Bubbles & Memory part 2

Bubbles and Memory: a Staggeringly Long Neville Theory

PART TWO -- MEMORIES IN DEATHLY HALLOWS: WHAT THE LONGBOTTOMS KNEW

by Bob Rozak

Bellatrix and the Horcruxes

"Lestrange..." Harry said aloud. The name had stirred something in his memory ...
(OotP Chapter 6)

Many people have already come to the conclusion, quite correctly, I believe, that Bellatrix knows about the Horcruxes. Let's review some evidence:

Voldemort is arrogant, he can't help grandstanding, and he desires to make an unforgettable mark on the Wizarding world. He is too proud of himself; basically, when it comes to his own greatness, he has a big mouth. This is the very reason he wrote the diary, to take credit for his deeds, the very reason for his grandiose speech in the graveyard in GoF. He feels that what he has done with his Horcruxes is a feat like no other, however, no one will ever know. This would torture Voldemort beyond anything: he had to tell someone. Voldemort can't help but boast.

Bellatrix seems to have a strangely close relationship with Voldemort, so close in fact that many people had theorized a Bella/Voldy ship. We now know for certain that can't be, because Voldemort doesn't have those kinds of emotions. But Bellatrix's unwavering loyalty says something, as does Voldemort's almost protective nature of her. During the DoM battle in OotP, he made sure she got away safely. He doesn't seem to mind sacrificing other Death Eaters to his cause. Bellatrix must know something he doesn't want to get out, even though she screwed up at the Ministry.

"He shares everything with me!" said Bellatrix, firing up at once. "He calls me his most loyal, his most faithful--"

"Does he?" said Snape, his voice delicately inflected to suggest disbelief. "Does he still, after the fiasco at the Ministry?"

"That was not my fault!" said Bellatrix, flushing. "The Dark Lord has, in the past, entrusted me with his most precious -- if Lucius hadn't--"
(HBP, Chapter 2)

The important words here are "in the past" and "his most precious." This implies she's been holding a secret for a very long time. Add to that her attitude: she's much different than any other Death Eater. Most Death Eaters claim they are faithful, but none even come close to Bellatrix. When Voldemort fell the Death Eaters scattered, hid, lied, and made up excuses for their actions. Bellatrix was the only one we know of- including the other Death Eaters at her trial- who seemed to truly believe that Voldemort would rise again:

The dementors placed each of the four people in the four chairs with chained arms that now stood on the dungeon floor. There was a thickset man who stared blankly up at Crouch; a thinner and more nervous looking man, whose eyes were darting around the crowd; a woman with thick, shining dark hair and heavily hooded eyes, who was sitting in the chained chair as though it were a throne; and a boy in his late teens, who looked nothing short of petrified. (GoF Chapter 30)

Her confidence in the matter, in fact, seemed as though she knew he wasn't finished. She was the only Death Eater to speak out with a proclamation of loyalty to Voldemort:

...the woman with the heavy-lidded eyes looked up at Crouch and called, "The Dark Lord will rise again, Crouch! Throw us into Azkaban; we will wait! He will rise again and come for us, he will reward us beyond any of his other supporters! We alone tried to find him!"

Bellatrix herself admits to the accusation that she was trying to find Voldemort. How would she know where to look? If she held some knowledge of the Horcruxes, she just might know where to start.

It's clear that Voldemort would not tell one individual Death Eater everything about his Horcruxes, that would be unintelligent and dangerous. However, we do know that some Death Eaters knew about his valuable objects, like Lucius and the diary. Voldemort entrusted him with it, but Lucius did not know it was a Horcrux. The same theory seems true with R.A.B.: Voldemort needed someone, presumably around Harry's age, to go with him and check up on the locket, therefore R.A.B. knew the locket was of value to Voldemort, but did not know it was a Horcrux- at first. He discovered that secret later.

Bellatrix may know the location of a Horcrux, but the matter is unimportant. She definitely did not know the location of all of them. If she knew that Voldemort's valuable objects were actually Horcruxes, though, that is of great importance. She would believe that when Voldemort fell, he would take refuge with one of his Horcruxes; they are, after all, what was keeping him alive. After he fell, she checked the place or places she knew to hold Horcruxes, then went to track down the rest.

