I'm not sure where the point about Neville being the least popular Gryffindor came up but I would agree I don't think popularity has to do with courage all the time exactly--first just because how often do you get to be courageous in the course of a normal day? But also Neville faces situations that scare him often and while he *shows* fear, it doesn't always make him not face those situations.
Off the top of my head, the moments I can think of where Gryffindors respond to the idea of not showing courage (sometimes non-Gryffindors use it to needle Gryffindors):
The twins make Sirius "pale" in OotP when reminding him he isn't out risking his life; Snape needles Sirius with the same fact elsewhere; Phineas annoys Harry by suggesting he's "running away" from Grimmauld Place; Voldemort taunts Harry that his parents died begging for mercy, Harry furiously says that he's lying, and Voldemort changes tactics, assuring him that his parents were brave; Harry's friends worry Harry will follow Malfoy's advice and try to go after Sirius himself because Malfoy says "if it were him" he'd go after them; Sirius tries to get Harry to meet him in Hogsmeade by sulking that his father would consider extra a risk attractive.
I feel like there's things I'm forgetting because I was just talking about them with somebody, but oh well. It's tied to the idea that you should be out there doing something--a related moment is Sirius meeting Harry in OotP and saying he would have welcomed the Dementor attack to break up the boredom.
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Date: 2005-02-11 08:25 pm (UTC)Off the top of my head, the moments I can think of where Gryffindors respond to the idea of not showing courage (sometimes non-Gryffindors use it to needle Gryffindors):
The twins make Sirius "pale" in OotP when reminding him he isn't out risking his life;
Snape needles Sirius with the same fact elsewhere; Phineas annoys Harry by suggesting he's "running away" from Grimmauld Place; Voldemort taunts Harry that his parents died begging for mercy, Harry furiously says that he's lying, and Voldemort changes tactics, assuring him that his parents were brave; Harry's friends worry Harry will follow Malfoy's advice and try to go after Sirius himself because Malfoy says "if it were him" he'd go after them; Sirius tries to get Harry to meet him in Hogsmeade by sulking that his father would consider extra a risk attractive.
I feel like there's things I'm forgetting because I was just talking about them with somebody, but oh well. It's tied to the idea that you should be out there doing something--a related moment is Sirius meeting Harry in OotP and saying he would have welcomed the Dementor attack to break up the boredom.