OOP: Re: Neville's Plant,

[katrinawitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 66858

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "donna_immaculata" 
 wrote:
> Donna's reply:
> Neville's plant has already played a great role: on the train, he 
> tells the others that it's got an amazing defensive mechanism. 
> Then,he, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Luna get splayed with the 
> plant's juice. These are exactly the people who get to fight the Death 
> Eaters at the end - and they all survive! Someone on the list has posted 
> the question how the children could successfully fight a group of 
> fully qualified Death Eaters, but maybe the Mimbulus Mimbletonia is at 
> least part of the answer? Maybe its defensive mechanism is somehow 
> transmitted on the person who gets in touch with the plant's 
> essence?
> Donna Immaculata 
> 
>  
> 

You're kind of right, Donna.  Actually, Ron and Hermione were up in 
the Prefect car at that point, so they weren't sprayed with the 
stinksap.  Still, I think it was some kind of "initiation", and it's 
no coincidence that Neville, Luna and Ginny played a major role at 
the end, and they were the only others besides the Trio that were 
there to help Harry fight the DE's.

Kat