the thing I love about this fandom is that there are 7 books and 8 movies to observe. so every once in a while some blessed soul finds a piece of information that makes all the magic resurface again

Mind. Blown. 

Oh Lord…it’s a metaphor too. It’s symbolic of Neville holding on to his past, the horrors of what happened to his parents, of being a passive vessel for that atrocity. As if the terrible thing kept happening and would never stop happening. 

When he moves forward and becomes part of his own story instead of the story of his past, his strength surges. 

And it was a symbol of his grandmother impossible expectation of him to be like his father. She made Neville use his father’s wand and was constantly disappointed when he couldn’t get the wand to work properly. And he ended up getting a new wand after his old one was broken at the end of Order of the Phoenix when he fought against the death eaters at the ministry. He found his own courage and ended up becoming his own man.