Courtly love in Potterverse LONG

[pippin_999]

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> Alla:

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> Even if it was not an accident, uncle Algie did not go to Dark wizard and told him to go and test Neville's magic and kill him if he is not magical, right?

Pippin:
Zanooda is right, I had forgotten about the meringue. But still, Algie was holding Neville by his ankles from an upstairs  window, and he obviously wasn't paying a lot of attention to what he was doing.  It's an early appearance of the "holding someone upside down" motif, and I'm sure *that's* not an accident. 

I'd also forgotten that the pier and the dangling weren't the only  incidents. Algie "kept trying to catch me off my guard and force some magic out of me," says Neville. So there were lots of chances for an accident to happen.

 
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> Alla:

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> But I do not think WW by and large is okay with what Snape did by giving three innocents (whoever they may be)  to Voldemort to eat. I see no proof that they are.

Pippin:

 Snape did not ask anyone to kill Harry or James. Is there canon that if  Voldemort had decided that he should just wait to see if the prophecy showed signs of coming true before he acted,  Snape would have been in there saying, "No, my lord, you must strike now?"  He just didn't think they were worth saving, an opinion much of the WW seems to share when it comes to werewolf children or giant children, or lowlife children like Morfin.  

And Aberforth wanted to hold the DE children hostage. Not much point in that if he wasn't willing to let them be harmed. 

But that wasn't my argument. I said that Snape might not expect Lily to mourn the loss of a husband or a child that she didn't want, and that there were examples of rejection in his background and in the culture of the WW generally. 

 We're told in DH that Squibs are usually sent to Muggle schools and encouraged to live as Muggles. But it isn't beyond Muriel's imagination that some families might do away with such a child instead. She's no Death Eater, nor does she accuse Kendra of dark magic. Algie's examples shows us how it could happen.

Pippin