Neville/what's obvious

[davewitley]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "lupinesque" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
>
> Despite this literary training and the concomitant outlook, I do 
not 
> think it's "obvious" that Neville is under a memory charm even 
after 
> someone points out all the evidence.  There is such a thing as 
> "obvious" in literature (it is obvious that McGonagall loves 
Quidditch 
> even though there is no sentence saying "McGonagall loved 
Quidditch"), 
> but the bar is quite high.  "Neville is under a memory charm" 
doesn't 
> come close to meeting the standard, IMO.
> 
Eerm.. I hate saying this sort of thing, but my point was not whether 
it is obvious that Neville is under a charm, but whether it is 
obviously a possibility JKR wants us to consider.

Trying to get outside the HP-verse into JKR's mind is IMO a cultural 
habit.

David