Neville, with or without the Canary Creams

[davewitley]

No: HPFGUIDX 36548

Elkins wrote:
> I had then gone from 
> speaking to Kimberley to speaking to David, someone I was guessing, 
> on the basis of some of his previous writings, might feel a bit more
> comfortable with a far more academic/analytical and far less 
> popular/"fannish" (personalized, interactive, extrapolative, 
> rebellious) approach to the text.

I have rather stacked the case against myself recently, haven't I?  
But I only get uncomfortable when one approach is implied to be 
superior to another.

>Most of my housemates, themselves Neville-types as children (what 
can I say?  we tend to stick together), instinctively read the scene 
much as I did.
> 
> Does JKR's Neville feel the same way though?  Oh, probably not.  

(long list of interesting Neville points snipped)

I'm slightly lost.  Doesn't that list of points suggest that JKR 
*does* 'get' Neville?  Or is that a third Neville, different from 
that of Hermione's imagination *and* your identification?  Or are you 
just unconvinced by your own argument?

David, now dreaming about the kitchen table in the Elkins household