Sneaking suspicion about Neville's parents...

[Susan Smith]

No: HPFGUIDX 74053

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "The Crashing Boar" 
<crashing.boar at n...> wrote:
> <<< tharqueen 
>   <snip>I've been wondering why Neville's parents were tortured and 
an 
>   answer just hit me. It all ties into the prophecy of course.
> 
>   Perhaps Voldy did think of the possibility of Neville and Harry 
>   being the foretold ones. So, he sends Bellatrix (who seems to be 
>   his most loyal follower) to find Neville. She cannot find him 
since 
>   his parents have hidden him. She proceeds to torture them 
>   using the Cruciatus curse to find out his whereabouts which they 
>   never tell her.  Meanwhile Voldy is told of Harry's location from 
>   scummy Wormtail and events unfold as we know them. <snip>>>>
> 
>   I agree, I think the attacks were timed so that LV could deal 
with the more troublesome Potters, while Bellatrix got the location 
of the Longbottom child from his parents, so LV could deal with him 
afterwards.  Why?  The Potters had gone into hiding as a family.  As 
Aurors, the Longbottoms couldn't justifiably leave the fight, so they 
had hidden their child somewhere else.  I believe it was always LV's 
plan, as it was relatively simple to locate the Longbottoms, that 
when he gained the location of the Potters, he would strike as soon 
as possible while the other location was being extracted, and attack 
the logistially simpler target once the Potters were out of the way.  
As we know, he never got that far.
> 
>   And Neville?  I think he was put into hiding with his 
grandmother, who was given a rudimentary idea of the prophecy when 
she was briefed on the situation.  As a result, when she found what 
had been done to his parents, she was determined to continue to 
protect him in her own way.  She consequently constantly undermines 
all of his achievemebts and his confidence, convincing him he has 
no 'dangerous' magical skills until his uncle, in desperation, throws 
him out of a window to force the situation.  She then goes about 
convincing him that he is incapable of safely controlling 
what 'little' magic he has.
>   I still think that there is a chance Neville could be the one the 
prophecy is about, the 'marking' of Harry just a coincidence (Baby 
Harry did not defeat LV, his mother's sacrifice did), and I believe 
that the Order, at least to begin with, see this as a possibility.  
Harry was sent to the Muggle world to be protected better by his 
mother's blood, Neville was allowed to disappear into obscurity.
> 
>   Is the fact that Snape rides them *both* hard a clue, too?
> 
> 
>   Dawn
> 
> The flaw with this line of thought is that Bella and fellow DE did 
NOT attack Longbottoms until after Harry's family was killed and 
Voldie was gone.  Canon says they were tortured because Bella and Co. 
wanted to know Voldie's whereabouts afterward.

A.G.