Chapter 4: The Hammer Falls

Just as Harry left, Neville decided to go to Gringotts to do something he never wanted to. The bank was always open, it was just a question of how you got in. Neville flooed to his families account office in Gringotts. Once there he ran a little bell and a young Goblin came in.

'How can I help you sir?' inquired the Goblin

'Do you believe Voldermort can and will be defeated?' Asked Nevill

'I hope so sir, but how?'

'Tell me, how old are you Mr ?'

'I am 15 sir and the name is Ironarm' replied a confused looking goblin.

'And do you believe you can manage my accounts?' Asked a polite but firm Neville.

'I don't think the head of…'

'I didn't ask what others thought, I asked you.' A softly spoken Neville interrupted Ironarm.

'Then yes, I believe I can. I am not the best at the moment sir, there are better than me.'

'Ah but we all start from somewhere, and some are lucky and others are not. Today you Ironarm are lucky. I am offering you the position of my family accountant and overtime we may both grow old and wise and become the best of them all.' Neville smiled while offering his hand for a handshake.

The young goblin automatically shaked Nevilles hand and the deal was done, he was the Longbottoms account manager.

'Ahh I didn't mean for that to happen, oh I am in so much trouble.' Spoke a troubled youth.

'No you are not, I am now writing a letter saying my choices and reasons are my own and that you are my choice for account manager. Anyone showing you disrespect or giving you grief over this position becomes an enemy of my family. We protect ours fiercely, are you happy now?' Asked a concerned Neville. He wanted to do the right thing here and he felt trust in this young one, which he never felt before when dealing with goblins.

Neville finished penning the letter and signed his name on the bottom. He stood up and walked to the drinks cabinet and poured himself some red wine. 'Take the letter please, it will protect you and add a sticking charm to it so you never loose it. Now what would you like to drink? Fire Whisky?' Neville offered and hefting a bottle in the air with one hand.

'Please.' Replied a shocked goblin, he was offered respect, a position of power and being treated like an equal. He had only ever heard of Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter do the same. He would do what was right for his client now and damn them all. He found himself holding a glass of fire whisky, not to sure he sipped at it and enjoyed the burning effect down the neck, awakening nerve endings along his spine.

'Now Mr Longbottom sir, lets look at the account details.'

'Please call me Neville or Nev, after all we are going to be spending along time together.' Replied Neville.

'Ok, erm Neville you may or may not know, you own a permanent seat on the wizard council and since your father is unable to fulfil his role, you are automatically next and are able to attend once you get to the age of 17. Sadly their accounts are frozen as they are in their name, and cannot be accessed until the father dies. Neville you have access to some funds left to you in the region of 10,000 Gallons, your family account contains £2,090,500 stored in a bank, another £1,000,000 in stocks and shares. In the wizarding world you have some shares in Cleansweep and own 150,000 Gallons in property and 200,000 in Gallons stored here in the bank. It looks like the previous accountant was trying to liquidise your assets for some reason.' Ironarm looked up to the young wizard to see how he was coping. 'do you wish for me to stop Neville?'

'No its alright, seems a bit odd I have to wait for my parents to physically die when already they are mentally dead.' Neville looked sad, he knew what he would have to do. Damn those death eaters to hell, well their time was coming.

'You are now allowed to use the title lord, so you can now address yourself as Lord Longbottom.' Ironarm finished.

'Thank you for your time, it might be easier if no one knew your new status just yet, do what you can with half of my gallons and see what you can make. Play with it for it is a drop in the ocean.' A smiling Neville left, but there was no happiness in those eyes. Poor Ironarm felt for his first client, a family known for all the right reasons, the political power still there, but the monetary backing was out of reach. He hoped Neville would be ok and didn't turn into the next dark lord. He would do what he could in terms of using what was available.

Neville arrived back at his home, sunlight just starting to show, we wrote a note saying he felt ill and would be in his room all day. He left the note on the kitchen table, and went to his room. Once there he sealed the door and silenced the room.

'Hedwig' he called out, nothing happened. He tried a few more time. Neville stated to think, he needed to think of her there.

In a flash she was and a trill washed over him calming him. Neville smiled at Hedwig he stroked her then he kneeled on the floor in front of the bed with his arm laid out on the bed. Hedwig trilled a soft melody as she cut into Neville's arm, soon soaking the sheets with blood, Neville ignored the pain and concentrated on the song. Soon he realised it was a soft very feminie voice singing and he could understand her. He looked at Hedwig in awe as he heard her beautiful voice carry. Just as he realised this a burning fire tore though his body letting him know the power of love and just as quickly as he was made aware of it, he was unconscious. When he woke up, it was midday.

