Harry finds he is popular again. Romilda Vane , a fourth-year student, invites Harry to join her and her friends, but Harry declines, preferring his current companions' company. Romilda casts a disparaging glance at Luna and Neville before departing. Harry, noticing Neville's reaction to this, mentions that Romilda was not at the Ministry.
Harry, listening to Neville and thinking about the Prophecy, wonders what might have happened if Voldemort had chosen to attack Neville rather than him; would Neville have the scar and the popularity? Harry and Neville are invited to Professor Slughorn's compartment for lunch. Once inside, it seems obvious that he only invited those students who are connected to famous wizards, or, like Neville, have distinguished themselves in some way.
Slughorn asks about the Ministry battle, though neither Harry nor Neville is forthcoming, and Slughorn does not pry. Herbology class with an 'Outstanding' O. However, his 'Acceptable' O. Neville, disappointed, mumbles that his grandmother thinks Charms is a soft option. She also states that it is time that Augusta appreciated her grandson for what he already was rather than the one she wants him to be.
Adding Charms to his timetable, she sends Neville happily on his way. Neville is seen little during the year, as he and Harry share few classes. Later, Dumbledore asks Harry to accompany him to where a Horcrux may be hidden. Harry, suspecting that Draco's sinister task for the Dark Lord has been completed, worries about leaving the school unguarded while he and Dumbledore are away.
Ron, Ginny, and Neville were guarding the Room of Requirement when Draco emerged, holding a dried-up hand object.
Seeing the three students, Draco tossed darkness powder into the hall, apparently while guiding others from the Room of Requirement. It was too dangerous for Ron, Neville, and Ginny to cast any jinxes in the blackness. Neville, injured in the battle, is in the Hospital Wing. Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione visit him there. Neville has recovered enough to attend Dumbledore's funeral.
As Harry, Hermione and Ron roam the countryside on Dumbledore's Horcrux mission, they happen to overhear a conversation about some Hogwarts students breaking into Headmaster Snape's office in an unsuccessful attempt to steal the Sword of Gryffindor. Later, Phineas Nigellus Black 's portrait that Hermione is carrying in her beaded bag, confirms that it was Ginny, Neville, and Luna who were responsible and received detentions. Phineas reveals a few more details: after a low-level, student rebellion, Snape re-instated Dolores Umbridge's former decree banning all student groups.
Aberforth Dumbledore rescues them from Death Eaters, and only reluctantly agrees to help sneak them Hogwarts, where another Horcrux is hidden. Aberforth sends a message via his sister Ariana's portrait. Ariana soon returns; as her portrait swings opens, a secret corridor is revealed with Neville standing inside. Neville's battered appearance shocks Harry, though Neville is actually quite cheerful.
Leading the Trio down a dark tunnel, Neville asks if they really broke into Gringotts and escaped on a dragon. Neville updates them on changes at the school. Any student refusing to Curse another student as punishment is beaten. Neville received one scar after asking her how much Muggle blood she had, though the Carrows punished him relatively lightly because he is a Pureblood.
Neville helped re-build Dumbledore's Army, and they were pulling pranks and creating disruptions, but after Luna and Ginny departed the school, the rebellion died down. When Neville was identified as a ringleader, the Carrows tried to kidnap his grandmother as retaliation. Before going on the run, Mrs. Longbottom put at least one attacker into St. Neville decided he should also disappear. Harry does not immediately realize that they have entered the Room of Requirement, which has grown bigger and become more comprehensive as Dumbledore's Army members went into hiding.
The room is unable to provide food, but when Neville's need became great enough, a tunnel leading to the Hog's Head Inn opened, and Aberforth has been sending supplies ever since.
Seamus says Neville is the one who knows how to get the Room of Requirement to provide what they need. Harry tells the group there is something that he, Ron, and Hermione must do, then they will leave.
