The Harry Potter series develops as the characters develop. When the characters grow and become more complex, that is when the story becomes what it is because the challenges, risks, and consequences become so much higher. AS these characters grow, it changes the momentum of the story and also the way that you look at the story.
Neville is a really good example of a character that developed as the series progresses. His development creates a new perspective on courage and trauma, and after learning his story you make look at him and Harry both differently.
You learn that Harry is not the only character in the series that has experienced a life-changing trauma, even though his story is the one that you are more exposed to. But Neville also lost his parents to St. Mungos at a very young age from the doing of a death eater. He gets to visit them of course for they are not dead, but they do not remember him or know who he is by any means.
Also, the prophecy stated that it could have just as easily been Neville instead of Harry that Voldemort chose to kill. With that it makes the reader think that Harry is not this great character, but just someone who was born at the wrong time. It reminds the reader that it could have been anyone, even just an ordinary clumsy wizard like Neville.
Neville’s story makes me as a reader remember that great things can happen to anyone. They may be terrible like in this story, but anyone can have the destiny to do something life changing. It may not change the whole world, but it could change you, and for Neville, Harry Potter does that. Knowing Harry gives Neville the strength that he has always had, but has been overcome by fear and the feeling of incompetence.
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