HOWLER: have you ever gotten in serious trouble with your parents? what for? (we’re gonna address this with augusta in the place of their parents bc otherwise the answer would be a simple, heartbreaking no)
they’ve always had a complicated relationship with the woman who raised them. there’s gratitude, for taking a child that wasn’t truly her responsibility, for being the first one to not give up on them. but there’s resentment too, because she always saw her own son in her grandchild and neville hated spending their whole childhood as a ghost. they got in trouble with their grandmother constantly, but perhaps no time was worse than the time they got the howler.
they’d lost the passwords list to the gryffindor common room and were already feeling bad enough about the danger they had put all of their friends in. they’d already been punished by mcgonagall, they thought when they saw the howler they might actually curl up and die in that moment. she always knew how to really make them feel bad, hitting them with phrases like “what would your mother think?” or “your father never got so much as a detention!” there was never really anger when neville messed up, only disappointment which was so much worse.
SNITCH: what’s your biggest goal in life?