Everybody is dismayed, but Neville expresses what everyone is feeling: that they have shown loyalty to Dumbledore and have earned the right to fight Voldemort alongside Harry. During the battle, Neville heads to the battlements with Professor Sprout carrying pots of Mandrakes to drop on the attackers. Neville's grandmother arrives to fight alongside her grandson, telling him how proud she is of his accomplishments.
Harry, hidden under his Invisibility Cloak, heads to the Forbidden Forest to meet his fate. When Neville goes to search for more casualties, Harry reveals himself, and tells Neville that Voldemort's snake, Nagini , must be killed if Voldemort is to be defeated. If he, Ron, or Hermione are unable to kill Nagini, then Neville must do the job. Neville does not understand, but agrees he will, if the opportunity arises.
After Harry's apparent death in the Forbidden Forest, Voldemort orders the captured Hagrid to carry Harry's body as the Dark Lord and his army march to the school. At Hogwarts, Voldemort singles out Neville, saying he is a Pureblood from an old Wizarding family, and entices him to join his side. Defiant, Neville refuses and charges, only to be thrown into a full Body-bind by Voldemort, who then Summons the Sorting Hat and pulls it onto Neville's head. He sets the Hat afire to show that there is no more Sorting and only one school House—Slytherin.
Neville is then seen helping Ron defeat Fenrir Greyback during the battle's confusion; after the fighting, Harry notes that Neville has survived and is sitting exhausted in the Great Hall. Neville remains a close family friend to the Potters and Weasleys. Neville is descended from a powerful magical family, and he has the potential to be a great wizard.
His problems stem, in Professor McGonagall's opinion, from, "a lack of self confidence. Despite his earlier lackluster abilities, Neville's magical power has grown substantially since his 5th year when he trained with Dumbledore's Army under Harry Potter's tutelage.
With great determination, he worked harder than most to master defensive skills, and struggled to break through the fog that perpetually clouded his mind.
Neville has shown courage and nobility from an early age as he silently endured a personal tragedy without ever seeking attention and sympathy.
In his first year, he bravely confronted Harry, Ron, and Hermione, protesting their decision to protect the Philosopher's Stone. He was among the few D.
He also showed leadership and bravery when, following Harry's departure, he helped reestablish and lead Dumbledore's Army at great personal risk to resist the Death Eaters' controlling Hogwarts during his seventh year. Neville never wavers in accepting and fulfilling the potentially deadly challenge. Neville is gifted in Herbology and received an "Outstanding" on his O. He also received an "Exceeds Expectations" on his Charms O. During Neville's early years at Hogwarts, he could best be described as clumsy, shy, and had very low self-confidence.
These traits seriously affected his Wizarding abilities and training. He was prone to mishaps or accidents, especially in Potions, due to his fairly rational fear of Professor Snape , who constantly bullied him, further eroding his self-esteem. Due to serious memory problems, Neville was unable to remember the simplest things, such as the Gryffindor passwords.
His difficulty with Potions were likely memory-related as well. As a young boy, Neville displayed no leadership abilities whatsoever and rarely took initiative in anything. His only interest appeared to be Herbology, which he does excel at. His shy, passive nature resulted in him rarely standing up for himself.
Slytherin students particularly enjoyed heaping abuse on him. Like Harry, Neville is an only child who was raised by someone other than his parents. In Neville's case, his grandmother, Augusta Longbottom, became his legal guardian after his parents were permanently committed to St. Mungo's hospital after being tortured into insanity by Death Eaters.
Neville apparently loves his grandmother, but her stern, overbearing personality has created a barrier to their relationship, and he generally fears her.
Neville also loves his parents, but, being a small child when Death Eaters tortured them, he has never known the people they were before. Whatever they once were, he now sees only their vacant shells and uncomprehending expressions when he visits them in the hospital. Neville was embarrassed by his parents' conditions, and became particularly distressed when Harry and the other Weasley children accidentally saw his family while at St. They, however, supported him.
Eventually, Neville fully embraces the heroic sacrifice his mother and father made in fighting Voldemort, and he is proud to be their son. The shy and rather nerdy Neville initially makes few friends at Hogwarts.
