Alice Longbottom

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 103818

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...>
wrote:
> 
> > Gina:
> >           I have GREAT hope for Neville's parents and I fully 
> believe
> > something is going on here. Maybe there IS a message but Neville 
> cannot
> > figure it out and is too embarrassed to ask anyone for help!
> >  
> > 
> > 
> Potioncat:
> Or perhaps he doesn't yet know there is a message. 
> 
> Potioncat (who thinks Gran is all right, even if she is old 
> fashioned.)


Carol:
Am I the only one who thinks that the gum wrappers are only a touching
gesture, an indication that Alice feels some connection with Neville
and is reaching out to him in the only way she can? Her impairment, it
would seem, is slightly less severe than her husband's since he seems
not to get out of bed or do anything at all. To me, it's a very
poignant scene that reveals what Neville has been hiding, and I hope
that he'll find a way to talk about it with Harry. But I don't see how
the gum wrappers could mean anything other than the fact that they're
all Alice has to give. It's the sort of gesture an eighteen-month-old
baby might make.

Carol, who wants to know more about Agnes, the dog-faced woman in the
same scene