Neville's talent now revealed in the next book?

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No: HPFGUIDX 87465

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diana" <dianasdolls at y...> wrote:

>     I get the impression that Neville's grandmother wanted Neville 
> to use his father's wand in order to try to get Neville to carry on 
> with his father's legacy (great wizard, powerful auror, etc.) and 
> the wand was a way of helping Neville remain close to his dad in a 
> small way.  
>     It's entirely possible that Neville will greatly improve in his 
> magic abilities NOT because he gets a new wand that's a 'proper 
> fit', but because he won't have the legacy of his dad (in the form 
> of his dad's wand) hanging over him at every moment making him feel 
> inadequate by comparison.  His family has obviously accentuated 
> his "lack of magical ability" frequently and talked about it in 
> front of Neville for years.  Neville knows he's a disappointment to 
> his relatives and knows they don't feel he comes even close to his 
> mom or dad as a wizard. 

I think Neville's going to be a big surprise in the next book.  I
believe he's going to floor everyone with his magical ability, as a
result of his better-fit of a wand and his new-found confidence. After
all, both of his parents were talented wizards. It just follows that
Neville would be, too. That is, unless someone (Gran, of course) was
somehow trying to squash his development.

I think Gran's going to have something to say about these new
developments.  I've believed for a while that Gran's been sabotaging
Neville's activities all along; not because she is ESE!Gran, but
because she's decided that keeping Neville in the dark is a good way
of keeping him under Voldemort's radar.  After all, why would
Voldemort bother going after a squib?

Perhaps Neville will even show Voldie that he actually possesses
powers "of which he knows not..."! 

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