Neville as Witness (was Re: TBAY: Memory Charm Neville

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No: HPFGUIDX 38873

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
Hi,

I'm just going to use one paragraph Cindy wrote to ask something 
that's been on my mind for a while.


Cindy said 

>If Neville is old enough to 
> recognize the perpetrators, or heaven forbid, if he actually *knew* 
> one of them, I don't see how they would have left him alive, Memory 
> Charm or no Memory Charm.  And if they were worried about him, why 
> not Stun him immediately so he doesn't even witness the crime?


Erm. Am I the only one with a dark enough mind to realize that if the 
torturing DEs had Neville there, in the house with his parents, they 
would have used torture on him as the best and quickest means to get 
what they want from the parents? Can you imagine a parent not 
breaking down under threat or actual torture of her child? 
That's one of the reasons I just can't buy the Neville as eyewitness 
theories. If he was there, he would have either gone through terrible 
torture (in which case, why isn't he insane also?) or already be 
dead. 

Naama