Neville Longbottom

***Ignore the Dementor***

* Draco Malfoy (husband)
* Unnamed children
* Algernon Longbottom (great-uncle)

***Ignore the Dementor***

* Draco Malfoy (husband)

***Violence Inherent in the System***

* Ginny Weasley (girlfriend)

* Professor of Herbology at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (fl. 2008 – ?)
* Head of Gryffindor House (fl. 2008 – ?)

### Loyalty

Dumbledore's Army

**Neville Longbottom** is a canonical pure-blood wizard and Hogwarts student in Harry's year; he was sorted into Gryffindor, became a member of Dumbledore's Army and fought in the Battle of Hogwarts where he killed Nagini.

## Canonical information

Main article: **Neville Longbottom** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Neville was born merely hours before Harry, albeit before midnight on 30 July 1980, and was a possible candidate match for the prophecy's "the one who will vanquish the Dark Lord". He is the son and only child of former aurors Frank and Alice Longbottom, who were tortured into insanity by Bellatrix Lestrange when he was but sixteen months old; he was raised by his widowed grandmother Augusta Longbottom. He was slow to come into his magic, and was even suspected of being a squib, until the day his great-uncle Algie Longbottom (Augusta's brother-in-law) accidentally dropped him from a window and he bounced. Still, the constant pressure to perform at a level similar to his parents gave him low self-esteem and if anything held him back.

After the war, Neville worked for a while as an auror, but later taught Herbology at Hogwarts under Pomona Sprout and by 2008 had become Head of House for Gryffindor. He married Hannah Abbott, landlady of the Leaking Cauldron, but at least by 2014 they had not had any children. Around 2020 he worked with the Statute of Secrecy Task Force.

## Non-canonical information

### *Ignore the Dementor*

Main article: Neville Longbottom in Ignore the Dementor
In this creture!fic, Neville is a member of the Hogwarts Society of Magical Creatures because he and his family are secretly high elves masquerading as humans; the main reason he is so bad at Potions but good at Herbology is that the innate magic of high elves works through touch and thus is very hard to apply to boiling potions, but very easy to growing plants. Due to high elves being a very tactile species, he has developed a close relationship with fellow member Draco Malfoy, whose species is complementary in this aspect, and before school lets out in 1996 he gives him his emergency portkey as a safety measure. This foresight pays off when Draco is chosen to take the Dark Mark, since Voldemort breaks through his occlumency barriers and finds out about his relationship with Harry; Draco immediately uses the portkey, but the death eaters are able to follow him even through the Fidelius Charm on Longbottom Manor, and so he calls out to the HSMC for help. Fighting not only for his own life but for Draco's as well, Neville manages to take out both Bellatrix Lestrange and Nagini, but eventually they are overwhelmed and tortured until the cavalry arrives; in the ensuing fight Neville's great-uncle Algernon is killed, but otherwise the fatalities are solely on the bad guys' side.

After the war, Neville and Draco eventually marry and both take up inherited seats in the Wizengamot; there is also mention of "eros-elves" presumably intended as their children, although the mechanics behind that are never discussed.

### Minor appearances

* In *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, set in the year after the war, he is dating Luna Lovegood, who brings him home to meet her father over Christmas.

* In *The Family Clock*, Neville won Greenpage Monthly's yearly under-21 Herbology contest in 1996 with his Mimbulus mimbletonia; to celebrate, his grandmother bought him a Remindall clock.

* In *Violence Inherent in the System*, when Ginny realizes she will never win Harry's heart, she uses a love potion on herself to redirect her desire to Neville (who seems quite happy at her interest).

## Shipping

While canonically, Neville eventually married Hannah Abbott, there is no sign given of them being a couple already during their Hogwarts years. In fanfiction, beside Hannah, Neville is often paired up with Luna or, if the author wants a non-canonical pairing for Harry or Ron, Ginny or Hermione.

## References

1. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 7
2. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 22
3. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 24
4. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 25
5. ↑ *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 24
6. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 2
7. ↑ *Violence Inherent in the System*, Chapter 7