Damn, best see Luna, now let us see if it works like Harry said Neville thought, it took a micro-second to think of Luna and love pour into him and he was gone.

Neville found himself right behind Luna, he tiptoed closer and enveloped his arms around her and Luna leaned in.

'I was wondering when you were going to turn up' Luna whispered.

'I'm sorry I took so long, sweet Merlin I missed you' Neville replied while smelling her hair and just holder her.

'So when are we gonna have sex then?'

To say Neville was shocked is an understatement, but he smiled, 'not for another year love, why you worried we wont make it and want to experiace before we all die?'

'No, I just want to feel you inside me, make me feel safe in those strong arms, that powerful back. Just thinking about it turns me on.'

Neville smiled, 'Well my heart I am sorry to have to make you wait, but I want to be sure, a lot can happen in a year, would you love me if I turned dark and killed all your friends?'

'Yes, but you would be silly, cos they are your friends too and they would follow you if you asked them too.' Luna turned in Neville's arms to face him, she gave him a smile. 'Don't worry about me, I feel happy that one of us is being cautious rather than both of us running headlong into the unknown. Oh I've made all the potions Harry asked for as well as some Hermione did, some are more long term like a month. Where are we going to store it all? And where am I making this once we are out of here?'

'Pass I think only Harry has a plan in his head. Anyway let me tell you about a phoenix…' so Neville launched into the same story Harry had given him and ended with the same token. 'So tonight when your ready, think of her and feel the need of her and she will be there. Now I got to go home and see gran before she thinks I've gone walk abouts. Love you Luna.' Neville gave a parting kiss on her lips and forehead before disappearing.

'I love you too Neville.' Luna spoke to the air.

Neville arrived home and took the spells off of his room. He walked downstairs and looked for his gran. Not finding her, he went to get some of the guns and start sending them to the right people. He was walking to his greenhouses, where better to store weapons than under a layer of soil. He had wrapped them up as Hermione had told him to. Neville was beginning to feel nervous, he could tell something was not right.

Ok Neville think, what do I need to do, not be seen and get a muggle weapon ok, so that's disilusiment and silencio charm on the feet. Ok lets go.

A Neville shape went from rustling feet and visible to quiet and invisible within a few strides. He saw the worst thing possible.

Lestrange his mind shouted, Kill Her he ignored the impulses and carried on to his part of the green house. He slowly removed a pistolwith clip in and softy on. He cast another silence charm on the weapon. Well this should be interesting, one second alive, the next dead. He crept up behind his worst nightmare the woman who had destroyed his family. Neville pushed the safty button, he was now dangerous. He aimed the nozzle at her fore finger and pulled the trigger.

'AHHHHHH'

A mist of red erupted from Lestranges hand as her forefinger became a bloody stump.
Neville pulled the trigger again whilst she was distracted.

Her wand was suddenly tiny fragments and some were embedded into her hand now. She spotted a cloud of smoke and lunged forward.

Oh shit

Neville acted on instinct, instinct he never knew he had as his arm bent and his elbow came to the fore aimed at Lestranges forehead. Once they connected Lestrange was knocked over and Neville cast simple charms on her binding her and silencing her. Next Neville walked over to his own gran to find that she had lost too much blood from Lestranges torture.

'Well Bella, looks like you and me are going to be enjoying each others time now.' Neville whispered into Bellas ear.

Flash

Neville levelled both wand and gun on the bird. 'Oh sorry Hedwig, you can tell Harry we got Bella, what did you want anyway?'

Harry would like you to go buy a multi-compartment trunk to put prisoners in, here is some money. Hedwig offered her talon to Neville and he took the bag of gold from her. 'Hedwig, could you please guard Bella whilst I go get a trunk, then you can tell him we got her. And you might need to see Luna tonight.'

I know, and yes I will, but please hurry.

'Ok I will.' And Neville was gone. Neville found a store and bought a basic trunk, he knew if they needed to they could add charms later, and that someone would have a book for it. Within half an hour Neville had returned and had placed Bella inside the trunk with a very firm and powerful locking charm on it. Just to top it off he put a padlock on it.

'Thank you Hedwig for helping me. I am going to be calling in the aurors now and stating my gran is dead. Take care of harry and I will see you soon hopefully.' Neville said as he stroked her feathers.

Don't forget to hide the weapons.

'Oh yeah cheers, I forgot I had this gun still on me. Hehe. Cheers Hedwig, see you later girl.'

Hedwig disappeared in a roaring flash.

'show off' Neville commented to the wind.

