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His saviour	By : Kruemel Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 16367 -:- Recommendations : 5 -:- Currently Reading : 6
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Neville´s miracle

“Again!” Severus ordered and Harry groaned.
“We´ve been at it for hours can we please take a break?”
“No, you have not yet earned it. You will continue until you get it once. Then you can take a break.”
“Fine, come on guys… Let´s go again.” Ron and Hermione positioned themselves on either side of him.
“Now, exactly as I told you.” They nodded and Harry concentrated. He held out his hand and conjured a small fire ball, he slowly grew it by carefully forcing more power into it and when it was finally big enough, he nodded to Ron and Hermione. Both of them conjured their own balls of flames. Severus had taught them how to merge their powers. Both of them drew some of Harry´s flames into their own making them twice as powerful. And this time they finally did it. Harry´s hand just started to shake from the strain it took to hold the spell for so long when Severus finally told them that they were ready.
“Now, focus on where you want to throw it and remember for the last part you need to be quick. On three. One… Two… Three!” They sent the fireballs to each of their targets and spoke at the same time.
“Ignis separatus maximus.” And finally, they got it. The fireballs exploded and formed dozens of smaller ones that shot towards the wooden targets they had conjured a few days before. Harry almost went to his knees with exhaustion. After month without proper training, he struggled to perform like he knew he could.
“Very good.” Severus said when he came over.
“From now on it will be easier. We will do it a few more times tomorrow. You will see that you will get it done quicker so it won´t be too straining anymore. Don´t think I didn´t notice that you spoke the spell out loud. I will let it pass today but in the real battle you need to do it wordlessly. Ones you do that, we will start to get more and more distance between you while you do it. The goal is at least five hundred feet.”
“It´s brilliant.” Ron said.
“If we lose each other in battle, we can still fight together, and no one will anticipate the force behind it. The only thing we need to figure out is how we will keep communicating so we know when to go.”
“I actually had an idea for that.” Hermione said.
“Both Ron and I will train in occlumency. I think if we all reach a certain level of skill, we will be able to connect our minds temporarily for a short period of time. Maybe, if we couple that with an official bond between us, we will be able to hold it longer, but we must see.”
“You want us to bond?” Ron asked.
“Yes, I do. It´s not like we are going to be married afterwards. We all have our respective partners. We already share a deep bond amongst us. We love and consider each other family. I think if we bond, it will be a love bond but not in a romantic way. But… with the love bond, we should be able to sense each other’s emotions. The strength of the bond draws from how intimate we know each other. If we spend a lot of time training occlumency but also allowing each other access to our minds, it will get even stronger. Maybe we even pick up the telepathy from the soul bond. I have no idea, no one really knows how bonds work, it´s all theory but it can´t hurt to get as close as possible.”
“She has a point.” Severus said.
“I agree.” Harry offered.
“Well, we have loads to do then. I guess we have to do all that and keep training like we do right now?” Ron asked looking at Severus.
“You don´t have to do anything Ron. I won´t force you to train with us but… it is in your best interest. Not to mention that you will go far as an auror if you never stop to educate yourself. The founder´s gave Harry the greatest gifts you can receive. A gift he chose to share with all of us. I believe that we have the responsibility to use them to the best of our abilities. I for one have great ambitions for after the war. I want to revolutionise the potions field. I want to write new textbooks with proper instructions so that the next generations have a greater chance to carry on ones we´re gone. You can do the same.”
“He´s right.” Hermione said.
“If you play your cards right, you can become the youngest head of the auror department in our history based on your skills alone. You would be responsible to enforce every single one of the new laws. You would be working closely with the minister, and if you need another motivation, just remember that the aurors oversee the security at every single quidditch world cup. Free high calibre quidditch games every few years.” Ron grinned and Harry laughed.
