Neville (my theory)

[mornerka at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 8829

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rachelle Elliott" <relliott at j...> 
wrote:
> > Subject: OWLS/Neville
> 
> > "A small, sorta unanswerable thing, page 213: "He watched, as 
though
> > somebody   was playing him a piece of film, Sirius Black blasting
> > Peter Pettigrew ( who   resembled Neville Longbottom ) into a
> > thousand pieces." Why did JKR put that part in parentheses about
> > Neville there?  Many times,   little things that we just 
overlooked
> > at first has ended up that ended up   being a forshadowing of some
> > sort... Can this be one?  If it is, in what way?    Any theories?
> > It's true that we don't know much about Neville except that he
> > seems to be really really clumsy.  Is Neville hiding something?  
Or
> > maybe   it's something that even Neville doesn't know about... I
> > don't know... I'm   kinda just blabbing."
> 
> I have a theroy,  I may be completely off base but... Maybe in 
future books,
> Neville is approached by the dark side to betray Harry the same way 
Peter
> was to betray James and Lily.  The difference being that Neville 
will have
> enough courage to stand-up to the Dark Lord.  Neville has suffered 
directly
> (ie his parents untimely demise) from Lord Voldermort and his 
followers.
> Neville may end up pay the ultimate sacrifice for his friends.
> 
> 'You don't understand!' whined Pettigrew.  'He would hav killed me, 
Sirius!'
> 'THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!, roarded Black.  'DIED RATHER THAN 
BETRAY YOUR
> FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!'


Wow. That's a great theory. I hadn't thought about that before! It 
would definately explain why Neville has become more and more 
prominent as the books went on.