on Neville Longbottom

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 47028

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Proginoskes <pervywraithfancier at y...> 
wrote:
> Finwitch wrote: "So well, I think that house-elves would harm 
others or themselves if they were given wands much worse than Neville 
transfiguring his ears onto cactuses.(Side-note: human-
transfiguration while they haven't been tought that yet and Neville 
thinks he can't do much magic. 

Proginoskes: 
> *Good sidenote*, Finwitch. Have you gotten the impression from the 
books that Neville's garbled magic is still tapping into some greater 
source of power than meets the eye? And everybody's discussed why he 
was put into Gryffindor, whatever corner of the net they're in.

*Of course* he's in Gryffindor.

In all of the characters, Neville Longbottom is, to my view, the ONLY 
one with absolutely no Slyherin trait in him. That's also why the 
Slytherin-Head-Of-House considers him as 'nothing', as well as the 
typical Slytherin, Malfoy.

His mind is definately not organised enough for him to be in 
Ravenclaw, his constant memory lapses etc.

Neville says, feeling sorry for himself that he should have been in 
Hufflepuff, and not brave enough to be in Gryffindor-- obviously 
giving more value to Gryffindor than Hufflepuff. The hat spent lots 
of time with him, considering between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor, I 
think. Neville values Gryffindor more - that might be one thing, 
but...

Brave: Definately. He's facing his worst fear (Snape) regularly, not 
whining about it at all. Standing up to his friends is the sort of 
bravery that puts him apart from loyal-to-friends-Hufflepuff. During 
the third year, Neville admits to being the-password-leak is very 
much Gryffindor. As well as when he, reluctantly, raises his hand 
inthe fake-Moody's class. If those acts aren't brave, I don't know 
what could be, despite of not putting Neville's life in danger.

Chivalry- Neville is that, all right. His emphaties with ALL kinds of 
beings, including spiders. He did not want those poor spiders to 
suffer; yet, he had to announce his knowledge of this particular 
curse, considering his parents. He could NOT deny that. He's much too 
*polite* to stand up to teachers who insist that he hurts beings like 
beatles, toads or hedgehogs; so caring that he can't help thinking of 
the poor bird with pity when he sees a feather...

When he manages to keep this under control, he doesn't have any 
focusing energy left to control his magic, too...

-- Finwitch