#inquiry .

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thestral

THESTRAL: does talking about death upset you?

of course, talking about death brings up those that have died, and that will always upset neville, but unfortunately they know first hand that there are worse things than death. death almost seems easy, when they consider the alternative. they’ve always considered themselves rather good at talking about death, not that they enjoy it, but they’ve helped multiple people after the war just by being an open ear. it doesn’t upset them so much as it’s a topic they’d prefer to avoic unless they’ve grown incredibly close with the person.

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howler, snitch

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?

answered here

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snitch

SNITCH: what’s your biggest goal in life?

to make their parents proud. the worst part is they’ll never truly know if they have, so they’ll sort of always be chasing that. maybe their parents were proud of them from the moment they were born, maybe they’ll never be proud of them because they’ll never know who neville is, so why would they care? they figure they probably have, at this point, made them proud. they’ve done everything they could to make the people responsible for their current situation pay for what they’d done. but still since they’ll never hear those words from them, they’re always trying to be better, as if they could actually do something grand enough to make their parents remember them.