[HPforGrownups] Re: Fudge and Harry as Gryffindor's heir - In praise of Neville

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 108106

Kneasy:
> Neville is really a Huff. Not really good at anything. 
 


Not at all.  Huffs are the ultimate team players and
all-for-one-one-for-all types.  They're the service-club-joiners, the
Kiwanis-Club-leaders, the civic-munipal-politician types.  The group
is everything.

Neville's a loner - off on his own and popping up on our radar screen
only occasionally.  But whenever he shows up in OOTP, he surprises us
with how much he's grown and developed.  And even without his own
support network, he was capable of both physical courage (know anyone
else in the series who's taken on Goyle and Crabbe singlehandedly?)
and moral bravery (standing up to the Trio when they were about the
leave the Tower in PS/SS).  Neville had more guts in his first year
than Remus Lupin had in his fifth with the authority of prefect to
boot.

I really wonder how Snape felt as he sat at the Leaving Feast in
PS/SS and watched his House being stripped of its victory - not
because of the Trio (whose extra points simply tied Gryffindor and
Slytherin) - but because of Neville's extra points for the special
courage to stand up to his friends when he thought they were doing
something wrong.  I think he thought (with very mixed feelings):
"Dumbledore, you old b******d.  You know I can't really protest
this."

We skip over this point but the fact is: Gryffindor won that year
because of Neville.

Magda


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