[HPforGrownups] Why don't Ron and Ginny know? (WAS Gum Wrappers)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 112948


--- littleleahstill <cmjohnstone at hotmail.com> wrote:

> You would have thought that Ron or Seamus or other pure blood kids 
> would have mentioned at home that Neville was in their class - he
> is 
> quite a distinctive character.  We must assume that their parents 
> know what happened to Neville's parents, so why does no one
> explain?
> 
> Is this silence (as I suspect)merely a literary device to develop 
> Neville as a character?  Sympathy from other parents keeping them 
> quiet is possible, but would they all react the same way? Or 
> something else?
> 
> Leah

I view it as another sign that for all the toasts to the
Boy-Who-Lived and McGonagall's claim in PS/SS that October 31 would
be known as "Harry Potter Day", the WW put the Bad Days behind them
as quickly as they could.  Voldemort was dead (hopefully), Sirius
Black was behind bars and everything was back to what passed for
normal in the WW.  

There's a lot of simply not talking about things, from what I can
see.  I think the Longbottoms fall into this category.

Magda




		
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