Harry, Neville, and Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 90290

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 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 :-)
> 
> Berit
> http://home.no.net/berjakob/snape.html

I do love this theory!  Is it possible too that every time poor Snape 
has run into poor Neville in the ward he has slipped him a little 
note reminding him what will happen to him if he tells anyone who 
Agnes is?  Perhaps his behavior in class is a weekly reminder of what 
will happen to Neville if he spills the beans.  This may in fact be 
part of the reason Neville has never told anyone about his own 
parents, he is too afraid he will get questioned about other people 
there and will have to answer questions which might reveal Snape's 
secret.

BTW, my response to your original post on this matter may have 
sounded flip...I can be over enthusiastic :).  I do however believe 
that it is possible that Agnes could be suffering from a long 
standing family curse which also effects Luna Lovegood's family...who 
knows?
Sue