay on his feet...'Removing guilty feelings'... She stopped a moment to reflect on things she had read about the Dumbledores--everything was still rumors and gossip, even after all these years, but there was enough to indicate that there may have been some guilt running around in that family; whether Aberforth was able to remove it, she had no idea, and it didn't seem right to pry into that sort of thing, so she left it alone for now. 'Understanding natural energies and beings'--well, he really liked goats a lot, so I guess he understood animals pretty well...'Seeking new heights'--not really sure about that, he seems to have been kind of stuck in one place for most of his life...'Agility'--how in the world would I know about that? I guess he was still getting around on his own when he was an old man, so yeah, I guess so. And Stubborn Violet knew it wasn't in the book, but she also knew for sure that goats were very, very stubborn, and from everything she had ever read or heard...I'm pretty sure that Aberforth Dumbledore was a stubborn man. So I guess a goat fit him, all right.