Spy novel? maybe (was Lupin's secrets )

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 118676


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Juli <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Lisa: <snip>
> > Is it possible for Neville to turn to LV?  LV might
> > have had his parents 
> > crucioed into insanity, but power is one of the
> > greatest aphrodisiacs.
> > 
> Juli:
> If you compare Neville to Pettigrew sure, but I don't
> see them even a little alike, for all we know Peter
> was a terrible wizard at school, and Neville isn't,
> sure he may screw up ocasionally but mostly because he
> lacks trust in himself, and he's quite good at
> herbology, and when he tries he can get things done.
> Neville hates LV and the DEs, At the DoM in OoP
> Neville says something like "don't give him [Malfoy]
> the prophesy, Let him kill me" or something like that
> (sorry don't have exact quote), when I first read this
> I thought Wow, that's very cool of him, he rathers die
> or be tortured than let LV get anything he really
> likes. I also remember when the DEs (including the
> Lestrange) escaped from Azkaban, Neville was
> furious... So, in other words No way will Neville join
> LV or his DEs, his wounds are too deep.
> 
> Juli

Carol adds:
I agree with Juli. Neville has shown moral courage almost from the
outset of the books, standing up against his friends to try to prevent
them from doing what he thought was wrong--exactly as Prefect Remus
ought to have done, and Neville was only eleven, not fifteen. He shows
physical as well as moral courage in the MoM, as Juli illustrated in
her example. It's incomprehensible that Neville, whose family has
suffered so much at the hands of Bellatrix and her followers, could
ever join or consider joining the Dark side. His pain when
Crouch!Moody Crucio'd the spiders is, IMO, sufficient evidence of the
burden of grief he silently bears, as is the gum wrapper he pockets in
St. Mungo's.

Carol