Most students either tease him or ignore him completely. Harry and Ron, his dorm mates, always treat Neville cordially, but Harry tended to consider him as someone he would rather not be seen hanging out with. The two boys eventually become close, particularly after Harry discovers Neville's secret about his parents' fates. Having lost his own parents, Harry understands the emotional hardship this creates. Harry also learns that if circumstances had been a little different, Neville, rather than Harry, might have been "The Chosen One," when a prophecy involving Voldemort could have fit either boy.
If Voldemort had targeted Neville, a pure-blood, rather than Harry, who is a half-blood like Voldemort, it is highly improbable that Neville would have survived the Killing Curse as Harry did. With the many similarities between Harry and Neville's circumstances, and their tie to Trelawney's prophecy, it seems more than coincidental that they should also be assigned to the same Gryffindor dorm.
Was this intentional on Dumbledore's part? We never know, but if it was, he may have intended that the two boys support each another in a way few others could. This hardly seems likely at first, as Harry has relatively little interest in or interaction with Neville.
Their bond grows however, and Harry exerts a great influence on Neville, helping him overcome his magical handicap. Neville, in return, is among Harry's strongest supporters, risking his life in the battle at the Ministry of Magic, and stepping into a leadership role after Harry departs Hogwarts before his seventh year.
It was only after Harry embraced Neville as a friend that most other students also did so; but as Neville becomes a capable wizard and a strong leader, he is acknowledged and admired for his own merits. During the final battle at Hogwarts, Harry tasks Neville to kill Nagini. Though not fully understanding why, Neville promises he will, and destroys Voldemort's last Horcrux. Harry never forgets what Neville has done for him. Thanks to Hermione, Neville was able to fix his potion so that his toad wasn't harmed.
Neville admitted in that Snape scared him more than anything else in the world, and was the form his Boggart took. When he sat his Potions O. Snape was killed by Nagini during the Battle of Hogwarts. Though Neville was present when Harry informed Voldemort of Snape's true allegiance, it is unknown how Neville reacted. Neville thought Albus Dumbledore was the greatest wizard of all time. He met Dumbledore in , when he was the headmaster of Hogwarts. At the end of Neville's first year, Dumbledore awarded Gryffindor the ten points they needed to win the House cup because Neville had the courage to try and stop Harry , Hermione , and Ron from leaving the Gryffindor tower after hours.
Dumbledore also knew about Neville's parents, and told Harry not to say anything, leaving Neville the right to choose when he revealed his past to his friends.
Neville was devastated by his death. Neville despised professor Dolores Umbridge , the Ministry -appointed Defence Against the Dark Arts professor for the — school year. Like nearly everyone else at Hogwarts, with the possible exception of some of the Slytherin students and Argus Filch , Neville hated Umbridge for her sadistic punishments and attempts to control the school.
He became a member of Dumbledore's Army partially in order to oppose her. Umbridge left the school in after paying the price for verbally assaulting a herd of centaurs and attempting to flee; she was discovered by Peeves, who led the students in chasing her away from the school.
Amycus and Alecto liked to punish the students with the use of torture, and ordered students to practice the Cruciatus Curse on other students who had been detained. Neville helped re-form Dumbledore's Army , along with Ginny and Luna, and maintained a steady opposition against the Carrows throughout the course of the year.
In an attempt to control Neville, Ministry Auror John Dawlish was sent to take Neville's grandmother hostage; unfortunately for Dawlish, the tenacious Augusta Longbottom fought back, apparently putting Dawlish in St.
Mungo's and going on the run. As the Carrows no longer had hope of finding any real leverage to use against Neville, and had no reason not to simply kill him, Neville went into hiding in the Room of Requirement, where he was soon joined by a number of other Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw students who saw fit to do the same.
Bartemius Crouch Jr , who also tortured his parents. Barty Crouch Jr. During his first lesson with the fourth years, Barty as Moody took notice of Neville's name on the class register. He then demonstrated the three Unforgivable Curses on spiders, including the Cruciatus Curse, which left Neville deeply shaken. It is unknown how Neville reacted upon learning the truth about his D.
