Link to Jenny's message and my response

[moorequests]

No: HPFGUIDX 84281

This post is a response to this post:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/80592

Which is Jenny's original theory about Neville's parents. Due to it's 
length, I've been requested to just post the link, as I'm doing. 

My response: 


  This is a theory which we came up with on another list, which 
> naturally arose from our discussions, just a month or so after you 
> posted this, however, I have a few more things to add to it, if 
> you're interested...
> 
>   First of all, there is the extremely important fact that candy 
has 
> been established and proven to carry a charm in the past, and more 
> importantly (and ironically) Neville was one of the very first 
> (somewhat unwitting) testers of Fred and George's experimental 
> charmed candy. The Canary Cream! 
> 
>   Then again, you may want to mention the Obliviate Charm and its 
> effects upon people. They appear dazed, their minds wiped, confused 
> about time and place, after multiple doses of the spell. (Roberts 
and 
> his family?) I don't know if the Imperious Charm would really be as 
> effective as a good strong, mind-wiping Obliviate. A skilled 
> Obliviator seems to be able to wipe certain memories while leaving 
> others intact (Marietta seemed to be fine after Kingsley wiped her 
> mind of 6 months of D.A. classes...) but people not trained as 
> aurors, when using Obliviate, can 'break' minds. Like Crouch, Sr. 
did 
> to Bertha Jorkins. Or perhaps that was because Jorkins fought 
against 
> Obliviate?
> 
>    What got us started on this discussion on the other list was, in 
> fact, the ethics of Obliviate, and how it works. I think there's a 
> good deal of evidence that that IS the spell at work on the 
> Longbottoms, through the Droobles gum. I think they are chewing the 
> gum, and that the absence of the bubbles is either a mistake, or, 
if 
> you want to give her the benefit of the doubt, say that Obliviate 
is 
> so powerful and long lasting (because it is) that they only need 
chew 
> it every month or so for the effect. 
> 
>    Neville himself can't visit them that often, and yet he shows 
such 
> remarkable signs of memory loss and forgetfulness. Even before this 
> theory was formulated, even before I read the prophecy, I had 
> suspicions that there was something going on with Neville. He is 
not 
> a squib, but something makes him act like one- yet he has magical 
> talent. When he got on the broom the first time, it shot straight 
up 
> in the air.  Whatever charm it is, it's potent.
> 
>  -M.M.