Mad-Eye and the Longbottoms

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 143677

I was thinking the Longbottom storyline was finished after JKR's 
post-HBP comments, but re-reading GOF reminded me of possible 
unfinished business.

Mad-Eye shows up in the two earliest Pensieve scenes of the trials, 
with body parts intact save the chunk off his nose from bringing in 
Rosier. Well, Harry didn't mention his leg, but he definitely had 
two regular eyes. Then by the time of the last memory of the 
Longbottom trial, he's absent. 

So assuming Mad-Eye was the one to bring the Pensieve four into 
custody, losing his eye in the process, he might have something left 
to share that he learned from the defendants. A clue he didn't 
realize was meaningful at the time, possibly something to do with 
the horcruxes. It seems possible Bella knew there was at least one 
horcrux when she said: The Dark Lord, in the past, entrusted me with 
his most precious--" (chap. 2, p. 29, Scholastic) At the very least 
she thought his immortality experiments worked and he was not dead, 
and that lead to the torture of the people looking for him.

And if any of those elaborate memory-charmed Neville theories in the 
archives are true, this would be the point to bring them into the 
story! I suspect his memory loss is more symbolic though, that life 
has always been difficult for him and there are many things he would 
rather forget. :(

Jen, who thought Brendan Gleeson made a brilliant Crouch!Moody.