Auror command floo burst into life.

'Help Help, please someone help me. My gran, I think shes dead.'

'Calm down young man, what is your name?' Asked a young female receptionist.

'Longbottom, please come quick.' Neville was enjoying himself, he should have been an actor. He let enough panic into his voice to get the receptionists attention.

'Ok were gonna send around 2 aurors. Please stand back from the fire.'

'Oh thank you.'

With that Nevilles head disappeared back into the flames. The young girl on the desk forwarded the call to 2 duty aurors. They were experienced hands, Kingsley and Dawlish.

Two aurors stepped out of the fire place and into the Longbottom residence.

'Show us' a deep baritone voice came from Kingsley, 'show us where you left your gran Neville.'

'Well I went to see my girlfriend, Luna Lovegood, I travelled by floo, when I came back I wanted to do some work in the greenhouse and as I got closer things just felt wrong. Then I find her body just lying there.' Neville described to the aurors as he quickly strode to the greenhouses and making sure he didn't actually lie. A minute later the 2 aurors were consoling a very distraught Neville.

'Well find out who did this Neville.' Dawlish spoke out.

Neville didn't know weather to trust him or not since he had attacked Magonagall.

'I know who did it,' he spoke, swallowing an imaginary lump, 'she wants to finish my family. I can feel her magic here bloody BITCH. Oh Merlin, I'm the last one.' Neville turned from getting angry to sorrowful in front of the aurors as would any body who had just lost another family member to just one person.

'Who did you say did this?' Kingsley spoke.

'Bellatrix Lestrange, she has that tinned coppery feel to her magic, its disgusting.' Neville answered playing at just answering the questions. Inside he was thinking, Ok can feel her magic, and I can feel theirs as well. When did this happen? Man I best tell Harry at some point of that skill. His attention was brought back to the fore ground.

'That's impossible, no one has been able to sense magic like that in years! Look I'm real sorry for your loss, but you cant blame just woman for all your family woes.' Exclaimed Dawlish. 'Kingsley you can handle this.' Dawlish stormed off.

'Neville it's a rare gift you have there, now lets see about the evidence cos someone was here, and they were not pleasant with your gran. Do you have anyone you can go to?' Kingsley asked.

'No family left, only Luna my girlfriend. Can I leave please?' Neville pleaded.

'Sure you head on over there, I'll be an hour or two, when I'm done I'll come and get you.' Kingsley laid a comforting hand on Neville's shoulder.

Neville stepped through the fireplace at the Lovegood residence. Neville could hear Hedwig sing again. Ahh she must be going through the process now. Neville focused on Luna and flamed to be next to her. She turned her head to him as he flamed in and smiled. Neville smiled back and held her to comfort Luna as Hedwig cut deep into Lunas soft skin.

'Its alright pet, everything will be ok, when you wake up come to me.' Neville whispered into her ear, then he just held her until she too fell unconscious. Neville placed her in her own bed then went downstairs to be next to the fire place waiting.

It was near ten at night when the flames turned green and Kingsley pocked his head through the flames. 'Neville it is ok to come home now, and I believe you when you say it was Bella.' Kingsley intoned.

'Thank you Auror Kingsley, have a safe journey.' Neville stood up and Kingsley's head disappeared.

I think I shall give him ten minutes before I leave

Neville walked through the fire place and again things just didn't seem right. Damn! He made himself invisible and silenced his feet again. He crept outside to find the reason for everyone's suffering, one Tom Riddle and a few death eaters to boot. He touched his arm and thought of Harry.

Harry I hope you can hear me, see what I see and know Riddle is here. I think we need to make this an opportunity to fuck them over one.

Yo Neville, this is weird, yeah I can see what you see. You must tell me how you do that.two choices, go in as Neville with curses flying an make a nice dint in him ad his men, trust me Neville you have power. Or we group somewhere and put some robes on to mask us.

Harry if I go in as Neville and take a piece of him, he will begin to worry. It would be wise for you to get to the greenhouse and grab the sniper rifle, and then go to the roof of my home. If things get desperate, I'll apperate then you start killing.

Deal

Neville felt Harry through the tattoo, he was at the greenhouse then next minute he was on the roof.

Right here I go.

Neville launched right into it as he fired blasting hex's, cutting hex's, slashing hexs, fire balls. All the while he kept moving. The death eaters must have been new because they started to panic, the reason they were panicking was three of their number had already gone down to serious wounds and the curses seemed to fly in from everywhere.

'Calm yourselves, it is only a child playing at hero.' Voldermort spoke harshly to his recruits.

The curses stopped.

