Introducing a New Memory Charm

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No: HPFGUIDX 42721


Just a few comments... 

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "lucky_kari" <lucky_kari at y...> wrote:

> 
> " In a world where Peter is Scabbers, I refuse to believe that JKR 
> sets up this fascinating possibility that Frank knew something, 
> something that could still influence the plot as a complete red 
> herring. It's well, as one my masters taught me when I was a young 
> padawan learner,  not BIG BANGY. If JKR passes up on this chance, I 
> will be very disappointed."

I'm with you here, Eileen.

<snip>
> 
> You see, something that has bugged me a lot about these "Neville 
has 
> Frank's secret stored away in his mind" theories is that they are 
all 
> due for a yellow flag violation. Nowhere in the Potterverse is 
there 
> yet any demonstration that this is an option. However, if one hears 
>a secret, one can definitely have it stored away in one's mind. The 
>only way Neville can be the messenger is IF Frank was tortured into 
> revealing the secret IN NEVILLE'S HEARING!

Ummmm. Well. What if Neville simply overheard his father talking of 
this secret; while talking to his wife, for instance? I don't think 
it's imperative for Neville to have been present at the toruring 
scene in order for him to know the secret (this doesn't undermine the 
theory, btw). 

> 
> Well, well, well... Let me paint a picture for you.
> 
> Fudge is first on the scene in the Longbottom affair just as he was 
> with Sirius Black. 

But, at the time of the Longbottoms' scandal Fudge is Minister of 
Magic. It never seemed right to me that he would be the first on the 
scene. Surely it's more reasonable to assume that it was a lower 
level MoM official who arrived first. It's not the same as the Sirius 
case, since at the time, Fudge wasn't the Minister (we can gather 
this from the fact that after Voldemort's fall, Dumbledore was 
asked to be Minister, and only after he refused, Fudge got the job by 
default).


Naama