St. Mungo's and the Longbottoms

[Chris]

No: HPFGUIDX 59926

> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "blackstripe61" 
> > <blackstripe61 at y...> wrote:
> I based this on the fact that Neville 
> 
> > 
> > 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. 
> 
> Does it say what year the attack on the Longbottoms happend.  It 
was 
> after Voldermorts fall wasn't it?  So Neville may have been a 
toddler 
> or possibly even preschooler.  So he would be to talk then.  Even 
my 
> 19 month old daughter can tell how her day went (although somewhat 
> cryptically:  Grandma walk houses puppy woof woof flower bunny.  
> Translation: I went on walk with grandma.  I saw houses, a dog that 
> was barking, flowers and a bunny.)  She also repeats back anything 
> that's said to her (my brother loves to give her big words like 
> photosynthesis, which she promptly repeats back to him).
> 
> Anyways, Neville might have been old enough that he could have 
> remembered either--a) witnessing his parents tortured or b)Neville 
> knows some knowledge (name, spell, place) that needs to be kept 
> secret.

I checked GOF and no they don't name a specific time when the 
Longbottoms were tortured.  Only that it was after Voldemort's fall 
from power, and just when everyone was beginning to feel safe again.  
Perhaps 6 months to a year?  Neville being roughly 2 should have been 
able to give at least a cryptic description.  Although it seems the 
culprits were caught fairly quickly despite Neville's memory charm.  
Possibly the MOM used it on him to keep the memories form being 
overwhelming.

Chris M.