GoF, Chapter 30:

"Yes, they were talking about Neville's parents," said Dumbledore. "His father, Frank, was an Auror just like Professor Moody. He and his wife were tortured for information about Voldemort's whereabouts after he lost his powers, as you heard."

How did Bellatrix end up at the Longbottoms? Obviously, she believed they had knowledge about a Horcrux., because we know for sure she didn't know about the prophecy from the Rumors section on JKR's website:

rumor: The Lestranges were sent after Neville to kill him
JKR: No, they weren't, they were very definitely sent after Neville's parents. I can't say too much about this because it touches too closely on the prophecy and how many people knew about it, but the Lestranges were not in on the secret.

Looking again at this quote, though, we might be able to deduce some other important information. First, note that she doesn't want to say much about the Longbottoms/Lestrange ordeal. Next note the reason she can't comment: it would reveal who else knew about the prophecy. What can we conclude from this?

Let's review: The prophecy was made to Dumbledore, who, most likely, warned the Potters and the Longbottoms of the danger. We cannot conclude if these families knew the exact wording, but in the interest of keeping the secret, probably not. Harry was told about the prophecy in OotP, where we also learned that Voldemort knew about it and half of the exact wording.

That's all we knew at the time JKR made the above statement. Now we can conclude what she didn't want to reveal: Snape was the other person who heard the prophecy.

So, JKR didn't want to comment on the torture of the Longbottoms because it would reveal who else knew about the prophecy, which means she didn't want us to realize that Snape had a role to play in the night the Longbottoms were tortured.

That means its finally time to look at Snape's role in this story, and why he might have been at the Longbottom's. Let's first look at some things that tie him in.

"Remedial Potions" and Legilimency- Snape's role

There are some very strong ties between bubbles, Legilimency, and the closed ward. A very key clue is given to us when the Healer states that improvements can be made to people like Lockhart, who suffer from memory charms. Most importantly is the wording she uses:

"Of course, with intensive remedial potions and charms and a bit of luck, we can produce some improvement..."

"Intensive remedial potions" is a strong clue, quite an interesting choice of words by JKR. "Remedial Potions" is the code word Snape uses for Harry's very intensive Occlumency lessons.

Now, we've already established connections between Potions and bubbles/memory. During "Remedial Potions," the connection gets even stronger, because these special lessons have even more to do with bubbles/memory. To reinforce this idea, during these lessons we find the "cauldron for thoughts," the Pensieve. We even get to see into Snape's memories, which have been brewing in the Pensive, during Snape's Worst Memory. And it was there we found a crucial clue which helped us tie together the "unable to speak" theme.

All of these clues are making connections, especially when you substitute Snape's "remedial potions" code word in the Healer's sentence for what he does during these lessons: Legilimency.

We know from Dumbledore that Legilimency can be used to break a memory charm and retrieve the memory from within. We also suspect that the Longbottoms have been victims of several memory charms.

Clearly, to get anywhere with the Longbottom mystery, someone's going to have to use Legilimency on them. Everything points to that person being Snape.

One of Snape's greatest talents is his ability with Legilimency, and JKR has spared nothing in making that clear.

As the Potions Master, Snape was tied strongly into the bubble/memory running bit.

With Dumbledore gone, there is no one else skilled enough with Legilimency.

Snape's horrible treatment of Neville and Neville's subsequent fear of Snape make the former Potions Master the ideal candidate to add drama to this plot.

But where does Neville's fear of Snape stem from? We know from his boggart in PoA that Snape is his absolute worst fear. Considering that Neville is quite traumatized by his parents plight and has a consequential fear of the Cruciatus Curse, the fact that one of his schoolteachers- no matter how mean- scares him worse says a lot. Most of our greatest fears stem from our childhood, as in Harry's case; he's afraid of the dementors because it makes him relive his parents' death, and in Ron's; he's afraid of spiders because the twins turned his teddy into a spider when he was little. I think Neville is no different- something in his mind is associating Snape with his parent's fate.

So did Snape help torture the Longbottoms?

No sir. The first reason being simply that Bellatrix did not succeed in what she was doing. Just as Voldemort used Legilimency and the Cruciatus Curse to get information out of Bertha Jorkins, Bellatrix used them on the Longbottoms. (We know she can do Legilimency because she taught Draco Occlumency.) The end result was the same, except that Bellatrix did not succeed. We know this because Bertha is dead, all the useful information having been extracted and leaving her worthless. The Longbottoms are alive because Bellatrix hadn't found what she was looking for.

