He watched Minerva's face and his own fell and looked between the two of them. "I'm not playing a joke sweetheart, I wouldn't joke about this ... at all. I told you about the people returning; Tonks and Cedric Diggory." It had just occurred to him that he hadn't mentioned the return of Tom Riddle to his mother, not just yet. She was shocked already and Neville didn't want the bastard to have satisfaction that people would be frightened of him as a teenager.
"Minnie, this is my mother, Alice. Don't you recognize her? From the pictures love, she's returned. She arrived in the greenhouses at the school and Healer Goldstein told me right away." He stood between the two women and smiled even though his heart was racing, this was almost too much for him, Alice bein back, how was Minerva going to respond ... the woman who is her grandmother is a mere 3 years older than she is.