[HPforGrownups] Re: Frank Longbottom's Wife

[yati hashim]

No: HPFGUIDX 68608


--- Kelly Grosskreutz <ivanova at idcnet.com> wrote:
> > Rachel wrote:
> > I'm particularly interested in the chewing gum
> wrappers that Alice
> > Longbottom hands Neville - especially his
> grandmother's comment that
> > he would have enough to paper a room with.  As
> silly as it sounds
> > now, I think its a clue to something.
> 
> I question whether it's an actual clue, but more
> another testament to the
> power of love.  I believe that Alice has no idea who
> Neville is, or what his
> relationship is to her.  She can't remember because
> of the torture she has
> endured.  I question whether she intellectually
> understands the concepts, or
> even would recognize the words, of son or love.  On
> the other hand, I have
> the feeling that a part of her *does* know love.  By
> this, I mean that she
> feels something for the boy who visits her
> periodically.  She doesn't know
> who he is, or why she feels this way, or even what
> this feeling is, but she
> does feel it, and it drives her to want to make some
> sort of connection with
> this boy.
> 
> I can see her watching her husband being tortured
> (they only started on her
> when he wouldn't tell them what they wanted to
> know).  She is probably
> thinking that neither of them would survive this. 
> Her thoughts would be
> with her little boy, who I still believe was not at
> home that day and was at
> his Gran's.  I can see her comforting herself with
> the fact that, no matter
> what happened to them, at least he would be safe. 
> This thought may have
> been her last coherent thought.  If this is the
> case, it should be no
> surprise that the Lestranges and company could not
> completely destroy her
> love.  By giving Neville something, she reaches out
> to him the only way she
> seems to be able to know how.
> 
> There is very little to no canon to back this up,
> true.  But it feels right
> to me.  This is a series whose main theme seems to
> be about the power of
> love.  This scenario would fit right in with that
> theme.  I think on some
> level Neville understands her gum wrapper gifts for
> what they are, and this
> is why he saves them.  This is all he has of his
> parents aside from the
> image of them looking wasted and vacant-eyed.
> 
> Kelly Grosskreutz
> http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova
> 

I do agree with you, Kelly. The chewing gum wrappers
given to Neville is not a clue, but an act of giving
something that she really likes to a person that she
may feel connected with. as most of dymensia patient,
they seems to like sweets and kid's snacks. Alice may
not remember who Neville is but i believe she might
recognised his face (since he and his gran went to the
hospital every year). 

For me, the scene was to show that Neville really
loves and adore his parent, no matter what they are
now. the scene where Neville kept the wrapper shown
how he really appreciated her mother gifts although he
knew that his mother might not meant to give him
anything.

My honest opinion. 


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