OOP: Assorted Replies on Neville, Patroni

[Claire Browning]

No: HPFGUIDX 62470

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Someone whose name I can't remember said - 
>I am beginning to suspect that we have the right person but 
> the wrong subject - that Neville will become the DADA teacher and 
be 
> the one to un-jinx the job.  (I will leave as an exercise to the 
> reader how Snape, presuming he survives, will take that.)  He 
seems 
> to have quite an aptitude when he's properly encouraged.

Yes! I really like this idea.  Neville's character arc has been 
wonderfully handled.  He starts out sympathetic, then proves his 
true Gryffindor nature by standing up to his friends in PS/SS and 
now we learn he is a kind of bizarro world 'Harry Potter'. The 
UnChosen One.  

The only quibble I have with the way his character is handled is 
that he is much too worthy to constantly play out as comedy.  During 
the last battle I was upset that he lisping and sputtering all over 
the place.  Granted, he was talking through his wounds, but let the 
boy speak to his parents torturer without a lisp!!  Give him a 
moment in the sun!!

Okay, time to settle down :)

 
> And was anyone else highly amused that Hermione's Patronus is an 
otter?  ;)

Yes! Can't believe I forgot it until this post. Did we learn what 
Ron's was?