Neville Longbottom [Harry Potter] (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} not_nobody) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} expresslogs, |
"About the Battle of Hogwarts," he said - a statement, not a question. "It was...terrible."
She'd read about it. Read about it. He could still smell the smoke, hear the screams of the dying and wounded, see Voldemort's terrible face as he tried to recruit him to his side.
As if he would ever...
"I did what I had to do," he said with a humble shrug. "Harry needed me to come through - everyone did. Everyone has their moment of bravery, I think."
He knew that what he'd done was important, but it didn't make him feel that way. He'd just been in the right place at the right time, and for some reason had been able to pull the sword of Godric Gryffindor out of a hat. In retrospect, the part that moved him the most, that made him most proud was the fact that he'd obviously been proven worthy of his house, after all those years of feeling he'd been mishoused.
"Defense against the Dark Arts," he said. "When it wasn't Snape's. And I guess...mainly when it was Harry. Your dad...the reason I was ever able to do anything was because of him, and Dumbledore's Army."
It had given him all the confidence he had never had.