“The one with the to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches … born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies … and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not … and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives … the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies …”
The great thing about Neville — what message he conveys that J.K. Rowling wrote for him — was that you can have any kind of disadvantage at the start of your life and it doesn’t define you. You can still go on to be whoever YOU want to be. As long as you have friends around you and you have a belief in doing the right thing, you can go on to be a hero. It doesn’t matter what humble beginnings you came from. I think that’s really inspiring. I think that’s a really nice life lesson.
Matthew Lewis about Neville.
“The giant, spectral dog that haunts churchyards! My dear boy, it is an omen—the worst omen—of death!”