[HPforGrownups] Re: PoA Chapter Summary: Chapter 7 Question 10

Tue May 15 20:10:37 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 18798

> > 10. Why did Neville tell Malfoy that Potter had passed out when the
> > dementors came onto the train?

Behold a Gryffindor in whom there is no guile.  Neville was genuinely
anxious about Harry's collapse and unthinkingly assumed that everybody else
would be alarmed by it as well.  He wasn't thinking of how Malfoy could
misuse such information to get at Harry, because it would never occur to
Neville to do such a thing himself.  He's just that sweet and naive.
--
Rebecca J. Bohner
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