Question about Book changes/ Neville

[bkb042]

No: HPFGUIDX 43733

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> wrote:
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> Next topic, I really don't think Neville's under an imperious 
curse.  It just doesn't figure.  How would one transfer control of 
an Imperious?  Especially while the one who supposedly put the curse 
on is having his soul sucked out.  Yuck.  Anyway, that said, since 
Crouch Jr. was one of the four on trial for the torture of Frank 
Longbottom, he obviously knew that Neville knew about the Cruciatus 
curse.  Yet he calls on Neville to give the name of an unforgivable, 
and then performs it right there in front of him, albeit on a 
spider.  Doesn't that constitute emotional abuse?  Now, I know we 
thought that was Moody.  But Moody was at the trial, right?  Or am I 
getting my trials mixed up?  Regardless of whether he was or not, as 
a fellow auror I'm sure he knew all the details. And Dumbledore is 
okay with this?!  I just don't get it.  Maybe I'm just too tired and 
need to go to bed.


Here's a real out-on-a-limb, seriously-wacko theory that would help 
to explain why the Longbottoms are residents of St. Mungo's AND 
Neville's tentativeness/clumsiness:  Crouch Jr. cast Crucio on Baby!
Neville after Mrs. Longbottom in an effort to get Frank to talk.  A 
traumatized baby couldn't be expected to develop normally, and the 
torture of the infant could possibly have driven both parents over 
the edge.

Whaddya think?

bkb042 (a.k.a. Brian)