Fudge and Harry as Gryffindor's heir

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 108144

Kneasy: "Neville is really a Huff. Not really good at anything. Just
because he's better at Herbology than his other subjects doesn't mean
much. He's barely C+ overall and Herbology isn't a subject that
requires much magical skill anyway. "Ah!" posters say, "that's because
he used his fathers wand." Tripe, says I. It's because he has so
little magical content that he was thought by his family to be "all
Muggle." If he were an animagus he'd be a hamster."

His magical talents may not be as great as some others, but there's
something he's good at: Loyalty and courage.  How can there be any
doubt anymore that Neville Longbottom is anything but a 100%
Gryffindor hero?  A fifteen year old kid who would rather take the
Cruciatus Curse than desert his friend and have the enemy win their goal?

I hope that we'll see a different Neville, a more confident, less
easily cowed Neville.  That wouldn't surprise me at all. He's the
anti-Pettigrew.

Yes, it's about choices. Is Harry the genetic Heir of Gryffindor?
Maybe, maybe not, but he's shaping up to be the spiritual Heir.