Neville's Wand

[gelite67]

No: HPFGUIDX 113203

"aubussonjd wrote:

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-- Once Neville is 
> suited with an appropiate wand that has chosen him, I can see 
nothing 
> stopping Neville from becoming a very powerful wizard. He must 
> certainly have talent to be able to master spells with another 
> wizard's wand. 

Angie congratulates on an excellent first post:

I agree and good point about him being able to master spells with 
another wizard's wand.  It seems that part of what was holding 
Neville back was lack of motivation and confidence.  His gran 
apparently drilled it into him that he would never be as good as his 
father, so why try? But when he decided in OOP to join Dumbledore's 
Army, he reached a turning point (I believe he starting on this road 
when FakeMoody performed the Crucatious curse on the spider in GOF) 
and began to improve beyond all recognition, according to the 
narrative in OOP.

As to his wand, since his father's wand was broken in OOP, he will 
presumably get a new wand in Book 6. It will be MOST interesting to 
see what kind of wand he gets.  Perhaps Fawkes's tail feathers are 
getting a little heavy and he needs to make another donation?  :)
> 
> 
> aubussonjd also wrote:
> P.S. Sirius lives.
> 
Angie agrees and hopes they are both right: 

I know there are numerous threads on this, but I'm just wondering if 
DD wants LV to think Sirius is dead so that he can do more work for 
the order and so that Sirius can't be used as a way to lure Harry 
into LV's grip again.  It just looks like to me if JKR wanted to be 
crystal clear that Sirius is dead, she could have written it that 
way -- as with Cedric's death.  Instead, she either left a HUGE red 
herring or ample wiggle room to bring him back.  I hope it's the 
latter.  Harry needs a parent-type person (I refuse to believe JKR 
would kill Harry in the end).