Great Uncle Algie

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No: HPFGUIDX 90275

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "drjuliehoward"
<drjuliehoward at y...> wrote:
> I've always wondered about Great Uncle Algie and Gran, thinking that 
> there was more to them that met the eye.  I've thought they might be 
> on the darker side, not necessarily DEs.  However, your idea makes a 
> whole lot of sense.  If Uncle Algie is more in tuned, I really 
> wonder if Gran is.  If she is more aware of the workings of the 
> Order, why would she so readily dismiss the gum wrappers Nevilld's 
> mom gives him on his visits?  What is your opinion?

I've always felt that Gran and her brother, Great Uncle Algie, have
had very different ideas about how to best protect Neville from
Voldemort and the Death Eaters. From the start, Algie has been trying
to eke some bit of magical talent out of Neville. He knows his parents
were powerful, so why shouldn't Neville be? His Gran, however, has
been doing her best to make Neville believe that he is nearly a squib.
She's given him a wand which has not "chosen" him, and constantly
compares him to his full-grown wizard dad...not to mention a possible
charm which may keep him a bit "flumoxed" and a suspicious Trevor toad
which I'm sure is no normal toad (!) Why? To protect him, of course!
If Voldemort believes that Neville's talents are negligible, he won't
even bother to go after him as he has so vehemently gone after poor
Harry. In a way, she's hiding Neville in plain sight. Brilliant!

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