Neville seemed to fade into the foreground. 'Ahh Tom so good of you to be here today, I was wondering if you could tell me where Bella is? I know she was here and I want to repay her in kind.'

Neville knew this would wind tom up, especially being civil and calm and not paniking.

This unnerved the recruits more than anything, here a mere boy not Harry Potter but a boy was standing up to the Dark Lord. What happened next most never remembered as a torrent of spell fire erupted from Nevilles wand and an explosion hex fired at the ground flew them all in the air. No one noticed a small metal cylinder fall to the ground and roll towards where three death eaters laid, stunned.

Neville next stopped moving and started concentrating on Tom, he just wanted a piece of him, that's all he needed. Spell after spell can to mind and leapt from his wand, hitting toms shield. 'Neville join me and we can bring Bella to justice for your parents, I can save them.' Tom casually spoke to Neville. Neville knew different, he knew Tom was loosing, there was worry in his blood shot eyes.

Tom was worried, had he chosen the wrong child, blast Severus.

This child is beating me, I can't have that, I cant have two children beat me!

Tom came out of his little trance and roared 'Avada K..'

'BOOM,' the explosion knocked tom sideways, the shrapnel decimated the three death eaters it was near. The last two death eaters being scared ran, not thinking to apperate. Neville got off a quick slicing hex and tore at Toms shoulder, Tom realising he was not in his best condition apperated away.

Two cracks were heard from the roof and the two death eaters died with no knowledge of how but found a hole through their body where the heart was supposed to be. They collapsed already dead.

Harry appeared next to Neville.

'Ok,' started Harry, 'that was so cool, I mean those death eaters, all recruits but still, you creamed them. And Tom, you got a bit of him, you actually did it.'

Neville looked at Harry with shock, 'Does it feel like this every time you face him, cos I'm bloody knackered. My nerves are now shot to hell I mean he nearly got an AK off at me. That was bloody lucky timing.' Neville bent over and threw up on the grass.

Harry walked over to the last place Tom stood and picked up a fragment of a Dark Lord. 'I'm not gonna say anything cheesy, if that's ok, but it is a start.' Harry smiled and Neville smiled in return.

Neville suggested, 'Shall we see who the death eaters are, and put their bodies close to Bella?'

'Nev are you turning dark? If you are I don't care, just leave Ginny and me alone ok.' Neville just stared at Harry.

'That's not funny man, that's my worst fear, is turning dark.' Neville said.

Harry looked up, 'Mine too.'

After seeing who the death eaters where, most they didn't recognise, one they did, Marcus Flint, ohh what a surprise. Harry started a conversation. 'Neville?'

'Yeah?'

'Have you been to the bank recently and know aboutyour family stuff?'

'yeah went before you arrived first time, why? Asked a curious Neville.

'Well I went last night, and my account manager told me I'm a Lord, I mean imagine me, a lord!'

'Don't worry so am I' Neville smirked at this, 'Hey, shall we enter the council chambers at the same time and tell them we are now on the council. Talk about stirring the shit pot.'

Harry looked like Christmas had arrived early, 'yeah, that sounds real nice thing to do.'

Luna flamed in next to Neville and she surveyed the area.

'I cant leave you alone for afew hours and you go and kick some major arse. I hope this wont be the layout for our relashionship?'

'Er no, how are you anyway? Do you feel alright?' Neville then cottened on to what Luna was wearing and it was awakening parts he really didn't want awakening with others present. Luna was wearing a black mini-skirt and a very tight top that really didn't leave anything to the imagination and knee high black leather boots.

She pushed Neville onto the ground. 'Mine!' she stated before jumping on him and kissing him.

Neville was enjoying the kiss and found his hands cupping Luna very cute arse, he didn't want to stop, he had such a hard on. Oh I am so glad no one else….oh shit Harry

Neville finished the kiss before either of them wanted to. 'erm babe, Harry is still here.'

'I know, you would have thought he would know where the exit is.' Luna replied.

'Erm sorry to interrupt, but Luna did you tell Hermione or Ginny?' Harry said.

'Oh course where do you think I got such nice clothes from, who would have though Hermione has a tarty streak in her. I'm sure Ronald will be pleasantly surprised.'

Both Neville and Harry started coughing at this point. Such was the shock.

Neville pulled Luna in closer to him and got a better grip on her sexy arse. 'Um you know love, I should really show you how to use those muggle weapons. The again I do love having you here.' He showed her a warm smile.

'I know you like having me here, I can feel it throbbing.' Luna smirked, stood up and pulled Neville to the green houses so she could learn about muggle weapons.

Harry flamed back to Privet Drive.