[HPforGrownups] Re: Question about Book changes/ Neville

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 43737

bkb042 (a.k.a. Brian) writes:

> 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.

Ooh, I never thought of that.  Who else was on trial there, let's see, it
was Crouch Jr.,  possibly the LeStranges (a woman was involved, anyway) and
another man.  It would be a terrible, horrible, cruel beyond words thing to
do, Crucioing a baby or toddler, but I wouldn't put it past them.  It could
explain a lot about Neville, from his terrible memory to his often bumbling
ways.  And it would take DE cruelty to a new level.  And it would make sense
that to get information from a pair of aurors one would take to torturing
their child after they wouldn't talk under torture.  This opens up a new
matter, why didn't they talk after the torture of their child?  Did they
really know nothing, therefore couldn't?  Were they too far gone by the time
the DE's reached this point?  Or is it something else?  This would
definitely add to the "darkness" spoken of if it were true and revealed to
Harry and co.

Richelle