D.H.P.C.C.G. - Neville Longbottom

Name/Aliases: Neville Longbottom

Appearances/Mentions:

Book 1, see below.
Book 2. Pgs 67-69, 78-79, 89, 139-140, 143-144, 186-188, 210.
Book 3. Pgs 46, 65-69, 74, 80-82, 90, 95-97, 100... not finished

Summary: male, Gryffindor, Harry's age. Owns a toad called Trevor who keeps escaping. Accident prone and forgetful, hates potions, good at Herbology, can appear cowardly (Bloody Baron, werewolves etc). Often picked on by Malfoy, attacked Crabbe and Goyle but was knocked out cold. Lives with his Gran. Showed no magic until the age of 8, says he is "almost a Squib". Breaks his wrist at his first flying lesson. Goes into the Forest on detention with Harry, Ron and Malfoy. Terrified of Snape.
Physical Descriptions: round-faced boy (Book 1).
Relatives/Friends: seems close to Hermione, friends with Harry and Ron. Lives with his gran, has a Great-Uncle Algie and Great-Aunt Enid and other extended family. Parents are in St Mungo's.

Important Events:

Book 1, Pg 71 - Harry passed a round-faced boy who was saying, "Gran, I've lost my toad again."
"Oh, Neville," he heard the old woman sigh.
Book 1, Pg 78-80 - There was a knock on the door of their compartment and the round-faced boy Harry had passed on Platform 9 3/4 came in. He looked tearful. "Sorry," he said. "but have you seen a toad at all?" When they shook their heads, he wailed, "I've lost him! He keeps getting away from me!"
"He'll turn up," said Harry.
"Yes," said the boy miserably. "Well, if you see him..." He left...
...the compartment door slid open again. The toadless boy was back, but this time he had a girl with him. "Has anyone seen a toad? Neville's lost one," she said.
Hermione introduces herself...
...Anyway, we'd better go and look for Neville's toad... and she left, taking the toadless boy with her.
Book 1, Pg 83-85 - Nobody spoke much (on the way to the boats). Neville, the boy who kept losing his toad, sniffed once or twice.
Harry and Ron were followed into their boat by Neville and Hermione.
"Oy, you there! Is this your toad?" said Hagrid, who was checking the boats as people climbed out of them.
"Trevor!" cried Neville blissfully, holding out his hands.
(McGonagall's) eyes lingered a moment on Neville's cloak, which was fastened under his left ear...
Book 1, Pg 90 - When Neville Longbottom, the boy who kept losing his toad, was called, he fell over on his way to the stool. The hat took a long time to decide with Neville. When it finally shouted "Gryffindor!", Neville ran off still wearing it, and had to jog back amid gales of laughter to give it to "Mac Dougal, Morag".
Book 1, Pg 93 - "Well, my gran brought me up and she's a witch," said Neville, "but the family thought I was all Muggle for ages. My great-uncle Algie kept trying to catch me off my guard and force some magic out of me - he pushed me off the end of Blackpool pier once, I nearly drowned - but nothing happened till I was eight. Great-uncle Algie came round for tea and he was hanging me out of an upstairs window by the ankles when my great-auntie Enid offered him a meringue and he accidentally let go. But I bounced - all the way down the garden and into the road. They were all really pleased. Gran was crying, she was so happy. And you should have seen their faces when I got in here - they thought I might not be magic enough to come, you see. Great-uncle Algie was so pleased he bought me my toad."
Book 1, Pg 96 - Peeves stuck out his tongue and vanished, dropping the walking sticks on Neville's head.
They all scrambled through the (portrait hole) - Neville needed a leg up -
Book 1, Pg 103 - Neville had somehow managed to melt Seamus's cauldron into a twisted blob and their potion was seeping across the stone floor, burning holes in people's shoes. Within seconds, the whole class were standing on their schools while Neville, who had been drenched in the potion when the cauldron collapsed, moaned in pain as angry red boils sprang up all over his arms and legs.
"Idiot boy!" snarled Snape. "I suppose you added the porcupine quills before taking the cauldron off the fire?"
Neville whimpered as boils started to pop up all over his nose.
"Take him to the hospital wing," Snape spat at Seamus.
