The Hogsmede Inn was dark and dead as usual, the only things in the main room were the desk clerk, random tenets, and about any kind of insect you could think of draped the floors and walls. Out of nowhere, the sight and sound of a small fireplace expanding broke the silence and Neville stepped through the green flames "Who in the bloody hell are you?" cried the desk clerk as she rose from behind the desk where she had hid herself at the sound of the fireplace and sight of the flames.

Neville heard the woman's voice "Sorry, I hope I didn't frighten you to bad miss. I'm here on behalf of The Ministry Of Magic." he said while he was dusting some dust off him from the fireplace, the old woman then got a look of annoyance on her face as she spoke "Oh, and what pray-tell have they sent you for?" Neville let her tone brush off as he gave her an answer "Ma'am, I'm here because, it has been brought to my attention; that many strange disappearances here lately, and for some reason who ever is behind this is using Devil's Snare." said Neville with all seriousness in his voice.

The old woman's face changed from one of disgust to one of complete surprise "I see, well it just so happens one of my frequent tenets has gone missing recently." she said while coming out from behind the desk with a ring of keys "Come with me." she said simply while beginning to climb a set of stairs, Neville did as he was told and followed behind. After a few steps, Neville began his series of questions "So, do you have any info on this missing person?" he began as they continued to climb steps "Not much, he was just a Goblin;I never knew his name, you know how self-centered those Goblins can be." Neville nodded his head, though he didn't totally agree with the woman's opinion "Alright, what would this "Mr. Goblin." per-say do while he was here?" he said continuing his questions,the woman snickered a bit and said "He always would check in,go to the Hog's Head, and come back drunk off butterbeer, you know what that does to goblins I'm guessing?" Neville nodded at her statement he knew if a Goblin did go to drink he always had butterbeer, it was the only drink Neville knew that could get a Goblin highly intoxicated.

They finally came up on a hallway and began traveling down it passing room after room "Alright miss, I have one more question, did you see this Goblin before he went missing?" he asked concluding his questions, the woman stopped at a door and inserted a key in the lock "Well, it was a night ago, he came back drunk as usual but he brought a guest with him,I'm guessing it was a human by the height difference, and it was a woman. I don't know what she looked like she kept her hood on over her head." she said giving the door knob a twist but the door wouldn't open, "Step back." said Neville simply moving the woman out of the way as he cast the Alohomora charm charming the door to open, he then cast the Blueball Flame charm making his wand tip light up in a ball of blue fire "You may want to remain outside." said Neville in a serious tone as he slowly ventured into the room.

The room was dark with no hint of sunlight in it, Neville guessed whoever the strange woman was who accompanied the missing Goblin may have had a link to the Devil's Snare but it still puzzled him, the only access to Devil's Snare was Hogwarts itself, and Neville knew he was the only one currently at the school with the access to a supply of it. Neville searched the room for any kind of clue, it seemed that no Devil's Snare was present on the floor of the room, but he kept his guard up, he searched around the bed in the room and found the corpse of the missing Goblin sprawled out in it, a small vine of Devil's Snare was wrapped around his neck. Neville then heard the door to the room slam shut on it's own and it became engulfed in Devil's Snare that came down from the ceiling of the room.

Neville looked up to find a fully frown Devil's Snare rooted into the ceiling, it began running vines in his direction, he was about to use his wand to repel it, but it maneuvered to grab him before he could extend his arm causing him to drop his wand as it picked him up and it began constricting him. Neville began to struggle, but remembered that it would make his death only quicker, so he began to make himself relax and eventually the vines started to become looser, but Neville knew he wasn't out of the woods yet because if he couldn't get to his wand, he knew eventually he was done for, and he could imagine anyway of calling for help. Then out of nowhere Neville heard the door burst open and fly off it's hinges, and a huge number of Blueball Flames engulfed the Devil's Snare and made it shriek in pain, and eventually the flames caused the plant to shrivel up and die out. Neville fell to the ground and found that James,Albus,and Rose had saved him "What are you three doing here?" he asked thankful but a bit serious "We followed you." said Rose simply as she picked up Neville's wand and gave it to him before she placed her own into her pocket.