Had Snape, who is so highly skilled in Legilimency that he just might be fooling Voldemort, been there to do it for Bellatrix, surely he would have succeeded. At which point the Longbottoms would no longer be useful. Yet they are still alive.

Would Bellatrix have given up and left?

Certainly not- she'd have tried until her victims died. Which means they were interrupted. But by who? Let's narrow it down:

"The Ministry was under great pressure to capture those who had done it. Unfortunately, the Longbottoms' evidence was- given their condition- none to reliable."
(GoF, Chapter 30)

Let's first note that the Ministry had to catch Bellatrix - N- Friends, which means they got away after they were interrupted. This suggests whoever caught them was outnumbered, so it's likely there was only one person.

Also note that the Longbottoms testimony wasn't reliable, so how did the Ministry make a conviction with no evidence? Obviously, they did have evidence; Crouch states, "We have heard the evidence against you..."

Why then, was the evidence not heard in front of the accused- and why not in front of the reader? It would seem that whoever gave testimony against Bellatrix -N- Friends was being protected. That's right -- Snape. As a double-agent he was still useful in rounding up the other Death Eaters, and so to keep the active Death Eaters believing he was on their side- no matter what Dumbledore thought- he couldn't be seen giving testimony against the Death Eaters.

Now, as Snape knew of the prophecy, and knew Voldemort trusted Bellatrix with his most precious secrets, he would have been expecting her to show up at the Longbottoms. She didn't know about the prophecy, of course, but Snape didn't know that. The problem was, Snape showed up a bit too late.

Is that why Snape treats Neville the same as Harry? Snape hated feeling indebted to Harry and treated him horribly. If he felt that the Longbottoms fate was partially his fault, he'd also feel he owed something to Neville.

I realize that if Snape had interrupted Bellatrix's Cruciatus party, then his cover would be blown- only it wasn't. I think we have a strong clue as to how Snape could have stopped them without being recognized, as well as have a good excuse show up there. Remember how Neville handled his boggart in PoA? Snape in Gran's clothes. If he had to take the Polyjuice Potion before showing up to check on the Longbottoms, that might explain why he was a little late.

And now we come to baby Neville. If he did have a Memory Charm put on him, this would have been one of the ideal times. Neville, at this point, was anywhere between 15 months old and two years, possibly even older, as we can't be sure when this event took place. But seeing his parents tortured in front of him, and possibly even suffering some torture himself, is enough to traumatize a child for life. It would have been wise to wipe the incident from his memory then and there, before it even affected his psyche.

Now remember that Neville's boggart wasn't simply Snape- it was Snape pulling out his wand.

Next remember that Memory Charms can damage one's memory permanently when not done just right- and Snape's no trained Ministry employee.

We end up with Neville, the boy with an abysmal memory and a deep rooted fear of Snape.

Now that Snape may have a debt to Neville, and seems to be the only one left to recover the information from his parents damaged minds, we find another problem: Using Legilimency to break a memory charm can be damaging to the person, and the Longbottoms are already badly damaged- it could kill them.

Neville to the rescue.

Neville's thesis- the Mimbulus Mimbletonia

Powerful Legilimency can be painful both mentally and physically, as Harry found out from Snape, and as Bertha found out from Voldemort. A person in pain, it seems, will find it much harder to close his mind, which is why a Death Eater would speed up the process with the Cruciatus Curse.

When Dumbledore procured Morfin's forgotten memory in Azkaban using Legilimency, Morfin was only weeks from death, and already weak. Dumbledore still found it difficult. Using Legilimency on the Longbottoms, especially when they may have had plenty of "booster shots," could potentially kill them. If anyone can do it, it's Snape, but how to make sure the Longbottoms survive? It may be a coincidence that the answer will come in Neville's seventh year studies, but by no accident. As the final year at Hogwarts, we can expect something new.

The last two years at Hogwarts are the advanced years; N.E.W.T.s are not required after one obtains his O.W.L.s. The last two years at Hogwarts are more like college, therefore in the final year we can expect each student to be required to do an independent research study on a subject of their choice: a thesis.

References to Herbology have been hinted at by the bubble running bit as well, meaning it has ties to this plotline.

