Neville's future role/Evil!Neville

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 97187

Luckie wrote:
> Many people, including me, believe the marauders and the trio-and-
> friends share many similarities, and that Harry and his friends 
> parallel Harry's parents and their friends. IMO, Harry=James 
> (obviously), Ron=Sirius (loyal, adventurous best friend), 
> Hermione=Lupin (academic, follows rules more often), Draco=Snape 
> (slytherin nemesis of the hero), Ginny=Lily (this, of course, is 
> up for speculation and all I'm really going on is the red 
> hair/green eyes, and the possibility of a H/G ship). Where does 
> that leave Neville? Why, he's Wormtail, of course!

Del replies :

* Harry = James ? Nope. James was a jerk at Harry's age, going out 
of his way to jinx Snape. Harry never does that, never goes after 
Draco just for fun. Harry has morals and believes in right and 
wrong, James apparently believed in force and fame. Harry respects 
the girl he fancies, James didn't (asking her to go out with him in 
order to stop bullying Snape, excuse me !?). Etc...

* Ron = Sirius ? Nope again. There was a sense of equality between 
James and Sirius, that isn't truly there between Harry and Ron until 
OoP. Neither James nor Sirius was the leader, and neither felt like 
the other was the better of the two. On the contrary, it is very 
obvious that Harry is the leader of the Trio, and Ron follows him, 
and they've had issues of relative "worth" : they fell out in GoF 
because Ron was sick of feeling like Harry was so much better than 
him, and Harry had a stab of jealousy at the beginning of OoP when 
Ron got the Prefect badge as he felt he deserved it more.
And of course James was the one who had the nice family who adopted 
Sirius, while it's the complete reverse with Ron and Harry.

* Hermione = Lupin ?? Most definitely not !! Remember what Lupin 
said (paraphrase) : "I got the Prefect badge because DD hoped I 
could keep James and Sirius in check, but I failed." Hermione, on 
the other hand, *does* use her Prefect authority to maintain peace 
and order ("... because we're Prefects, Ron !"). It's obvious that 
Lupin never truly tried to calm his friends down, even before he got 
the badge, while Hermione has been bossing everyone around right 
from the beginning and forcing them to respect the rules (when she 
wasn't breaking them herself, of course ;-)

* Draco = Snape ? No pun intended, but Draco is a very pale 
imitation of Snape then. Snape knew a lot of Dark Magic when he 
arrived in school, Draco didn't. Snape stood his ground on his own, 
Draco is never seen without his bodyguards. Snape associated with 
older students, Draco has chosen abysmally dumb comrades. Snape 
carried out his own avenging actions, Draco runs to his daddy or to 
Snape to get Harry in trouble. Snape is fascinating, Draco is boring.

* Ginny = Lily ? You admit it yourself, not much ground for that 
supposition. They both have red hair (but Ginny is described at 
least once as having brown eyes, in CoS), and they are both quite 
strong-willed, but that's it. And we have to remember that Lily 
disliked James for 6 years before starting to like him in 7th year, 
while Ginny liked Harry even before starting school and is 
apparently getting less and less romantically interested in him.

* Neville = Wormtail ? Honestly... !! Peter was a *coward*, Neville 
has shown courage straight from the beginning, he was even rewarded 
for it in PS/SS. Peter was always looking for the protection of the 
biggest bully around, Neville has never asked for any kind of help 
from Harry (every time Harry did protect/help Neville, he did it of 
his own accord, not because Neville asked him to). Peter betrayed 
his friends to save his life, Neville was ready to give his own to 
save Harry at the MoM (I mean, he did jump right in the middle of 
the circle of DEs surrounding Harry !!). I know that Peter and 
Neville look very similar, even McGonagall said that Peter reminded 
her of Neville in PoA, but that doesn't mean that Neville = Peter, 
no way.

Del