Yes, I imagine it must be odd to know you've chosen to have him obliviate you. And more than once, wasn't it? That was, well, not the oddest part of that whole meeting, but one of the odder bits. Hearing what all Dumbledore's got up to that we didn't know, most of us, and that those who did had let him wipe out of their minds.

He really is a daft one, isn't he?

And it's strange to feel like I'm the only one that didn't know him before. Well, Mac didn't either, I suppose, but that's different. He knew who Dumbledore was and had met him and had a good idea what he was about. Back then.

I was just too young. And I don't think my parents had anything to do with him, really. But the Crouches, well. I certainly grew up hearing things about Dumbledore, only it was Farty shouting at his father for having listened to Albus Dumbledore and having stupidly done Dumbledore's work for him on the Wizengamot before the war and having chosen the losing side to wager on. According to the Grouch, his father should have been sent to Azkaban forever as a traitor because he'd followed Dumbledore--would have been sent there, except Mrs Crouch begged Farty to stop it, and he did. I expect Mr Crouch didn't half wish he was in Azkaban instead, sometimes.

Anywiz. Point is, I'm the only one who really doesn't know what Dumbledore was like before the war. Except that he was someone Farty the Grouch hated, which makes me inclined to like him just for that. Only, everyone else seems... bothered... by how he's changed. And I can't guess at that.

Oh, do send me what you carve if you take it up. I could use the laugh!