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

[andmcgrn]

No: HPFGUIDX 62010

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rane_ab" <rane_ab at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "clicketykeys" 
> <clicketykeys at y...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Taryn Kimel" <amani at c...> 
> > wrote:
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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.
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > --Taryn
> > 
> > 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.

I agree, I don't think  Neville will switch, but on another subject, 
whenever I read the GoF I feel sick thinking tht Barty Crouch Jr is 
teaching Neville after what he did to his parents.

But I can never see Neville change a that would just be such an 
insult to his parnets memory.