Snape and the Longbottoms

[peggybaratto]

No: HPFGUIDX 57064

> 
> Now... Lucius Malfoy... THAT I could see. 

Me as well!!!!!!!!!
 
> 
> Snape also takes pains to really go after Neville, not only in 
Potions class, but 
> -- completely unprofessionally in my mind -- in other classes. He 
insults 
> Neville in front of Lupin and just before the duelling club meeting.
> 
> Since Snape so obviously WANTS Neville to fear him, Neville is just 
obliging. 

If you notice, Snape is particularly mean to those students who very 
well maybe major players in the series.  Maybe the character shows 
this side to these students because they NEED to see it.  They need 
a "thicker" skin.  They are the ones who are in danger at the school. 
This would make perfect sence in Neville's case.  He (I hope)is a 
late bloomer.  
 
> Now, there has been a theory that Snape has, either on D-Dore's 
orders or on 
> his own, been pounding away at Neville in an effort to get the boy 
to break 
> through his memory charms and stop being so afraid.  I don't know 
if I buy it, 
> but put the theory out for fairness sake.
> 
> But one part does make sense. The Longbottoms were feared and 
respected 
> Aurors. One would think their son would have more potential than 
Neville has 
> shown. Perhaps it is buried underneath memory charms.


This may be true, there is some evidence that Neville has had memory 
charms put on him (the rememberall...).  It sometimes seems that he 
was placed at Hogwarts for nothing more than comic relief (he and 
Dudley)...but that does not really go with the flow of the series.  
There must be something more to it.
> 
> Darrin
> -- believes Neville will play a major role in the climax of the 
series

So do I Darrin...so do I.

"peggybaratto"