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[persephone_kore]

It is a really pretty day. Warm but not hot, sunny but not blinding.

And I don't think I did this the first time it went around, so... ship meme. Mention one and I will write 100 words or thereabouts, may be favorable, unfavorable, speculative, whatever. If I have no idea what you're talking about, however, I do not promise the full wordcount. *g*

Edited to add: Will also happily discuss nonromantic relationships. Designate with an ampersand.

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[fovia.livejournal.com]

[sorry, i'm spying... i couldn't help it]

neville/harry?

[almost suggested hermione/goyle but we can leave that one for now... for now.]

:)

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

Spying? How dare you come around reading one of my public livejournal posts?! (Kidding. Obviously. I hope.)

I'm not quite sure what to say about Neville/Harry, if you mean it as a romantic pairing. I quite like it as a friendship. I think that for all his narrative notice of Neville's shortcomings, Harry was utterly sincere when he said Neville was "worth twelve of Malfoy." (And neither one of them has done a thing to change this relative assessment qualitatively, though quantitatively Neville may now have a higher multiplier, so I'll say that as a romantic pairing, Neville/Harry is much more reasonable to me than the more popular Harry/Draco. ...Obviously so is the friendship, though I admit to being a sucker for a good reconciliation.) Neville has mostly tended to evoke Harry's protective (or sometimes avenging) side on his own behalf, but there were definite signs ahead of OotP that there was more to him -- and in that book he certainly started coming into his own.

[fovia.livejournal.com]

i also quite like neville/harry as a friendship -- in fact, i see it so much as a friendship alone that it's taken me a while to wrap my head around them as a romantic pairing. however i've been persuaded to at least give it a glance, and i've read some nice fics about them in romantic situations. it seems like a natural thing now. you mentioned that neville evokes harry's protective side, and this draws me in the most, i think. i can see harry being completely protective and their relationship building from that. they have quite a strong connection, and it's not just from the revelation we had at the end of OotP -- the similarities they share, the personalities, it's all very connected.
also -- like you said -- he certainly started coming into his own at the end of OotP, and i see this as a product of the faith that his gryffindor friends have entrusted him with, and mostly the faith that harry has in him. harry's going to need neville, neville's going to need harry, and it's going to go from there.

anyway, thanks for this :)