Neville's Fear, Security at the MOM and Floo Travel

[Katy Cartee]

No: HPFGUIDX 67789

Dorothy wrote:
> No, if I had Neville's self esteem issues I think Snape might be the
> thing I feared most too. Another possibility is that Neville has, to
> a certain extent, sublimated his reaction to his parents tragedy.
> This might explain his reticence in the first four books, and his
> "coming out" on OoP when he through learning DADA begins to
> come to grips with the threat and presence of evil.

Being intimidated by a teacher and being DEATHLY AFRAID of a teacher are two
totally different things. I still have to wonder if Snape did something to
Neville's family back when he was a DE.

Claire wrote:
> I believe it's because Neville didn't know what Bellatrix looked
> like so he couldn't produce a boggart that looked like her--at the
> time.  His Gran isn't mean to Neville, not really.  It might be a
> generational thing and, given what happened to his parents, over
> protective.  Snape, on the other hand, reduced Neville to a bowl of
> jelly (he's gone thru something like 5 or 6 cauldrons).

I feel sure that there were newspaper clippings of Bellatrix's capture that
would have showed him what she looked like. I know Harry saw her in the
Pensieve, but didn't she appear in the Daily Prophet at another time after
that? And you're right, Gran isn't mean to Neville, she's just
intimidating - JUST LIKE SNAPE. So if it's only intimidation, then why did
he see Snape and not his Gran? Thank you for furthering my point
inadvertantly ;)

Dorothy wrote:
> Well, it could be kind of like not having a smoke detector at the
> fire station. You would never think that kind of thing could happen
> here, (which sounds typically Fudge-like) so there was no alarm
> system set up)

I'm not talking about an alarm system. I'm talking about underage magic
notification. RIGHT AFTER Harry used his Patronus on the dementors at Pivet
Drive, he received, what 3 different owls regarding his suspension and
rule-breaking? So obviously, the MOM were alerted to the infringement AS it
happened. So why were they not notified of all the magic he (and his
underage friends) was doing at the MOM?

Marianne wrote:
> It seems like the MoM has no security to speak of at night, and that
> pretty much anything can happen by anyone who happens to stroll in.
> Voldemort, Azkaban Death Eater escapees, wanted criminals...I guess
> no one thought to put any sort of security at the front doors to
> intercept people like this.

Again, i'm not talking about a security system. Read what i wrote to Dorothy
above. But i do wonder why the Order did not realize what was going on
sooner also - they obviously had people (two that we know of) guarding the
Dept of Mysteries...so where were they that night? Why was nobody on guard
duty?

jsmithqwert wrote:
> Also, are we sure that you can travel from the fireplaces in
> Hogwarts.  It would be pretty pointless to have an apparation ban if
> you could use floo powder.  Also, if you could travel into a
> Hogwart's fireplace, Sirius would have done so in PoA rather than
> trying to break into the castle via the portrait hole.

But Sirius was able to use Floo to make his head travel to Hogwarts on
several occasions. So obviously Floo is a way of getting into
Hogwarts...hmm, that does seem like a security problem, doesn't it?

~Katy~
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