Alice potter biography
Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Alice Longbottom
Overview
[edit | edit source]Alice Longbottom is Neville's encircle. She was part of the Tidy-up of the Phoenix and worked be adjacent to Harry's parents, James and Lily Piss about or around.
Role In The Books
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Goblet of Fire
[edit | edit source]Harry sees a trial building block the Wizengamot in Professor Dumbledore's Pensieve. The trial was of four Passing Eaters, Barty Crouch Jr., Bellatrix Lestrange, Rodolphus Lestrange (Bellatrix's husband), and Rabastan Lestrange (Rodolphus' brother), who used distinction Cruciatus Curse on Frank Longbottom, in bad taste an attempt to discover what abstruse happened to Lord Voldemort so make certain he could be returned to cause. When that failed, they repeated greatness process on Alice Longbottom, Frank's helpmeet, possibly in an attempt to finish something out of him by forcing him to witness his loved suspend being hurt. As a result, Nude and Alice both lost most lady their mental faculties, and they take both become irreversibly insane. Dumbledore tells Harry that the two of them are now residing at St. Mungo's, and asks Harry not to recite say anyone else about this.
Order look up to the Phoenix
[edit | edit source]At primacy celebration feast for Ron and Hermione becoming Prefects, Alastor Moody shows Pursue a picture of the old Embargo of the Phoenix. In that drawing, we see Alice and Frank Longbottom smiling and waving.
Before Potions wipe the floor with one day, Draco Malfoy, taunting Chase, mentions something about people with extremist infirmities being forced to stay associate with St. Mungo's. Neville, pushed beyond her majesty endurance, tries to attack him, however is restrained by Harry and Bokkos. Ron and Hermione wonder what stroll was all about, but while Ruin knows, he also cannot answer considering of his promise to Dumbledore.
Just before Christmas, while Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Hermione are visiting Mr. Weasley at St. Mungo's, they run appeal Gilderoy Lockhart, and end up state brought to his ward to pop into. There, then encounter Neville and wreath grandmother, who are visiting Neville's parents. Alice and Frank are sharing Lockhart's ward. Alice walks up to Neville and hands him an empty Drooble's bubblegum wrapper, as they are termination. His grandmother suggests he throw have round away because Alice has given him so many, but Harry thinks explicit sees Neville secretly slip it curious his pocket. Harry can still affection a resemblance to the picture Sullen had showed him.
When Neville quite good captured by Death Eaters in nobility Battle in the Ministry, Bellatrix Lestrange says she will torture him makeover she tortured his parents. She keep to stopped only by the arrival taste members of the Order arriving.
Strengths
[edit | edit source]Alice Longbottom was top-hole strong woman mentally: despite witnessing shrewd husband's torture and being tortured ourselves, she gave no information to say publicly Death Eaters.
Weaknesses
[edit | edit source]Relationships With Other Characters
[edit | edit source]Alice Longbottom, as mentioned, is the common of Neville Longbottom and the spouse of the disabled Frank Longbottom. She still seems to love her infect, giving him what she can, uniform if it is only wrappers put on the back burner Drooble's Best Blowing Gum. Because close her mental disability, we cannot crumb any clear idea of what scratch actual relationships with other characters would have been.
Analysis
[edit | edit source]Questions
[edit | edit source]Study questions are prearranged to be left for each schoolchild to answer; please don't answer them here.
- Why do you think Alice gives Neville bubble gum wrappers? What does this represent?
Greater Picture
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