Longbottom RE: Did someone say Crouch? RE: [the_old_crowd] Re: By the way....

[Eileen Rebstock]

I wrote:
> Anyway, we know Barty Jr. was nineteen at the time of the Longbottom
> incident in 1981. Birthdate of 1962 then. There's quite enough time
> there for Charis to marry, have Bartemius Sr., and for him to grow up
> and marry as well. So I'd peg Charis and Caspar as Barty Sr's parents.

Taking another look at it, the same goes for the Longbottoms. Charis's
sister Callidora was born in 1915. If she married out of Hogwarts, she
could have had a child in 1933, who'd have gone to Hogwarts in 1944.
That child would have married Augusta, who at the same age or a few
years older would be within McGonagall's generation, close enough anyway
to be on first names basis decades later. (Years matter less when you
get older.) She then has Frank. Neville's born in 1980, so that leaves
time for Frank to get married and along comes Neville. 

Callidora still alive? It's not impossible, though it would seem that
Neville doesn't have too much of a relationship with her if so. If she's
a darkish witch - and her husband does have that sinister name - there
might be reason for Augusta to keep her grandson away from her. Goodbye,
ESE Gran Longbottom. Hello, ESE Great-Gran Longbottom.

The other question is which year the tapestry portrays. Callidora might
be dead by *now* in the text. 

Oh, gee, you know what this means. Barty Jr. and Frank Longbottom were
second cousins. Cozy little world.

Eileen