[HPforGrownups] Re: At what time is a witch/wizard categorized as one?

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 88857





> > Julie wrote:
> > Do we have canon evidence that this is WHY dear old Uncle Algie
> > dropped Neville off the balcony?  Was it to see IF he was magical,
> > or does canon tell us simply that this is when they found out he
> was magical?  <snip> I still wonder about Neville's family and their
> > possibly being DEs or at least in this camp.  Is it possible that
> > Uncle Algie knew of LV's suspicion about the prophecy and, thinking
> > Neville could be the question mark, tried to kill Neville for LV?
>
>
K

You know it occurs to me that there's another reason he could have dropped
hi off the balcony - the Longbottoms are, or appear to be, purebloods, maybe
Uncle Algie felt that as a Squib Neville was an embarrassment to the family
and would be less of an embarrassment if he had an 'accident'? Dead
embarrassments being somewhat less embarrassing. Or if not an embarrassment
just inferior and it was just better to put the boy out of his misery (sort
of like the way the Spartans abandoned baby boys who were deemed to be too
weak to have the potential to be Spartans).

K