Barty Crouch was given the Dementor's Kiss in , losing his soul. Neville was one of the two children possibly referred to in the prophecy as being destined to bring about Voldemort's end. However, Voldemort chose to target the Potters based on the simple concept that Harry was a half-blood like himself, thus marking Harry, and not Neville, as his equal. After Lord Voldemort's first defeat, four fanatically loyal Death Eaters tortured Neville's parents to the point of insanity, using the Cruciatus Curse , attempting to force Voldemort's whereabouts out of them; this fact initially haunted Neville, but eventually spurred him to rise to his full potential.
After honing his skills and steadily acquiring self-confidence through training with Dumbledore's Army , Neville fought against Voldemort's Death Eaters countless times during the Second Wizarding War.
Near the end of the Battle of Hogwarts , Neville actually attempted to charge directly at Voldemort, presumably aiming to kill Nagini , as Harry had told him she had to die at all costs. Voldemort offered Neville the chance to join him, commending his "spirit and bravery;" Neville declined, and instead, drew the Sword of Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat and succeeded in beheading Nagini.
As Nagini had been Voldemort's last remaining Horcrux, Neville's incredible display of bravery allowed Harry to defeat Voldemort once and for all. The Harry Potter Compendium Explore.
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Please take care when reading this article if you do not wish to be spoiled. Lord Voldemort : " You show spirit and bravery, and you come of noble stock.
You will make a very valuable Death Eater. We need your kind, Neville Longbottom. Dumbledore's Army! Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies. Neville Longbottom : " Sorry, but have you seen a toad at all?
I've lost him! He keeps getting away from me! Well, if you see him Neville : " You can't go out, you'll be caught again. Gryffindor will be in even more trouble I won't let you do it. I'll — I'll fight you! I don't think you should be breaking any more rules! And you were the ones who told me to stand up to people! I award ten points to Neville Longbottom!
And everyone knows I'm almost a Squib. I would advise you not to entrust him with anything difficult. Not unless Ms. Granger is hissing instructions in his ear. Hermione : " Neville? Interesting lesson, wasn't it? I wonder what's for dinner, I'm — I'm starving, aren't you? Very interesting dinner — I mean lesson — what's for eating? Bellatrix : " Longbottom? Why I have had the pleasure of meeting your parents, boy Neville : " We were all in the D. It was all supposed to be about fighting You-Know-Who, wasn't it?
And this is the first chance we've had to do something real — or was that all just a game or something? We want to help. Luna : " People expect you to have cooler friends than us. None of them were at the Ministry. I got this one indicates to a large gash on his cheek for asking her how much Muggle blood she and her brother have got. The thing is, it helps when people stand up to them, it gives everyone hope. Loyal to you. Ginny Potter : " Don't forget to give Neville our love!
I can't give a professor love I can't walk into Herbology and give him love Why, I have had the pleasure of meeting your parents , boy. She tortured them for information, but they never gave in. I'm quite proud to be their son. But I'm not sure I'm ready for everyone to know just yet. That's a promise. Longbottom : " Have you seen my grandson?
Longbottom : " Naturally. Excuse me, I must go and assist him. The Sorting Hat chose you for Gryffindor, didn't it? And where's Malfoy? In stinking Slytherin. Can't you see it's bothering him? Luna : " And I don't know who you are. Neville Longbottom — Luna Lovegood Bellatrix : " Neville Longbottom, is it? How's mum and dad? What do I have to do to make you understand, Longbottom?
Snape : " Longbottom, at the end of this lesson we will feed a few drops of this potion to your toad and see what happens. Perhaps that will encourage you to do it properly. Voldemort : " You show spirit and bravery, and you come of noble stock. Hogwarts Faculty. Diagon Alley.
