Harry's character development: Static or Dynamic? Was: Saving Private Draco

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 183729

> Magpie:
> I considered him to have done that in PS when he attacked Crabbe and 
> Goyle and also won the last ten points for standing up to the Trio.  
> 
> Neville grows up and there are more superficial changes to him, but I 
> think Neville's choices show who he is in first year and he just 
> keeps showing that same character throughout. Other people finally 
> see him as the brave person he always was, and Neville loses his 
> outer timid demeanor, but I really don't think his character 
> fundamentally changes at all. It might take Harry longer to see him 
> clearly.

Zara:
To be considered dynamic, a character does not need to change 
fundamentally, at least not according to the reference I looked it up 
in. A change in insight or attitude qualifies. Neville was always 
brave, I agree. But in DH, he became a leader, and not merely by being 
brave as he always was, and happening to win a following thereby, but 
consciously. He explains to Harry in DH that he stood up to the 
Carrows, because he had seen Harry doing it in OotP with Umbridge, and 
saw/felt how important that was to him and to others.