The TRAGEDY of Frank & Alice Longbottom - Harry Potter Explained
Harry Potter Theory

The TRAGEDY of Frank & Alice Longbottom - Harry Potter Explained

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 202619 min

Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. Today we’re going to be discussing Frank and Alice Longbottom, otherwise known as the parents of Neville Longbottom. Specifically, we’ll be taking a closer look at their history—who they were, what they were like—and then shifting to what happened to them at the hands of Bellatrix Lestrange and the other Death Eaters. This is another one of those topics that the movies barely touch on, so if you haven’t read the books, there should be a lot of information for you here. ...

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are fragments of their history, a few comments from other characters and of course Neville,

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Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. Today we're going to be discussing Frank and Alice Longbottom, otherwise known as the parents of Neville Longbottom. Specifically we'll be taking a closer look at their history, who they were, what they

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were like and then shifting to what happened to them at the hands of Bellatrix the Strange the other Death Eaters. This is another one of those topics that the movies barely touch on, so if you haven't read the books there should be a lot of information for you here. Frank and Alice are characters that we hear quite a lot about throughout the series,

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without ever really getting the opportunity to know them properly, because by the time Harry enters the wizarding world, the people they once were are effectively gone. All we're left with are fragments of their history, a few comments from other characters and of course Neville, who grows up carrying the weight of everything that happened to them.

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