Longbottom's Torture to Insanity (Re: candy)

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> Brenda wrote:
> <snip>
>  
> > Of course, one must ask, WHY on earth the Longbottoms were 
tortured 
> > to insanity in the first place.  

A questioned occured to me last week that may have something to do 
with this. What is Alice's maiden name? We haven't been told, but she 
had to be a pure blood. Possibly she is part of one of the large 
pureblood families we know. She most likely isn't a Black, Harry 
would have noticed that on the tapestry. It could be that she was 
considered a blood traitor to her family and one of her DE relatives 
decided to follow through on the attack out of spite after 
Voldemort's fall.

Beth G