Neville - an only child?

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amy_marblefeet"
<amy_marblefeet at y...> wrote:
> Is Neville an only child?
> 
> I only started thinking about this after I read OoP again and when 
> Mad-Eye shows Harry the picture of everyone in the Order the last 
> time around Harry thinks about how similar Neville looks like his 
> mother.  A first child nearly always looks more like their father 
> than their mother, natures way of a paternity test.  Future children 
> are more likely to look like their mother.
> 
> So could there be an older sibling out there that Neville doesn't 
> know about, or is just keeping quiet about?  It is hard to theorise 
> about this as we do not know how old Frank and Alice are at the 
> moment to summarise how old a sibling could be.
> 
> Just a thought.

Not trying to be mean, but cna you point me to any sort of scientific
evidence that supports that first children look like thier fathers?
Besides wives tales and ancidotal stories? (As an example, I'm the
oldest, and look very much like my mother, esp. hair, which is brown,
whereas my younger sister looks like my Dad, with blonde hair). I
don't think that is a very strong basis for supposing there is another
Longbottom out there somewhere.

I think that if there was another Longbottom we'd know about them, at
least if Neville did. He's a very uncofident young man, without
parents, just one stern gradmother. He would long for an older sibling
to help guide him and give him advice, and we'd would've seen a hint
of that if it was there, I think.

Rob

> 
> Amy