Longbottoms insanity (Was: St Mungos)

[bethcurrie2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 68416

> Wendy:
> > Interesting comments, Ffred - and wouldn't it be interesting to 
know just
> > how St. Mungo's is really run? This ties in for me with the 
question of
> > whether or not the Longbottoms are being actively prevented from 
recovery
> > by St. Mungo's staff. If the hospital is, as you put it, running 
very hard
> > just to keep still, then it becomes much easier to imagine 
someone
> > accepting bribes from Lucius Malfoy (or elsewhere) to make sure 
the
> > Longbottoms remain permanently insane.

This is an idea that I must admit had never occurred to me - but now 
that it's been raised I think it's entirely possible, and it brings 
up some interesting ideas.  

If Malfoy (or other DE) wants to keep the Longbottoms insane - what 
is the reason??  The Lestranges have already been convicted for 
their torture.  Could the reason be that *someone else* was also 
involved, who was never caught and is not known to be a DE?

I don't want to add fire to the whole love/hate Snape debate :-), 
but he would certainly fit the *someone else* position.  He is so 
well trusted by DD that the DEs would have a large stake in keeping 
any involvement hidden.

Then again, if you're going to interfere to the extent of keeping 
the Longbottoms insane, why not just go the whole way and just have 
them killed as Bode was?

Hmmmmmmm....conspiracy theories abound! :-)

Beth, who after lecturing on the Hogwarts diet yesterday is about to 
go and have dinner of pizza and garlic bread