[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 895

[Danette Schardt-Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 19112


 Catherine wrote:

>BTW: it has been suggested that Neville has had a
memory charm 
>performed on him.  I had never really thought about
this before, but 
>it makes sense.  I am listening to the audio versions
a lot, and 
>whenever Neville is described, JKR always draws
attention to his bad 
>memory.  Perhaps Neville is only an ineffective
wizard because he has 
>this memory problem - and perhaps the hat can see the
potential in 
>him ie. see beyond the reality of Neville the
forgetful boy and see 
>what he was truly like.  


Also if you recall in GoF Moody tells Harry that
Neville's parents had a charm cast on them that
eventually drove them insane(Sorry just moved and
books packed so I don't remember the exact charm).  He
was just a small child.  It is possible that an
overzelous person cast a Memory Charm on him so that
he would no be tramatized by this and since the first
five years of life are the most important ones for
developing all of a child's capabilities this had the
negative effect of making him permanantly forgetful.

Danette

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