Mad-Eye and the Longbottoms

[n_longbottom01]

No: HPFGUIDX 143683

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:
>
> 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.
>

n_longbottom01:

Ooooh... I like it.  A captured Bellatrix has information regaurding 
the whereabouts of a Horcrux.  It would be the reversal of her 
torture of the Longbottoms if Neville were involved with forcing the 
information out of her.

Both Neville and Harry have good reason to hate Bellatrix, and they 
may be tempted to torture her.  Though they may be tempted, I don't 
think they would give in.  Maybe they could brew up some Veritaserum 
to get the information out of her.  Neville (through his own 
insistance) brewing the Veritaserum used on Bellatrix would be a 
satisfying ending to this loose end.  Neville resisting the evil urge 
to hurt Bella like she hurt his parents, and then completing a 
dificult task in one of his weakest areas (potions), in order to 
force the information out of Bella (where she had previously been 
unsuccessful at forcing information out of Neville's parents).

n_longbottom01