Universal Conquest Wiki. Editing of this article by newly registered users is currently disabled. Such users may discuss changes or request unprotection. Professor Auror formerly. Severus Snape. Father's wand formerly Cherry, 13", unicorn hair. Auror formerly Professor of Herbology. Preceded by: Pomona Sprout. Herbology Professor at Hogwarts Unknown.
Unspecified: Luca Caruso Alice Tolipan. Founder: Albus Dumbledore. Duelling Club Captains. Gryffindor : Angus Matlock. Hufflepuff : Duelling Club Captain. Ravenclaw : Alannis. Slytherin : Duelling Club Captain. Duelling Club Members. Duelling Club locations. Shortly after Valentine's Day , Neville informed Harry that his belongings had been searched by someone.
Neville would have been present at the end of term feast that year, having thankfully not been attacked or petrified by the Basilisk, and would have been present when all his classmates who had been petrified returned to full health after being cured by Mandrake Restorative Draughts , and would have been there to greet Rubeus Hagrid following his release from Azkaban.
Dementors board the Hogwarts Express and enter the compartment that the trio , Neville, Ginny, and Professor Lupin are in. On the train ride to Hogwarts for his third year, Neville became alarmed when the Hogwarts Express simply stopped.
A Dementor then entered the compartment, negatively affecting all the students within, though to varying degrees. Then new Professor Lupin gave them chocolate telling them it would help them feel better about the shock.
After arriving at Hogsmeade Station, Neville told people about the experience in the compartment. In their first Divination class, Neville accidentally broke two of Professor Trelawney 's tea cups while reading tea leaves. As the class departed, Professor Trelawney warned him that he would be late next class and urged him to work hard to catch up with everyone else.
In Care of Magical Creatures class, Neville practised bowing to a hippogriff ; he constantly backed away from the beast , which did not seem to want to bow back. The next day in Potions , Neville again managed to earn the ire of Professor Snape.
He somehow was able to turn his Shrinking Solution orange instead of green. To ensure Neville would get the potion right, Snape told him that he would feed some of it to Neville's pet toad , Trevor , at the end of the class. Desperately, he asked Hermione for help; she whispered instructions to him out of the corner of her mouth.
By the end of class, he was able to turn his potion green, and successfully shrunk Trevor from a toad to a tadpole. Upon returning Trevor to his proper size, Snape took five points from Hermione simply to spite the Gryffindors. Neville's Boggart , Professor Snape. Neville was the first person to be asked. This was most likely because of Professor Lupin's preference for the underdog and him wanting to build Neville's confidence. When asked what scared him most in the world, Neville replied " Professor Snape ", to which everyone found amusing.
To counter the boggart, Lupin asked Neville to picture Snape in his grandmother's clothes. For his help, Neville earned ten points for Gryffindor and he confidently banished the boggart at the end of class. In the spring of , Neville lost the passwords to Gryffindor Tower ; because Sir Cadogan changed them so frequently, Neville needed to write them down so he could remember them. After learning Neville was indirectly responsible, Professor McGonagall banned him from all future visits into Hogsmeade for the remainder of the school year, gave him a detention, and forbade anyone from giving him the password to the common room, thus he had to wait outside the portrait until someone came by while security trolls hired to guard the Fat Lady leered unpleasantly at him.
But none of that compared to what his grandmother had in store for him. Two days later during breakfast, Neville received a Howler from her; he tore out of the Great Hall , amid shouts of laughter, and opened it in the Entrance Hall , where his grandmother's angry voice told him he brought shame to their family.
At the end of his Divination final exam, Neville was told that, if he told anyone his results, he would suffer a serious accident. He jealously listened to their recap of the Quidditch World Cup ; his grandmother had not wanted to go, and did not purchase tickets. When Moody demonstrated the curse on a spider, Neville was terrified; he gripped his desk so hard, his knuckles turned white.
Hermione noticed this and called for the professor to stop. After class, Moody — who was in fact Barty Crouch Jnr , one of the attackers of Neville's parents, under disguise by use of Polyjuice Potion — took Neville to his office for a cup of tea.
