Neville in the Box?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 177115

--- "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> Imagine for a moment that you answer your door bell
> to find JKR waiting for you. She has a huge rather 
> battered box in her arms which she drops just inside
> the door. "This is for you," she says and leaves 
>before you can gather your senses.
> 
> You open the box to discover page after page of neatly
> written notes and entire sections of typed manuscript. 

bboyminn:

Among other things, I want to know what was happening
to Neville while Harry and Co were off on their camping
trip.

Consider Neville and Ginny plotting to break into the
Head's Office and steal the Sword. What must that 
conversation have been like? Pretty bold and ballsy
move if you ask me. Also, notice when Harry arrives, 
it is Neville everyone gathers round and looks to for
direction. Neville went from less than a follower to 
the leader. 

I've said before that while Harry and Co were off on 
their adventures, the rest of Gryffindor was sleeping
snuggly in their beds. Apparently Neville has finally 
woke up and is no longer content being comfy warm in
his bed. Now he is taking action and living adventures
of his own.

I suspect if the book hadn't already been so long,
we might have gotten a glimpse of that. Still, it
Neville's seventh year at Hogwarts would have 
probably made a pretty good story on its own.

Just a thought.
Steve/bboyminn