Questions/TNRAMCNTSHPBTAFASETUDWOIT/Neville

[elfundeb]

Finished my last batch, but have a couple of questions:

1.  I couldn't find Prince of Lies in the category list.  Is it there?  

2.  I had trouble cataloguing Harry and Neville as literary doubles.  Generational parallels wasn't quite accurate, but I didn't find anything better.

Carolyn, to Ginger: 
"Alas, you obviously haven't yet encountered 
TNRAMCNTSHPBTAFASETUDWOIT. I like to think this one is a tongue-in-
cheek joke, but there is the possibility that it isn't. Your sleeping 
nightmares may yet become reality."

Heh. TNRAMCNTSHPBTAFASETUDWOIT was my nightmare, it seems, as it appears that *I* asked for it.  From #38797:

>>The Dastardly Debbie maligned:

> I don't believe the Reverse Memory Charm is necessary to explain 
>the Cover Your Tracks Memory Charm (erm, I think we need an acronym 
>for this). 

Yes, this is true. Memory Charm Neville has quite a few dandy 
acronyms, but Cover Their Tracks Memory Charm Neville is practically 
naked, as no one has even *tried* to grind out an acronym for him. 

Well, how hard can this acronym thing be, anyway? Anyone can do it 
if you just set your mind to it. To prove this point, I have 
wrestled control of the TAGSWATCH acronym generator from Tabouli 
and, if I twiddle the knobs juuuuuust so, I'm sure I can come up 
with the single longest and best acronym ever generated on the board:

"Toddler Neville Received A Memory Charm Not To Spare Him Pain, But 
To Allow For A Successful Escape That Ultimately Didn't Work Out, 
I'm Thinking" (T.N.R.A.M.C.N.T.S.H.P.B.T.A.F.A.S.E.T.U.D.W.O.I.T).

>>>

An acronym for the GARBAGE SCOW, perhaps?   

About Neville the pureblood, Carolyn wrote:  

"What Neville says is in PS is:  'my gran brought me up and she's a 
witch...but the family thought I was all Muggle for ages...nothing 
happened till I was eight'

What Ron says in CS is: 'Look at Neville Longbottom, he's a pureblood 
and he can hardly stand a cauldron the right way up'

I don't think there is any other statement anywhere from an adult 
confirming Ron's remark, which is a sort of sweeping statement that 
he could easily have assumed and not know the truth of - after all, 
he knows nothing about the torture of Neville's parents, so the 
Longbottom family is evidently not much discussed at the Weasleys."

What about this, from OOP ch. 37:

"'He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him,' said Dumbledore.  'And notice this, Harry: he chose, not the pureblood (which, according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing) but the half-blood, like himself.'"

It's from a source that JKR herself has stated that she deems reliable enough to use to convey information that the reader needs to know, so I doubt he's the HBP. 

Debbie
who has forwarded the update to the elves
 
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