[HPforGrownups] Potions and Neville (was: Potions - can Muggles make them?)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 1760

<teeny spoiler potential for book 4>

Dave Hardenbrook wrote:

> If I may "import" a thread from alt.fan.harry-potter, does anyone
> here think that Neville may have trouble remebering things because
> someone altered his memory, a la Bertha Jorkins, and maybe once
> the curse is broken he'll go on to great things?

I don't think you need to look for a magical source for Neville's
clumsiness. Probably he's doing some internal number on himself, maybe
subconsciously (or consciously) afraid to be good, since he might connect
being an accomplished witch or wizard with what happened to his parents. We
know under the influence of the Imperius Curse, he was much more coordinated
than when he was himself.

--Amanda