harry potter and the death hallows...

ok i know i'm slow and giam (stingy) heh... so i finally read the last book borrowed from PY cos i'm kinda used to reading harry potter books late and waiting till borders sells it for like 10 bucks before buying and reading it, but this one.. didn't quite want to wait so long hahaha...

anyway... i read it in one night.... AND..... had a burning qns! how in the world did neville get the gryfindor sword to kill nagini?!! wasn't it with griphook (the goblin)??!!!!!!!

and so i frantically msged PY this morning and she called back (amused i wld think hahaha).... and didn't know either bah.. hahahha.... and then a google search made me realise that.. i'm NOT ALONE in wondering about this.. and so the answer is....

"Neville was able to pull the sword of Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat because he was a true Gryffindor in dire need, and the hat recognised that as Godric Gryffindor originally intended. This mirrors what Harry did in CoS in the Chamber when he pulled the sword out to kill the basilisk.

JKR answered this question in the Bloomsbury Webchat on 30 July:
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Su: How did neville get the gryfindor sword, is there a link to the hat
J.K. Rowling: Yes, there is very definitely a link to the hat!
J.K. Rowling: Neville, most worthy Gryffindor, asked for help just as Harry did in the Chamber of secrets, and Gryffindor's sword was transported into Gryffindor's old hat -
J.K. Rowling: - the Sorting Hat was Gryffindor's initially, as you know.
J.K. Rowling: Griphook was wrong - Gryffindor did not 'steal' the sword, not unless you are a goblin fanatic and believe that all goblin-made objects really belong to the maker."

from: http://www.leakylounge.com/betaforum2.3.1/index.php?s=6c08cb449dac0101d5950f871e278f60&showtopic=55653&pid=1436617&st=0&#entry1436617

have an urge to re-read ALL the harry potter books again because the 7th book requires you to remember a lot of the old stuff and ties everything up and erm my memory ain't THAT good heh.. but erm i put the books too high up and now have to pull the ladder up to my room hahaha.... ah we'll see... since i dun think i will have this kind of chance again once i start work proper... bah.. heh :P