Book 1, Pg 107-110 - Neville had never been on a broomstick in his life, because his grandmother had never let him near one. Privately, Harry felt she'd had good reason, because Neville managed to have an extraordinary number of accidents even with both feet on the ground.
Hermione was almost as nervous about flying as Neville was... Neville was hanging on to her every word, desperate for anything that might help him hang on to his broomstick later...
A barn owl brought Neville a small package from his grandmother. He opened it excitedly and showed them a glass ball the size of a large marble, which seemed to be full of white smoke. "It's a Remembrall!" he explained. "Gran knows I forget things - this tells you if there's something you've forgotten to do. Look, you hold it tight like this and if it turns red - oh..." his face fell, because the Remembrall had suddenly glowed scarlet, "... you've forgotten something..."
Neville was trying to remember what he'd forgotten when Draco Malfoy... snatched the Remembrall out of his hand.... "Malfoy's got my Remembrall, Professor."
Neville's (broom) hadn't moved at all. Perhaps brooms, like horses, could tell when you were afraid, thought Harry; there was a quaver in Neville's voice that said only too clearly that he wanted to keep his feet on the ground.
...But Neville, nervous and jumpy and frightened of being left on the ground, pushed off hard before the whistle had touched Madame Hooch's lips... Neville was rising straight up like a cork shot out of a bottle - 12 feet - 20 feet. Harry saw his scared white face look down at the ground falling away, saw him gasp, slip sideways off the broom and - WHAM - a thud and a nasty crack and Neville lay, face down, on the grass in a heap.
"Broken wrist," M. Hooch muttered. "Come on, boy - it's all right, up you get."
Neville, his face tear-streaked, clutching his wrist, hobbled off with M Hooch, who had her arm around him.
Book 1, Pg 116-121 - "I heard something," said Harry. It was a sort of snuffling. It was Neville. He was curled up on the floor, fast asleep, but jerked suddenly awake as they crept nearer. "Thank goodness you found me! I've been out here for hours. I couldn't remember the new password to get in to bed."
...they tell him but the pink lady isn't there to open the door...
"How's your arm?" said Harry.
"Fine," said Neville. "Madame Pomfrey mended it in about a minute."
"Good - well, look, Neville, we've got to be somewhere, we'll see you later - "
"Don't leave me!" said Neville, scrambling to his feet. "I don't want to stay here alone, the Bloody Baron's been past twice already."
... they go to the duel, Filch shows up ...
Neville suddenly let out a frightened squeak and broke into a run - he tripped, grabbed Ron around the waist and the pair of them toppled right into a suit of armour....
they run... Neville was bent double, wheezing and spluttering.
"I think we'll be OK - get off, Neville!" For Neville had been tugging on the sleeve of Harry's dressing gown for the last minute. "What?"
...They see Fluffy...they run back to the common room...
It was a while before any of them said anything. Neville, indeed, looked as if he'd never speak again.
Neither Neville or Hermione showed the slightest interest in what lay underneath the dog and the trapdoor. All Neville cared about was never going near the dog again.
Book 1, Pg 126 - Harry's partner was Seamus Finnegan (which was a relief as Neville had been trying to catch his eye).
Book 1, Pg 140 - Harry's broom tries to throw him...
"Neville, you can look!" Ron said. Neville had been sobbing into Hagrid's jacket for the last five minutes.
Book 1, Pg 159-160 - At that moment Neville toppled into the common room. How he had managed to climb through the portrait hole was anyone's guess, because his legs had been stuck together with what they recognised at once as the Leg-Locker Curse. He must have had to bunny hop all the way up to Gryffindor Tower. Everyone fell about laughing except Hermione, who leapt up and performed the counter-curse. Neville's legs sprang apart and he got to his feet, trembling. "What happened?" Hermione asked him.
"Malfoy," said Neville shakily. "I met him outside the library. He said he'd been looking for someone to practise that on.
"Go to Prof McGonagall!" Hermione urged Neville. "Report him!"
Neville shook his head. "I don't want any more trouble," he mumbled.
"You've got to stand up to him, Neville!" said Ron. "He's used to walking all over people, but that's no reason to lie down in front of him and make it easier."
"There's no reason to tell me I'm not brave enough to be in Gryffindor, Malfoy's already done that," Neville choked.
