Sometimes things just have to smack me upside the head.......

[lizzie_snape]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Mhochberg at ... wrote:
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> The other Aha! moment was when I finally realized why Snape was so hard on Neville. If Voldemort had chosen Neville instead of Harry, Lily would be alive. 
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> ---Mary
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This could have been part of the reason, but Neville really was an awful potions student too.

Lizzie