The End

The End

Neville's End- We Could Be Heroes

Neville Longbottom surveyed the chaos around him. There were curses flying left and right, witches and wizards were running, fighting, dying, dead. If he didn't know better, Neville would have mistaken the scene surrounding him for Hell.

His wand was long gone (as if it would have made any difference), and he was hiding behind a tree cursing his own cowardice.

"Stupid selfish chicken," he spat at himself, tears streaming down his cheeks, "if you were any kind of man you'd be out there fighting with the rest of your friends. But you're not. Snape was right about you. Stupid, fat, pathetic Neville." With that he started to cry again.

War had broken out around him, and he had run away. He had seen his family and friends slaughtered, and he had hidden.

A deafening crack shattered his thoughts, and the tree he was hiding behind burst into flames. Running out from under it, Neville caught sight of Bill Weasley, Ron's older brother, fighting his way through the crowds carrying something. As he got closer, Neville could see that he was carrying a person. It looked like Molly Weasley, Ron's mum. She was either unconscious or dead. Oh, god, I hope she's not dead...Neville stopped running and started over to where Bill and Molly were. To his relief, he could see that she was breathing.

"Bill! Follow me, I know where she'll be safe!" Neville shouted out over the noise.

Without a word Bill turned and followed him, and the two of them with Molly between them headed into the forest.

"My uncle used to live near here, and I'd visit him sometimes. I know this forest better than most people. I spent a lot of time in it," Neville told him. Bill merely nodded. After about ten minutes they had reached a rock face hidden by the dense woods. Rounding a boulder, they could make out the entrance to a small cave. They placed Molly there, and she stirred slightly, but didn't wake up.

"Thanks. Are you sure she'll be okay here?" Bill asked him. Neville nodded. "Well I think we'd better get back then," Bill looked at Neville for an answer. Neville closed his eyes, and swallowing the lump in his throat, he nodded.

Once back at the battle, Bill drew his wand, and slapping Neville on the back, headed off to the left. But before he had gone more than twelve paces, there was a flash of green a lot closer than the regular flashes coming from all around them, and Bill fell to the ground. When Neville looked up to see the person who had killed Bill, his wide eyes met with a heavy lidded pair that he recognised all too well. He knew this woman's face almost better than he knew his own. He wasn't supposed to know who she was, or what she looked like, he was supposed to have been 'protected' from all that. But he had found out anyway. This woman, who had just killed Bill, was one of the four reasons why he had grown up without his parents. She was one of the four reasons why his parents didn't even recognise him. She was one of the four reasons why his whole life was a mess. He finally had the chance to take his revenge...and he was wandless. The two of them just stood there looking at each other, not doing anything, each waiting for the other to make the first move. Then the woman raised her wand, and Neville made a split second decision. He ran. He ran faster than he had ever run in his life. Darting in and out of Death Eaters and people from the Ministry and everyone else, Neville could feel the heat of the curses flying past his head, as the woman behind him gave chase.

Once he was far enough away from the scene, Neville slumped down on a rock and tried to catch his breath. Looking down he saw something half hidden in the overgrown grass...a wand! It wasn't his wand, and it might not work properly for him, but it was still a wand. Picking it up, and fuelled with a newfound desire to brutally murder the people who were killing his family and friends, Neville started running back towards the battle.

Before he reached the worst of it, however, Neville saw something out of the corner of his eye. His friend Hermione was at the edge of a cliff, duelling with a Death Eater, and it looked like she was losing. Neville ran up the hill towards them, wand raised, as the Death Eater sent Hermione's wand sailing through the air and over the cliff. She pointed her own wand at the now defenceless Hermione and started to say,

"Avada keda-"

"Hermione!" Neville yelled out. This distracted the Death Eater before she could finish the killing curse. Both Hermione and the Death Eater turned to look at Neville running up the hill, and as the Death Eater turned, he saw that it was the woman who had killed Bill and driven his parents insane.

"YOU!" Neville shouted as he sped up the hillside pointing the wand at her.

Neville hadn't noticed the small rock in the grass, and he tripped over it, falling on the wand. When he looked down he saw that it had snapped in two. The woman burst into laughter, and turned back to kill Hermione.

"NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Neville roared at the woman as he pulled himself to his feet and ran at her. She was too surprised to do anything as Neville rammed into her side, sending them both over the cliff.

The fall killed them both.