Indeed!!! EVERYTHING you wrote, perfectly expressed how I felt about RW as well.

Agreed!!! Hermione SHOULD have given him *hell* and never let him forget his utter lack of character.

He's freed, to be the Neville that the Sorting Hat recognized that he had the potential to be. Neville was never given the opportunity to shine as he Could have, think he would have been a better, more stable friend that RW EVER was.