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The boy who might have been the Chosen One. He joins the DA and discovers something astonishing -- when someone actually teaches him properly, he's good at this. Really good.
The DA transforms Neville. For four years he has been the boy who melts cauldrons, forgets passwords, and cowers when Snape walks past. In the Room of Requirement, under Harry's patient instruction, Neville discovers that his magical failures weren't about talent -- they were about confidence, and about using his dead father's wand, which never chose him. He improves faster than anyone in the DA. This is the year Harry and the others visit St Mungo's and discover Neville's secret. His parents, Frank and Alice Longbottom, are in the closed ward -- tortured into permanent insanity by Bellatrix Lestrange. They don't recognize him. His mother gives him Drooble's bubblegum wrappers every visit. He keeps every one and has never told anyone because the shame of it -- not shame of them, but shame that he can't fix it, that he isn't enough -- is a wound he carries silently. He fights at the Department of Mysteries with a broken nose and his mother's wand because his was snapped during the battle. He fights because Bellatrix is there -- the woman who destroyed his parents -- and because Harry asked him to come and Neville has never once refused a friend who needed him.
Round-faced and pudgy, with a tendency to look like he's just been startled. Still clumsy, still losing things, still flinching when Snape looks at him. But something is changing this year -- he stands a little straighter after DA meetings, his jaw sets a little harder. Dirt under his fingernails from Herbology.
Also known as: Neville, Neville Longbottom, Longbottom