OoP - Neville's upbringing

[terryljames76]

No: HPFGUIDX 67052

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:
> 
> Neville's upbringing.
> 
> OK, what if the Longbottoms and Gran did some kind of spell to 
> dampen, suppress, even attempt to eliminate, the magic in Neville? 

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> So maybe it's not a memory spell that has been hampering Neville. 
> Maybe it's a magic suppression spell that is finally wearing off.
> 
> Darrin


I don't think so.  In PS/SS Neville says that his family was always 
trying to get him to show some kind of magic.  One of his uncles held 
him over a balcony (the "Michael Jackson" theory of magic) and then 
dropped him accidentally--fortunately he bounced.  I think maybe 
there were references to them doing other unpleasant things to him in 
an attempt to stimulate his latent talent (hey, an anagram!) 

Seems like Harry and Neville had bad childhoods for exactly opposite 
reasons--the Dursleys were horrible to Harry to try to stop him 
manifesting magic; Neville's family were horrible to Neville to try 
to get him to start.

Terry LJ