Battle of Longbottom Manor

The **Battle of Longbottom Manor** is a contra-canonical battle mentioned in *Ignore the Dementor*; in this story, it is the final battle of the Second Wizarding War and the ultimate end of Voldemort and the Death Eaters. It was fought at Longbottom Manor in late June 1996 between, on one side, parts of the Hogwarts Society of Magical Creatures (Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape, Graham Montague, Hestia Talon, Kara Brynhildr, Eir Herja and Colin and Dennis Creevey), supported by Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Aurora Sinistra and Augusta and Algernon Longbottom, and on the other Voldemort and about twenty Death Eaters (including Bellatrix Lestrange, Lucius Malfoy, Walden Macnair and Peter Pettigrew, but with most of the heavy hitters already taken out).

When Voldemort decided to give Draco the Dark Mark, he started by breaking down his occlumency shields, finding his identity as an eros and memories of his life as an HSMC member – including befriending Harry, falling in love with Neville and helping to remove Snape's Mark. Draco immediately used an emergency portkey Neville had given him for just this purpose, taking refuge in the Fidelius-charmed Longbottom Manor; however, during the First Wizarding War Snape had developed a portkey tracking spell that let Voldemort follow him through the charm. Neville's grandmother and her brother were quickly captured, but when Bellatrix cast the Cruciatus Curse on Neville, Draco realized he needed access to his only creature power that could be used in a fight; as he finally accepted Astoria Greengrass as his mate – and simultaneously rejected her as a potential lover – his bow and arrows appeared and he started shooting Death Eaters. Bellatrix broke off her curse and ran upstairs, but Neville caught up with her on the second floor; it's not clear exactly what he did but the result was that "most of the blood from her body had been expelled through every orifice it could find".

The fighting eventually moved to the second-floor ballroom, where Neville killed Nagini after she attacked Draco but the two were eventually overwhelmed. Luckily Draco had managed to send a request for help through the HSMC Protean-charmed coins, and thanks to the creature powers of Hestia Talon and Luna Lovegood a hastily-gathered strike force could breach the Fidelius-charmed defenses and attack Voldemort's forces in turn; in particular, since all the horcruxes were destroyed, Harry in his dementor form could fairly easily consume the last part of his soul, after which Luna incinerated the body just to make sure. Some Death Eaters tried to apparate away, but were stopped by a new ward keyed to the Dark Mark that the Creevey brothers had erected around the manor.

Since the arrows from the Eros bow simply turned their targets unconscious, the lives lost were few; besides Voldemort, Bellatríx and Nagini, the reported deaths are Lucius Malfoy and Algernon Longbottom, plus Walden Macnair getting his soul eaten. Pettigrew suffered some dementor exposure but survived intact enough to be tried in court, and an unspecified number of Death Eaters were mauled by roc and gargoyle claws which may or may not have left lasting damage.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 24
2. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 25