Neville as Witness

[blpurdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 38900

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> c> Now as for me, I'm still waiting for an answer to why the DEs 
> didn't use the undisputed quickest and most efficient way to get 
> the information out of Frank -- The Imperius Curse. 
> 
> Maybe because they were under a memory charm, that only Cruciatus
> could break (as with Bertha J.)?

The information that was being sought, as I understand it, was the 
whereabouts of Voldemort.  Inasmuch as the Longbottoms probably 
didn't possess this information (why did anyone think they did?  
were they on the scene at Godric's Hollow soon after he tried to 
kill Harry and failed?) they couldn't very well give up what they 
didn't know.  It's quite possible that all kinds of things were 
tried: Veritaserum, Imperius, Cruciatus, and when they didn't get 
the answers they wanted, the Death Eaters either a) assumed that the 
Veritaserum wasn't strong enough, or b) the Longbottoms were too 
good at overcoming Imperius (they may not even have been trying), or 
c) that the only way to finally break them would be to torture them 
until they decided they couldn't take it any more and finally 
spilled the information.

The Longbottoms were probably not under a memory charm because they 
would need to actually KNOW something and someone else would have 
need to cast a spell to make them forget whatever they knew.  
Nothing in canon so far suggests either of these things.

--Barb

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