About Florence

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 45336

I've read many of the old Florence theories, and I haven't found this 
one. But I haven't read any single post, so maybe I just missed it, 
and it was already mentioned.

I think that Florence is the later Mrs Longbottom, Neville's mother. 
After all, Neville is very good in herbology. It's not very realistic 
that he has inherited the talent from his father, an auror, so maybe 
he has it from his mother, and who could be a better herbologist as 
someone with the name "Florence"?

I also think, it is odd, that Neville's mother's first name wasn't 
mentioned at the trial against Crouch jr and the others. Crouch sen. 
talked about Frank Longbottom and Frank Longbottom's wife. Why isn't 
the name of Frank's wife mentioned, although she was a victim? This 
isn't logically. JK Rowling could easily have invented some name like 
Beth or Marcia or whatever, but she didn't. So I suppose, that 
Neville's mother is more important as Frank. And whose name was 
mentioned in the same chapter, only a few pages later? Florence's. JK 
Rowling often mentioned the names of figures, who will be important 
later, we all know this (Sirius, Mrs Figg etc.). But if she has 
mentioned Florence's name at the trial, everybody would have 
recognised it, because the second mention of Florence were only short 
time later.

I am sure, whoever Florence is, if she ist important, that she kissed 
Snape behind the greenhouses. But she dumped him and married Frank 
Longbottom. This would explain Snape's horrible behaviour towards 
Neville.

What do you think about this theory? Is it possible?
Hickengruendler