There are a lot of weird people on the internet. Take, for instance, these people, who are absolutely convinced that Albus Dumbledore is a time-traveling Ron Weasley who somehow got stranded in the 19th century.

It's a bizarrely tempting theory, once you get past the strangeness of it. The physical resemblance stuff is strange, particularly the two characters sharing a knee injury. There's the fondness for sweets thing, and an apparent continuity error involving a vomit-flavored Every Flavor Bean. I'm also fond of the notion that Dumbledore's yearning for socks is an old Ron yearning for Molly Weasley's Christmas gifts, as well as the idea that in the end it's Ron (who always trusted Snape the least) who now trusts Snape implicitly.

Like I said, it's oddly compelling, once you open the door.

If you poke around unplottables.net, you'll find a lot more about it. (You'll also find a lot of other X=Y character theories. Ignore those. Focus on Ron=Dumbledore.)

Weird.