OoP - Neville's upbringing

[terryljames76]

No: HPFGUIDX 67187

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


Darrin replied,

> Yeah, but remember, most people thought V-Mort was gone, so it 
would 
> have been "safe" for Neville to be magic again, which would lead to 
> them trying to overcome the suppression spell.
> 
> By the way, I LOVE the Michael Jackson reference.
> 

Thanks! :)  But surely they would not put a spell or charm on Neville 
in the first place that they did not know the reversal to.  

Rebuttal: possibly it's very difficult to reverse a spell if you do 
not know precisely which spell was cast.  Maybe Neville's parents put 
the actual charm on him and after they lost their minds, the rest of 
the family did not know which charm it was.  

Counter-rebuttal...hmmm, let me think on this for a while.

Terry LJ