Neville
Longbottom. Enough said. He was a character that has completely developed from
the first to the last book. Yes he was quirky and a bit of a goof but honestly when
you first read the seventh book did you really think you’d see Neville bursting
out of the crowd to kill Nagini? Neville has definitely grown up and shown his
true colors throughout the series and honestly without Neville we wouldn’t see
the comic relief or just the flat out good guy in all of this. He was the guy
that you cheered for.
When we
first met him in his first year at Hogwarts he was this awkward kid. He was
that kid that you didn’t want to talk to when you were eleven because he was
just that odd. As you grew up, you realized that the weird kid you didn’t talk
to at eleven was becoming the cooler kid at the age of like fourteen and so on.
By the time they hit their seventh year Neville is leading a secret alliance
against the Carrows at Hogwarts and is basically taking the lead since Harry is
off fighting Voldemort. When you first meet you don’t see him doing this by his
seventh year. You almost expect him just to be the same awkward kid forever.
To me the
changing point with Neville came really early on. In the first book he stood up
to Harry, Ron, and Hermione. You don’t see it then but when you think back
through the book you realize “yeah Neville’s got some guts.” Then you read
through the seventh book and see him leading an alliance and killing Voldemort’s
snake and you’re like “YEAH Neville!” Basically he’s the guy that you want to
see get the girl and live a long happy life. He is the classic coming of age
kid. He is a strong, brave, kind individual. He’s the most underrated character
in this entire series but he is the most developed character in the series even
though he isn’t one of the three main characters. He really comes into his own
in the seventh book and people really see this.
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