Hee-- reading Rowling has been so, so bad for my use of capital letters. I will try to refrain from shouting so much from now on :)
Neville, hmm. In one sense this *has* been coming for a while-- he has definitely had something of an arc this way since book 3 or so. And I could see that exactly such a situation could be what was needed to galvanize him into action. It also probably makes a difference that he didn't know, e.g., the Carrows when he was small and more easily cowed. However, I see your point... it was certainly a really large jump from book 6, and one might reasonably have thought that Snape as headmaster would have totally intimidated him.
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Date: 2007-08-03 08:27 pm (UTC)Neville, hmm. In one sense this *has* been coming for a while-- he has definitely had something of an arc this way since book 3 or so. And I could see that exactly such a situation could be what was needed to galvanize him into action. It also probably makes a difference that he didn't know, e.g., the Carrows when he was small and more easily cowed. However, I see your point... it was certainly a really large jump from book 6, and one might reasonably have thought that Snape as headmaster would have totally intimidated him.