OOP Questions and Inconsistencies (Spoiler)

[FrisbeeK]

No: HPFGUIDX 64245

Spoiler space  
















> Sorry, I'm not sure if I understand you.  I'm talking about 
Neville -
>  is that correct?  Were you saying that Neville witnessed death 
when 
> he was very young?  That's what I wonder, how do we know that?  It 
> could conceivably have been anytime between Neville's birth and 
when 
> he started school.
> 
> Sorry if I'm being confusing.
> 
> MC

Actually if you think about Neville's parents being permanently 
confined to St. Mungo's because they are mad - its a kind of death.  
I don't think to witness "death" and see the vestrals that it has to 
be a literal death necessarily.  

When Neville's parents came back from being tortured by Bellatrix 
completely mad - it was probably a lot like they had died to him. He 
felt that loss of them not knowing who he was.  Remember when the 
gang goes to see Mr. Weasley at St. Mungo's and they run into Neville 
and his grandmother and his mother runs up and hands him a candy 
wrapper.  His mother doesn't even recognize that she's giving her son 
some useless piece of paper.

FK