“That will do it. Let´s get something to eat. I also want to see the girls.” They walked back to the house and Severus told Kreacher to serve lunch on the new terrace. It was a sunny day, but it wasn´t to hot yet. Two weeks, they had been home for two weeks. Funnily enough, although Ron and Hermione both unpacked their stuff in their homes, they had to spend yet a single night in their own beds. They had taken the other spare bedroom in Harry´s house because at the moment they spent all of their time there anyway. They conjured a bunk bed and a dresser where they had a few of their clothes and that was it. Dobby had been thrilled when Harry had showed the to elves what he did to their room, and while Kreacher was horrified that his master had given him his own little bed, he did agree to try it out at least. A few days later, the little elf stood a little straighter and was able to keep up with Dobby who was twenty years younger than him. Harry had been surprised when the elves decided that they would share a room, but he made sure to build them a nice little space.
“So, when is Victor coming?” Harry asked after he took a few bites of his sandwich.
“Tomorrow at five.”
“I will miss you.”
“I will be next door and we will still see each other until I go to bed you know that.”
“Still…”
“Yeah, I know…”
“I have to say, I will notice your absence as well.” Severus said with a smirk.
“Who would have ever thought…” Ron teased.
“It´s because you´re Gryffindors. You have a way to get under my skin… I hate that.”
“When did you become such a lousy liar?” Harry asked and they all laughed. At times like this, it was easy to forget all the chaos that lay outside of their little bubble. The doorbell rang and Harry looked at Severus.
“Are we expecting someone?”
“I don´t think so.” Harry got up and walked inside. He opened the door and was faced by Minerva and Neville.
“Finally, Minerva, we we´re wondering when you were going to show up. What happened? Why haven´t you contacted us? It´s good to see you, Neville.” He let them in, and they followed him outside. Dobby brough two more plates for them as they sat down.
“I´m sorry, but I had so much to do it´s crazy. The morning I told the students about your departure and Dumbledore´s death, panic broke loose. We had to cancel classes for two days, while the teachers and DA members tried to calm everybody down. The first years are scared to death. I get one owl after the other. Six kids demanded to go home and twenty-seven others we´re pulled by their parent’s ones their kids owls reached them. The school boards informed me that they cannot name me as headmistress since now that the heir has come forward, he must agree with their choice. And Trelawny makes everything worse. For some reason the entire student popularity has decided to take every single one of her predictions seriously and she won´t stop telling everyone that we are all going to die. It´s not good.”
“It´s that bad? Do we need to come back?”
“You can´t come back, but it would help if you would come around for the meals sometimes, just to show them that you are still with them. Or maybe you could come by once a week and teach. They really need their beacon of hope right now.”
“Sure thing. When you get back, you can announce at dinner that I will come by tomorrow after classes. Everyone who wants to join me for a more advanced defence lesson can join me. Maybe Ron and Hermione can hold another one for the first to third years.”
“That would be great Harry, thank you.” Minerva said.
“How is mum doing?” Harry asked.
“She´s good. She sends her love. She has a different teaching approach, but the students seem to respond to it and as far as I heard, everybody likes her.”
“That´s good.”
“Also, I hired Hagrid back. He´s thrilled to be home and the students seem to be happy too. I got in contact with Stefan Pavlov to ask him if he knew someone to fill the DADA position and he sent me his own. He took over the classes at Durmstrang so at least we don´t have to worry about that anymore.”
“Does he trust him?”
“Yes, they are distant relatives. He vouched for him.”
“Good enough for me.” Harry said nodding.
“Where are the girls?” Neville asked.
“Still upstairs sleeping.”
“How are they doing?”
“They´re little devils with elephant lungs.” Severus said and Harry laughed.
“Oh, shut up! He´s so fond of them it´s ridiculous. As soon as one of them only whimpers he picks them up to coddle them.”
“I´m not coddling anyone.” Severus defended himself.
“Right…” Ron said. Severus was about to open his mouth, but Harry was quicker.
“Moving on… no, seriously, it´s great. They´re already a little bigger and we love them to death. Right?” He said and playfully glared at Severus who only smiled lovingly and nodded.
“So, Neville, I think I know why you´re here?”
“Yes, I wanted to talk about my parents. How would we…”
“Severus is already working on a… potion that will… I don´t think you need to know the details. The only important thing is that they won´t feel any pain. I promise you that.”
“Good, when will we be able to do it?”
“I should be done in three days.”
“Three days it is. I´m ready for this. Harry, there is one other thing I can´t stop thinking about. It´s about the veil…”
“Yes?”