Having heard from Professor Sprout about Neville's aptitude in Herbology , Moody cheered Neville up by telling him what Sprout had said and gave him a number of books he thought Neville would enjoy.
One of them was Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean , which Crouch intended for Harry to read in order to learn all about Gillyweed for the second task [30] , but he was stubbornly searching through the library. A few days later in class, Neville was put under the Imperius Curse by Moody, under the pretence of letting the class know what it felt like. Under Moody's influence, Neville performed a series of " quite astonishing gymnastics " that he could not have performed normally.
Neville and Ginny Weasley at the Yule Ball. While the pair seemed to enjoy themselves, Neville accidentally stepped on Ginny's toes while dancing.
It can be assumed that Neville was among the spectators of the third task Triwizard Maze , supporting Harry along with his fellow Gryffindors. He was also most likely among the mass of students that attended the Memorial feast to Cedric Diggory , after Cedric was murdered on the orders of Lord Voldemort. Searching for seats, the trio entered Luna Lovegood 's compartment. Once inside, he excitedly showed them his Mimbulus mimbletonia , a birthday present from his great-uncle Algie.
He told them about his plans to show it to Professor Sprout, as well as wanting to breed it. After arriving at Hogwarts, Neville helped Harry get into Gryffindor Tower as Harry had not learned the new password yet, and then defended Harry during a verbal fight with Seamus Finnigan , claiming that the Daily Prophet was going downhill, not Harry and Dumbledore.
He and his grandmother both believed Harry's claim that Voldemort had returned, and had cancelled their subscription to the newspaper. At their first meeting in the Room of Requirement , Neville was left partner-less when they began practice; Neville instead partnered with Harry. After successfully disarming Harry, Neville then joined Ron and Hermione, so Harry could check on the others. Harry was the only one who already knew this, having found out in the Pensieve in , but he had told no one, keeping Neville's secret safe.
Before Neville left, his mother handed him an empty Droobles Blowing Gum wrapper; while his grandmother wanted him to throw it away, Neville instead pocketed it. When it was learned that ten Death Eaters escaped from Azkaban in , including three of the ones responsible for the torture of Neville's parents, Neville did not speak of it, but it " wrought a strange and even slightly alarming change " in him, according to Harry.
He worked harder than anyone in D. The latter convinced Harry to check to see if Sirius was at 12 Grimmauld Place before rushing off to rescue him, and Ginny and Luna came to their assistance. Harry and Hermione broke into Umbridge's office, and Ron wanted to trick Umbridge, Ginny and Luna stopped people from entering the corridor.
Umbridge unfortunately wasn't fooled and ordered the Inquisitorial Squad to round them up. Neville, seeing what is going on, tried to help, but he was caught as well. Neville and others broke free using skills that they had acquired in their D.
They then regrouped with Harry and Hermione, who had left Umbridge with a group of enraged centaurs. They fly via Thestrals to London, despite Harry's reluctance to let them accompany him. Once in the Hall of Prophecies , Harry was drawn to an orb that had his name on it. Neville and Hermione urged him not to remove it; once Harry had, the group was confronted by Death Eaters. They run into the Time Room , where he disarmed Rabastan Lestrange who was struggling with Harry, accidentally disarming Harry as well.
Wanting to fix his mistake he tried to stun Lestrange, but he hit a rack full of time-turners. Taking advantage of the moment Neville crawled from under the desk, but Dolohov broke Neville's nose and wand, so Harry placed Dolohov under Full Body-Bind. Neville refused Harry's suggestion that he leave with an incapacitated Hermione to go get help, instead carrying her while he and Harry searched for Ron, Ginny, and Luna.
When several Death Eaters cornered Harry alone in the Death Chamber , Neville stormed into the room to aid him, armed with Hermione's wand, but due to his broken nose, was unable to pronounce spells correctly. When another Death Eater seized Neville, Bellatrix Lestrange briefly tortured Neville with the Cruciatus Curse , both to try to make Harry hand over the prophecy and to see how long Neville held out before "cracking" like his parents.
