Peter Gets The Girl, Lucius, Memory Charm, Edge, Variations on FLIRTIAC, SHIP

[tex23236]

No: HPFGUIDX 35435

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> > But there's no reason that you can't have your Reverse Memory
Charm 
> > scenario taking place in '82 or '83, rather than in '81.
> > 
> > Is there?
> 
> Oh, yes, there most certainly is!  ... Why would anyone put a
Memory Charm on a toddler 
> who won't remember anything anyway, particularly if it damages the 
> tyke's memory, we heckle?  
> 
> That is why I have to guard my flanks against Memory Charm Age 
> Creep.  (Calculating Neville's age)
> ...Neville no more than 2 years, 2 months, assuming the worst case
that 
> Neville was born on January 1, 1980 and the attacks are February
1982.
> 
> But look what happens if we push back the attack on the Longbottoms 
> into 1983.  Suddenly, Neville is over 3 years old.  ... People come 
>streaming out of the woodwork to tell 
> me all of the horrors visited upon them when they were 3, ... how
could 
> I be so heartless to deny the poor boy a Memory Charm . . . 

Pardon me for darkening the discussion a bit, here.  It would be 
enough to cause some soft-hearted wizard to give Neville an
obliviate if he *saw* his parents tortured.  But does canon say
that's all that happened? Remember, LV tried to *kill* little Harry!
Would the DE's have any more regard for another child?  I think I 
saw that they Crucio'd Mrs. Longbottom to crack Mr. Longbotttom.
These folks are kinda creepy. If they would Crucio Mrs. Longbottom
would they not also Crucio little Neville, still trying to crack his
father?

In that case, yes, Neville needs a memory charm and, yes, this ties
Harry to Neville in a special way.

Tex, 
hoping all the longbottoms finally get well.