Snape and the Longbottoms

[imamommy at sbcglobal.net]

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Wow, there is no way to keep up with the volume of posts these days!  
Anyway, I was rereading PoA, and had a theory pop up.  Why is Snape 
the thing that scares Neville the most?  Is it only due to his 
treatment of Neville at school?  Or is it possible that Snape was the 
DE who performed Cruciatus on the Longbottoms, and Neville has a 
supressed memory of this?  At any rate, why is Snape so hard on 
Neville?
More questions I know we can't answer concretely (yet!), but I humbly 
submit them for your opinions.

imamommy