[HPforGrownups] Re: neville's story

[Denise Rogers]

No: HPFGUIDX 5232

As far as Sirius's tale and Peter, perhaps the parents had the opportunity
to re-acquaint the children with that "don't talk to strangers" rule and the
reasons behind it during the summer when he broke out of prison?

Just a thought there! :)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Karin " <karob_7 at yahoo.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 10:42 AM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: neville's story


> "Susan McGee" wrote:
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> > 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..
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> 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.
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