Neville...something I'd really like to know

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 163362

---  sunnylove0 at ... wrote:
>
> I remember all the theories of MemoryCharmed!Neville, 
> a theory long since sunk, but something's there I've 
> never seen addressed.
>  
> Why does Neville even come out of this episode alive 
> and unhurt?
>  

bboyminn:

By "THIS" I assume you are referring to the night
Neville's parents were attacked.

> sunnylove:
>
> I would expect a sadist like Bella to use the baby as
> a lever over Alice and Frank.  Why doesn't she?

bboyminn:

How do you know she (Bella) didn't? Perhaps the 'memory'
effects we are seeing in Neville are the effects of the
trama he suffered that night at the hands of Bellatrix.

Perhaps she tortured Frank, then Alice, and getting
nothing turned to torturing Neville, and it was that
final act that drove Frank and Alice into insanity.

They, after all, or at least we assume, did not know
the were-abouts of Voldemort, so they could not give 
the information that was being requested. For the
moment we can assume there was a reason why they
couldn't lie their way out; perhaps, legilimency. So,
all they could do was stand by while Neville was
tortured. 

I can't say that this DID happen, but I don't think
you can say it DID NOT. 

I think more likely Neville was tramatized by the 
torture of his parents, and that is what is affecting
him. It could be the trama itself, or it could be
something someone did to help alleviate his trama. Or,
it could be that he was actually tortured himself, and
that is the source of the trama. Perhaps we'll find out
before the end of the story exactly what happened that
night.

For what it's worth.

Steve/bboyminn