OOP: Major FLINT?? Neville and Sirius

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 65280

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, RSFJenny19 at a... wrote:
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> First off, I'm really sorry if someone's already written this, I 
haven't been 
> following the Neville threads, but noticed a huge discrepency as I 
reread the 
> book for the umpteenth time.
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> When Ron, Ginny, Neville and Luna show up in the forest, 
conversation jumps 
> right into Ron saying, "Has You-know-Who got Sirius or --" and then 
Harry 
> saying yeah but he doesn't know how they're going to save him.  
Now, unless I'm 
> missing something, isn't Neville still under the impression Sirius 
is a murderer? 
>  He's not in on the secret, right?  And he only ended up with the 
group 
> because he was trying to save Ginny.  So WHY does he ask no 
questions here?  It's 
> only when we're in the death chamber and Sirius has died that 
Neville finally 
> asks if he was a friend of Harry's.  Was he merely clueless that 
they were 
> referring to Sirius Black?
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> Opinions?
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> ~Jenny

Here is my theory, that might explain it. Neville knew. that Harry 
wanted to save a Sirius. I am pretty sure, it was never mentioned 
that it was Sirius Black. We don't know how common the name Sirius is 
in the wizarding world, but Neville might very well have thought, 
they were talking about another Sirius.

Hickengruendler