"Oh yeah, you're right," said Ron, tearing his eyes away from Prof. Flitwick, who had golden bubbles blossoming out of his wand and was trailing them over the branches of the new tree.
(PS/SS, Chapter 12)

...but Ron was having trouble with his wand again; large purple bubbles were blossoming out of the end, and he wasn't much interested in anything else.
(CoS, Chapter 13)

Of course, Neville's best subject and only real interest is Herbology. When he has to pick a subject for his thesis, it will undoubtedly revolve around his favorite subject. But what, specifically, will Neville's independent research project be about?

Neville is more enthusiastic about his special plant, the Mimbulus Mimbletonia, than anything else. In OotP, it's mentioned several times, as well as used as the password to the Gryffindor tower- which helps Neville remember the password easily. In HBP, Ron reportedly makes a joke about a hag, a Healer, and a Mimbulus Mimbletonia.

Let's take a look at the structure of the plant's name to find in advance the secrets he might discover within the plant itself: "Mimbulus Mimbletonia" is a portmanteau derived from three words combined cleverly by JKR: The plant genus "mimulus", and the words "mumble" and "nimble."

As mentioned previously, plants of the genus mimulus are used in folk remedies to give courage and cure forgetfulness.

Mumble: to utter words in a low confused indistinct manner; mutter

Nimble: 1 : quick and light in motion : agile
2 a : marked by quick, alert, clever conception, comprehension, or resourcefulness b : responsive, sensitive

The suffix "-tonia" is used in the formation of words that generally denote a personality type or personality disorder (catatonia; somatotonia, myotonia), or a degree or state of tonicity. (tonicity: the property of possessing tone; especially : healthy vigor of body or mind)

So, the name Mimbulus Mimbletonia is designed specifically to show the plant could be used to take someone from a mumbling, confused state, like the people in the closed ward, and help them become nimble- alert, comprehensive, and responsive.

It's quite possible Neville will be attempting a study on the plant's abilities that could improve his own memory. In a clever twist, Neville might just have to combine his best subject, Herbology, with his worst subject, Potions, to complete his thesis. One wonders what changes we could see in Neville.

When it comes time for Harry to discover the secret locked in the minds of the Longbottoms, Neville will coincidentally have just the thing to strengthen his parents mental health enough for Snape to use Legilimency and break the Memory Charms.

Interestingly, this brings Neville to face his final fear. He's already faced his enemies, stood up to his friends, faced the Cruciatus Curse and met Bellatrix Lestrange, now its time to get over his fear of Snape- by letting Snape meddle with his parents.

Another big Herbology/Legilimency clue was given to us in HBP, Chapter 14, during Herbology class. The class is working on gnarled Snargaluff stumps. The object of the lesson is to remove, with great difficulty, pulsating green pods the size of a grapefruit from the stumps. Once they get a pod, they squeeze it out into a bowl.

This is more symbolism: trying to remove a memory (pod) from a "innocent looking lump of wood" (the "vegetables" in the closed ward) using a difficult and dangerous method (Legilimency).

There are also a few words that hint about the other residents of the closed ward: Ron looks "sheepish" (Agnes), and Harry "wrestled with a thorny vine intent on throttling him" ( Bode and the Devil's Snare), Harry worries about being "shut out for good" (Lockhart).

However, there's still a couple of problems with getting Snape to do Legilimency on the Longbottoms: first, Harry's got to discover that Snape's on his side. No doubt, the Dumbledore portrait will repeat Dumbledore's words, "I trust Severus Snape completely," but Harry won't listen, preferring not to believe because it's just a portrait. Then something will happen that proves Snape trustworthy; Harry will probably learn the real iron-clad reason why Dumbledore trusted him.

That solved, there's still the problem of actually getting Snape into the closed ward. He's now wanted for killing the most respected wizard in the magical community, so he'll need a good disguise. Who could visit the Longbottoms without raising suspicions? Neville and Gran, of course. Back to Snape in Gran's clothes.

Another anagram which supports the notion that Snape will visit St. Mungo's.

Finally, what will Snape find locked in the minds of these prisoners of the ward? How will he even know he needs to look there?

Snape's job- why Dumbledore had to die

Certainly anyone who believes that Dumbledore planned his death believes it was because Snape made the Unbreakable Vow. This makes sense, certainly Dumbledore would sacrifice himself so that Draco and Snape could be spared. However, there's more to it than that. One must consider Dumbledore's cause- the fight against Voldemort.

