SHIP: Neville as the spoiler (was: Ginny marked by Lord V, etc.)

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 34262

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "blpurdom" <blpurdom at y...> wrote:
>I mean the part about Neville being too clueless to 
> discern that a girl likes him (just not THESE girls, unless it's 
> strictly temporary). 

Permanently, please. Ginny and Neville. (/me has carved into a class 
wall. N.L + G.W. with a heart around it.)

1. It would show that Ginny has moved past the impressionablity of 
the earlier books: hero-worship of Harry, the susceptability to Tom 
Riddle's charms, even the seeming idolization of Bill's coolness, to 
seeing what's inside a person. Neville does not appeal to her at 
first. She is presented as having a pained expression, as he treads 
on her feet at the ball. But she keeps faith with him when she gets 
the hoped-for invitation from Harry (via Ron :-), suggesting that she 
will not let initial feelings rule her life.

2. Neville is a much more enterprizing and talented young man than 
most people give him credit for. While Ron and Harry were moaning 
about how they didn't have dates, Neville asked Hermione, was turned 
down, and then asked Ginny. Notice that he asked girls whom he knew, 
and supposedly liked, not the prettiest person he could find (like 
Ron and Harry). Neville knows(unlike Ron: no stunning looker himself 
I'm guessing) that he is not the best thing going, and has got past 
that very creditably. I think he's going to confound everyone else by 
being the first to find success in love, and without going through an 
emotional blender first. 

3. Why Ginny and Neville at the Ball? I take it as JKR's first hint 
that there's a future for that couple, that not everything will 
revolve around the trio. That loyalty, humility, charity, and quiet 
bravery will finally have their reward.

Eileen