I'm willing to budge on the troll incident first year - he heard about a problem, acted to prevent/fix it, and carried the day with luck, guts, and a good share of the crazy awesome (giant super-strong monster? JUMP ON IT'S BACK AND WRASSLE!) for no benefit but the moral, and to an extent when he rescued Gabrielle in 4th year, since he believed that the hostages were in real danger and again had no benefit for doing so or penalty for minding his own business except being able to look himself in the mirror, but even against the basilisk it was a matter of following other people's nudges and not acting until forced (yes, Ron's sister needing rescuing counts as being forced, if he blew it off like Lockhart he'd have lost both his freinds, inspired loads of retribution from the Twins, and the school would have been closed forcing him to stay with the Durleys all the time) and the only way through was forward, with help from various magical McGuffins he had no part in creating. So... basically what Jorlem said, only running back a few more years.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows