Neville Longbottom and the Golden Triumph
Chapter 1: The Darkest Night
"When Augusta Longbottom awoke to the wailing of her caterwauling charm, the last thing she expected to find was the Dark Lord on her doorstep!" *This story may move quite slowly, I'm new to this.
All Augusta knew was that there had been a prophecy. Most who knew of the prophecy's existence thought it involved the young Potter heir, but Augusta knew it could also mean her grandson, the heir to the Longbottom fortune. Unbeknownst to most in the wizarding world, her grandson Neville had been born the same day as young Harry Potter, at the same moment even. The two boys couldn't be any more different though, young Harry was mischievous and happy, but little Neville on the other hand seemed more subdued as if he knew that their lives would soon take a turn for the worse. Little Neville clung to his parents and wailed constantly whenever they had to leave. The Longbottoms (Alice and Frank) began to wonder if their precious son and heir might be one of the Fabled Seers that sporadically appeared in the Longbottom line in times of great strife in the Magyckal World.
Young Neville and Harry might have drastically different personalities, but in many ways they were identical, Neville having gotten black hair from a long-forgotten Black in the Longbottom family tree, and brilliantly green eyes from his mother's side, many generations back, whilst Harry got his hair from his father and his eyes from his mother. Both boys were unnaturally pale, and had the highest magyckal readings of any child born in the last five centuries, at least. This was far from the strangest thing about the two boys, magyckally speaking, as their magyckal signatures were nearly identical, which was just about unheard of, even in identical twins! This combined with their near identical looks, led to some confusion as to who was who. If Augusta hadn't known better she would have sworn they were twins, however Alice and Lily had given birth at the same time, in the same room no less, perhaps that and Magyck's ever watchful presence had contributed to the boy's similarities.
Recently the Potters had begun to distrust their Secret Keeper and close friend, Peter Pettigrew, and as such had decided to move house rather unexpectedly without telling a soul, other than Augusta and Alice. James and Lily had decided to take their son and move into one of the many disused Potter manors, but upon hearing this, Augusta insisted upon them coming to live in the Longbottom Castle, where they could have an entire tower to themselves, but be under much better and more recently updated wards.
More to come, just wanted to post a bit and see what people thought!
~Lady Rain