OOP: Genetics, HRHN/MWPP, Cho, Hermione/SPEW, Neville, Sirius, more

[rane_ab]

No: HPFGUIDX 62005

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "clicketykeys" 
<clicketykeys at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Taryn Kimel" <amani at c...> 
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> > * Neville - Hate to say this, everyone, but I think Neville's 
going 
> > to go bad. He's even got it in his name! (Can't escape your name-
> > destiny, yanno.) And there's the parallel between HRHN and 
MWPP... 
> > Neville's the afterthought, the incompetent one, the one who's 
> > consistently told that he's not nearly as good as his parents 
were. I 
> > see Harry following in his father's footsteps as the leader, Ron 
> > being the instigator like Sirius, Hermione providing Lupin's 
voice of 
> > reason, and Neville... well, there's only one guy left. Remember 
how 
> > the Sorting Hat took a long time with him? Bet Slytherin was an 
> > option along with Hufflepuff.
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> > Me:
> > That's the very reason why I'm positive Neville WON'T go bad. 
Even though there's a very uncanny parallel between the two groups, 
they don't have the be the same, because of /choices/, the theme 
flung at us over and over.
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> > --Taryn
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> Very true, choices, but I think that we'll see that more /after/ 
> Neville goes bad, making the parallel between the groups 
transparently 
> obvious. Unlike Wormtail, Neville will be skilled at magic by that 
> point, and later on, when it comes time to make his Big Choice, 
he'll 
> do the Right Thing.

Neville's parents are at St. Mungo's - *mad* - because some wacko DEs 
cruciated them for a little too long. I really, *really* don't think 
Neville's going to go bad. Neville joining the ones who destroyed his 
parents, especially after that hospital scene in Oop? Yeah, right.