Neville's Memory, IDO the twins

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 12836

Shanna wrote:
 
> As for the Neville memory curse thing, I think people have mainly 
come to
> that conclusion because of the thing with Bertha Jorkins - it's 
commented in
> the book that Bertha was very forgetful, and it's because she had a 
memory
> spell put on her (gar, forgot by who though - was it Voldemort? Or 
was that
> after? Cant' check either, I loaned GoF out to someone).

Oh wow--all is clear at last!  It was Crouch Sr., who put it on her 
because she saw Junior; Jr. says it was too strong and damaged her 
memory.  And I never, ever made the connection and realized that this 
explains the discrepancy between what Bagman is telling the press 
(Bertha's so forgetful) and what Sirius knows of her (she had a very 
good memory, esp. for gossip).  She really had gotten forgetful.

Do you really think Colin will go bad?  That would be sad.  I'm still 
hoping he'll calm down and become friends with our gang.

A few aspersions have been cast on the twins' grades of late.  Ron 
says from the git-go (H. Express scene in PS/SS) that they get good 
marks despite being the class clowns.  Three years later, they fail to 
get enough O.W.L.s to make Molly happy, but otherwise we haven't seen 
any sign that they aren't up to scratch academically.

Amy Z

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