Neville's Memory & The QWC

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 41328

Dicentra wrote:

> For all of you who weren't here last May, there was a Memory Charm
> Symposium held in the Museum in Theory Bay.  You can find the
> transcript beginning with message 38812.  It might be of interest 
>to this thread.
> 

Yes, but there is one curious bit of canon about Neville that didn't 
come up in the Memory Charm Symposium:

"Neville listened jealously to the others' conversation as they re-
lived the Cup match.

"Gran didn't want to go," he said miserably.  "Wouldn't buy 
tickets.  It sounded amazing though."

Now, what is the deal here?  JKR could have written that Gran 
*couldn't* get tickets or something.  That's quite logical -- 
tickets to popular sporting events are often hard to get.  Or she 
could have said that Gran couldn't *afford* tickets.  That makes 
sense, too.

But no.  She emphasizes that Neville's Gran was *opposed* to the 
idea of attending the Quidditch World Cup, for some odd reason.  
Whatever the reason is, Neville isn't happy about it -- he's 
described as "miserabl[e]."

So what gives?  Could this bit of canon be related to Neville's 
Memory Charm.  Or his Reverse Memory Charm?  Or his Memory Potion?  
Or his poor memory that has nothing whatever to do with potions or 
magic or any of that?

Gee, did Gran know something, something that led her to want to 
avoid this tremendously popular sporting event?  Something about 
Barty Crouch Jr.?  Or Wormtail?  Or Bertha?

Oh, I feel a bout of *paranoia* coming on.  ;-)

Cindy -- who thinks this tidbit just *has* to have something to do 
with Trevor