OOP: Major FLINT?? Neville and Sirius

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No: HPFGUIDX 65413

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, RSFJenny19 at a... 
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> > SPOILERS below
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> > First off, I'm really sorry if someone's already written this, I 
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> > 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? <<
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> 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.
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> Pippin
> glad to realize Sirius's name was cleared, at least

Hmm.  I think if Sirius would have been in the article than it have 
been a major talk of the wizarding world whether Sirius is innocent 
or not.  

Neville did not know about Sirius being innocent; he asks at the end 
Harry who that person was who just got killed.  

Sirius's name is never cleared in the book.  I hope JKR makes up for 
that in the later books, because he deserves it.

Marta