Neville's role in the series (Was: Neville's Gran)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85515

Dogberry wrote: 
> I agree with Berit, Neville will not torture Bellatrix, he won't 
> sink to her level. 
> 
> I think the problem with his Gran is that she can't let go to what 
> happened to her son. She is trying to make Neville into Frank and 
> not seeing Neville as his own person. I think the person to be wary 
> of is Great Uncle Algie. I don't trust him; after all, he dropped an 
> eight year old out of a second story window and giving him a very 
> rare plant no t mention Trevor
 something is going on there.
> 
> I see Neville's role in the future books as the unsung hero, he will 
> be there for people when they need him but will no be the leader. I 
> would like to see Neville becomes a teacher or a healer. I don't 
> want him to become an auror, it will feel like he is living up to 
> his Gran's and indeed the rest of his family exceptions rather then 
> his own.


I like your idea about Neville's gran trying to make him into Frank by
giving him Frank's wand. That makes a lot more sense than having her
try to make him into a squib, especially since having (essentially)
lost her son and daughter-in-law to Voldemort, she has every reason to
oppose him and none to be on his side. If anyone is keeping them from
recovering their senses, it almost certainly isn't gran.

But Great Uncle Algie (whom I take to be Gran's brother) doesn't
strike me as evil--more than a bit eccentric, but he would know that a
wizard child wouldn't be killed by dropping him out a window. (He
probably doesn't have much experience with Muggeles. Imagine if Aunt
Marge had done that to Dudley. . . .) I think that both the Mimbulus
mimbletonia and Trevor will play some sort of role in Book 6 or 7, but
for good, I hope. And heaven forfend if Trevor turns out to be another
animagus. Here, Crookshanks. Sniff him, please, so we'll know he's a
real toad. . . .

Carol