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This is going to be a 5 star read.

But he was never good enough. He couldn’t get Gran to approve of him or McGonagall and Dumbledore to protect him or Hermione to notice him or Ron and Harry to include him. He’d made himself useful—he could do that. But you had to earn others’ respect, and it felt like he never had done—not until they’d gone and come back to find him doing the dirty work


A heart breaking prospective for Neville🥲

“I thought—love had to be a struggle,” said Neville, realizing this was true. “I thought love meant chasing someone who couldn’t love you back. Or trying to make it work with someone who didn’t like you. Loving you was so easy, I kept telling myself it must be something else. I didn’t know love could be that easy, Pansy. I didn’t understand it until I had you.”

He tried to be a man without needs to make up for still bent here.

It was exhausting.
…
She looked down at him, her head tilted, her expression neutral. She sighed and wiped the tears off his cheek with the edge of her thumb.

“I love you,” she said. “I’m glad you lived.”

And then Neville was sobbing again.



Poor Neville 🥺

He tried so hard not to think about so many things—his parents, Hogwarts, Lavender and Colin Creevey…and what a disappointment he was. He tried to do enough things for enough other people to justify his existence… what happened to him didn’t matter. He wasn’t the Chosen One—he wasn’t good... He was the spare—the boy no one needed. The boy no one wanted. Anyone could have killed Nagini.

Cannot get other how thought out these characters are and how well this author understands the nuisances of canon characters, how they would’ve felt at Hogwarts, and how that would have affected them as adults.

“You know,” he’d said, “plants do better when you speak to them nicely. You can call me Daddy if you want to—”

Her lips had parted. Her eyes had been drinking him in.

“But don’t talk about yourself that way. Not in front of the plants. Not in front of me.”

She’d blinked, her nose wrinkling. “Well, I’m not nice.”

“Oi, plant daddy. You got the Death Eater bitch.”

Feel like I’m cheating on Draco, Neville is sooo good, WhatMurdah is the most talented person on the planet