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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>About Neville the pureblood, Carolyn wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>What Neville says is in PS is: 'my gran brought me up and she's a <BR>witch...but the family thought I was all Muggle for ages...nothing <BR>happened till I was eight'<BR><BR>What Ron says in CS is: 'Look at Neville Longbottom, he's a pureblood <BR>and he can hardly stand a cauldron the right way up'<BR><BR>I don't think there is any other statement anywhere from an adult <BR>confirming Ron's remark, which is a sort of sweeping statement that <BR>he could easily have assumed and not know the truth of - after all, <BR>he knows nothing about the torture of Neville's parents, so the <BR>Longbottom family is evidently not much discussed at the Weasleys."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What about this, from OOP ch. 37:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"'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.'"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's <FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<P><TT><FONT face=Arial>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.</FONT></TT></P>
<P><TT><FONT face=Arial>Ginger</FONT></P>
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