Neville Longbottom

Floor
Male
View
Human
Hair color
Blond[1]
Skin color
Light
Was born
July 30, 1980
Family
position
Married
Spouse
Hannah Abbott
Family
Arfang Longbottom (great-grandfather)†
Augusta Longbottom (grandmother)
Algie Longbottom (great-uncle)
Enid Longbottom (great-aunt)
Frank Longbottom (father)
Alice Longbottom (mother)
Albus Severus Potter (godson)
Purity
blood
Thoroughbred
Title(s)
Professor
Dean
Wand
Father's old stick;
From 6th year - Ollivander's wand:
cherry tree and unicorn hair
Boggart
Severus Snape
Patronus
Incorporeal[2]
Job
Auror (temporary)
Herbology teacher
Dean of Gryffindor House
Activity
Auror (briefly)[3]
Professor of Herbology at Hogwarts (until 2008 - ?)
Head of House Gryffindor (until 2008 - ?)
Alma mater
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Faculty
Gryffindor
Loyalty
Longbottoms
Dumbledore's Army
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Gryffindor

Neville's parents were former Aurors, members of the first Order of the Phoenix. After Voldemort's disappearance, they fell into the hands of the Death Eaters. Bellatrix Lestrange and three other Aurors tortured them with the Cruciatus Curse until they went mad. From that time on, Frank and Alice Longbottom were kept in St. Mungo's Hospital. Neville lived with his grandmother and visited his parents, but was embarrassed to talk about them.

Living with his grandmother, Augusta Longbottom, Neville demonstrated no magical abilities typical of children his age for a long time. For this reason, his relatives believed him to be a Squib, and his great-uncle Algie repeatedly tried to frighten him and thus provoke him into displaying magic. Once, he nearly drowned him by pushing him off a pier. In 1991, Neville, meeting his future classmates, recounted another similar incident: "When I was eight, Algie came over for tea, caught me, and threw me out the window. I was hanging upside down, and he was holding me by the ankles. Then my great-aunt Enid offered him a cake, and he accidentally let go. I fell from the second floor, but didn't break—I seemed to turn into a ball, bounced off the ground, and bounced down the path. They were all delighted, and Grandma even burst into tears of happiness." Be that as it may, the relatives were simply overjoyed when Neville received a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts.

A prophecy uttered by Sybill Trelawney foretold that one who could stop the Dark Lord would come—the son of parents who had thrice defied him, born at the end of the seventh month—and that Voldemort, unknowingly, would grant him the power to destroy him. This prophecy applied to two boys: Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom. Voldemort learned of the prophecy and chose Harry, deciding to dispose of him in infancy, and, in effect, bestowed upon him the power—his mother's protection. Neville, however, was unaware of the prophecy, and, remarkably, it was he who smashed the recording of this very prophecy in the Department of Mysteries.

During the Christmas season in the 1980s, Neville went with his grandmother to St. Mungo's Hospital to visit his parents for the holidays. However, he soon became separated from her and ended up lost in the hospital. Luckily, Neville encountered Jacob's sibling, who was searching for Janus Tyki's ward to deliver magical firecrackers to the patients on behalf of Rubeus Hagrid. After explaining his situation to Jacob's sibling and introducing himself, Jacob's sibling remembered that Janus Tyki's ward housed two patients with the surname "Longbottom" and was able to help Neville find them, much to Neville's relief. Neville invited Jacob's sibling to meet his parents, informing them of their status as respected Aurors who fought evil to the bitter end.

He stated that he was proud to be their son and knew that they loved him even if they could not recognize him.[4]

Neville claimed he wanted to grow up to be like his parents one day, but he feared he'd simply be a disappointment due to Augusta's previous insistence that he needed to live up to so many demands. However, with some encouragement from his sibling, Jacob, Neville promised to train hard until he made his family proud. Jacob's sibling offered Neville a magical firecracker, which the boy eagerly accepted. However, he decided to wait until Christmas morning to open it.
Neville assured Jacob's sibling that he would be fine now and that his grandmother would be arriving soon, though he was worried she would be upset that he had gotten lost. Jacob's sibling assured Neville that Augusta would simply be happy to see Neville again before they wished each other a Merry Christmas and parted ways.