“When the final battle is over. You cannot try to bring someone back. As a matter of fact, ones the war is over, I think many of us can´t.”
“Why?”
“Because, if you kill Riddle, there is a chance that he ends up back there as well. During the battle, there will be casualties. If he kills someone I love, such a brutal act automatically binds me to him. It´s not a bond, but it´s an undeniable connection.”
“He´s right.” Severus said. Harry nodded.
“That changes things.” He spoke.
“What do you mean?”
“We need a new plan. A plan that involves as few people as possible and a plan where we don´t sit around and wait until he decides that the time has come. We need to strike first, and we need to strike hard. And if we succeed or fail depends on the acting skills of one Theodore Nott.”
“What do you have in mind?” Hermione asked.
“We can talk about it but the first thing that popped to mind was that Nott needs to give Voldemort something, that is so ground-breaking that he calls a meeting where at least the inner circle and higher-ranking officer’s attend. He can send us a message to where they are when everyone’s there and we will storm and take them by surprise. Of course, we need to destroy the horcruxes first, we need to check out every place he could possibly stay at without being detected. We need to figure out what wards are on which properties. If he used blood wards, I should be able to enter and invite you in. If he stays at Malfoy Manor, Narcissa can let us in. If he didn´t use blood wards, we need to figure out beforehand which one he used so we can break them down. There is a chance that he created some in parsel tongue so Ginny and I will look into those and learn every single counter spell in advance.”
“Not the worst idea. But what kind of news? We almost gave him everything already.”
“I don´t know yet, but we will figure it out.”
“What do we do about Nagini?”
“We will have to kill her during battle. But in the chaos of everything, I can transform into a baby basilisk to bite her. Maybe I can take out Voldemort like that as well.”
“Animagus!” Hermione called out.
“Ron, we need to become one ourselves. If we can transform into one as well, we could take out many death eaters while the other´s distract them.”
“Good idea. Neville, can you tell Draco and Ginny to come here tonight?”
“Will do.”
“Thanks Neville, keep up the good work. I will see you tomorrow.” Harry said when Minerva stood up. She and Neville left, and Harry looked at the others.
“I meant it. We will put together a small task force for when the time comes. I will only take our strongest fighters and we will join with the aurors. We should also do it quickly. That means, we need to get started on collecting the horcruxes and Sev, you need to hurry with the purifying draught. Let´s just hope that it will work.”
“It should. I was able to at least theoretically perfect it. I changed some of the ingredients with more potent ones and was able to cancel them all out with other ones. Some of them are really rare. I have everything I need, but I have only enough for one batch. If I make a mistake, I have to start over, so we need to get more.”
“You have free access to all the vaults. Get what you need. You know the cost doesn´t matter.”
“There is a chance that I have to travel to get some of them. I need an herb that only grows in one area of Australia. Because it´s so rare, you need to get a special permit to harvest some and only the Australian minister of magic can give you permission to do so. I also need scales of a certain dragon species and freely given blood and hair of a unicorn. There are other things that are a still rare but at least I know people who can help me.”
“Alright, then I guess we need to go to Australia. Contact Charlie and ask if he can help you with the dragon scales. If he can´t maybe, he knows someone who does. I will talk to Hagrid and tell him that he needs to try to get what you need from one of the unicorns in the forbidden forest.”
“If he can pull that off, it would help a lot.”
“What where you thinking earlier? I know you had something in mind. What do you want to give to Voldemort?” Hermione asked. Harry looked down to his hands. Severus answered her.
“The girls, Nott needs to tell him about the girls.”
“WHAT?!?! You can´t be serious. He will come after them, he won´t be able to resist. He knows that´s the best way to get back at both of you is to kill them. It would destroy you!” Hermione said.
“Mate, come on, tell us he´s wrong, tell us that´s not what you want to do.”
“Of course, I don´t want to do it Ron, what do you think. And Hermione you´re right, he won´t be able to resist, and that´s the point. Don´t worry, we will end him before he ever gets the chance to go after them.”
“And what if some of the death eaters get away.”
“That will be the case. But the girls will be here. This place is safe. We made sure of that. They cannot get in, no matter how hard they try.”
“I don´t like this.”
