Weighing In Very Late on the House of Black

[carolynwhite2]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Eileen Rebstock" 
<erebstock at ...> wrote:
>

> 
> Frank Longbottom's relationship to both Barty Jr. and Bellatrix is 
also pretty twisted. Particularly the closer one to Barty Jr. since 
I gather the answer to the perennial question, "How did Barty Jr. 
get past the
> Longbottoms' guard?" could be summed up with "Barty Jr. was 
*family*." After all, both the Longbottoms and Crouches were on the 
same side of the war.
> 
> Eileen
>

Agree, and when you do a re-read in light of all this knowledge, 
little phrases just jump at you. F'rinstance, Neville's sad little 
comment in GOF that his grandmother was always on at him to uphold 
the family honour. Especially after what Barty Jr had done.


BTW, is this yet another flint: Petunia is described as shrieking 
with horror on finding baby Harry on her doorstep when she opened 
her front door to collect the milk. But wouldn't a muggle milkman 
have noticed a baby lying on there and done something about it? Or 
is the definition of a flint now so elastic that we just roll our 
eyes and groan nowadays?

Carolyn