Even under the threat of being tortured possibly even going insane like his parents , Neville told Harry not to hand the prophecy over.
Harry urged Neville to run, but Neville refused, instead breaking Macnair's grip on Harry by jabbing the Death Eater in the eye with Hermione's wand. Harry throw Neville the prophecy to cast Impediment Jinx on Malfoy. As Harry pulled Neville up a flight of stairs, Neville accidentally smashed the prophecy. As the battle continued, Neville alerted Harry to the appearance of Albus Dumbledore. The battle soon ended, and Neville and his friends were transported back to Hogwarts, where Neville's nose was fixed by Poppy Pomfrey.
Harry soon learned the contents of the prophecy from Dumbledore. As both Neville and Harry were born at the close of July to parents who had all escaped Voldemort three times, they both qualified for the prophecy child. However, Dumbledore believed that the prophecy did indeed refer to Harry, not Neville, as Voldemort marked Harry as his equal by attacking him.
Neville's grandmother purchased him a new wand, 13" cherry wood, with a unicorn hair core, from Garrick Ollivander before his sixth year. When Romilda Vane , a younger Gryffindor student, invited Harry to come to her compartment and implicitly insulted Neville and Luna, Harry coldly rebuffed her, emphasising that Neville and Luna were among his closest and most loyal friends.
Neville was later invited to join Horace Slughorn , the new Potions Master , in his train compartment. Slughorn was searching for new students to add to his Slug Club , but Neville didn't seem to meet Slughorn's requirements. Neville also achieved four known O. Professor McGonagall informed him that the 'Acceptable' grade he achieved in Transfiguration was not good enough for N. He told her he only applied for Transfiguration for his grandmother's desires, but McGonagall stated it was time for Augusta to be proud of the grandson she had, as opposed to the one she desired.
She let him down gently on his application on Transfiguration, and instead encouraged him to take Charms. Towards the end of the school year, Neville participated in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower. Along with Luna Lovegood, he was the only member of Dumbledore's Army to reply to the summons via the coins. Neville suffered an injury that kept him in the hospital wing for some time, though he was able to attend the funeral of Albus Dumbledore shortly afterwards, where Luna helped him into his seat.
The D. Neville got in trouble with the Carrows for refusing to practise the Cruciatus Curse on other students as a method of punishment, as well as for standing up against their bigotry and cruelty. The revived D. Neville, Luna and Ginny also attempted to steal Godric Gryffindor's sword from Snape's office, but were caught on the way out. In his own way to subvert the Carrows' manner of discipline, Snape only gave them a detention, sending them into the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid.
Neville eventually decided to cease their open rebellion after Michael Corner was caught and brutally tortured for freeing a chained-up first year. Neville was eventually left alone to lead the rebellion efforts, as Luna was dragged off the Hogwarts Express by Death Eaters around Christmas of to coerce her father into ceasing his political dissidence in The Quibbler , and Ginny did not return to Hogwarts following the Easter holidays, as her family went into hiding following Harry, Ron, and Hermione's escape from Malfoy Manor.
By this time, the Carrows were aware of Neville's role in the rebellion, and he suffered beatings and torture. The Ministry also targeted Neville's grandmother to try to intimidate him, but she evaded capture and went on the run. Eventually, the Carrows realised that Neville was the main ringleader and decided that Hogwarts could do without him.
Fearing that they may kill him, Neville made for the Room of Requirement , which he was able to turn into a hiding place for the D. By May, most of the D. The trio and Neville in the Hog's Head Inn. While in the tunnel he explained to the trio the nature of his injuries and the reign of the Carrows at Hogwarts.
He also informed the trio that the D. Believing that their return meant the overthrow of the Death Eater professors, Neville signalled the rest of the D. During the first round of battle, Neville used various plants to attack Death Eaters, and helped transport the injured and dead when a temporary cease-fire was called. He briefly spoke to Harry, who told him that it was top priority to kill Voldemort 's snake and Horcrux , Nagini.
