Neville's Wand

[Marci]

No: HPFGUIDX 109441

 "Boolean" <j.balfour at l...> wrote:
> Just finished re-reading the battle scene in the Dept of Mysteries 
in 
> OotP again, and have been thinking about dear Neville...
> 
> It is revealed (sorry, book at home so no page refs.) that he has 
> been using his father, Frank's, wand during his whole time at 
> Hogwarts. As his grandmother constantly reminds him, he is "not as 
> good as his father", but could part of the reason for this be to do 
> with the fact that he is not using his own wand - one which 'picks' 
> him, as Harry's did in PS? 
> 
> I know a lot of people have speculated that Neville's ineptness 
could 
> be to do with having a memory charm placed on him as a child, after 
> seeing his parents be tortured. However, Neville is good at 
> Herbology - a subject which seems to rely less on wandwork than 
other 
> subjects. As we have seen with Ron, a wand which is not personal to 
> its owner will not work as well. Will we see an improvement once he 
> has a new wand in HBP?

I guess I just sort of responded in another post about the same 
thing.  Neville's wand.  Yes, Neville excells in Herbology, which 
does not rely on wands.  However, neither does potions.  I think he 
does poorly there because of Snape basically.  It's not Neville and 
not even totally the fact that he was using Frank's wand.  Would 
Harry really be less inept if he was using his father's wand?  
Charlie's wand worked for Ron until he broke it.

I'm not one who believes Neville suffers from a memory charm from 
seeing his parents tortured.  He was a year old.  Did Harry get one 
too???????  His mom died in front of him, no?

Neville needs lest pestoring and pushing from Nana.  Neville needs 
his own wand.  He'll finally get it and a nice confidence boost.  I 
hope...

Marci