Neville's nerves (Was: Draco, Snape and Others: Castles in the air?)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 124784


Neri:
>>  And Neville can't sleep at night after that tea with Crouch!Moody,

Lupinlore: 
> Neville is a bundle of nerves, and tea does have caffeine in it.

Carol notes:
I don't think Neville's inability to sleep had anything to do with the
tea Crouch!Moody gave him. It had to do with the class session, the
heartless, prolonged Crucioing of the spider in front of a boy whose
parents had been Crucio'd into insanity (in part by the very person
torturing the spider,though Neville didn't know that).

JKR's narrator steps outside Harry's POV for a moment to pass on the
seeming tidbit about Neville's inability to sleep. It was, in fact, a
very important bit of foreshadowing, not only of the scene with
Neville's mother in St. Mungo's in OoP but of the evil nature of the
man who was pretending to be Professor Moody.

BTW, I agree with Neri that more is required to complete Neville's and
(especially) Snape's stories than a few puzzle pieces, but I see no
need for a memory charm to explain Neville's forgetfulness and general
inability to concentrate. If he witnessed the Crucioing of his
parents, even as a very small child less than two years old, his
memory lapses could be completely explained as the result of
postraumatic stress syndrome.

Carol, who thinks that even when the stories are complete we will
still differ in our interpretations of the evidence because our
differences in age, education, experience, and personality type
inevitably influence the way we perceive the events and characters