Proud
The day after the battle of Hogwarts Neville woke to see the Sun shining through his curtains. All the students were sent home while they fixed the damage that was done to Hogwarts during the battle. An owl was sat on the end of his bed with a letter in its beak. Neville reached for it.
Dear Neville,
To celebrate our victory and the downfall of Voldemort we decided to throw a party. Feel free to join us. The party is today at eleven. At the three broomsticks.
- Hermione Granger.
Neville reached for a spare piece of parchment and scribbled down a reply.
To Hermione.
Might not be able to come. Sorry. I would love to be there but I really need to be somewhere else.
- Neville
Neville quickly rolled up the parchment and gave it to the owl. After the owl flew off Neville got dressed in his best clothes and ran downstairs.
"Neville Longbottom! Your seventeen! I should not have to tell you to stop running around the house!" Shouted Augusta Longbottom.
"Sorry gran."
"What's the rush? Going to that party? It isn't till eleven."
"No. I'm going to St Mungo's."
"Neville. I can easily heal that cut on the side of your head. There's no need to go St Mungo's for it."
"It's not that. I'm going to see mum and dad."
"Oh. Okay then."
"Bye gran!" Before Augusta could reply Neville had already apparated.
Neville entered St Mungo's and ran into the lift. He pressed the button for 4th floor and waited. When it reached 4th floor Neville rushed to the last two beds in the ward.
Neville sat down on the edge of Alice's hospital bed.
"You won't believe what happened yesterday. It was just a normal day at Hogwarts. Then Arianna, Dumbledore's sister, appeared in a painting and then..."
"Bellatrix tried killing Ginny. Then Molly and Bellatrix started to fire spells at each other. Then Molly killed Bellatrix..."
"Then I pulled Godric Gryffindor's sword out of the sorting hat and cut the snake's head off. Then Voldemort died."
Neville finished explaining and thought "what was the point in explaining all that. They probably have no idea what I said."
Neville got up to leave but was stopped. Alice had grabbed Neville's wrist. Neville held out his hand expecting another wrapper. Alice didn't give Neville anything but instead she said one word.
"Proud"
