There's not much to go on

[mooseming]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
<Snip>
> But fear not. If the worst  comes to worst we have the technology,
> the imagination, the sheer brass neck to reconstruct the HP plot-
> lines into a BANGier format. Such a pity that we can't actually 
enter
> the story a la Thursday Next and influence it from the inside.
> 
> Kneasy

Yes, yes, you're right, this is no time to faint hearted.

The faq reply to Neville's role left me despondent because I had 
been working on a theory as Neville as 'sleeper' and I was 
distracted by the boy-who-would-(not)-be-king element, but perhaps 
that was the point!

Neville, I think, could be a 'sleeper' for Voldy. The attack on the 
Longbottoms has always struck me as odd, why then, why 'where is he'?

Would the DE's really believe that the Longbottoms would know where 
Voldy was, why should they? However, they would know where Neville 
was. Who was with the Lestrange gang? Barty Jnr that's who, he of 
the Imperious curse, he who as Mad Eye Moody spent time alone with 
Neville, giving him a book as comfort for the Cruciatus 
demonstration, or not. More like updating the Imperious curse he put 
on Neville as a baby, creating a mole in the Harry Potter ranks. 
Neville with the dodgy memory and unreliable magical ability, who's 
(shady) Uncle Algie gave him the Mimbulus Mimbletonia that squirted 
over his travelling companions making them susceptible to the call 
of the veiled gateway. Good, honest, timid, loyal Neville.

The parallels with wormtail are obvious, this time the treachery is 
unconscious perhaps but just as dangerous. I for one will be 
watching Neville very closely....

Trust no one!

Regards
Jo