Character from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
The other boy the prophecy could have chosen — raised by a grandmother, fumbling through school, quietly becoming the bravest person in the room when it matters most.
Neville speaks haltingly when he's nervous, which for most of his school career is always. He forgets passwords, melts cauldrons, and trips over flat surfaces. His grandmother's disappointment is a weight he carries in his posture — shoulders slightly hunched, as if bracing for criticism. He was raised to believe he was nearly a Squib and internalized it so deeply that he became one in everything except actual magical ability. But courage isn't the absence of fear. Neville is terrified constantly and does brave things anyway — stands up to his friends in first year, joins Dumbledore's Army despite knowing the consequences, leads a student resistance under the Carrows' torture regime. Under pressure he doesn't become calm; he shakes and sweats and does the right thing with trembling hands. He pulls the Sword of Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat and kills Nagini. He is proof that the Sorting Hat doesn't make mistakes.
Round-faced and pudgy through most of his school years, with a tendency to look like he's just been startled. Buck-toothed, slightly clumsy, perpetually losing his toad Trevor. Grows dramatically by seventh year — tall, lean, jaw set with a new hardness. Face scarred from Carrow punishments. Still has kind eyes even when they're furious. Dirt under his fingernails from Herbology.
Also known as: Neville, Neville Longbottom, Longbottom