Considering how powerful Dumbledore is and how much wisdom, cleverness, and knowledge he possesses, it seems odd that Dumbledore decided his death had become necessary, especially since it seems Snape didn't want to do it. His argument with Dumbledore in HBP indicates that he was willing to be the one to die- but Dumbledore wouldn't allow it. Why?

Because Dumbledore knows that Snape is more important to the cause, knows that he can accomplish much more. Let's consider the plot. Dumbledore's been tracking the Horcruxes while Snape infiltrates the enemy. The more important job is Snape's- because not only is he infiltrating the enemy, he's tracking the Horcruxes too.

Dumbledore has gone as far as he can in finding the Horcruxes. The rest must be found from the inside- how else did you think Harry would find out about them?

Snape's mission was made symbolically clear when he was able to run through the Death Eater's cursed barrier, and no other member of the Order could. (HBP Chapter 29)

Dumbledore spent the year filling Harry in on everything he knew about Voldemort and the Horcruxes; he knew he had to. Snape did what he had to do to prove himself to Voldemort and the other Death Eaters- specifically, Bellatrix. In Bellatrix we can answer an even more important question than "Why did Dumbledore have to die?" We need to ask, "Why did Snape agree to the Unbreakable Vow in the first place?"

Take another look at HBP, Chapter 2. Did you notice a theme? The entire chapter is basically about one thing: Snape trying to prove his loyalties to Bellatrix. Consider that Bellatrix has had a bit of a falling out with Voldemort after the screw up at the Ministry. If Snape was indeed loyal to Voldemort, why does he care so badly what Bellatrix thinks? Her opinion has no effect on what Voldemort's opinion is. Narcissa is there, but she already trusts him completely. Why all the fuss just to convince Bellatrix?

As suspected earlier, Bellatrix knows that Voldemort's using Horcruxes. She might have information that can lead to another one, or perhaps more. And that's why Snape had to live and Dumbledore had to die. If Snape had refused to make the Unbreakable Vow, he would never have gained Bellatrix's trust.

Snape knows that Bellatrix tortured the Longbottoms. Now that Bellatrix will trust Snape completely, Snape might be able to find out why she did it and what she knows. Right now is the best time to find out, because Bellatrix is feeling vulnerable, she wants to feel like Voldemort still holds her in high esteem. Most importantly, Bellatrix has a big mouth. When she wants to prove that the Dark Lord holds her above the other Death Eaters, she'll talk. Snape nearly had her doing this in HBP Chapter 2. Reading this scene a second time, watch how Snape eggs her on, making her feel insignificant so she'll try and prove she's not, trying to get her to talk:

"My information has been conveyed directly to the Dark Lord," said Snape. "If he chooses not to share it with you-"

"He shares everything with me!" Bellatrix said, firing up at once. "He calls me his most loyal, his most faithful-"

"Does he?" said Snape. "Does he still, after the fiasco at the Ministry?"

"That was not my fault!" said Bellatrix, flushing. "The Dark Lord has, in the past, entrusted me with his most precious- if Lucius hadn't-"

"Don't you dare- don't you dare blame my husband!" said Narcissa, in a low and deadly voice, looking up at her sister.

Bellatrix was nearly ready to spill it then and there; too bad Narcissa had to interrupt them. Now that Snape will be the Dark Lord's favorite, Bellatrix will be incredibly jealous- and that means she's primed to prove she's important, too, which means bragging about what Voldemort's entrusted her with.

There's something that suggests it wouldn't be the first time she's blabbed.

Bellatrix, R.A.B., and Frank Longbottom- pure speculation on what happened

Very much like Voldemort himself, Bellatrix likes to boast. She can barely finish a sentence without bragging about her faithfulness to the Dark Lord, or telling of the Dark Lord's trust in her. When first entrusted with this secret, she would have had an uncontrollable urge to reveal that she had proof the Dark Lord had given her an honor above all others. Who would she trust?

Her sisters? Definitely not Andromeda, who married a muggle-born. And definitely not Narcissa, who married Lucius. If Lucius found out she'd talked, he'd report it to Voldemort to put himself in a better position.

But she had another family member in the Death Eater circle. Her cousin, Regulus Black, the popularly suspected R.A.B.

