It was only when Bella showed her the horribly mangled, seemingly dead body of her dear husband that she finally cracked. He, too, had refused to give Neville up, defying Voldemort for a third time ... and thus was how the Longbottoms came to fulfil those terms of the prophecy. Then the Death Eaters simply beat Frank into physical submission, as a way to try and break Alice. Her last words of sanity, as she watched her beloved's broken body being smashed yet further, had been the anguished screams of Frank! Frank! ...