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Perfect addition for the Harry Potter fan. Perfect for any Harry Potter fan. Got him to add to my Potter tree. Add To Cart. Save to Favorites. Add to cart options. Product Details Neville Longbottom was shy and introverted in his youth, reluctant to believe he could live up to the accomplishments of his highly-respected Auror parents who ultimately met a tortured demise.

But the friendship of Harry Potter and others fostered his courage and perseverance over the years. No itty bittys collection would be complete without this stylized plush version of the kindhearted student, holding the Sword of Gryffindor that appeared to him in the Sorting Hat during the Battle of Hogwarts.

Show more details. Entertainment Inc. Sign in to write a review. Search reviews. But fans of solely the movies may have been confused by this, with the pair never sharing a single interaction on the big screen. But, in the source material, it's made clear that Snape bullies Neville on a regular basis. He makes continuously nasty comments about Longbottom's intelligence, takes the mickey out of his Potions ability, and appears to enjoy taking house points off the poor boy as well.

Harry and Hermione do their best to try and help Neville through Potions class but it takes every ounce of courage for the young boy to turn up in the first place. Fans have since suggested that Snape was so harsh on Neville because he saw many similarities with his own, shunned, teenage self.

While he actually proves to be a pretty decent teacher, he's also hands-on. And, for their fourth-year exam in the book, he puts all of the students in his class under the Imperius Curse to see how they fare. Hilariously, Neville manages gymnastics that Harry is certain he wouldn't normally be capable of.

The Boy Who Lived is the only person in the class who is able to fend off the curse, scoring highly as a result. It's a funny scene but, again, it's one that only book fans know of - with Moody experimenting on his pupils left out of the fourth movie in the series. Neville's parents are mysterious figures, with very little known about them up until the Goblet of Fire. It's a sweet, poignant moment as Neville bonds with two people who barely recognize him - but still love him in equal measure.

He's told off by his grandmother but pockets sweet wrappers she gives him regardless. Ron and Hermione are both shocked by this revelation but Harry was in the know, having been sworn to secrecy by Albus Dumbledore the previous year. Lucius Malfoy ends up breaking the prophecy in the blockbuster but, in the book of the same name, things are different.

Neville ends up accidentally breaking it while Harry attempts to save him, with the pair both under heavy attack from Death Eaters at the time.

Neville gives everything to the fight and, despite being magically inferior to many of his foes, commendably holds his own amid the heat of the battle. Harry is gutted to see the prophecy break but knows he can't do anything about it. To this day, it's unlikely that Neville was aware the little orb could have referred to himself, rather than his Gryffindor housemate.

This was another early instance where Neville showed bravery, standing up to his only friends. For standing up to the trio, Neville won ten points for Gryffindor at the end-of-term feast. Having moments before, tied Slytherin for the House Cup , this pushed Gryffindor into undisputed first place.

In the final exams, he scored well in Herbology , making up for his poor marks in Potions. In , after the start-of-term feast, he applauded Harry and Ron for flying a car to Hogwarts.

The following morning when Ron received a Howler from his mother, Neville warned him to open it quickly. In Gilderoy Lockhart 's first Defence Against the Dark Arts class, a pair of "freshly caught" Cornish pixies picked Neville up by the ears and hung him, by his cloak, from a chandelier.

Moments later, he crashed back to the ground when the chandelier collapsed. After the basilisk attack on Colin Creevey , Neville feared that he might be attacked, due to his poor magical skills, and tried to protect himself by purchasing a large, " evil-smelling " green onion, a pointed purple crystal , and a rotting newt tail. However the other students pointed out that Neville should be all right; he was a pure-blood and thus unlikely to be attacked.

However, he thought he was very close to being a Squib and was still in danger anyway. Neville attended the first and only meeting of Lockhart's Duelling Club. When Lockhart suggested the pair to volunteer spell blocking, Snape shot this down, claiming that Neville had difficulty with the simplest spells, and they would have to send what was left of Justin to the hospital wing in a matchbox. Shortly after Valentine's Day , Neville informed Harry that his belongings had been searched by someone.

Neville would have been present at the end of term feast that year, having thankfully not been attacked or petrified by the Basilisk, and would have been present when all his classmates who had been petrified returned to full health after being cured by Mandrake Restorative Draughts , and would have been there to greet Rubeus Hagrid following his release from Azkaban.

