Neville Longbottom has come a long way throughout the Harry
Potter Book Series. Neville has “blossomed” in a sense from a character that
seemed he was going to stay in the background the entire series, considering he
was very socially awkward, and seemed so untalented, to a character that can
definitely hold his own in almost any situation. Let’s take the last book for
example. Since Harry, Ron, and Hermione were not attending Hogwarts for their
last year, and they were entirely devoted to finding and destroying Voldemort,
who was going to be at Hogwarts, the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry so serve
and protect the students? None other than Neville Longbottom himself. Neville
was in charge of Dumbledore’s Army, the DA as some like to call it. Neville and
the others were prepared to go into battle when the time called. Neville was
showing a role that exemplified much courage and leadership. If you were to
think six years back, in the book sense, Neville would have never been caught
dead organizing a group of this immense scale, and of this much importance.
Heck, he couldn’t even keep track of Trevor, his pet toad!!! Also, nearing the end of the book, Neville is
the one that ends of cutting off Nagini’s head, which is Voldemort’s snake that
is a horcrux. Killing Nagini was imperative, and in the end it was Neville’s
honor to cut off his end and doing this, destroying one of the horcrux items.
Even though Neville doesn’t have that big of an appearance in the last book,
his underlying role is one that is very important. Neville goes to show that
even though he might not be the “chosen one” as he might have very well been
considering what the prophecy had in store for Neville and Harry, but he had developed
himself into a very strong and courageous wizard. Neville’s family, and above
all, his Gran would be proud.
Alexandra Stevenson
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