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

[Tanya Swaine]

No: HPFGUIDX 88858

At 00:31 16/01/2004 -0800, you wrote:

>K wrote
>
>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


Tanya here.

Yes, that scenario would match well with what Neville said about the 
responses from his family after he
was dropped and bounced.  That attitude might have been a bit more 
widespread also.  I mean if the DE's
were trying to breed their numbers up and one, had gasp, horror, a squib 
baby.  Pureblood pride and all
that.

Tanya

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