“Yeah, me either, but we need to force him to react. And this is how we do it.”

The next day, Harry, Ron and Hermione arrived at Hogwarts at three thirty. They got to the great hall and moved the house tables to one site of the room. Then they transfigured the stone floor into a soft wooden one and conjured pillows for the students to sit on. Harry called two of the Hogwarts elves and ordered them to bring up finger sandwiches and pumpkin juice. They would use the area where the head table normally stood for demonstrations. The students would we able to see them well. Then they waited for anyone who was interested to arrive.
Twenty minutes later, the first students started to walk in, and Harry asked them to sit down and wait. They were supposed to start at four fifteen and they had still ten minutes.
“Hey everyone, it´s good to see you.” Harry asked when Ron and Hermione closed the doors.
“I am glad to see that so many of you are here today. I know that many of you were scared, and I don´t blame you. I´m scared too. I´m scared for my friends, for my family and for my life. In these lessons, I will make sure to teach you as good as I can, so that should an attack happen, you don´t need to be so afraid anymore. Don´t get me wrong, the fear won´t go away. But your confidence in yourself and your ability will hopefully be enough, to make you react. We initially planned to separate the older students from the younger years, but after we thought about it for a while, we came to the decision that the war has progressed too far for you not to learn not only to defend yourself, but to actually cause harm as well. I want every seventh year to pair up with a first year. Sixth with second year and fifth with third year now.”
The students got to their feet and did as Harry told them. It soon became apparent that there were more younger students then older ones. There were three more first years then seventh years. One second year girl was left without a partner and broke out in tears.
“What´s the matter sweety?” Hermione asked and walked over to her.
“I don´t have a partner. Everyone else has one, but I don´t.”
“We will work this out. I need four of the older students to take on another one.” Ginny, Draco, Neville, and Luna volunteered at ones and after that, Harry told the fourth years to join any group they wanted.
“Alright, the people you are standing next to are the people you will train with in the weeks remaining till summer break. We only have a few weeks so please use the time to learn as much as you can. How many of the first and second years are muggle born?” About a dozen hands were raised and Harry sighed.
“Alright, I will meet with you twice a week. And I expect ever single person in this room to help them train.” Harry looked at Hermione who nodded and stepped up to his site. Ron joined them as well but stayed silent.
“In these lessons, we will teach you defence, but we will approach it a little differently. I want you to look around this room and tell me what it is that can help you in a fight.” The students looked around. You could spot confused faces everywhere, since the great hall was almost empty.
“Anyone?” Hermione asked. No one answered.
“Look again.” Harry said. They did and finally, a third year Ravenclaw got it.
“Each other! We can use each other.” Hermione smiled.
“If I could give you points, I would. You´re right. Throughout our years here at school, Harry, Ron and I lived through a lot. We saved the Philosopher stone, saved a house mates life when the chamber of secrets was opened. Ron and I helped Harry to prepare for the tri wizard tournament and we fought alongside him when he needed us most. Harry would be the first person who would tell you that he wouldn´t have been able to do any of it if it weren´t for us. If you choose so the people in this room can become your closest allies. Even people you didn´t get along with. You all now by now that Harry has found his soulmate in a person who he ones considered to be one of his biggest enemies. We became close friends with Draco after years of antagonizing each other constantly. We chose to overlook the past because we have one common goal. We want our world to live in peace.
The first thing we want you to do is to think of one thing nobody knows about you. It can be something personal, but only choose what you are comfortable with sharing at this point. It can be something you want advice on, or you can share something you always wanted to try or pursue. Whatever you want really. Take a minute and then we go around.” After a few minutes everyone seemed to be waiting so Harry decided to start himself.
“I will share something that only a few people know. It´s no secret that I grew up in the muggle world. I struggled a lot when I first came here. My relatives weren´t very kind and I only found out that it was because I am a wizard when Hagrid came to pick me up to get my stuff. Back home, I was no one, literally. Then I came here, and everybody knew who I was and what had happened to me. The first true thing I learned about my dad, I learned from Hermione. Everybody knew me better then I knew myself and everybody had expectations of what kind of person I should be which put a huge amount of pressure on me. So much so that I considered to take my own life more then ones.” Everybody starred at him.