Dementors board the Hogwarts Express and enter the compartment that the trio , Neville, Ginny, and Professor Lupin are in. On the train ride to Hogwarts for his third year, Neville became alarmed when the Hogwarts Express simply stopped. A Dementor then entered the compartment, negatively affecting all the students within, though to varying degrees. Then new Professor Lupin gave them chocolate telling them it would help them feel better about the shock.

After arriving at Hogsmeade Station, Neville told people about the experience in the compartment. In their first Divination class, Neville accidentally broke two of Professor Trelawney 's tea cups while reading tea leaves. As the class departed, Professor Trelawney warned him that he would be late next class and urged him to work hard to catch up with everyone else. In Care of Magical Creatures class, Neville practised bowing to a hippogriff ; he constantly backed away from the beast , which did not seem to want to bow back.

The next day in Potions , Neville again managed to earn the ire of Professor Snape. He somehow was able to turn his Shrinking Solution orange instead of green. To ensure Neville would get the potion right, Snape told him that he would feed some of it to Neville's pet toad , Trevor , at the end of the class. Desperately, he asked Hermione for help; she whispered instructions to him out of the corner of her mouth. By the end of class, he was able to turn his potion green, and successfully shrunk Trevor from a toad to a tadpole.

Upon returning Trevor to his proper size, Snape took five points from Hermione simply to spite the Gryffindors. Neville's Boggart , Professor Snape. Neville was the first person to be asked. This was most likely because of Professor Lupin's preference for the underdog and him wanting to build Neville's confidence.

When asked what scared him most in the world, Neville replied " Professor Snape ", to which everyone found amusing. To counter the boggart, Lupin asked Neville to picture Snape in his grandmother's clothes. For his help, Neville earned ten points for Gryffindor and he confidently banished the boggart at the end of class.

In the spring of , Neville lost the passwords to Gryffindor Tower ; because Sir Cadogan changed them so frequently, Neville needed to write them down so he could remember them. After learning Neville was indirectly responsible, Professor McGonagall banned him from all future visits into Hogsmeade for the remainder of the school year, gave him a detention, and forbade anyone from giving him the password to the common room, thus he had to wait outside the portrait until someone came by while security trolls hired to guard the Fat Lady leered unpleasantly at him.

But none of that compared to what his grandmother had in store for him. Two days later during breakfast, Neville received a Howler from her; he tore out of the Great Hall , amid shouts of laughter, and opened it in the Entrance Hall , where his grandmother's angry voice told him he brought shame to their family. At the end of his Divination final exam, Neville was told that, if he told anyone his results, he would suffer a serious accident. He jealously listened to their recap of the Quidditch World Cup ; his grandmother had not wanted to go, and did not purchase tickets.

When Moody demonstrated the curse on a spider, Neville was terrified; he gripped his desk so hard, his knuckles turned white. Hermione noticed this and called for the professor to stop. After class, Moody — who was in fact Barty Crouch Jnr , one of the attackers of Neville's parents, under disguise by use of Polyjuice Potion — took Neville to his office for a cup of tea. Having heard from Professor Sprout about Neville's aptitude in Herbology , Moody cheered Neville up by telling him what Sprout had said and gave him a number of books he thought Neville would enjoy.

One of them was Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean , which Crouch intended for Harry to read in order to learn all about Gillyweed for the second task [30] , but he was stubbornly searching through the library. A few days later in class, Neville was put under the Imperius Curse by Moody, under the pretence of letting the class know what it felt like. Under Moody's influence, Neville performed a series of " quite astonishing gymnastics " that he could not have performed normally.

Neville and Ginny Weasley at the Yule Ball. While the pair seemed to enjoy themselves, Neville accidentally stepped on Ginny's toes while dancing. It can be assumed that Neville was among the spectators of the third task Triwizard Maze , supporting Harry along with his fellow Gryffindors. He was also most likely among the mass of students that attended the Memorial feast to Cedric Diggory , after Cedric was murdered on the orders of Lord Voldemort.

Searching for seats, the trio entered Luna Lovegood 's compartment. Once inside, he excitedly showed them his Mimbulus mimbletonia , a birthday present from his great-uncle Algie. He told them about his plans to show it to Professor Sprout, as well as wanting to breed it. After arriving at Hogwarts, Neville helped Harry get into Gryffindor Tower as Harry had not learned the new password yet, and then defended Harry during a verbal fight with Seamus Finnigan , claiming that the Daily Prophet was going downhill, not Harry and Dumbledore.

