[HPforGrownups] Book 3- Snape; Neville; Sirius

[Amy]

No: HPFGUIDX 8790

On the Neville part...

Harry didn't see first hand what happened - all he could do is create a picture in his head based on what he had heard.  He had no idea what Peter looked like, so he substitued what he considered to be his version of Peter...Neville.

I do agree with Charmain that Neville is a character to watch.  I'm sort of disappointed that he hasn't been used more.  In fact, when I was reading GoF for the first time, I was half expecting him to be the one to die.  He's connected with all of this somehow.  His parents we're obviously in the same crowd as Harry's parents (Wish we had that next book so we could know for sure if we could just call this group the Order of the Phoenix<G>) and Neville was sorted into Gryffindor - there had to be a reason for that and I don't think it was simply what happened in PS/SS.

Amy
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  Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 9:14 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Book 3- Snape; Neville; Sirius


  Alright, I was rereading Book 3 again today, and I have a couple of things on 
  my mind.
  On page 204, US hardcover, Fudge says (speaking to Rosmerta in Hosmeade about 
  Black): 
  "Not many people are aware that the Potters knew You-Know-Who was after 
  them. Dumbledore, who was of course working tirelessly against You-Know-Who, 
  had a number of useful spies.  One of the tipped him off, and he alerted 
  James and Lily at once."
  Does anyone think that this useful spy was Snape?  Maybe that's why 
  Dumbledore trusts Snape. Just a thought.

  A small, sorta unanswerable thing, page 213: "He watched, as though somebody 
  was playing him a piece of film, Sirius Black blasting Peter Pettigrew ( who 
  resembled Neville Longbottom ) into a thousand pieces."
  Why did JKR put that part in parentheses about Neville there?  Many times, 
  little things that we just overlooked at first has ended up that ended up 
  being a forshadowing of some sort... Can this be one?  If it is, in what way? 
   Any theories? It's true that we don't know much about Neville except that he 
  seems to be really really clumsy.  Is Neville hiding something?  Or maybe 
  it's something that even Neville doesn't know about... I don't know... I'm 
  kinda just blabbing.

  Last thing.  At the end of Book 3, when Sirius was caught, and when they all 
  were saying that they couldn't trust just 2 kids instead of an adult(Snape), 
  thinking Sirius Confounded both of them, why didn't they use the truth potion 
  on Sirius?  I know that the dementors had permission to perform the Kiss and 
  all, but this really is a life-or-death situation. Shouldn't they have given 
  Sirius the chance?  They didn't have anything to lose-- if Harry and Hermione 
  were Confounded, Sirius would say that given the truth potion.

  -Y.Y.


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