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| | HPL: Essays - Harry Potter - The Importance of Neville Longbottom |
 | | Similarly, Neville starts out as basically comic relief — unable to catch his toad, constantly stumbling, forgetting (or messing up) spells, perpetually forgetting passwords, stepping in rather than jumping over the vanishing step, and on and on. |
 | | Like Harry, Neville has had high expectations placed on him (by his grandmother), although they are not, of course, of the same order. |
 | | As the books have moved along Rowling, while still keeping Neville in his "comedy relief" mode (for example, the Stinksap incident on the Hogwarts Express in OP10), shows us in many ways both subtle and obvious that Neville is advancing in knowledge and confidence. |
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