Neville's Biodata
Say Neville and a person would conjure up an image of a short and plump boy always holding a toad. And yes, he would lose his toad more times than he could keep count of.

Neville became more significant as the years go by. In the Prisoner, Neville returned Snape's nasty favours to him by turning a Bogget into a Snape wearing Neville's grandmother's signature feather hat and carrying a large red handbag. Needless to say, Snape was less tolerant of Neville in Potions class when word of the hilarious Defence Arts class got around.

In the Phoenix, when the chapter is about to close, Dumbledore revealed to Harry that he might not have been the "chosen one". In fact, if Voldemort had not marked Harry as his equal, Neville might have been in Harry's shoes. That got Harry looking at Neville more closely than he had ever before.

Also in the Phoenix, in the DA lessons, Neville, in a feverish attempt to learn skills to revenge his parents, did pretty well for a slow learner. Harry, too, was proud of Neville's achievements.

And oh, one last thing that many of us overlooked. In the Sorcerer, without Neville's Mimbulous Mimbutonia (wrong spelling..), Malfoy would never have stolen it, Harry would never have got on his brrom to get it back, Professor Mcgonagall would never have witnessed Harry's potential in flying and last of all, Harry would never have become the youngest seeker in a century.

Neville is a really sad boy with a painful history. His talented parents, who are former members of the Order, were driven to madness by Bellatrix. Both his parents are now staying permanently in St. Mungo. One scene that touched my heart was when Neville's mother gave him the sweet wrapper and Neville had looked defiantly at Harry and his friends, daring them to laugh. And when Neville's grandmother told him to throw the sweet wrapper away, Neville, instead, pocketted it. AWW.. that is so touching.. *sob*...

I hope to see more Neville in action and lastly i want to give Bellatrix a damn good curse," #@*$@#@%!!!" Hope either Harry or Neville trounces her in the 7th book!

signed, miaochen