[HPforGrownups] Re: Neville and Snape

[dfrankiswork at netscape.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 23030

blpurdom at yahoo.com wrote:

>--- In HPforGrownups at y..., dfrankiswork at n... wrote:
>> Here's one out of left field (where is that BTW? is it baseball?):
>> 
>> Neville has a MOM memory charm on him because of the Lestranges 
>etc.  Part of the suppressed memory is that Snape (then still a DE) 
>did something nasty.
>> 
>> David
>> 
> 
>Snape was not still a Death Eater when Neville's parents were 
>attacked.  The Lestranges and Barty Crouch, Jr. (and a DE whose 
>identity is unclear in the Pensieve) went after Neville's parents 
>because they had the impression that they knew something about where 
>to find the weakened Voldemort (this was after Harry's parents were 
>killed and Harry received his scar).  It was said that Snape rejoined 
>Dumbledore's side before Voldemort's fall.
>
>--Barb
> 
Yes, yes, I realise that.  But I assumed that the memory charm would cover a range of incidents that Neville got to witness or know of because of his parents' work.  As aurors' they wouldn't be able keep the job in the office.  However, Neville is at most about eleven months older than Harry, so I guess he would in fact have very little memory of Snape as a DE.  Of course Snape could, on this hypothesis, be just rattling Neville's cage generally, rather than aiming to trigger a specific hidden memory.

I don't really believe it personally. 

David


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