“I´ll go next.” Hermione said.
“I also struggled a lot during school. When I found out that magic was real and that I was a witch, I forced my parents to buy me every book I could get my hands on. While I did my research about a world, I knew nothing about, it became clear early on that people with my background where often looked down at. So, I studied every single textbook we would need in first year until I knew them from front to back. I didn´t want to give anyone a reason to overlook me. I wanted to prove that muggle borns are just as good as purebloods. Now I think it´s your turn. Who wants to go first?” A fourth year raised his hand and Harry nodded.
“My biggest fear is that I will be the only one left in my family when the war is over. Both my brothers started auror training a few months ago and we lost my mum already. Dad is a muggle and couldn´t defend himself even if he wanted too. We told him that he should get a gun so that he might have a chance, but he refused. I´m pretty safe at school, at least safer than most people. I don´t think if I could cope should something happen to them.”
“That´s my biggest fear too!” A girl from Hufflepuff said.
“My dad died back when there was the first prison break. He was one of the wizards who patrolled that night. A block of stone crashed into him. I´m an only child and my mum is a reporter at the prophet.”
“Well, I can tell you that I worked closely with the auror department. We came up with a new training plan for the recruits and if your siblings started in March, they are studying the new curriculum. I won’t say that there is no risk, but they will be prepared to defend themselves. I also purchased the daily prophet a while ago and if you give me your mothers name, I will make sure that all her articles are published under a false name. Should she write something about the war which could put her in danger, it will make it hard for them to find out who wrote the piece. Another one, go on.”
“I´m afraid to go to sleep. You hear so much about what is happening. All the attacks. Some of the stuff I heard was gruesome. I have nightmares that leave me shaking every time and one time I even…” The first year broke off.
“Yes?” Harry asked
“You can go on. No one here will make fun of you, right guys?” The students spoke words of agreement and the girl sitting next to the kid took his hand.
“I even wet my bed. I was so ashamed.”
“Don´t be.” A sixth year told the boy.
“Yeah, you were sleeping, and you were terrified. It happened to me once when I was younger. It´s no big deal.” A girl said.
“And you should go to madame Pomphrey and ask for a dreamless sleep. You need a good night’s rest. Will someone go with him when we´re done here.” A boy that looked about his age raised his hand.
“Are you two dorm mates?” Hermione asked and both nodded.
“Can he wake you the next time he has a nightmare? Most times it helps if you talk about it and sometimes it just helps to not be up alone.”
“Sure.”
“Good, did you hear that? The next time you wake up and are afraid, he will be there for you. Okay?” The boy nodded and the next person spoke. They made their way through the room and at some point, Harry, Ron and Hermione didn´t need to mediate anymore. Students offered advise and promised to help and look out for each other. They didn´t even notice when the trio left. Harry was sure that they would sit there for quite some time.
“That went very well.” Harry said.
“I think it´s a good strategy. Give them things to bond over, to relate to.” Ron said.
“Hey, you didn´t get your turn, out with it. What´s your thing?”
“Forget it Mione. Everything you said in there was something I already knew. If you want to know something I haven´t told you, you have to dig a little deeper.”
“I will know sooner or later. We start occlumency tonight.”
“There you go. Now let´s get home. I´m starving.”

“I told you that I want to relocate my parents to a different facility.”
“And I told you that I wouldn´t recommend it. Mr. Longbottom, your parents have been here for a long time, it could destabilize them to move them.”
“I heard you the first time, but this is my decision. I am their son. I am of age and my grandmother, and I are in agreement on the matter. And it´s Lord Longbottom. I am the head of my house.”
“But why now? We have been responsible for your parent’s care for so long.”
“We found a hospital that has alternative treatments. We know that it´s unlikely that their conditions changes but we want to try. If you could hand me the release papers, I have to get going.”
“You will have to sign a waver that say´s that you are aware that you´re doing it against our recommendation.”
“That´s fine.” Neville said and started to fill out the forms. Harry and Severus were waiting a few steps behind him. Severus held on to Harry´s hand. He knew that Harry was scared. It had been his idea, but now that this was happening, Severus new he worried if it would work.
“Alright, come on, let´s go.” Neville said when he finished, and they followed him to his parents’ room.
