Harry, Neville, and Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 90278

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Berit Jakobsen" 
<belijako at o...> wrote:

> There's also a 
> possible fourth reason why Snape is picking on Neville: Neville 
> regularly visits his parents at the ward at St. Mungo's. They share 
> the room with barking and hairy Agnes who has an as of yet unnamed 
> son. If she turns out to be Snape's mother, the likelihood of 
Neville 
> knowing about it is very high. So maybe the reason Snape is cruel 
to 
> Neville is the same reason he is cruel to Harry: Punishing him for 
> being his father's son (punishing Neville for being so tactless as 
to 
> know about the humiliation of his mother). Well, this is my pet 
> theory at the moment :-)

"K"

I'm glad you brought this back up. I did see the Agnes post and 
never had time to respond. It's a very good theory and one I could 
believe in. The part about Agnes being Snape's mother, that is. I 
would also like to point out that it's possible the son who is 
visiting his mother is a student at Hogwarts. However, I lean towards 
Snape. But I don't believe the main reason Snape is 
mean/cruel/whatever to Neville is because of the situation at St. 
Mungo's. Nor do I believe the main reason Snape treats Harry as he 
does is due to Harry being the son of James. There's surely more to 
it than that.

Also, in my mind I pictured Neville's parents as being totally unable 
to understand anything and that was not the case. So if Agnes is the 
mother of Snape, maybe it's Snape who is slipping something to Frank 
and Alice Longbottom during his visits. For their cure, of course. <G>

I am interested in dear Agnes, poor thing, and I do believe we will 
see her again.

"K"