Neville Revelation

[vjmerri]

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From: vjmerri
Subject: Re: Neville Revelation
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Date: 8/18/00 12:28 am  (ET)

By: estesrandy
Date: 8/18/00 12:05 am

I just came across something in Sorcerer's Stone. Neville was attacked
by Draco Malfoy who gave him the Leg-Locker curse. After the counter
curse is performed on him and he explains what happened, Ron says to him:

"You've got to stand up to him, Neville!"

I think this is a subtle forshadowing of Neville's coming of age scene
in Book 7. I predict Neville will finally publicly stand up to to Draco
Malfoy and become a hero.
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I think it was more for the immediate use to have Neville stand up to
H, Her & ron. Remember, he tried to stop them from getting out of the
griffindor tower.

I think its going to be Ron who gets Draco. Now that doesn't mean that
I don't agree that Neville will have his own coming of age party, but
I don't think it will be against Draco.

Maybe it will be against Snape, who has always been so rough on him. As
another example of "I don't care if he's against Lord V., Snape is still
slime" in GOF Neville gets a detention for melting his cauldron, which
was an accident anyway, but what makes it worse is that Snape forced him
to pickle frog brains, or frog parts of some sort. Now Neville has a toad
for a pet. How would anyone on the list like to have had to pickle parts
of cats or dogs or whatever pet you had when you were 13-14, even if it
wasn't your pet specifically. The frogs were used for potion ingredients,
but there was no reason except sheer nastiness for Snape to make Neville
do that to a creature that's so close to his own pet.

Snape is slime. I would like nothing more than for Neville's coming of
age party to be standing up to Snape and giving him a real good curse.

Vicki