R.A.B., of course, must have been used by Voldemort in the cave, but he, like Lucius, did not know the item in front of him was a Horcrux, until his cousin Bellatrix revealed that Voldemort was in the business of making Horcruxes, and R.A.B. put two and two together. He, at least, was smart enough not to tell Bellatrix about the cave with the locket.

R.A.B. then decided to leave the Death Eaters, we don't know the real reason. It could have been he found the idea of the Horcruxes as horrible as Slughorn, it could be he was asked to kill someone close to him (like Sirius, who for some reason thought he needed to fool Voldemort by switching secret keepers).

For whatever reason, R.A.B. became scared and decided to back out. In doing this, though, he knew he was signing his own death certificate and decided, quite literally, to take a piece of Voldemort with him.

In order to get the locket, he needed someone's help, someone with talent enough to make it through the cave's obstacles and ward off the Inferi after he'd drunk the potion. However, R.A.B. also knew that he would be putting whoever helped him in incredible danger, not just in the cave but in the aftermath if the locket was discovered missing. Before going to the cave, he took precautionary steps to protect the person he took with him.

At the time, the Longbottoms were very popular, they were Aurors, and Frank is described as being very talented. Frank was the perfect man for the job.

It's possible that R.A.B. made a deal: he would turn himself in to these Aurors on the condition Frank first help him retrieve the locket. R.A.B. knew, of course, that he would never keep up his end, he had to make sure the locket was destroyed, and he knew he would be killed anyway even if he was sent to prison. It's also possible that R.A.B. cut a deal like Snape made, offering to be a double agent.

R.A.B. and Frank went to the cave and successfully stole the locket. R.A.B., all the while, implemented a plan to protect Frank. He replaced the locket with a fake, and left the note.

R.A.B.'s note says more than it appears. It does seem to indicate his young age, showing Voldemort what he had accomplished by taking credit- but that's the greater part of the note: R.A.B. takes all the credit (HBP Chapter 28):

"...I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret."

While seeming to only be displaying his brash youth, he's also protecting whoever helped him, as if saying, "I want you to think it was just me who did this."

After leaving the cave, R.A.B. implemented the rest of his plan to protect the man who helped him: he made him forget he ever did, his wife too. Perhaps he even made little Neville forget he ever saw R.A.B.

When R.A.B. stopped showing up in the Death Eaters circle, Bellatrix would have been worried- but she wouldn't dare tell Voldemort what she had revealed to her cousin. It would seem very much like Voldemort to send Bellatrix after her own cousin, but perhaps when Voldemort wanted Regulus killed, Bellatrix volunteered herself.

If the locket that was found at Regulus' old home was Slytherin's locket (both were described as "heavy") then he never had a chance to destroy it. The Locket found at Grimmauld Place seems to fit the bill, though. It couldn't be opened, so one would think there's something important hidden inside. No one tried to wear it, perhaps the same curse that was on the ring might have been done to someone's neck. Kreacher kept taking important items out of the trash, so maybe to locket wound up hidden in his little nest. One would hope he didn't bring it to Bellatrix when he visited her. Perhaps the Weasley twins pocketed it. Most likely, though, Kreacher knows where it is.

Bellatrix went after Regulus (and I tend to think she did, because Voldemort would be very pleased with someone willing to kill their own family for his cause- he did it himself), more out of fear for herself than to please the Dark Lord, and tried to find out what he'd been up to. Of course, when he wouldn't talk, she would have used Legilimency to try and see if he had repeated her secret to anyone. In a hurry, before other Death Eaters could show up and find out what was going on, and not being nearly as good at Legilimency as Snape, she would have seen Frank Longbottom and perhaps a glimpse of the cave, but no idea how to find it or if it still contained a Horcrux. She killed R.A.B. to cover her tracks.

When Voldemort fell, she knew to go right to the Longbottoms, but her mediocre Legilimency skills couldn't handle the difficult task of penetrating the Memory Charms.

Lucius, who is not skilled in Legilimency, realized that the Longbottoms knew something that Bellatrix had desperately wanted, something he might be able to use to his advantage, and so decided to keep the Longbottoms in his pocket.

And believe it or not, you made it to the end, that's all there is. Except for Trevor. I still don't know what to make of him. Maybe he just represents Neville's mind, wandering off...

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