neville's story

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 5204

We had a thread a while back about why few knew that Lord
Voldemort had once been Tom Riddle at Hogwarts.

What is more unbelievable is that none of his classmates
knew Neville's parents' story.

In GoF we learn that Frank Longbottom was an Auror and
he had his wife were tortured with the Cruciatus curse
by the Lestranges and Barty Crouch, Jr. to find the
whereabouts of L.V. We hear that the wizard/witch world
was enraged (because they thought they were safe after the demise of 
L.V). We find out that Frank and his wife are insane and 
don't know Neville and that Neville is raised by his grandmother
and visits them periodically.

What strains credulity is that no one told Ron Weasley about this..
not his parents or his brothers...we hear that the Longbottoms
were popular...etc..

No one has told Ron not to question neville?

Dumbledore tells harry and then tells him not to question neville,
but this should have been something that was common knowledge...

Was there a conspiracy of silence, not to tell the children
the horrors of L.V. Yet Ron knows enough to be shocked by harry's
use of L.V.s name..

???

Susan