Neville

[Ginger]

Debbie wrote:   
 
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. 
 

Ginger now:  I awoke with a start (no idea what I had been dreaming) and the thought in my head was "What if Alice's maiden name was Lestrange?  Wouldn't that be BANG-y?"  Just thought I'd throw that in here.

Ginger


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