The Big Bangers and Neville

[moongirlk]

No: HPFGUIDX 35904

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
 
> I think Faith's version of Neville's backstory, while Faithful, is 
a 
> great deal less Bangy than Harry's.  I mean, Harry's backstory is a 
> Cherry Bomb -- big, bad, unpredictable and dangerous.  Neville's 
> backstory is just a sparkler -- initially appealling, kind of 
> pleasant to hold, but it won't get anyone's attention really, and 
it 
> eventually kind of fizzles out -- the kind of thing a small child 
> can manage on her own. :-)

Wow.  I think I'm completely outclassed here.  When I think of 
Neville's backstory I get all misty-eyed and impressed.  To me it's 
tragic and terrifying and... something else that starts with a T.  To 
a Big Banger, it's a sparkler.  They don't even *make* noise.  Wow.  
I bow to your Bang.

> This suggests to me that JKR is . . . a closeted Banger.  

I think you're probably right.  I mean, the whole series is 
*definitely* Bangy.  I guess that's why the flaming moderate in my 
soul can't handle too terribly much *extra* Bang.  I may like Edge, 
but I can't bear a tear-jerker (Sissy Spacek frightens me).  

Maybe there are only a 
> few to go around.  Hagrid is certainly going to get one, what with 
> all the hints about Giants in GoF.  Harry already has one.  Maybe 
> there's no room for Neville to have an elaborate Bangy backstory.
> 
> Sheez, I hope that isn't true.  If JKR tossed in that bit in GoF 
> about the fate of Neville's parents just to wind me up, and if she 
> doesn't go somewhere with it, well . . . she would never do such a 
> thing to me.
> 
> Would she?

Don't you worry - even Faith is sure JKR's *going* somewhere 
interesting and exciting and maybe even Bangy with Neville.  I don't 
know about her, but I even hope it *is* somewhat Bangy (as long as 
Sissy Spacek doesn't play his institutionalized mother - then 
someone's going to have to hold me).  It's just that with all we 
already have about his past, I have to go with Faith in believing 
there's no real point in making it worse than it already was.

> Cindy (who will *never* stop laughing if any of our insane 
> backstories turns out to be true)

So then, did you *like* my insane backstory?  Because I did my best 
to put in all the Bangs and angst I could.  It made me a little 
queasy, but I did it for your entertainment.  You didn't like my 
scenario on the ambush being Snape's idea, so I'm feeling a little 
vulnerable now...

kimberly
who saw some new tv pilot tonight, and wishes some of the HP bashers 
would spend their time worrying about trashy stuff on tv instead of 
endearing books about child heroes fighting the forces of evil.