Oop & PoA: Harry and Neville's "connection" and foreshadowing

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 76189

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Vanessa Heggie <vheggie at y...> 
wrote:

> Wrt the new `connection' between Neville and Harry,
> via the Prophecy, did anyone else instantly think of
> the Night Bus scene in PoA?  When Harry has to come up
> with a new identity, he seizes upon Neville's name. 
> This struck me as odd at the time, but perhaps less so
> now
given JKR's love of foreshadowing – are there any
> other occasions in the books where Harry identifies
> with Neville?  Or where they are described in similar
> ways?  Or where he envies him (I doubt it)?  I can't
> think of any off hand, but I wouldn't be surprised if
> they were there, somewhere

> 
> Vanessa

Yes, there is at least one.  In GoF, Ch. 31, after Harry had seen 
the trial of the DEs who had tortured the Longbottoms he is lying 
awake in bed relating Neville's plight to his own.

"As Harry took off his glasses and climbed into his four-poster, he 
imagined how it must feel to have parents still living but unable to 
recongnize you.  He often got sympathy from strangers for being an 
orphan, but as he listened to Neville's snores, he thought that 
Neville deserved it more than he did.  Lying in the darkness, Harry 
felt a rush of anger and hate toward the people who had tortured Mr. 
and Mrs. Longbottom...."

One of my favorite passages...

Annemehr
who spent much of CoS, PoA and GoF thinking "but where's Neville?..."