At eleven, Neville was a very absent-minded[5] and insecure boy. It seems strange that the Sorting Hat, even after much deliberation, placed him in Gryffindor (even though Neville had asked to be in Hufflepuff). Neville doesn't give the impression of being a brave man at all. It's no wonder the Slytherins make fun of him. Only towards the end of the school year does Neville fight back. Literally—with his fists. After that, the Slytherins stop practicing their curses on Longbottom, although they never miss an opportunity to say something nasty to him.
Gradually, Neville gets rid of his insecurities. Mostly on his own, but sometimes he does have help. For example, Harry says to him in their first year: "You're a Gryffindor, and where did this Malfoy end up? In a filthy hole called Slytherin?" No, Harry was just trying to cheer Neville up, but the boy doesn't need much. He remembered those words. Professor Dumbledore gave Longbottom a significant boost to his self-esteem. At the end of his first year, Slytherin was winning the inter-house competition (472 points). But for saving the Philosopher's Stone, the Headmaster gave Gryffindor (who scored only 312 points) bonus points: Ron got 50 for the best chess game in Hogwarts history, Hermione got 50 for her cool logic in the face of fire, Harry got 60 for outstanding bravery... Gryffindor and Slytherin were tied on points. And then, unexpectedly for everyone, Dumbledore gives Neville 10 points for his ability to stand up to not only his enemies but also his friends, rightly noting that one must always stand up for what's right. It's these 10 points that bring victory to his house (482 in total). Clever Dumbledore mentioned them last, thus making Longbottom the hero of the day. He'll be in good shape, especially since he hadn't contributed a single point to the house all year, yet he recently deducted 50 points...
Neville receives his next support more than a year later – from the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Lupin. In response to Severus Snape's remark, "Trust nothing

Throughout his entire schooling, Neville had no friends. Harry befriended Ron, Seamus befriended Dean, but Neville was always alone. He never visited any of his classmates or invited them to his. For five years, no one even asked him where his parents were. Only in his fifth year did several of his classmates accidentally discover that they were undergoing permanent treatment at St. Mungo's Hospital. The turning point for Neville was the mass escape of Death Eaters from Azkaban, specifically those involved in the torture of his parents. [6] From that day on, Neville's personality gradually changed. The boy became more focused and goal-oriented. Harry notes that Longbottom practices with enviable persistence during DA classes. Only Hermione manages to learn new spells faster than Neville.
Towards the end of the school year, he finds himself with Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Luna in the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic[6], where at some point he remains Potter's only ally (precisely "ally"): the rest of the boys were incapacitated one way or another. He accidentally destroys all the Time-Turners in the Wizarding World with the Stupefying Charm. Surprisingly, deprived of his magic wand (it broke in battle), with a broken face, captured by Bellatrix, he does not want to surrender. And he screams at Harry not to give the Death Eaters the recording of the Prophecy under any circumstances. Not even for him, Neville.
A certain calm has settled in Neville's life. The changes in his life are subtle to outsiders, but profoundly significant to Longbottom himself. Now, his grandmother no longer complains about his forgetfulness and lack of concentration, but is frankly proud of her grandson after the Battle in the Department of Mysteries. And she doesn't even scold him for breaking his father's wand. On the contrary, she buys him a new one from the best English wandmaker. True, she still tries to impose her opinion on the boy, forcing him to choose Transfiguration over the Charms course he preferred, but then Neville unexpectedly receives the support and approval of the Head of House.

From time to time, he checks the magical galleon: what if Harry calls for the Order to assemble? At the end of the school year, this happens. As part of the same group that fought in the Department of Mysteries (Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Luna), he joins the members of the Order of the Phoenix in repelling the Death Eaters' attack on Hogwarts.[7] The attack is repelled, but the Death Eaters have accomplished their goal: Hogwarts' headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, is killed.
Several months later, the Ministry of Magic was seized by Death Eaters and their followers. A new order was established in wizarding society. Neville, as a pureblood wizard, was obliged to graduate from Hogwarts, even though the School was now ruled by Amycus and Alecto Carrow, Voldemort's henchmen, and the headmaster's chair was occupied by Severus Snape, who had murdered Dumbledore.[8] Seeing the dungeon his beloved Hogwarts was turning into, Neville rallied the student resistance. At first, he tried to argue with the Carrow siblings, but the Carrows weren't particularly bright. Therefore, they had only one answer to all their questions: Cruciatus. However, Neville was willing to pay even that price for the right to express his opinion, for maintaining the other students' hopes for the end of Voldemort's reign.

