A loose end or two...

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No: HPFGUIDX 83889

Jen Reese wrote:
Are you all saying that Lockhart, via Lucius's orders, is continuing 
> to keep the Longbottoms in their incapacitated state now? Thus 
> Lockhart would only be pretending to have severe memory loss, 
> keeping himself in St. Mungos and extraordinarily close to the 
> Longbottoms. 

hg:
No, but I like it, and my money is on Kneasy liking it even more.

Jen:
Or are you proposing that Lockhart, prior to  Voldemort's fall, was a 
DE (or at least working with Lucius) and  caused the Longbottoms to 
be incapacitated in the first place, along  with the Lestanges? Or 
are both hypotheses being considered, for that matter :)?

hg:
This is more along the lines of what Kneasy was getting at.  And it 
made me think that in that event, the likelihood of him being 
involved in the Longbottoms' state was great.

I totally agree that the Longbottoms are being kept alive but 
incapacitated for some reason -- and I don't think there's yet 
anything in canon to tell us what that is.  
hg.