He and his grandmother both believed Harry's claim that Voldemort had returned, and had cancelled their subscription to the newspaper. At their first meeting in the Room of Requirement , Neville was left partner-less when they began practice; Neville instead partnered with Harry.

After successfully disarming Harry, Neville then joined Ron and Hermione, so Harry could check on the others. Harry was the only one who already knew this, having found out in the Pensieve in , but he had told no one, keeping Neville's secret safe. Before Neville left, his mother handed him an empty Droobles Blowing Gum wrapper; while his grandmother wanted him to throw it away, Neville instead pocketed it.

When it was learned that ten Death Eaters escaped from Azkaban in , including three of the ones responsible for the torture of Neville's parents, Neville did not speak of it, but it " wrought a strange and even slightly alarming change " in him, according to Harry. He worked harder than anyone in D.

The latter convinced Harry to check to see if Sirius was at 12 Grimmauld Place before rushing off to rescue him, and Ginny and Luna came to their assistance. Harry and Hermione broke into Umbridge's office, and Ron wanted to trick Umbridge, Ginny and Luna stopped people from entering the corridor.

Umbridge unfortunately wasn't fooled and ordered the Inquisitorial Squad to round them up. Neville, seeing what is going on, tried to help, but he was caught as well. Neville and others broke free using skills that they had acquired in their D.

They then regrouped with Harry and Hermione, who had left Umbridge with a group of enraged centaurs. They fly via Thestrals to London, despite Harry's reluctance to let them accompany him. Once in the Hall of Prophecies , Harry was drawn to an orb that had his name on it. Neville and Hermione urged him not to remove it; once Harry had, the group was confronted by Death Eaters. They run into the Time Room , where he disarmed Rabastan Lestrange who was struggling with Harry, accidentally disarming Harry as well.

Wanting to fix his mistake he tried to stun Lestrange, but he hit a rack full of time-turners. Taking advantage of the moment Neville crawled from under the desk, but Dolohov broke Neville's nose and wand, so Harry placed Dolohov under Full Body-Bind. Neville refused Harry's suggestion that he leave with an incapacitated Hermione to go get help, instead carrying her while he and Harry searched for Ron, Ginny, and Luna.

When several Death Eaters cornered Harry alone in the Death Chamber , Neville stormed into the room to aid him, armed with Hermione's wand, but due to his broken nose, was unable to pronounce spells correctly. When another Death Eater seized Neville, Bellatrix Lestrange briefly tortured Neville with the Cruciatus Curse , both to try to make Harry hand over the prophecy and to see how long Neville held out before "cracking" like his parents.

Even under the threat of being tortured possibly even going insane like his parents , Neville told Harry not to hand the prophecy over. Harry urged Neville to run, but Neville refused, instead breaking Macnair's grip on Harry by jabbing the Death Eater in the eye with Hermione's wand. Harry throw Neville the prophecy to cast Impediment Jinx on Malfoy.

As Harry pulled Neville up a flight of stairs, Neville accidentally smashed the prophecy. As the battle continued, Neville alerted Harry to the appearance of Albus Dumbledore. The battle soon ended, and Neville and his friends were transported back to Hogwarts, where Neville's nose was fixed by Poppy Pomfrey.

Harry soon learned the contents of the prophecy from Dumbledore. As both Neville and Harry were born at the close of July to parents who had all escaped Voldemort three times, they both qualified for the prophecy child. However, Dumbledore believed that the prophecy did indeed refer to Harry, not Neville, as Voldemort marked Harry as his equal by attacking him.

Neville's grandmother purchased him a new wand, 13" cherry wood, with a unicorn hair core, from Garrick Ollivander before his sixth year. When Romilda Vane , a younger Gryffindor student, invited Harry to come to her compartment and implicitly insulted Neville and Luna, Harry coldly rebuffed her, emphasising that Neville and Luna were among his closest and most loyal friends. Neville was later invited to join Horace Slughorn , the new Potions Master , in his train compartment.

Slughorn was searching for new students to add to his Slug Club , but Neville didn't seem to meet Slughorn's requirements. Neville also achieved four known O. Professor McGonagall informed him that the 'Acceptable' grade he achieved in Transfiguration was not good enough for N.

