Neville Longbottom was never intended to be the stud of the show. Matthew Lewis, who played Neville from the beginning, very much looked the part in the first film. He had the ears, he had the face, he had the endearing accent. He was Neville head to toe. But there was a problem. Each year, when we all congregated to make the next film, Matthew was ever so slightly hunkier, which meant that—physically speaking—he was ever so slightly less Neville-like.