“Hey mum, hey dad.” Neville said and got nothing in return.
“Bad day? Don´t worry, we will make you feel better really soon.” He nodded to Severus who hexed the dreamless sleep he brought right into their stomachs. It took only two minutes until they were both passed out.
“Alright, where do you want to do this? Headquarters or at our place?”
“Your place please. We need to burry their body´s and I thought we could do it somewhere nearby. Not at your place, but I would like them to be near the sea.”
“Alright, let´s go then. You can aparate right into the house. Severus and I can bring them with us if you want. Or you can take one of your parents yourself.”
“No, you take them. I´m too nervous. I don´t want to get splinched.”
“I thought you might. We made you a port key, just to be safe. Here, take it.”
“Thanks. See you there.” Neville said and disappeared.
“Oh god Sev, what have I done? What if they don´t end up behind the veil? What if we lose them? Neville will hate me.”
“No, he won´t. You gave him an option. You didn´t tell him to do this. He discussed it with his grandma, and she agreed. They both know the risk and they both know that his parents have nothing to lose. They´re not here. Not really.”
“I can only imagine how he must have felt when he came to see them. To not be recognized by his own parents must have broken him over and over again.”
“Hopefully all goes as planned and he gets the same chance you did. Now come on, let´s not make him wait.” Harry nodded and took a hold of Mrs. Longbottom’s arm.

“It´s done, it shouldn´t take long.” Severus said after he administered the poison. Neville nodded.
“Your grandma didn´t want to come?” Hermione asked.
“No, she said she couldn´t bear it. She´s on board, she just didn´t want to see it.”
“I get that.” Krum said. He stood next to Hermione, his arm around her waist.
“Could you maybe… I just…”
“Don´t say a word. Come on guys. Let´s give them the room.” Harry said and the others followed them out. When they walked towards the stairs, Harry heard the twins fussing so he redirected his steps to the nursery.
“Hey girls, what´s the matter? Are you hungry?” Harry and Severus picked them up and cradled them to their chests.
“Is it time for a feed?” Harry asked.
“Almost, yes. Can you take her? I´ll go and prepare the bottles.” He asked Hermione who took Emma from his arms. Ron leaned in and tickled her stomach.
“Oh oh, I think someone also needs a new nappy.” Harry said when a unpleasant smell reached his nostrils.
“Kreacher!” The little elf appeared and took Elea with him to change her diapers.
“Did you ever do it yourself?”
“Of course, I do, but mostly at night. Besides, ones I did it and Kreacher got really mad at me. Since then, I just let him handle it.”
“He´s really good with them. I know he likes to pretend that he hates everything and body, but he can´t fool me. He is so smitten with the girls.”
“Not only that, but I also I think he actually appreciates Harry as well.” Severus said when he came back in.
“He certainly warmed up to him.”
“It´s not me it´s the bed. I would be a grump too if I had to sleep on the floor.” Harry said.
“No, it´s definitely you. I heard him and Dobby talk. Dobby was mad at you because he thought you didn´t eat enough. Kreacher told him of that it´s none of his business. He defended you, it was kind of cute.”
“Really?”
“Yes, Kreacher isn´t stupid, he knows that you are good to him. I think he´s actually happy.”
“Well, if he´s pleased then so am I.” Harry said just when Kreacher came back in and handed him the baby. Mid feeding, they heard a sob from next door, and they knew that the Longbottom´s were gone. Harry quickly gave Elea to Hermione who kept feeding her and made his way to the bedroom. He went alone to not overwhelm his friend.
“Neville?” He asked and put a comforting hand on his back. Neville sat beside the bed. His head rested on his mother´s stomach and his body was shacking with silent sobs.
“I´m so sorry.” Harry whispered. Neville shook his head and sat up slowly.
“Don´t be, it´s not that.” He said in a quiet voice. Harry sat down on the floor and looked up at him.
“What is it then.”
“I´m just so relieved it´s over. Oh god, I am a horrible person.” Harry hauled to his knees and grabbed his arms.