He told her he only applied for Transfiguration for his grandmother's desires, but McGonagall stated it was time for Augusta to be proud of the grandson she had, as opposed to the one she desired. She let him down gently on his application on Transfiguration, and instead encouraged him to take Charms. Towards the end of the school year, Neville participated in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower.

Along with Luna Lovegood, he was the only member of Dumbledore's Army to reply to the summons via the coins. Neville suffered an injury that kept him in the hospital wing for some time, though he was able to attend the funeral of Albus Dumbledore shortly afterwards, where Luna helped him into his seat.

The D. Neville got in trouble with the Carrows for refusing to practise the Cruciatus Curse on other students as a method of punishment, as well as for standing up against their bigotry and cruelty. The revived D. Neville, Luna and Ginny also attempted to steal Godric Gryffindor's sword from Snape's office, but were caught on the way out. In his own way to subvert the Carrows' manner of discipline, Snape only gave them a detention, sending them into the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid.

Neville eventually decided to cease their open rebellion after Michael Corner was caught and brutally tortured for freeing a chained-up first year. Neville was eventually left alone to lead the rebellion efforts, as Luna was dragged off the Hogwarts Express by Death Eaters around Christmas of to coerce her father into ceasing his political dissidence in The Quibbler , and Ginny did not return to Hogwarts following the Easter holidays, as her family went into hiding following Harry, Ron, and Hermione's escape from Malfoy Manor.

By this time, the Carrows were aware of Neville's role in the rebellion, and he suffered beatings and torture. The Ministry also targeted Neville's grandmother to try to intimidate him, but she evaded capture and went on the run.

Eventually, the Carrows realised that Neville was the main ringleader and decided that Hogwarts could do without him. Fearing that they may kill him, Neville made for the Room of Requirement , which he was able to turn into a hiding place for the D. By May, most of the D. The trio and Neville in the Hog's Head Inn.

While in the tunnel he explained to the trio the nature of his injuries and the reign of the Carrows at Hogwarts. He also informed the trio that the D. Believing that their return meant the overthrow of the Death Eater professors, Neville signalled the rest of the D. During the first round of battle, Neville used various plants to attack Death Eaters, and helped transport the injured and dead when a temporary cease-fire was called.

He briefly spoke to Harry, who told him that it was top priority to kill Voldemort 's snake and Horcrux , Nagini. He was subsequently forced to wear the Sorting Hat as it burned because he refused to join Voldemort. Neville slaying Nagini with the Sword of Gryffindor. Because of his tremendous bravery shown on the battlefield, Neville was able to pull Godric Gryffindor's sword from the burning hat, in the process proving himself a true Gryffindor , something that was doubted constantly throughout due to his apparently weak-willed, shy, and bumbling nature.

In a single stroke, he carried out Harry's final order, slaying Nagini, destroying Voldemort's last remaining Horcrux. Scabior fell to his death when the bridge fell down. Neville briefly worked as an Auror , immediately following the war. Sometime before , he married his former classmate and D. The pair lived at the Leaky Cauldron , where she became the landlady. Over the years, he remained in contact with his old friends, as in , Ginny told her and Harry's eldest son " to give Neville their love " when he arrived at Hogwarts.

In the late s and early s , Neville aided members of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force who pursued a profession as a Professor by showing them a mental trick to make casting the Deterioration Hex seem as a second nature to profoundly increase its effects, while he also instructed the Magizoologists how to use the Bravery Charm to devastating effect. Neville in his sixth year , age Neville was said to strongly resemble his mother.

He was round-faced, [12] short, chubby, and had blond hair. Pansy Parkinson had once called him " fat ", but this may have been an exaggeration, as she frequently made disparaging comments about Gryffindor students. When he was younger, Neville was clumsy, forgetful, shy, and many considered him ill-suited for Gryffindor house because he seemed timid.

However, Neville proved that the Sorting Hat had seen the bravery beneath his insecurity, as he stood up to his only friends as a first-year [12] and later became one of the D. Though he came from a pure-blood family, he held no prejudice against half-bloods or Muggle-borns. Neville appeared to suffer from a degree of post-traumatic stress disorder, as the torture of a spider via the cruciatus curse by Barty Crouch Junior in disguise as Alastor Moody was enough to cause him a severe anxiety attack.

This was likely due to his own experience with his parents being subjected to the curse's worst possible outcome: the onset of permanent and complete insanity. This familiarity of what the Cruciatus Curse could do in skilled enough hands was more than enough to terrify him.