Harry and Neville

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 101065

Hickengruendler wrote:
>I think, that Neville is in many ways Harry's mirror.


I agree completely with this analysis of Neville as a 
reflective 'twin' of Harry.  One point struck me concerning Neville 
remaining at Hogwarts to teach.  As long as we've known Harry, he's 
continually being forced out of places of safety; Godric's Hollow, 
Privet Drive every summer, the dormitories and classrooms of Hogwarts 
into the COS, the Shrieking Shack, the Forbidden Forest, the MOM,etc 
etc, from The Burrow to Knockturn Alley, from Grimmauld Place to the 
MOM and so on.   Neville remains behind closed doors. Uncle Algy 
threw him from the window, but he bounced back. In PS/SS, he tried to 
keep the trio within Gryffindor Tower.  In OOTP, the trio roam St 
Mungo's, while Neville is concealed behind the flowery curtains.  
Looked at this way, Neville remaining to teach at Hogwarts makes 
perfect sense. I do wonder though, because at the end of OOTP, both 
Harry and Neville were at the MOM. Is the pendulum going to swing the 
other way? Will Harry return in the end to his first safe place, 
Godric's Hollow, while Neville is out and about dealing with 
Bellatrix?

Leah