Neville and his parents

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No: HPFGUIDX 11510

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Kimberly" <moongirlk at y...> wrote:

> That's true.  I guess he's known about it all his life, and I doubt 
> that tough-as-nails Gran of his soft-sells the issue, so he can 
> probably deal with it.  He may not have a hard time talking about 
it, 
> he may just have learned that other people do, and he's certainly 
not 
> one to force any topic of conversation himself.

Alright, I have a problem with the timeline here. We know that Neville 
was "raised by" his grandmother, right? Which would lead us to 
Neville's parents being killed when he was very young. We assume that 
Crouch Jr. was caught and placed in Azkaban very shortly after the 
attack on the Longbottoms (or do we know that?). We know that Crouch 
Jr. was out within a year. So assuming all this was true, Crouch Sr. 
was able to keep Crouch Jr. under the Imperius curse for (assuming 
Neville was 1 year old when the attack took place) TWELVE YEARS? (give 
or take) It seems wrong to me. I had always assumed (not sure why) 
that Crouch Jr. had broken out of the Imperius Curse like a year or so 
after being placed under it. Actually, I'm seeming to recall a scene 
somwhere at the very end of GoF, during Crouch's confession, where he 
says something to the effect of Winky convinced his father to let him 
see the Quidditch World Cup, he used to love Quidditch and he hadn't 
seen any in x years. Does such a scene exist? And, if so, what's the 
x? I have the impression of it being around 5. Which would mean 4 
years under the Imperius Curse, and Neville being 9 when his parents 
were killed. Or maybe he just says "since before going to Azkaban". I 
don't know. The whole thing just seems wonky to me.
-Mike