Neville. My Neville.

Chapter 9

At this point, I'm getting really envious of Harry, Hermione, and Ron. They aren't here to see how horrible this school has become. Last week, they had us practice the cruciatus curse on 1st years. Neville, a few others, and I refused so we got punished by the carrows. There is only one passage way in or out of the school. It leads to the HogsHead, where Dumbledore's brother, Aberforth, lives. He gives us some food every now and then. The DA has reconvened but it's more of a resistance now. Those of us in the new DA are living in the room of requirement. I can't wait for this school year to be over. This is worse than 5th year with umbridge. The day before my birthday, Harry arrived back at Hogwarts. Neville had shown Harry and co through the passageway. Not long later, we all got called to the great hall. Snape rambled on about how Harry was spotted in hogsmeade and if any of us tried to aid him we'd receive punishment equal to our actions, whatever that meant. Harry stepped out of the crowd and spoke, "How dare you stand where he stood! Tell them how it happened that night! How you looked him in the eyes and killed him!" Some members of the order stepped through the doors to the great hall and Snape pulled out his wand. Mcgonagall stepped in front of Harry and pulled out her wand and had a rather short lived duel with Snape before asking Harry what he needed and Harry told her as time as he can get. Then a girl started screaming from the corner. Then another. Then voldemorts voice rang through the great hall "Bring me Harry potter and you shall live. Shall anyone attempt to aid Mr. Potter," At that point, I stopped listening. I nestled into Neville and said "I'm scared, Love." "I am too, Baby. None of us know if we will come out alive by the end of tonight. But as long as I have anything to say about it, You and I will make it out alive. I was really gonna try to give you the best birthday you've had this year, but I guess I can't do that very well now," he tells me, in a somewhat successful attempt at calming me down.
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This battle has droned on for the majority of the night. There had been so much blood shed, so many lives lost. Some of those including Fred Weasley, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Lavender Brown, Colin Creevey, and many many more. Harry had left to go to the woods and finally end this battle. Voldemort came back, followed by his death eaters, and Hagrid. Hagrid was carrying someone. Ginny asked, "Neville, who's that? Hagrids carrying?" Voldemort announced that Harry had died. Ginny screamed and got held back by her father. Neville gave a heroic speech ending with, "Harry didn't die in vain, but you will." Right before killing Nagini with the sword of gryffindor. Next thing I knew, Harry was out of Hagrid's arms and duelling voldemort. They fought until Voldy's wand was on the ground behind him and he had fallen to ground and died a very human death (unlike in the movies where he shattered to pieces). We had won. Good overcame evil once again. Neville pulled me into a hug and mumbled something to himself. Before pulling something out of his pocket that looked like a ring box. He got down on one knee and I began to tear up as he started talking, "Y/n m/n l/n, I love you with all my heart. When this battle started last night, I honestly thought if I left your side, I was never going to see you again. Here we are now, at the end of it all, I just wanna marry you, my love. So, will you marry me Y/n?" I felt a few tears fall down my face, covered my mouth with my hand, nodded, and let Neville put the ring on my finger. He pulled me into a hug and I wrapped my arms around his neck. I cried into his shoulder for about 5 minutes before pulling away to admire my engagement ring. It had 2 beautiful diamonds. One was red and the other was yellow. I assumed they represented us in the fact that I was a hufflepuff and Nev was a gryffindor. "It's perfect, Love. Just like you. I love you so much and now I don't have to imagine a future without you," I told him. He leaned down and kissed me. I kissed him back immediately. Neville Longbottom is my fianceé. I'm going to marry this man.
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