[HPforGrownups] Alice Longbottom

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 102387

In a message dated 6/20/04 9:52:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
moonmyyst13 at yahoo.com writes:

>The first time I read this scene, I took the whole thing at face value.  On 
the outside, it looks like a poor, pitiful woman trying to give away pieces of 
paper.  We see this and things similar in the mentally ill and feeble all the 
time.  

But is it?  Could this be signs of Alice trying to come out of her stupor?  
Could she be trying to communicate with her son?  Is there anything on the 
papers?  Could she have recovered that far?  Does she know of a danger to her son 
that is helping her to fight to regain her right mind in order to warn him?  
We had to have seen that scene for a reason.  We could have just seen the two 
of them leaving, maybe even with his mother looking out, but to add in the 
giving of the wrapper.  It just feels..... I don't know.... like there is more to 
it than meets the eye.

Any ideas?

Moonmyyst (who has finally gotten most of the white paint out of her black 
show dog's coat without loosing too much fur or temper!!)<

I have always thought of this scene as Alice trying to send Neville a 
message. IMHO, Dumbledore knew from the start that there were two possibilities to 
defeat Voldemort, Harry and Neville. I think that Dumbledore told both sets of 
parents that their sons were targets, and the Potters did what they could and 
the Longbottoms did what they could. We have a good idea of what the Potters 
did, but we don't know what the Longbottoms did. 

Batchevra (who thinks that the Longbottoms may have supressed Neville's 
abilities and didn't tell Gran.)


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