TBAY: Neville's tortured Parents...

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 38975

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Eclipse <eclipse02134 at y...> wrote:

> 
>     (snipped out parts)
> 
>    If you want to be really mean you could have the
> Death Eaters up Neville under Imperious and then have
> him use one of his parents wands to torture them.
> While he would not be stropng enough to do any real
> damage, a Death Eater could stand behind him and make
> it seem to Neville that he was torturing his parents.
> This could also be why he does poorly at magic. His
> first remembered used of magic is torturing his
> parents.

Yes, that *would* be dark... -- the DE under invisibility cloak, so 
that it seems even to Neville's *parents* that it was Neville! Very 
bad, very dark... and - would explain quite a lot about poor little 
Neville. He does have that connection:
I'm doing magic = someone gets hurt = must avoid doing magic.
Someone yells at me = I get scared = magic happens trough me = 
someone gets hurt = people who are nasty to me are dangerous...

As he got older, being brave and self-sacrificial (due guilt?) he 
figures it better be himself who gets hurt. (Very much like Remus 
Lupin about being werewolf). So what's Neville's reaction to when he 
a) must do magic and b) can't aim it at himself
Then he aims it at the *most* strong and dangerous one around. 
(Flitwick gets banished...)

All subconcious Neville isn't aware of...

-- Finwitch