[HPforGrownups] Re: Neville's Wand

[charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 109781

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Ferer" >

> Some part, sure.  I would guess that you could use your parent's wand
> better than a total stranger's.  The more like your parent you are,
> the less the wand mismatch.  But it's still not Neville's very own
> wand, the wand that picked him.
>
> Boolean:"Will we see an improvement once [Neville] has a new wand in HBP?"
>
> We're going to see an improvement no matter what, I think.  Neville
> has so much come into his own he will be reborn. He's a 100% proven
> Gryffindor hero now.  The seeds were there when he defied his own
> friends in PS/SS and they have born fruit now.
>

charme:

How interesting you use the word "seeds."  I don't know if anyone else
realizes it, but in homeopathy "mimulus" (I know it's not the same word as
Mimbulus as in Mimbulus Mimbletonia, but work with me here) is a flower and
that flower is used as an extract in homeopathy:

"Mimulus is used as a type remedy for people who tend to be nervous, timid
and shy generally. Sometimes people of this type may blush easily or
stammer, and they will usually avoid social occasions and any event where
they will be in the limelight. Mimulus is the remedy to encourage the quiet
courage and strength that lies hidden in such people, so that they can face
the everyday trials of life with steadfastness."

Quite an interesting concept, isn't it?  Just do a search on Yahoo or Google
for mimulus and you'll find it.  That plant of Neville's is growing with him
and his abilities, or influencing him in some way, IMO......