"Let Us Escape Our Troubles"
Thanks for such a lovely comment!
The bit with Professor Longbottom... Canon never really addresses at all what Augusta goes through during Neville's lifetime. We know she's a feisty woman who was terrible at Charms and selecting flattering headwear. But the stuff that we need to deduce--that her son and his wife were killed, so she raised their child; that her husband died only a few years after her son--leads to such a complicated profile. What is it for a witch in her sixties and seventies to raise a child on her own--especially since that's just middle-age for her? What would she have to give up to raise Neville? I think that she would have some ambivalence about her relationship with her grandson, to say the least. And since canon hints at a pretty deep familiarity between Augusta and Minerva (because really, why else would Minerva know a contemporary's OWL scores; they're not listed publicly, but sent via private owl), the characterisations became fascinating to work with.
Glad you found it hot, and enjoyed Abe's cameos. He always is good for some comic relief, I think.