He was subsequently forced to wear the Sorting Hat as it burned because he refused to join Voldemort. Neville slaying Nagini with the Sword of Gryffindor. Because of his tremendous bravery shown on the battlefield, Neville was able to pull Godric Gryffindor's sword from the burning hat, in the process proving himself a true Gryffindor , something that was doubted constantly throughout due to his apparently weak-willed, shy, and bumbling nature.
In a single stroke, he carried out Harry's final order, slaying Nagini, destroying Voldemort's last remaining Horcrux. Scabior fell to his death when the bridge fell down. Neville briefly worked as an Auror , immediately following the war. Sometime before , he married his former classmate and D. The pair lived at the Leaky Cauldron , where she became the landlady. Over the years, he remained in contact with his old friends, as in , Ginny told her and Harry's eldest son " to give Neville their love " when he arrived at Hogwarts.
In the late s and early s , Neville aided members of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force who pursued a profession as a Professor by showing them a mental trick to make casting the Deterioration Hex seem as a second nature to profoundly increase its effects, while he also instructed the Magizoologists how to use the Bravery Charm to devastating effect.
Neville in his sixth year , age Neville was said to strongly resemble his mother. He was round-faced, [12] short, chubby, and had blond hair. Pansy Parkinson had once called him " fat ", but this may have been an exaggeration, as she frequently made disparaging comments about Gryffindor students. When he was younger, Neville was clumsy, forgetful, shy, and many considered him ill-suited for Gryffindor house because he seemed timid.
However, Neville proved that the Sorting Hat had seen the bravery beneath his insecurity, as he stood up to his only friends as a first-year [12] and later became one of the D. Though he came from a pure-blood family, he held no prejudice against half-bloods or Muggle-borns.
Neville appeared to suffer from a degree of post-traumatic stress disorder, as the torture of a spider via the cruciatus curse by Barty Crouch Junior in disguise as Alastor Moody was enough to cause him a severe anxiety attack.
This was likely due to his own experience with his parents being subjected to the curse's worst possible outcome: the onset of permanent and complete insanity. This familiarity of what the Cruciatus Curse could do in skilled enough hands was more than enough to terrify him. Throughout the trials he faced over his seven years at Hogwarts , Neville blossomed from a timid, self-deprecating, and generally nervous student into a stalwart soldier possessed of an ironclad will, courage of outstanding merit, and a nobility of spirit, despite still having a comical and shy but at the same time courageous and fierce personality.
In many ways, Neville's transformation allowed him to change from a scaredy-cat into a lordly lion, becoming a ferocious defender of his fellow students during Voldemort's reign. Suffice it to say, Neville's appointment to Gryffindor House was well-deserved.
Neville was not an academically strong student in his early years, often requiring Hermione 's help in class and with school-work. However as confirmed by McGonagall , part of this was likely caused by his use of another's wand, poor self-esteem, and anxiety caused by the incessant bullying from many of his peers and Snape.
When he found both courage and self-confidence in his later years, Neville's magical skills as a wizard grew and he proved to be a powerful wizard in his own right. Neville mastering the Boggart-Banishing Spell. As Neville's parents, Alice and Frank Longbottom, had been permanent residents of St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries since Neville's infancy, he never knew them as the popular and talented Aurors they were reputed to be.
Nevertheless, he held them in high esteem, much like his friend Harry looked up to the parents he never knew. Neville regularly visited his parents at St Mungo's with his grandmother, where he tried to speak to them and brought them sweets, keeping the wrappers his mother handed back to him, even when his grandmother told him to throw them in the bin.
When the Lestranges escaped from Azkaban in , Neville did not discuss it, but he became very dedicated to his training in Dumbledore's Army. During the Battle of the Department of Mysteries , he was taunted about his parents by Bellatrix Lestrange , who also briefly subjected him to the Cruciatus Curse, but Neville remained defiant. Augusta Longbottom , his paternal grandmother.
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