Neville got up and dusted the the burnt pieces of plant off of his jacket "Do you realize you could've gotten hurt. What gave you the idea to follow me anyway. He said with his serious voice. "We came to your office looking for you, and we came upon the letter that dad wrote you, we thought you could use some help." said Albus like what they did was ordinary behavior "I told the boys it was a stupid thing to do, but they wouldn't listen to reason." said Rose in a tone that oozed that Hermione was her mother "Excuse her Professor, she is only mad because we dragged her away from staring at Scorpious." said James in a mocking tone as he childishly mimicked Rose giving a goo goo eyed look. "I dont ant to hear it you three, now lets be off and back to the school." said Neville avoiding another argument from the three, Neville smiled a little, they were like their parents in every way.

They made their exit from the room and began the walk towards the stairs leading into the lobby with nothing of a word between them until Rose spoke up "Well boys, now that our little game of hero is over, we better begin practicing if we have any hope of defeating Ravenclaw in the first Qudditch match.", at the sound of this Neville felt some surprise "You three tried out for the team?" he asked surprised, James and Albus nodded in unison, "Yes, James made seeker, Albus is Keeper, and I made Chaser."said Rose. Neville smiled "I know you will all be great, you've got Qudditch in your blood after all." this earned a smile from all three of the kids. Once they reached the lobby the woman from earlier ran to Nevile with a tone of fear "I saw her sir! The woman that was with the goblin I saw her just now!". Neville tried to calm the woman down as he spoke "Where was she going? Can you show me?" the woman nodded her head and directed them out the door and pointed out towards a hooded figure "There she is sir, heading down that way." said the woman a bit more calm then before.

Neville nodded his head "Rose, you and the boys get back to the school, this could get dangerous." The kids nodded in silent agreement and went towards the direction of Hogwarts, while Nevile started after the hooded woman. Neville started with a slow pace to not appear suspicious, but he figured the woman knew she was being followed, because she quickened her walk into a run and began heading down an alley. Neville followed her and kept up but she was taking a lot of twists and turns "Halt in the name of the Ministry!" yelled Neville as he took out his wand "Carpe Retractum!" he yelled casting a spell that made a rope fly from the tip of his wand and entangle the hooded woman, as the rope wrapped around the woman it began to retract and pull her closer to Neville.

The hooded woman kept struggling in the rope until her wand was free and she cast the Cruciatus Curse and caused Neville to lose his focus on the spell he fell to the ground dropping his wand and tried to shield himself from the blood retching noise and pain but he knew it was useless, as the hooded woman stepped closer intensifying the spells power, until Neville found an opening and yelled the first random spell that came to his mind "Everte Statum!" he grabbed his wand in time for the spell to take effect and it hurled the hooded woman backwards causing her to crash into random boxes and a wall of the alley. Neville seemed to realize his spell had knocked her out cold but before he could get up to investigate he himself fell uncontentious.

About a few minutes later, Neville awoke in the alley he looked around for the hooded woman, but did not see her so he assumed she was still dead to the world due to his last minute spell so he got up and worked out the stiffness in his body and searched the rubble he has caused, but the woman was nowhere to be found "Bloody hell! She got away." said Neville in a angry tone as he kicked a random piece of lumber that was once a box. Neville kept searching the mess for what seemed like hours until he came across something, he found what looked like a egg of some sort "Now why in Merlin's sake would anyone go to the trouble of stealing an egg?" said Neville to himself as he examined it.

The egg didn't seem like anything special, at least to Neville he figured it must be something like a dragon's egg or something along those lines, suddenly something from inside the egg made a tapping noise, and eventually the egg started to hatch and crack away and what was inside the egg became known, it was a tiny baby Phoenix.

(Two days later.)

