Chapter 3 - Breakfast In The Great Hall

The next day, Neville Longbottom was having breakfast in the Great Hall alone when a familiar owl soared majestically down the Gryffindor table and settled itself beside his bowl of porridge and re-ascended quickly leaving behind a parcel of monolithic proportions . At the Hufflepuff table, another owl, this one rather less regal, deposited a large package beside Hannah Abbot and took off again, despite the fact that the name on it read "Neville Longbottom."

Neville, meanwhile, who had not even noticed the bird he would have instantly recognised as Ingram, his Great Uncle Algie's slightly crazy owl, and was too busy trying to work out who would have sent him such a package. He knew the owl but this couldn't have come from his Gran It contained every sweet Neville had ever liked the taste of, wizard and muggle manufactures, and some he had only heard of from other people.

Needless to say, he was currently the most popular person at the Gryffindor table with people clamouring for sweets most of them had never even seen. Neville was dazed but was also unwilling to try the sweets, or let anyone else try them for that matter, in case they had been tampered with. Fred Weasley (or was that George?) seemed to be reading his thoughts. "You've spent too much time listening to Moody" he drawled while helping himself. Neville rejected this with a shake of his head but laughed alone with everyone else. After all, he didn't want to seem paranoid, but he waited to see if anything happen to whichever twin it was all the same.

While this was taking place at the Gryffindor table, over at the Hufflepuff end of the Hall, Hannah Abbot was debating with herself what would be the best time to go over and give Neville his other parcel.