[HPforGrownups] Re: Which friend?

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 48134

klc3 at st-andrews.ac.uk said:

>My instinct is (and it is just an instinct, I don't have any canonical
>evidence to back it up) is that history may repeat itself. Pettigrew
>is compared to Neville (in Harry's nightmare in PoA, he pictures
>Pettigrew as looking very like Neville) and if Neville was to be the
>betrayer, it would give events a tragic symmetry.

I thought of this too, but there is one very important difference: Pettigrew 
gave in to evil through cowardice. Neville is not a coward.  He stood up to 
Harry & Co. in the first book, he endures Snape's constant tormenting, and 
I've always assumed that courage was why he was put in Gryffindor. It's 
possible (in fact likely) that Neville could be used as a dupe, but if 
confronted with threats he would probably refuse to give in.

Consider, after all, whose child he is. Isn't it likely that Neville has 
inherited *some* of the characteristics of a top-flight Auror and his wife 
who were strong enough not to break under torture? And also that he'd find 
the strength somewhere not to disgrace the memory of his parents? (Remember 
what his grandmother said about "upholding the family honor.")



Janet Anderson


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