| Granian
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Elijah Wilde
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Here he is: Quote: Chapter One- Wishes Do Come True
A plump, round face young boy sat on his bed looking at a large round Galleon. It looked like a normal Galleon, only it was not, as could be seen when examined up close. It was the Galleon Hermione had made as a means of communication for members of Dumbledore’s Army.
Neville sighed, put the fake Galleon on the table beside his bed & crossed his room to look out of the window. It was a dark starry night & the wind was blowing gently. He missed Hogwarts very much. He missed his lessons & teachers, Quidditch Matches, his dormitory, the Great Hall & everything else about Hogwarts.
But most of all he missed his friends. Over the past two years, he had become much closer friends with Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Ginny Weasley & Luna Lovegood.
A week ago was Albus Dumbledore’s funeral. He was the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Wichcraft & Wizardry & was murdered by a member of his staff, Severus Snape who murdered Dumbledore with one of the most feared Curses in the Wizarding World, Avada Kedavra.
But before the murder had taken place Neville had been involved in a battle against the Death Eaters fighting alongside Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny , Luna, members of Hogwarts’s staff & members of the Order of The Phoenix. He had been hurt around the stomach area, but was feeling better now.
He looked up at the starry sky, thinking about all the death & injuries which had been caused by Voldemort & his Death Eaters. There were articles of deaths appearing almost daily in the Daily Prophet. His thoughts flashed to his own parents, Frank & Alice Longbottom, who were both Aurors,. They are hospitalized in St. Mungo’s & are unable to recognize anyone. They were tortured to insanity by a group of Death Eaters who believed the well known Aurors had information about their Master.
Neville felt something with wet skin jump onto his right foot. He was sure his heart almost jumped out of him. He looked down with his heart pounding, but was relieved to see it was only his toad, Trevor. He lifted Trevor off of his foot & set him down on the floor where he hopped off into a dark corner of the room.
Neville glanced out of the window once again & then decided to go to bed. After a while his snores filled his room & he dreamt he was dancing with a girl with long dirty blond hair & large eyes & wore radish earings & a Butterbeer cork necklace, who then into his parents & were luahing hysterically, then they turned into Voldemort who was firing hexes & curses left, right & center.
Neville awoke with a start, his plump face shining with swaet & he was breathing heavily as though he had just ran a race. He calmed himself by taking a few deep breaths the slumped against his pillows & fell asleep with his snores filling his room once again.
Neville awoked to the delicious aroma of toast, bacon & eggs. He quickly got out of bed & after shaking Trevor off of his clothes, he got dressed. He headed downstairs where his Grandmother was using magic to prepare their breakfast.
“Morning, Gran,” said Neville as he sat down at the breakfast table.
“Good morning, Neville,” replied Mrs. Longbottom replied as she flicked her wand so that a plate stacked with toast, bacon & eggs & a glass of orange juice came zooming up & settling neatly on the table.
As he began to eat, a barn owl flew threw the kitchen window, gently hitting the side of Neville’s head with its outstretched wings. The owl perched on the breakfast table & clamped in its beak Neville could see the Daily Prophet. Mrs. Longbottom took the Prophet & put a Knut into the pouch attached to the owl’s right leg, then it turned & took flight threw the window which it entered.
There was a headline on the front page which caught Neville’s eye. It read: ‘Another Ministry of Magic employee found Dead’. His thoughts flashed to Ron & Ginny. He remembered that their father & brother both worked at the Ministry.
“Gran, who was the Ministry employee that was killed?” he asked quickly.
“It’s a young witch by the name of Calleigh Woods who worked in the Auror Department. It says here she was found in her home & was apparently killed by the Avada Kedavra Curse,” she replied peering over the Prophet at him, then continued to read.
Neville felt relieved at hearing this because he knew how it felt when someone relatives or friends suffered at the hands of Voldemort or his Death Eaters.
He quietly finished off his breakfast & headed up back to his bedroom. He was wondering if Hogwarts would re-open for the new school year. He took his textbooks from his first to sixth year & began looking through them As he did, memories of his life at school came flooding back.
He was on the Hogwarts Express looking for Trevor with Hermione, The Sorting Ceremony, his first lessons with the Professors, his detention in the Forbidden Forest with Harry, Hermione & Draco Malfoy, Gryffindor winning the House Cup; Harry & Ron arriving at Hogwarts in an enchanted car, pixies lifting him up into the air in a DADA class, students & a ghost being petrified, exams being cancelled; Dementors on the Hogwarts Express, Hogsmeade visits, doing a practical lesson with new DADA teacher, Professor Lupin, Sirius Black gaining entry into the Gryffindor Tower & then long afterwards escaping from the Dementors; The Triwizard Tournament, the four Champions being selected, the Yule Ball, Cedric Diggory dead, end of the term; aboard the Hogwarts Express meeting up with Ginny & Harry & also Luna for the first time, the quarrel between Harry & Seamus about Voldemort returning, The D.A , riding Thestrals to the Ministry of Magic, battling with the Death Eaters; meeting Harry & Luna on the train, watching Harry organizing a new Quidditch team, his D.A Galleon glowing & getting warm, once again fighting Death Eaters, in the Hospital wing at the end of the battle & Dumbledore’s funeral.
He hoped with all his heart that Hogwarts would re-open. He thought that attending Hogwarts was the best thing that ever happened in his life.
The rest of his holidays flashed by, with him constantly glancing aout of the windows around the house hoping to see an owl with a Hogwarts letter informing him that Hogwarts would be re-opening. This did not happen & he began to feel dejected.
On one specific morning in the last week of August, Neville overslept which was something he rarely did. He thought he had awoken naturally but then he heard a tap-tapping sound on his bedroom window. He looked towards it & saw a tawny owl hovering outside. Quickly he crossed his room & threw open the window to let the owl enter. It landed on his bed.
Neville recognized the envelope at once. His heart began to race & he started feeling excited. He took the letter from the owl’s beak with trembling fingers & the owl took off as soon as he did so.
He stared at the envelope hardly daring to believe his eyes. But there it was: a Snake, Badger,Lion & Raven all united around a large letter H.
With his fingers still trembling, he opened the envelope. Out fell two pieces of parchment. The first was a letter. He quickly scanned the letter & let out a loud yell of delight that made Trevor the toad jump under his bed in alarm.
Neville gathered up the envelope & parchments & practically flew down the stairs into the kitchen where his Grandmother was tidying up.
“Gran!” he shouted causing Mrs. Longbottom to give a little shriek & dropped the cutlery which she was holding. “I just got a letter from Hogwarts!”
He handed her the letters & sat down at the table feeling very happy.
“I’m surprised they have decided to re-open Hogwarts,” said Mrs. Longbottom after she finished reading the two parchments. One was a letter stating that Hogwarts would be re-opened on September the first & was signed by Minerva McGonagall, Hogwarts’s new head & the other was a booklist.
Neville’s excitement & happiness quickly evaporated & was replaced by anxiousness.
“Gran, I can go back, can’t I?” he asked.
He waited breathlessly for her to answer as she considered the question.
Her lips parted in a smile as she answered, “Yes, you may. I will go to Diagon Alley in a while to get your books. I’m going with some friends of mine, so you can stay home & do any necessary things you have to do. But stay indoors at all time & don’t let anyone in the house.”
Neville was so relieved & happy that he jumped up, gave his Grandmother a hug, ran up the stairs & into his room to begin getting his stuff in order.
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When I look into the
MIRROR OF ERISED
all that I see is
YOU
*wink*
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