Neville sat at his desk in his office, two days had gone by since the chase of the hooded woman, and the Phoenix that Neville had found had seen to grow attached to him as it would not leave his side for a minute, it sat perched on a stack of books on his desk and watched him as he was writing a letter.

Dear Harry,

I did as you asked and went to Hogsmeade, I did not find much but there is some strange activity I found the corpse of a Goblin in the inn, he in fact had been killed by Devil's Snare. I found the person responsible but lost track of the assailant all that is known is that it is a woman, I also came into possession of an egg that later became a young Phoenix; it makes me think that this occurrence has something to do with the black market selling of magical creatures.

Sadly that is all I could find to report back to you, but hopefully this information will help the Ministry track someone down, and I will try to help in anyway I can.

Best Regards,

Neville.

Neville placed the letter in a envelope, sealed it, and then gave it to his owl and it flew out of the window towards the letters intended location. A knock was heard on the door to the office and in stepped Elizabeth with her arm in a sling "Hello Neville, ready for a good game of Qudditch?" as Neville turned around to answer, he was taken back by the sling "Elizabeth, what happened to your arm?" he asked in shock, Elizabeth just looked at it and shook her head "Nothing, just a potion gone wrong, you know how it goes." she said with a laugh. At the sound of her laugh the Phoenix began to ruffle its feathers and let out a mean sounding squawk.

Elizabeth noticed the bird "I see you have a new friend?" she said looking in the direction of the Phoenix that was still making noise, Neville nodded his head "Yes." then went to stop the bird's noise making "Xavier!, come here now." he said in a serious tone the bird silenced and did as it was told it opened its wings and flew to Neville to perch on his arm. Neville began stroking Xavier making his feathers go flat "I'm sorry, I guess he did that because your a stranger to him." he said looking at Elizabeth with apologetic eyes "It's alright, animals don't like me anyway especially birds, well I"ll see you at the Quditch match later." she said as she went out the door.

Neville walked back to his desk and let Xavier perch back on the stack of books "That was rude of you, I hope you realize that." he said to Xavier who just gave him a pout, and Neville just shook his head and patted the birds head "Don't worry I'm not mad." Then another knock was heard on the door "Come in." said Neville, but no one did. Neville went outside the office and looked around his class room for the person who knocked, but did not see anyone at all, then a pair of hands blinded him from behind. "Guess who." said a female voice into Neville's ear, he did not have to guess at all "You." he turned around and grabbed Luna and spun her around, then gave her a deep hug then kissed her, their lips did not part until air was needed "Did you actually miss me?" asked Luna in a playful tone as she wrapped her arms around Neville's neck and just stared at him with her dazzling gray-silver eyes.

Neville just stared at the beauty before him, he missed her so much, most of the time all he could think about was his Luna "Of course I missed you." he said placing his forehead on hers, both smiled at the contact and were about to kiss again until a squawk was heard inside the office. Luna let Neville go and walked into his office to find Xavier "When did you get a Phoenix dear?" she asked admiring the bird "You could say I found him and Xavier got attached." Luna smiled at the sound of the birds name "I like that name, seems perfect for him." she said stroking Xavier's feathers, Neville was surprised "This is a miracle, last person who was in here just made him cause a ruckus, he seems to like you Luna.".

Luna kept stroking Xavier's feathers, until the bird took it upon himself to perch on Luna's sholder and snuggle his head into the crook of her neck "I guess so, he probably smells you on me because of what I'm wearing." Neville look at Luna's choice of outfit, she was wearing a yellow top, with one of Neville's red button ups over it un-buttoned with the sleeves rolled up so they wouldn't cover her hands, and a pair of black jeans "And your slightly wearing Gryffindor colors as well." Neville said with a small laugh, Luna laughed a bit as well, still stoking Xavier "I don't think he will want to leave my shoulder, I guess we will have to take him to the match." Neville nodded in agreement "As long as he doesn't cause a problem, I'm sure they wouldn't mind. The couple joined hands and headed out of the office and towards the location of the match.

