[HPforGrownups] Re: Neville's broken nose

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 79684

 K - 
this isn't directed at anyone in particular, especially since the post I'm
replying too isn't one of the ones I'm talking about, but - is it me or are
people signing posts a lot less often recently? The number of times I've
tried to reply to something and had to go searching for the poster's name
seems to be increasing.
 
> Talisman, skipping by with her Stubby Boardman CD, suggests:
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> Talisman, now weeping openly, "Oh god, no time turners, 
> please. . . ."

n_longbottom01:
 
Two things that make me think that Neville doesn't become Dumbledore 
by way of a time turner:
 
1) Neville is gifted at Herbology, and I don't think we've seen any 
hints that Dumbledore has a green thumb. Dumbledore doesn't ever 
teach Herbology, that we know of, and that seems like the logical 
subject for Neville to teach.
 

Me (K) -

I am *not* getting into another timeturner theory, I'm not! Honest, this
post is a figment of everyone's imagination.

Neville!Dumbledore would know that Neville's schoolmates would associate him
with Herbology so maybe that's why he seems to so studiously avoid it.

n_longbottom01:

2) When Harry first learns that Neville's parents are in St. Mungos 
(through one of the scenes in Dumbledore's pensive), Dumbledore is 
surprised that Harry has roomed with Neville for four years and 
didn't already know about Neville's parents. If Dumbledore *was* 
Neville, he would have known that Neville never tells anyone about 
his parents.
 
Albus is 150 years old, I have trouble remembering what I told people last
week! He would know that Harry found out about Neville's parents at some
point but since, for him, it would have been  well over a hundred years ago
maybe he was surprised because he forgot *when* Harry found out and thought
he already knew by then.  Neville wouldn't have known how Harry found out
originally about his parents and may have thought that Hagrid or Remus or
someone mentioned it to him earlier.

K