The "Finding Flamel" scene

[porphyria_ash]

Did anyone else take the bait and preorder the DVD of _Harry Potter 
and the Sorcerer's Stone_ from Amazon? If you do you get to view a 
deleted scene from the film that shows the Trio chatting in the Great 
Hall before they finally notice the mention of Flamel on Dumbledore's 
Chocolate Frog card. It's cute in that it revolves around Ron and 
Hermione squabbling with each other while Harry just sort of laughs 
at the two of them. 

But the weird thing about it is that Neville makes an appearance in 
the clip and it portrays him in a really OOC way. From what I recall 
of the movie, Neville's character wasn't developed a whole lot in the 
first place. In this clip he limps in suffering from a leg-locker 
curse. Instead of undoing the curse Hermione *totally ignores it* and 
the whole Trio lets him limp around and finally abandons him there, 
still locked, at the end of the scene. It's Seamus who tries to undo 
the curse for him but Neville angrily protests, citing, of all 
things, Seamus's lack-of-expertise with magic. Which struck me as 
really random; Neville never refuses any help in canon, much less 
gets rude and angry with someone for trying to help him.

Granted, the scene was deleted in the first place, and it's clear the 
whole thing was staged for comic effect, but still it makes me wonder 
where they thought they would've gone with Neville's character if 
they'd had more time. I was wondering what other people thought.

~~Porphyria