I remember reading The Things They Carried and being intruiged by the passage where the main character calls himself a coward because he doesn't run away to Canada. And he's not avoiding the war for ideological reasons, he's just afraid to go to war and risk dying. So he goes to the border of Canada and almost runs away. Then he goes back. He said he went back because he was a coward. He was too scared to start a whole new life, too scared to disobey. It was easier to do what people told him to do. It was harder to make his own choices and his own life than to fight and die in war, so he took the easy way.

In a way that's why Neville is courageous, even when he's also very timid. And why the way Griffindors tend to be courageous doesn't always impress me. They're not afraid to break rules and disobey, but they never show the kind of courage that means fighting against the opinions of the people in charge of your life. Then again, there hasn't been a lot of opportunity.

Looking for truth even when it's scary or inconvenient falls into the same kind of category for me. I'm not sure I'd say Gryffindors are so hot at that, either. I'm not sure any particular House would specialize in that.

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I also don't think Draco was cowardly in the forest--just more freaked out than Harry, and so mocked. It's an 11 year old thing--being able to be stoic like a hardened adult looks like a good thing to them.