Neville was born on July 30th to Frank and Alice Longbottom, which accidentally placed him in a spot of prophetical bother. Long story short, someone born at the end of July would grow up to kill Voldemort. This, naturally, is a bit of a problem when you’re a nigh-invincible megalomaniac. The two candidates for this were Neville Longbottom and Harry Potter, who was born the day after Neville. In the end, Voldemort went with Option Harry, which ended with Avada Kedavra being exploded right back into his face. Not to be outdone in his complete monster quotient, he sent the Lestranges and Barty Crouch Jr. to take care of the spare.
It wasn’t very pretty. Far from it, in fact.
They tortured Frank and Alice with an unforgivable curse until they went mad. The Longbottoms survived and are still in St. Mungo’s custody. They still can’t remember a thing. After this, Neville was sent to live with his grandmother, Augusta. His grandmother and the rest of the family wanted him to follow in his parents’ footsteps. For awhile, though, it looked as if Neville weren’t magic at all. When he was eight, he almost accidentally drowned in a slightly overzealous uncle’s attempt to find out. Don’t worry, he lived, otherwise this history would be a whole lot shorter. More to the point, it proved that he had at least a little magic in him. Thus, he received his letter to Hogwarts the summer he turned eleven.
In seven years, Neville went from a picked on, clumsy, absentminded student to a bad enough dude to decapitate Voldemort’s snake while on fire. A lot of things happened to make this possible. His potions marks never became anything to write home about, but he realized his skills in herbology. He stepped out of the shadow of his grandmother’s influence. He joined, and later led, Dumbledore’s Army. And yet, all of his awesomeness can be initially traced back to one day in his first year when he stood up to his friends.
He’s being taken from pre-canon, like Harry, Hermione, and Ron.
Neville Longbottom | Harry Potter
It wasn’t very pretty. Far from it, in fact.
They tortured Frank and Alice with an unforgivable curse until they went mad. The Longbottoms survived and are still in St. Mungo’s custody. They still can’t remember a thing. After this, Neville was sent to live with his grandmother, Augusta. His grandmother and the rest of the family wanted him to follow in his parents’ footsteps. For awhile, though, it looked as if Neville weren’t magic at all. When he was eight, he almost accidentally drowned in a slightly overzealous uncle’s attempt to find out. Don’t worry, he lived, otherwise this history would be a whole lot shorter. More to the point, it proved that he had at least a little magic in him. Thus, he received his letter to Hogwarts the summer he turned eleven.
In seven years, Neville went from a picked on, clumsy, absentminded student to a bad enough dude to decapitate Voldemort’s snake while on fire. A lot of things happened to make this possible. His potions marks never became anything to write home about, but he realized his skills in herbology. He stepped out of the shadow of his grandmother’s influence. He joined, and later led, Dumbledore’s Army. And yet, all of his awesomeness can be initially traced back to one day in his first year when he stood up to his friends.
He’s being taken from pre-canon, like Harry, Hermione, and Ron.