Harry gave Neville his last Chocolate Frog, who looked as though he might cry. "You're worth 12 of Malfoy," Harry said. "The Sorting Hat chose you for Gryffindor didn't it? And where's Malfoy? In stinking Slytherin."
Neville's lips twitched in a weak smile as he unwrapped the Frog. "Thanks, Harry... I think I'll go to bed... D'you want the card, you collect them, don't you?"
Book 1, Pg 162-164 - Ron and Hermione had found a place in the stands next to Neville, who couldn't understand why they looked so grim and worried...
"- you should be on the team, Longbottom, you've got no brains," said Malfoy.
Neville went bright red but turned in his seat to face Malfoy. "I'm worth 12 of you, Malfoy," he stammered.
Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle howled with laughter... "You tell him, Neville," said Ron.
"Longbottom, if brains were gold you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something."
Ron attacks Malfoy... Neville hesitated, then clambered over the back of his seat to help.... the scuffles and yelps coming from the whirl of fists that was Neville, Crabbe and Goyle.
Book 1, Pg 166 - ...Neville tried to take on Crabbe and Goyle single-handed! He's still out cold but Madame Pomfrey says he'll be all right - talk about showing Slytherin!
Book 1, Pg 177-179 - When Prof McGonagall appeared, she was leading Neville.
"Harry!" Neville burst out, the moment he saw (Harry and Hermione). "I was trying to find you to warn you, I heard Malfoy saying he was going to catch you, he said you had a drag-" Harry shook his head violently to shut Neville up...
"... I suppose you think it's funny that Longbottom here heard the story (about the dragon) and believed it, too?" said McGonagall.
Harry caught Neville's eye and tried to tell him without words that this wasn't true, because Neville was looking stunned and hurt. Poor, blundering Neville - Harry knew what it must have cost him to try and find them in the dark, to warn them...
"All 3 of you will recieve detentions - yes, you too, Mr Longbottom, nothing gives you the right to walk around school at night..." She takes 50 points off Gryffindor each...
Harry didn't sleep all night. He heard Neville sobbing into his pillow for what seemed like hours. Harry couldn't think of anything to say to comfort him. He knew Neville, like himself, was dreading the dawn.
Hermione and Neville were suffering, too. They didn't have as bad a time as Harry, because they weren't as well known, but nobody would speak to them either.
Book 1, Pg 181-183 - At 11 o'clock ... went down to the entrance hall with Neville... They marched off across the dark grounds. Neville kept sniffing.
Filch tells them they're going into the Forest...
At this, Neville let out a little moan... Malfoy mentions werewolves... Neville clutched the sleeve of Harry's robe and made a choking noise.
"me, Harry an' Hermione'll go one way an' Draco, Neville an' Fang'll go the other..." said Hagrid... they reached a fork in the earth path and Harry, Hermione and Hagrid took the left path while Malfoy, Neville and Fang took the right.
Book 1, Pg 186 - "You don't think they've been hurt, do you?" whispered Hermione.
"I don't care if Malfoy has, but if something's got Neville... It's our fault he's here in the first place."
Hagrid comes back... Malfoy, Neville and Fang were with him. Hagrid was fuming. Malfoy, it seemed, had sneaked up behind Neville and grabbed him for a joke. Neville had panicked and sent up the sparks.
"We'll be lucky to catch anythin' now, with the racket you two were makin'. Right, we're changin' groups - Neville, you stay with me an' Hermione, Harry, you go with Fang an' this idiot..."
Book 1, Pg 191 - Neville thought Harry had a bad case of exam nerves because Harry couldn't sleep...
Book 1, Pg 197-199 - "What are you doing?" said a voice from the corner of the room. Neville appeared from behind an armchair, clutching Trevor the toad, who looked as though he'd been making another bid for freedom.
"Nothing, Neville, nothing," said Harry.
Neville stared at their guilty faces. "You're going out again," he said.
"No, no, no," said Hermione. "No, we're not. Why don't you go back to bed, Neville?"
"You can't go out," said Neville, "you'll be caught again. Gryffindor will be in even more trouble."
"You don't understand," said Harry, "this is important."
But Neville was clearly steeling himself to do something desperate. "I won't let you do it," he said, hurrying to stand in front of the portrait hole. "I'll - I'll fight you!"
"Neville," Ron exploded, "get away from the hole and don't be an idiot -"
"Don't call me an idiot!" said Neville. "I don't think you should be breaking any more rules! And you were the one who told me to stand up to people!"
