In support of Neville

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No: HPFGUIDX 36637

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "kmohdia" <violettaprimrose at h...> wrote:
Yes - Neville has social courage. That's something most of his fellow 
Gryffindors lack (most clear example is Neville asking a girl out 
compared to Ron&Harry).

In classes he's not afraid to fail.

Yet, he doesn't blunder *all* the time, and never in herbology.

Neville's lack of prejudice...

I think that Neville's upset (like Harry was when he blundered as 
much as Neville) most of the time he blunders. Neville's an empath, I 
think. Now, the banishing charm wasn't hurting anyone, but Harry was 
upset enough not to be able to concentrate... and Neville was just as 
upset *because* Harry was.

He feels what other beings do... Just imagine Potions. Everyone's 
bashing poor little beetles into powder - Neville feels the pain - 
and melts his cauldron (maybe he knew it somewhere deep inside, and 
hopes that if it happens often enough, they'll stop killing animals 
for potions!)... Snape making him disembowl toads... It's just 
horrible! Not only that empath ability to feel for the toads, but the 
likeness of them to his Trevor...

Imagine- McGonagall tells the class to transfigure a toad into a 
teapot and Neville refuses. Are we going to see Neville refusing to 
do transfiguration/potions on ethical basis? Saying it's not Right to 
do so? Now *that* would be Neville's way of showing some spine - his 
courage in standing up against a teacher for the sake of animals...