Longbottoms' Secret Keeper

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 107656

Meri: 
The Longbottoms weren't attacked till well after the 
> > Potters were killed. According to DD that was one of the reasons 
> that people were so angry about the attacks. LV had fallen at this 
point, families were coming out of hiding, and people thought they 
were safe for the first time in ten years. IMHO it would be easy for 
Crouch and the LeStranges to find the Longbottoms at this point (WW 
yellow pages, anyone?). I would also assume that they were protected 
by Fidelius, but as to where they hid and who their secret keeper 
was we can only speculate till you know who lets us know. 




Doddie here:

Neville is no sacrificial lamb; if he was, then the DE's in OOP 
would have killed him, yet they did not....not even bellatrix.

boyd: 
> But none of these feel like they justify the many pages Jo's spent 
> developing this plot line. What else can it be?


Well I a quite a few feelings on this subject at this point.

Neville may well be one in the prophecy....the one to keep Harry's 
compass pointed where it needs to be. (at the least)

Neville may have well been given a memory charm that was entirely 
too powerful for Neville at his young age.(Who gave it to him?!??!? 
probably his grandmother).  The charm was too strong hence Neville's 
uncle tries to scare the magic out of Neville and his grandmother 
tries to intimidate his memories back....

DD seemed so sure that Neville was not whom the prophecy was 
directed towards...so we must ask....Does Neville have a prophecy of 
his own?!?!?!

I believe that it will be Harry that will help to restore Neville's 
memories(not by spell, but by simply talking amongst themselves) and 
that as time goes by Neville remembers little by little(I think his 
memories have been returning to him for quite some time now--at, 
least since his experience in fake moody's class. As his confidence 
and that of others around Neville increase in him; his memories 
return. 

  I believe that Neville's purpose is to vanquish the LeStranges, 
Bellatrix in particular.(After all, Harry did not destroy her in the 
MOM did he?) More than one prophecy makes a geat deal of sense 
considering how certain DD was during the "prophecy revelation" 
scene that Harry was the one...as Neville has also been marked as an 
ORPHAN, just like voldemort.

Just because the Longbottoms were attacked after the Potters does 
not mean that Neville was not on LV's list perhaps upon LV's 
indirect orders, they went to the Longbottom residence to torture 
them to find out if Neville was the "one". (I can hear LV now, I 
will go to the Potter's on *this date*, kill the half-blood and will 
join you afterwards at the Longbottoms-- you will go to the 
Longbottoms and wait for me there. Then, when he does not show the 
DE's torture the Longbottom family. These type of actions would 
describe the actions of one who does not have knowledge of the 
complete prophesy.   If this happened upon LV's orders, then, 
essentially Voldemort has marked both Harry and Neville as orphans 
effectively...

If Lily's spell, in effect, created the scar upon Harry's head, 
then  we must consider:

1. Prophecy may well have meant Neville OR Harry(perhaps the mark is 
that they are orphans...) However Neville's parents are alive yet, 
and we have great hopes for their minds to return. If this happens 
Neville is no longer marked.

2. If Peter Pettigrew was so much involved in these plots, then 
Peter may well be the "OTHER" in the prophecy!!!

This well be the "look of triumph in DD's" eyes..

PP owes a life debt to Harry.

When one must die at the HAND of THE OTHER...well...what if the 
other is Peter Pettigrew? And we all know he has quite the 'special 
hand'--both his new one and the one he supposedly "gave willingly".

So now there is yet another theory if we interpret than the prophecy 
surronds THREE rather than TWO.


  Perhaps DD risked Harry and Hermione engaging in time travel so 
that Peter Pettigrew would owe Harry a life debt.

Of course there is that whole "hand of glory" reference. Why is it 
there?

All I know is that it will not simply be a spell that Vanquishes 
Voldemort for good...this leaves dying by the hand of 
another...perhaps godric's sword? or Peter Pettigrew's hand.

Doddie,

Who would sure like to read about Neville putting "the hurt" on 
Bellatrix!