“Don´t you ever say that. It´s not true, it´s understandable. You have grown up witnessing your parents just passing by. They are not the people they used to be. The past sixteen years they haven´t lived life. They merely existed. Not even a shadow of themselves. Not able to properly talk, not able to love and recognize you. Sirius ones said that your parents suffered a faith worse than death and he´s right. Nobody should have to live that way.” Tears ran down Neville´s cheeks but he brushed them away.
“Thank you, Harry. We should get on with burying them. I want to get to the ministry. I need to know.”
“Alright, come on. We will go look for the perfect spot. Do you want the others to come with?”
“Sure, why not. It would be nice to be amongst friends.”
“We can take the girls too. They´re up. Let´s just go for a walk until you found something you like.”
“Okay.” Neville said and they went to get the others.

They had only walked for a few minutes when Neville stopped them and proclaimed that he wanted to burry his parents here. They were not far from the house which Harry thought was perfect. This way, Neville didn´t need to walk far when he came to visit the grave. Neville had transfigured his mothers’ clothes into a beautiful dress and Hermione had conjured many flowers that were now planted above the grave. Neville had said a few words, but Harry knew that he just wanted to get going.
When they finally got to the ministry and down to the department of mysteries, Harry´s heart started to beat like crazy. He said silent prayers in his head. Asking God, Merlin and everyone else he could think of to give his friend the miracle he so desperately deserved.
“Are you ready?” Harry asked when they arrived at the door.
“Hell, yes!” Neville said and looked over at Luna. He had insisted that she joins them. Harry had always wondered if Neville and Luna were together but, in his opinion, this proved that they were more than friends. Luna had grabbed Neville´s hand as soon as they met, and Neville had buried his face in her hair. Harry heard Luna call Neville my love and they actually kissed in front of everybody. Harry didn´t know why he´d never asked them but he was thrilled. They were perfect together and Harry even pondered if there was another soul bonding in their future.
“Alright, after you.” He said and held the door open for them. They had their answer as soon as Neville stepped into the room. It was written all over his face.
“Go on, do it.” Harry said and Neville let go of Luna and stepped up to the veil.
“I just reach in?”
“Yes, just as Hermione did. Remember?” Neville nodded and Harry watched as he took a deep breath. His hand was shaking but he slowly pushed his hand through the veil. When he jumped, they all knew that it happened. Neville took a few steps back and for the second time, they watched as someone emerged from the veil. Harry´s heart sunk when they saw that there was only one person that held on to Neville. It was his father who surprisingly just looked like the man that had died just an hour earlier. Neville starred at him with wide eyes.
“Neville.” Frank Longbottom said. And everyone in the room seemed to release their breath.
“Dad…” Was all Neville managed to say before the pair lay in each other´s arms.
“So, mum…?”
“I´m sorry, her mind was too destroyed to heal again. She moved on. She asked me to thank you son. To thank you for ending her suffering.” Frank said crying.
“I´m so sorry dad.”
“I know but believe me, she is happier this way.” Neville pulled back and looked at his father.
“I´d like you to meet some of my friends. Dad this is Luna, my girlfriend. And these are Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley and you should remember Severus Snape.” Frank shook everybody´s hands, his eyes lingering on Harry.
“Harry Potter, the boy who defeated the dark Lord. It´s nice to see you Severus.” Frank said and Harry nodded.
“The one and only, although it´s Harry Black now.”
“It´s good to see you too Frank. Tell me, how much do you remember?” Severus asked.
“More than you would think. I could understand everything that was being said, I was just not able to answer.”
“So, your mind didn´t broke completely?”
“No, it didn´t. It was more like I was trapped in my mind with no way of getting out on my own and no way to communicate.”
“Well, that would explain why you look your true age. But before we get into details, let´s get you somewhere safe. Where too?” Severus asked and Harry shrugged.
“Ron, could he stay at your place until we finish school? I mean you´re staying at Harry´s anyways so I thought…”
“Of course, Nev. Come on, let´s get him home.” They walked up to the main hall and apparated from there.

***Hey guys, bad news. I will be on break for a while. I have to go into therapy next week and the hospital doesn´t have internet access. I will try to get out another chapter before that but I have a lot to do before then so I don´t know if I can. I will keep writing while I´m there though, so I hope that I have a few chapters done for you when I come back home. Till then...***
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