Why to Like and Not Like OoP

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 70835

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
wrote:
> "ellejir" wrote:
> 
 
> > Neville was not going to stay a hopeless loser forever
> 
> So Neville changes drastically (bear with me, you'll see what I'm 
> getting to)
> 

He didn't. Neville's development in OOTP was the most logical out of 
all characters in the book. In which way does he really change? He is 
good in DA, but we know from POA, that he can do good in class with a 
teacher who encourages him (Lupin). Than he fought the Death Eaters. 
He was pretty hopeless (because he wasn't able to articulate a spell) 
but nonetheless he fought. That is exactly the same situation as in 
PS when he took single handed on Crabbe and Goyle. He had no chance, 
we knew he had no chance, and Neville himself probably knew it, too. 
But nonetheless he fought. That was always his strength, it just 
became clearer in this book than in the others. I agree that some 
character developments are unbelievable (especially Ginny and 
Harry's, IMO), but not Neville's. That was IMO a very logical next 
step.

Hickengruendler