Originally Posted by Tigerle
Neville? The boy who tried to stop his friends from losing any more house points in the first volume, and snagged ten points for Gryffindor, winning them the house cup? The one of six veterans of the battle at the ministry, in the fifth? Rowling even tells us the hat wanted to put him into Hufflepuff and he begged for Gryffindor. I bet he had plenty of secret fantasies of being a brave and celebrated hero, and actually managed to become one by book seven.
I imagine his grandmother would have been very displeased had he not become a Gryffindor. smile