TBAY: Longbottoms and memory charms

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 132376

> SSSusan:
> IOW, Possibility 6 is that Neville and his parents were both 
> MCharmed, but Frank & Alice are so much worse off because they were 
> *also* tortured so horribly by the DEs trying to break through the 
> MCs.  
> 
> I still can't offer an explanation as to why Neville would have been 
> MCharmed at age 15 – 18 months (or thereabouts), but there certainly 
> has been speculation by an awful lot of people that Neville's been 
> MC'ed.  So maybe someone else will pitch in here with a suggestion 
> for that?

Finwitch:

Well, there is the possibility that little Neville's uncontrolled 
magic broke off at that age in a form of a memory charm. That might 
even take place several times during his childhood - after every visit 
to his parents, for instance.

Of course, it IS possible that it's not Charm but Forgetfulness Potion 
(which Neville possibly got by means of gum wrappers). OR, Frank&Alice 
took Forgetfulness Potion while Alice was pregnant - (And Neville got 
it that way trough his mother) - or F&A are subjects to Forgetfulness 
Potion and Neville a self-induced Memory Charm.

Of course, Lockhart might have been there when the Longbottoms were 
found and memory-charmed Neville... for whatever reason. Lockhart 
might have met upset Neville and put the charm on him (because he 
heard all about Frank &Alice learning he's a fraud - of course Neville 
doesn't recall any of that.)

Finwitch