Why couldn’t we have spent the middle of the book with Neville, Ginny, Luna, and the others at Hogwarts? Oh, right, then we’d all notice that Neville has become much more of a hero than Harry. Can’t have that.
Quote is from spork of the Xenophilius chapter - but it made me think - would things HAVE been better if we have been in Hogwarts with N, G and L? Or should we be thankful that by staying away, at least one or two beloved characters were spared from being mangled beyond recognition... read on:
Neville looked at the Sword in the glass case. Would he be able to get it out? Would Snape find them even now, despite their best efforts, skulking in his office with a hundred Headmasters watching? The Sword was at hand... but... He lifted his wand and whispered "Accio Sword". The sword did not budge - much as he had expected from the start. He had known, even before his five-week plan of getting into Snape's ultra-protected office had been made, that the chances were they would not be able to get the Sword out. If it was going to be easy, then it would not have been locked up in a glass case in Severus-Snape-Neville's-Bogart's office. In fact, Neville knew the Sword was probably a fake, anyway. But all the same, he and Ginny and Luna had got into the office and would now have to get the Sword out.
Luna said to Neville, "It's the Sword of Gryffindor. You are a true Gryffindor. What qualities personify a Gryffindor?"
Ginny piped in, "Courage - nerves of steel and fire - best represents the Gryffindor character. And while I am a true Gryffindor, I have a feeling you are supposed to do this, Neville, the Almost-Chosen-One."
Neville sighed. "You're right - I have to do this; and I must do that which on the surface seems foolish, but is actually a noble, valorous thing to accomplish."
He carefully took off his robes (Luna swooned - Ginny consoled herself with thoughts of eyes like pickled toad) and smashed his hand into the case, and pulled the Sword out with his bloody, mangled hand, every pore in his arm screaming vividly with pain and triumph.
Only to have Snape swoop on them like a bat and sentence them to detention in the Forest with 'that oaf, Hagrid'. There was a twinkle in his black eyes that no one noticed.
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Quote is from spork of the Xenophilius chapter - but it made me think - would things HAVE been better if we have been in Hogwarts with N, G and L? Or should we be thankful that by staying away, at least one or two beloved characters were spared from being mangled beyond recognition... read on:
Neville looked at the Sword in the glass case. Would he be able to get it out? Would Snape find them even now, despite their best efforts, skulking in his office with a hundred Headmasters watching? The Sword was at hand... but... He lifted his wand and whispered "Accio Sword". The sword did not budge - much as he had expected from the start. He had known, even before his five-week plan of getting into Snape's ultra-protected office had been made, that the chances were they would not be able to get the Sword out. If it was going to be easy, then it would not have been locked up in a glass case in Severus-Snape-Neville's-Bogart's office. In fact, Neville knew the Sword was probably a fake, anyway. But all the same, he and Ginny and Luna had got into the office and would now have to get the Sword out.
Luna said to Neville, "It's the Sword of Gryffindor. You are a true Gryffindor. What qualities personify a Gryffindor?"
Ginny piped in, "Courage - nerves of steel and fire - best represents the Gryffindor character. And while I am a true Gryffindor, I have a feeling you are supposed to do this, Neville, the Almost-Chosen-One."
Neville sighed. "You're right - I have to do this; and I must do that which on the surface seems foolish, but is actually a noble, valorous thing to accomplish."
He carefully took off his robes (Luna swooned - Ginny consoled herself with thoughts of eyes like pickled toad) and smashed his hand into the case, and pulled the Sword out with his bloody, mangled hand, every pore in his arm screaming vividly with pain and triumph.
Only to have Snape swoop on them like a bat and sentence them to detention in the Forest with 'that oaf, Hagrid'. There was a twinkle in his black eyes that no one noticed.