[HPforGrownups] Re: What did Neville Forget? (was Re: Why Didn't DD or Snape kill Voldemort?)

[catherine higgins]

No: HPFGUIDX 152819



Maria Vaerewijck <maria8162001 at yahoo.com> wrote:    

maria8162001:
   
   I am more inclined to believed that his memory was blocked with a spell by his mother?) so he would not remeber what it is he have seen or ought to remember at that age.(snip) So if Neville was like my daughter when he was young then he saw and remember something which he is not suppposed to see, which could be a very strong reason for his mother to stop him from remembering it, whatever it is.(snip)
   
  Catherine now:
   
  What if Neville saw his parents tortured and killed? That would be traumatizing to say the least! But I don't think it was his mom that put the spell on him. I thinkk it would be his gran. Didn't she fail her Charms O.W.L.? That might account for his continued poor memory, as she might have messed it up a bit.
   
   Or, as with Bertha Jorkins, the memory charm that addled her up a bit by Crouch Sr. , was because (IIRC) it was quite a thing that he had to make her forget. But Lockhart, who was self-processed very good at memory charms porbably did them well enough that the person was quite normal afterwards, and just forgot the story that they told him, or forgot that they did it. Maybe he altered the memory  so that they remembered that it was Lockhart and not themselves in the memory. Who knows? But it could very well be a bungled memory charm at work on poor Neville....
   
  Catherine

		
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