"Yes, but not to us," said Ron. "Neville, you don't know what you're doing."
He took a step forward and Neville dropped Trevor the toad, who leapt out of sight. "Go on then, try and hit me!" said Neville, raising his fists. "I'm ready!"
... Hermione stepped forward. "Neville," she said. "I'm really, really sorry about this." She raised her wand. "Petrificus Totalis!"...
Neville's arms snapped to his sides. His legs sprang together. His whole body rigid, he swayed where he stood and then fell flat on his face, stiff as a board. Hermione ran to turn him over. Neville's jaws were jammed together so he couldn't speak. Only his eyes were moving, looking at them in horror... "It's the full Body-Bind," said Hermione miserably. "Oh, Neville. I'm so sorry."
"We had to, Neville, no time to explain," said Harry.
Book 1, Pg 221-222 - "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. I therefore award 10 points to Mr Neville Longbottom." ...
Harry, Ron and Hermione stood up to yell and cheer as Neville, white with shock, disappeared under a pile of people hugging him. He had never won so much as a point for Gryffindor before.
Even Neville scraped through (the exams), his good Herbology mark making up for his abyssmal Potions one.
...Neville's toad was found lurking in a corner of the toilets...
Book 2, Pg 67 - The other boys comment on Ron and Harry arriving at school in a flying car... "Amazing," said Neville, awestruck.
Book 2, Pg 68-69 - Neville Longbottom, on the other hand, greeted (Ron and Harry) cheerfully. Neville was a round-faced and accident-prone boy with the worst memory of anyone Harry had ever met. "Post's due any minute - I think Gran's sending on a few things I forgot." ... A big, lumpy parcel bounced off Neville's head...
Ron was pointing at the red envelope. It looked quite ordinary to Harry, but Ron and Neville were both looking at it as though they expected it to explode.... "You'd better open it, Ron," said Neville, in a timid whisper. "It'll be worse if you don't. My Gran sent me one once, and I ignored it and -" he gulped, "it was horrible." ... "Open it," Neville urged. "It'll all be over in a few minutes..." Neville stuffed his fingers in his ears.
Book 2, Pg 78-79 - Lockhart lifts out the covered cage... Neville was cowering in his front row seat.
The pixies shot in every direction like rockets. Two of them seized Neville by the ears and lifted him into the air.
Book 2, Pg 89 - "Look at Neville Longbottom - he's pureblood and he can hardly stand a cauldron the right way up," said Ron.
Book 2, Pg 139 - Neville Longbottom bought a large, evil-smelling green onion, a pointed purple crystal and a rotting newt-tail before the other Gryffindor boys pointed out that he was in no danger: he was a pure-blood, and therefore unlikely to be attacked.
"They went for Filch first," Neville said, his round face fearful, "and everyone knows I'm almost a Squib."
Book 2, Pg 140 - When Snape turned and walked of to bully Neville...
Book 2, Pg 143-144 - Duelling Club: Lockhart teamed Neville with Justin Finch-Fletchley...
After the first duel: Both Neville and Justin were lying on the floor, panting...
"Let's have a volunteer pair," said Lockhart. "Longbottom and Finch-Fletchley, how about you?"
"A bad idea, Professor Lockhart," said Snape. "Longbottom causes devastation with the simplest spells. We'll be sending what's left of Finch-Fletchley up to the hospital wing in a matchbox." Neville's round pink face went pinker.
Book 2, Pg 186-188 - Neville Longbottom had been sent letters from all the witches and wizards in his family, all giving him dfferent advice on what to choose. Confused and worried, he sat reading the subject lists with is tongue poking out, asking people whether they thought Arithmancy sounded more difficult that Study of Ancient Runes.
At the top of the stairs to the dormitory, (Harry) met Neville Longbottom, who was looking frantic. "Harry - I don't know who did it. I just found -" Watching Harry fearfully, Neville pushed open the door.
Harry's stuff has been trashed...
As (Harry) and Neville pulled the blankets back onto his bed...
Book 2, Pg 210 - Prof McGonagall announces the start of the exams...
There was a loud band behind Harry as Neville Longbottom's wand slipped, vanishing one of the legs on his desk.
