[HPforGrownups] Veritaserum Question

[Stephanie Becvar]

No: HPFGUIDX 8298

>This would fit the theory that Neville has had his memory modified because 
>he witnessed what happened to his parents.  Moody's DADA classes may have 
>brought some of these memories to the surface causing his reaction in 
>class. Also - I know they use the term 'modified' but do they also use the 
>term 'erased' interchangeably with it?

-Mo

I dont personally Think that Neville witnessed what happened to his parents. 
  I mean, wouldn't Barty Jr. have threatened to kill him to get info out of 
Mrs. or Mr. Longbottom?  He KNOWS what happened to them, and so thats how he 
knew the curse name, and why he was so upset, in my theory.  It is like 
someone tellnig you your parent died in a car crash, and then driving by one 
where a car is wrapped around the pole, and thinking "did that happen to 
mom?".  But I also don't think modified means erased.  Anyone remember/see 
MIB.  When people saw something they werent supposed to see, they just 
replaced it with something else, a NEW memory of what happened.  So 
probably, deep down, what really happened is still there, but when the 
people think about that day or whenever, the new one comes to mind.  Like 
when Muggles see Hogwarts and they see an old castle....That just pops in 
their headover the image of the real castle, and they probably write it off 
as imagining what the castle USED to look like.

Stephanie


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