Filch the Traitor/Neville

[Laura]

No: HPFGUIDX 55341

Sarah wrote:
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I was thinking about JKR's statement the other day about how she 
included clues in Chamber of Secrets that would be important in later 
books, and it made me think of Harry's discovery of Filch the squib.  
Is it possible that one day Filch might make a bargain with Voldemort 
in exchange for magical abilities and sell Harry out?
> > >

Now me:

OK, I'm going borderline TMTMNBN here.  But I'm relatively certain 
that she said that these clues were included in the *movie*

For some reason I was drawn to the petty, insignifacnt detail 
(because that's what we HP fans are trained to do) and had a feeling 
that one of these clues included in the movie was the Percy and 
Penelope bit.  At one point Nearly-Headless Nick is heading towards 
the Great Hall and he tips his head at them (gross, I know) and says 
something to the effect of, "Evening, Percy.  Miss Clearwater."  So 
that's the end of my sensless rant.

Now, although the "Filch the Squib" thing is in one of the (albeit 
deleted) scenes, I'm not sure it's quite too important.  I know LV is 
quite powerful and all, but I highly doubt that it's possible 
to "make" someone become magic.  

On that note, yet totally off topic, I'm going to bring up Neville.  
>From canon, Neville doesn't seem incredibly magical at all.  His best 
subject is "easily" Herbology, which, as far as I can tell, doesn't 
really consist of much magic.  It's more like learning about the uses 
of various plants and doesn't seem to invlove the actually use of 
magic.

But if we have this magic quill that writes down the names of magical 
children to accept them to Hogwarts, and Neville is at Hogwarts, then 
Neville *must* be magical.  And he's not a squib, and probably not 
anything close to one, since no one else in the school seems as 
hopeless as he does.  (note the word "seems:" I adore Neville.)

Since the quill writes down names *when the children are born* this 
would certainly lead us to believe that Neville was *born* magical, 
even if (_insert name of device, memory charm, reverse memory charm, 
PTSD, ect here) *something* is blocking that magical power.

Just felt the need to ramble on for 3 paragraphs about one tiny 
detail that can support about 10 different theories. =)

-Laura