Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Bonus: Neville Longbottom


Neville Longbottom. He is considered to be possibly the worst wizard at the school for most of the series. He is clumsy, he is a pushover, and has no courage. This is until he is faced with great challenges such as Snape becoming headmaster, and standing up for what he believes in. As we find out in the deathly hallows when harry Hermione and Ron enter Hogwarts, Neville has been leading the DA. We see a glimmer of this bravery in the order of the phoenix when Neville joins harry and the others when they go to the department of ministries.
Neville’s story has developed greatly since we first meet him on the Hogwarts train in book 1. We eventually find that he could have very well been attacked by voldemort rather than harry based on the prophecy. His parents had defied voldemort three times, and he was born at the end of July. And in the end Neville helped kill voldemort. Without truly knowing what he was doing, Neville destroyed the final horcrux.
         Neville has shown his bravery for the cause that helped drive his parents mad. He finally showed his grandmother that he was just as great as his father, and he proved to all his fellow students that he truly did deserve to be in the house of Gryffindor. 

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