St. Mungo's and the Longbottoms

[Chris]

No: HPFGUIDX 59813

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "blackstripe61" 
<blackstripe61 at y...> wrote:
> What if there is more to Neville Longbottom then meets the eye.
> I think he is going to play a major role in future HP books, I 
think 
> he may have some great secret about him, maybe a mystery power. We 
> all know that Neville is very forgetful person. I think there might 
> be a powerful Memory Charm placed upon him, which explains how come 
> he is so forgetful, since major Memory Charms can be harmful. He 
> knows what happened to his parent, so what is the charm for? Maybe, 
> to make him forget magical things he could do as a baby, or 
anything 
> really magical about his childhood. We all know his parents are 
> Aurors, so he probaly has some strong magical abilities and he does 
> have sudden bouts of courage. I based this on the fact that Neville 
> is the same age as Harry. So he would be the same age as Harry when 
> Voldemort was live and kickng, therefore a baby.
> 
> Adam


I agree there is more to Neville.  I think the memory charm is more 
to make him forget *who* he saw.  Not sure why though b/c being a 
baby he would not have been able to verbalize it, but maybe in the WW 
they can extract information from babies another way.  

I don't think Neville's strength is going to be played out on the 
Quidditch field.  Remember his strong point is Herbology?  Also, he 
brings a toad to school as a pet he got from his Great Uncle Algie, 
and Moody gives him a book on Magical Water Plants of the 
Mediterranean.  Just some more food for thought.  What do you think?

Chris M.