Neville Longbottom is finding his spine. (replanted) wrote in fourteenshades, @ 2015-01-06 12:45:00 |
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Entry tags: | frank longbottom, neville longbottom |
WHO: Neville & Frank Longbottom
WHAT: Frank's arrival
WHEN: 1/6, lunch time
WHERE: Middle of the community garden
RATING: C for clumsy Neville is clumsy
STATUS: Closed/Ongoing
Neville had been in the village for exactly two weeks, but he hadn't talked to anyone other than his mum. He hadn't gone to school. He hadn't done any exploring. He'd simply stayed home and---did nothing more than try to make sense of what was going on. But this magic was much more advanced than he'd even read about, and things weren't making sense. But his mum! She was well. She wasn't in the hospital. She knew him.
Today was the first day he'd ventured outside. He saw on the map in his journal that there was a garden, and he wanted to see it. There were greenhouses, too, but they were really close to the castle, and he wasn't sure he was ready for school. Not yet. But he packed a couple of sandwiches and bottles of butterbeer, and he made his way to the garden.
It was, as far as he saw, a normal garden. There weren't a lot of magical plants. Just basic flowers and shrubs. It was all pretty, though, and Neville took comfort in the normalcy of things. As he moved deeper into the green space, he saw something that he wasn't sure he actually saw. This man appeared in front of him. Kind of like when Harry and Ron used the invisibility cloak. He wasn't there, then he was there. Uncertain, Neville stopped and waited for the man to see him, but, when he got a good look at the man's face, he had the same reaction he'd had with his mother.
Trying to take a step toward and a step away from the man, at the same time, Neville tripped and landed hard on his backside. He kept his eyes on the dark haired man, though. "Dad?," he breathed.