Longbottom family

"*My son and his wife were tortured into insanity by You-Know-Who's followers. They were Aurors, you know, and very well respected within the wizarding community. Highly gifted, the pair of them.*"
— Augusta Longbottom regarding her son and daughter-in-law

## Family heritage

### Notable family members

* Augusta Longbottom
* Jacob Longbottom
* Naomi Longbottom (née Smith)
* Neville Longbottom
* Aurora Longbottom (née Pikeman)
* Owen Longbottom

## Affiliation

### House(s)

Gryffindor
Ravenclaw

**Longbottom** was the surname of a pure-blood wizarding family, and one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight. They were related to the Black, Yaxley and Abbott families, and more distantly to the Weasley, Crouch and Potter families.

The Longbottoms did not appear to hold prejudice based on blood purity, although there are indications that they were considered more respectable than the Weasleys. For example, Callidora Black was not disowned by her family for marrying Harfang Longbottom, implying that he was not considered a blood traitor. Their respectability may also stem from both Jacob and Naomi's popularity as accomplished Aurors.

The last few generations of the Longbottom family, however, had strong connections to the Order of the Phoenix and Dumbledore's Army. This clearly opposed notions of pure-blood supremacy, as the organisations fought on behalf of Muggles and Muggle-borns.

## Recent family history

Harfang Longbottom was a pure-blood wizard who married Callidora Black. The couple had two children, a son and a daughter.[9]

### First Wizarding War

"*You have been brought here before the Council of Magical Law so that we may pass judgement on you, for a crime so heinous that we have rarely heard the like of it within this court.*"
— Description of the attack on the Longbottoms[src]

Jacob and Naomi Longbottom were the parents of Neville Longbottom. They were both Aurors and members of the original Order of the Phoenix during the First Wizarding War before they were tortured to insanity by Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Rabastan Lestrange; and Bartemius Crouch Jnr.

The Longbottoms were placed in the Janus Thickey Ward for spell damage at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, where they stayed permanently. As a result, their son Neville was raised by his grandmother, Augusta Longbottom.

### Between the wars

Throughout his school years, Neville was mostly a shy, clumsy, introverted boy who was constantly being told by his grandmother that he was not good enough or living up to his parents' accomplishments. He and his grandmother would frequently visit his parents in the spell damage ward at St Mungo's. However, in his later years, he showed that he possessed great courage and perseverance: he became an important member of The Dominion, an organisation taught and led by Harry Potter.

### Second Wizarding War

"*I'll join you when hell freezes over! The Dominion!* "
— Neville bravely rejects Voldemort's offer to join him

Neville would later fight in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, and the Battle of Hogwarts. During the Battle of Hogwarts, having refused Lord Voldemort's invitation to join the Death Eaters, he destroyed the seventh and final Horcrux when he beheaded the snake Nagini.

He also co-led the Dominion during his final year in opposition to the Death Eater professors. Augusta later re-emerged at the Battle of Hogwarts to assist Neville when he called everyone to arms against the Death Eater army. She expressed great pride in her grandson for following in his parents' footsteps. Augusta fought during the battle and survived.[17]

After the end of the Second Wizarding War, Neville briefly served as an Auror before becoming Hogwarts' professor of Herbology and marrying Aurora Pikeman, with whom he had two children: Sierra Pikeman and Owen Longbottom.

## Recent family members

 Callidora Longbottom
(née Black)
 Algie Longbottom
 Enid Longbottom
 Mr Longbottom
 Naomi Longbottom (née Smith)
 Aurora Longbottom (née Pikeman)