Neville Longbottom and the Prophecy

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 68567

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Scott Santangelo 
<owlery2003 at y...> wrote:
 
> I'll give you the timeline, but saying Alice would have done the 
same thing as Lilly is like saying two different people at two 
different times would react to a car crash the exact same way. We 
don't know anything about Alice's wand or specific magic skills (the 
charms thing, maybe the switching spell thing), and who knows how 
Alice would have tried to protect Neville under such circumstances.>

True - we don't know how the Longbottoms would have responded to the 
arrival of Voldemort.  We do know, though, that they were Aurors, we 
know that Harry's parents were also clearly against Voldemort (we're 
not sure about what they did, though), and we know that the WW is a 
small one.  It is quite possible that the Potters and the Longbottoms 
worked together on some sort of charm to protect *both* babies.  Maybe 
any protective action by a mother (her love) is what set the spell off 
that saved Harry, and the same thing could most definitely have 
happened for Neville.  The Longbottoms were described as popular in 
GoF (right?), which leads me to believe that they were good people, 
and good people would do absolutely anything they could to save their 
child.

We found out in OoP that becoming an Auror is no small feat, which 
leads me to believe Alice and Frank Longbottom were strong and 
talented magically.  I'm also going to go out on a limb and say that I 
assume James and Lily were quite powerful as well, considering the son 
they produced (as well as what we know about James's Hogwarts 
activities and Lily being known for having a talent in Charms).  The 
magic of all four combined could certainly be enough to cast a spell 
that would successfully save either baby.

--jenny from ravenclaw *******************