The Qudditch match had gotten off to a great start, Gryffindor was beating Ravenclaw with a score of 50 to 20, Rose and the other two Chasers had been passing and stealing the Quffale with excellent skill, Albus was a natural at defending the hoops, the Snitch was still flying around, but their was no sign of James yet, Neville and Luna were seated in a teachers box with Professor Flitwhick and other members of the Hogwarts staff. Neville was looking around in the sky "Still haven't seen James, what about you Luna?" Luna was looking through a pair of binoculars, Xavier still perched on her shoulder asleep "I've found him, but the Snitch is going so fast it's hard to keep track." she said lowering the binoculars and pointing in the direction that she found him in Neville followed her finger and found James, he and the Seeker from Ravenclaw were right on the tail of the Snitch and were trying to knock each other off course "Who's the bot playing Seeker for Ravenclaw?" asked Neville not recognizing the student "Cedric Chang, Cho's adopted son." said Luna Neville tried to look the boy over, from what he could tell, he did favor Cedric in some places they had the same face,body build, the only difference was the boy's black hair "I never knew Cho adopted." said Neville "Yes, Cho found him as a baby abandoned with no note or name, so she took him in and named him after Cedric Diggory. Tragic yet romantic when you think about it." said Luna as a bell went off signalling a goal the score was now 50 to 30.

A few more scores had passed, and James caught the Snitch, making the final score of the game 200 to 60, Neville and Luna were at the bottom of the stairs leading to the teachers box, locked in a hug "I hate I have to leave you." said Luna with her face in the crook of Neville's neck "I know love, but Christmas is just around the corner, I'll be able to come home soon." said Neville kissing Luna's head Luna broke the hug and smiled a sad but sweet smile "I know, until then." she said kissing Neville then making her way out of the stadium, Xavier was still perched on her shoulder "Xavier!." yelled Neville as he whistled waking the bird up, it snuggled into Luna's neck one more time then flew over to Neville

"don't worry, I'll take you home to see her." he said as he pet the bird, he then looked to see Luna had turned around "I love you!" she yelled at him "Love you too Luna!" yelled Neville as she went back on her way and left.

Neville walked through the tunnels to leave, and found a sight he was not expecting Rose and Scorpius were locked at the lips, Neville cleared his throat to break them up Rose saw Neville and turned redder then her unifrom "Good day Professor, good match today wasn't it?" said Scorpius in the tone only a Malfoy could speak, only nicer "Yes, it was." said Neville still watching the two young lovers "Well, must be off Rose, I'll see you at dinner." said Scorpius as he kissed Rose on the cheek and went on his way. Rose looked at Neville with embarrassment on her face "Don't worry, your secret is safe with me." he said simply Rose smiled and then went off on her own.

A few seconds later Elizabeth showed up "Oh, young love brings back memories doesn't it?" she said meeting Neville "Yes, I suppose." said Neville off in his own world "So, I see you saw your little Luna." she said bluntly "She's sweet, but you can do better." Neville still in his world told Xavier to fly home, and the bird took off, then he heard what she said, but before he could speak Elizabeth used her good arm pushed Neville onto the wall and kissed him forcefully Neville fought and finally broke her off "Elizabeth what are you doing ?" he said shocked by her actions "What's it look like Neville I'm kissing you." she said trying to kiss him again but he pushed her off of him "Yes, but why?" he demanded, Elizabeth let out a sigh "isn't it obvious Nevile, I said you could do better then Luna, and by better I mean me. I have wanted to be with you since I met you." she said in a tone that reminded Neville of Bellatrix "But I know you wont listen to reason, so I'll just let that kiss sink in you will come around eventually bye love." she said giving Neville a biting motion as she left.

Neville wiped off his lips, "What does she mean I'll come around?" he said to himself, Neville knew he would never leave Luna, he loved Luna with every fiber of his being and no one was going to stop that.

A/N; I KNOW THIS IS SO LATE, BUT I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS UPDATE, I'VE BEEN BUSY WITH SCHOOL,READING,AND ACTING BUT I WILL TRY TO UPDATE AGAIN SOON.