OoP - Neville's upbringing

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 67109

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" <bard7696 at a...> 
wrote:

> OK, what if the Longbottoms and Gran did some kind of spell to  
dampen, suppress, even attempt to eliminate, the magic in Neville? It  
stands to reason that the Longbottoms would have heard the prophecy as 
well. 
> 
Maybe this was their method of trying to protect Neville, reasoning, 
like Harry did, that V-Mort would go after the bigger threat and would 
wait until the kids had grown a bit before determining who the threat 
was. If V-Mort sees Neville is a Squib, maybe he leaves the kid 
alone.>

I like this theory, but one thing puzzles me. In St. Mungo's, 
Neville's gran said something to the Trio about Neville not being as 
good a wizard as his father.  I thought that was embarrassing and 
unnecessary.  Do you think maybe Gran went out of her way to make 
Neville feel incompetent so he'd never think to be an Auror or do any 
other advanced magic?  That's still mean.

Wow, the things people do in the WW to protect their kids!

--jenny from ravenclaw, who saw a commercial for the VH1 "I Love the 
80s" marathon this coming weekend and couldn't help but think Darrin 
will be watching it *********************************