Book 3, Pg 46 - he also ran into Neville Longbottom, a round-faced, forgetful boy, outside Flourish & Blotts, Harry didn't stop to chat; Neville appeared to have mislaid his booklist, and was being told off by his very formidable-looking grandmother. Harry hoped she never found out that he'd pretended to be Neville while on the run from the Ministry of Magic.
Book 3, Pg 65-69 - the train stops and the lights go off... the compartment door suddenly opened and someone fell painfully over Harry's legs. "Sorry! D'you know what's going on? Ouch! Sorry -"
"Hello, Neville," said Harry, feeling around in the dark and pulling Neville up by his cloak.
"Harry? Is that you? What's happening?"
"No idea! Sit down - " There was a loud hissing and a yelp of pain; Neville had tried to sit on Crookshanks... the Dementor comes in...
...above (Ron and Hermione) (Harry) could see Neville and Prof Lupin watching.
Ginny and Neville looked back at (Harry), both very pale.
"It was horrible," said Neville, in a higher voice than usual. "Did you feel how cold it went when it came in?"
... the train arrives... Neville's pet toad croaked loudly from under his hat.
... Neville apparantly tells Malfoy that Harry fainted.
Book 3, Pg 74 - "Oh no," said Neville Longbottom sadly. He always had trouble remembering the passwords.
Book 3, Pg 80-82 - "You boy," Trelawny said suddenly to Neville, who almost toppled off his pouffe, "is your grandmother well?"
"I think so," said Neville tremulously.
"I wouldn't be so sure if I were you, dear." ...
"...Oh, and dear -" she caught Neville by the arm as he made to stand up, "after you've broken your first cup, would you be so kind as to select one of the blue patterned ones?..." sure enough, Neville had no sooner reached ther shelf of teacups than there was a tinkle of breaking china.
... Prof Trelawny... screamed. There was another tinkle of breaking china; Neville had smashed his 2nd cup.
Book 3, Pg 90 - Neville ran repeatedly back from his (Hippogriff), which didn't seem to want to bend its knees.
Book 3, Pgs 95-97 - A few cauldrons away, Neville was in trouble. Neville regularily went to pieces in Potions lessons; it was his worst subject, and his great fear of Prof Snape made things 10 times worse. His potion, which was supposed to be bright, acid green, had turned -
"Orange, Longbottom," said Snape, ladling some up and allowing it to splash back into the cauldron, so that everyone could see. "Orange. Tell me, boy, does anything penetrate that hick skull of yours? Didn't you hear me say, quite clearly, that only one rat spleen was needed? Didn't I state plainly that a dash of leech juice would suffice? What do I have to do to make you understand, Longbottom?"
Neville was pink and trembling. He looked as though he was on the verge of tears... Hermione offers to help.
"Longbottom, at the end of this lesson we will feed a few drops of this potion to your toad and see what happens. Perhaps this will encourage you to do it properly." Snape moved away, leaving Neville breathless with fear.
Crabbe and Goyle laughed openly, watching Neville sweat as he stirred his potion feverishly. Hermione was muttering instructions to him out the corner of her mouth, so that Snape wouldn't see.
The end of the lesson in sight, Snape strode over to Neville, who was cowering by his cauldron. "Everyone gather round," said Snape, "and watch what happens to Longbottom's toad. If he has managed to produce a Shrinking Solution, it will shrink to a tadpole. If, as I don't doubt, he has done it wrong, his toad is likely to be poisoned."
The potion is now green and works.
Book 3, Pg 100 - "...this class contains Neville Longbottom," said Snape to Lupin. "I would advise you not to entrust him with anything difficult. Not unless Miss Granger is hissing instructions in his ear."
Neville went scarlet. Harry glared at Snape; it was bad enought that he bullied Neville in his own classes, let alone doing it in front of other teachers.
"I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation," Lupin said, "and I am sure he will perform it admirably."
Neville's face went, if possible, even redder.
Snape leaves, Lupin says there's Boggart in the closet.
Neville gave Prof Lupin a look of poor terror...
...said Prof Lupin, choosing to ignore Neville's small splutter of terror... Lupin explains the spell needed. "...this is where you come in Neville."
The wardrobe shook again, though not as much as Neville, who walked forward as though he was heading for the gallows.

...someone else will have to finish Neville, it's taking too long!

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