In the autumn of 1997, Neville, Luna, and Ginny attempted to steal the Sword of Gryffindor.[9] They were caught immediately, however, and the punishment they received—detention with Hagrid—was much lighter than many of the others given to other students for lesser offenses.

Neville doesn't give up after Christmas, when Luna Lovegood was snatched by Death Eaters right from the train carrying her home, or after Easter, when Ginny Weasley didn't return to school either.

When Neville's behavior at school became truly threatening, Death Eaters visited his grandmother... If they thought they could take the lonely old lady Augusta Longbottom with their bare hands, they were sorely mistaken. Having easily defeated her opponents, she was forced to flee home, but even while living secretly with friends, she found a way to send letters to her grandson, offering him every possible moral support. Indeed, Neville now fully lived up to the words of pride his grandmother filled those letters with. Remarkably, in the final battle, Neville kills Nagini with Godric Gryffindor's sword. And it can only be pulled from the hat by "a true Gryffindor."

Nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts, he is now Professor Longbottom and teaches Herbology at Hogwarts,10 and has also become Head of House.[12] Before receiving an offer from Headmistress McGonagall to work at the school, Neville briefly worked as an Auror at the Ministry of Magic under Minister Kingsley Shacklebolt.[3] Neville still maintains friendships with his former classmates and other members of the DA. Neville attended the Sorting Ceremony in 2008, sitting alongside his former professors and fellow Heads of House Pomona Sprout, Filius Flitwick, and Horace Slughorn. He once asked a first-year student to help water his Bowtruckle plants. When a student asked for a watering can, Neville suggested using a water spell instead, as although it was advanced, he knew Professor Flitwick had planned to introduce it earlier that year. When the student attempted to water a sapling, he accidentally damaged it, angering the Bowtruckle. Neville intervened to apologize and offered a treat as a peace offering before the plant decided to poke their eyes out.

Hagrid had previously brought old flower pots containing Bowtruckle food, so Neville told the student to feed the Bowtruckles, but to be careful, as he had caught several gnomes trying to hide in the pots.[13]

After the start of the term, due to an accident caused by a group of students, including Ivy Warrington, who cast a Vanishing Charm and caused the armor to disappear, Neville gave them a punishment which was to polish the remaining armor without magic.[14]

At some point before 2014, Neville married Hannah Abbott, who became the owner of the Leaky Cauldron. Until at least 2014, the couple lived in a room above the bar, but then decided to move closer to Hogwarts, where Neville taught and Hannah was pursuing a career as a school healer. In 2014, Neville, along with his friends, former members of Dumbledore's Army, attended the Quidditch World Cup final match in Argentina.[15] During the match, he chatted cheerfully with Harry Potter and kept an eye on his godson, Albus Potter. He also, like all of his teammates, rejoiced at the victory of the Bulgarian team in the match.[16]

Over the years, he kept in touch with his old friends, as in 2017, Ginny told her eldest son to "send my love to Neville" when he arrived at Hogwarts.[10]

Dumbledore's Army was an organization led by Harry Potter that sought not only to undermine Dolores Umbridge's dictatorial power but also to offer students a means of learning practical defensive magic, something Umbridge denied them in their actual Defense Against the Dark Arts classes. Neville became a member during its formation in 1995, and it marked something of a turning point, both in terms of Neville's relationships with other Hogwarts students and his magical abilities outside of Herbology. As D.A. practice progressed throughout the year, Neville showed a marked improvement in his ability to disarm and stun, as well as perform the Disturbance Charm and Explosive Hex, among other things.

When several Death Eaters escaped from Azkaban in early 1996, all members of the DA made efforts to improve their dueling skills, but Neville made the most progress, as three of the escapees had taken part in the torture of his parents, which drove them insane.

While training with Neville, the DA in preparation for fighting the Death Eaters in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, the sense of camaraderie Neville felt with them made him one of the three members (along with Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood) who answered Ron and Hermione's call, leading to the Battle of the Astronomy Tower.