what surprised you the most?

[Aleks]

No: HPFGUIDX 23825

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Rachelle Elliott" <relliott at j...> wrote:
> Everything stated in the thread "What surprised you the most?" 
really
> surprised but.. here is another one.
> 
> Neville Longbottoms' past.  When Harry was in the pensive and found 
out about Neville's parents, threw me for a loop.  I had never really 
analyzed about why Neville's grandmother was raising him


I have to agree with Rachelle on this one. I had kind of dismissed 
Neville as being a sort of minor character who might do something 
worthy of note at a later point. To discover he had such a tragic 
past was a little shocking (and the casual cruelty of Moody/ Crouch 
revelling in torturing the spider with Cruicatus (sp?)in DADA and 
then apparently showing sympathy to Neville when it was he who had 
done it to N's parents really got me on the re-read).