OOP: Major FLINT?? Neville and Sirius

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 65369

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, RSFJenny19 at a... 
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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? <<

Canon says that Rita pressed Harry for every detail of 
Voldemort's return and he gave her everything he could 
remember. He would have mentioned Peter Pettigrew. 
Rita would have asked  how PP happened to be alive and put 
it in her story, which everyone in the school read. Neville would 
have known about it.

Pippin
glad to realize Sirius's name was cleared, at least