neville's story

[Karin]

No: HPFGUIDX 5229

"Susan McGee" wrote:
> 
> 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..
> 

I think parents probably wanted to shelter their children from the 
knowledge of all the horrible things Voldemort and the Death Eaters 
did.  I think there are probably just a select few sensational 
stories that everyone, including the children, seems to know (i.e. 
Voldemort's downfall and the hands of baby Harry, Peter Pettigrew's 
finger being the biggest bit found of him), but that a lot of the 
really sad, really frightening, and really sick things weren't talked 
about in front of children.  At the Quidditch World Cup, Ron didn't 
even know what the Dark Mark was.  I guess it really didn't surprise 
me that Ron didn't know about Neville's parents.

Karin