Together// Neville Longbottom

Chapter 1- friends

Set during philosophers stone

Today is my first day to Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry! My sister and I are muggle-born, so buying our needed things will be hard. My sister Hermione has studied basically every bit of Hogwarts before she even got her letter, so she knows everywhere to go.

When both of us got our letters, we were jumping up and down with joy. Our parents were in a happy shock when they saw us with Hogwarts letters in our hands.

Today we are shopping for all of our needed things before heading off to platform 9 3/4 tomorrow. "Go get the books mione, I'll get our pets!" I tell Hermione with an excited voice. "Mak remember that I want a cat!" She yells to me while I'm almost at The Magical Menagerie.

I finally reach the store and open the door while walking in quietly. "Well hello young lady, how may I help you?" A beautiful old lady with pearl earrings says to me with her soft wrinkly hand on my shoulder.

"Uhm, may I get a half-kneazle cat and that toad over there?" I reply; pointing at a small tan toad with a black swirl on the top of its head. I saw this toad as very rare because the swirl on its head. I didn't see any other toads that looked a bit like it. I then pay for the cat and toad and run to Flourish And Blotts to get Hermione so we can get our wands and dressing robes.

She puts the book down that she was reading and we run to Ollivanders. We look through the window and see a chubby brown-haired boy standing with a 14 inch cherry wood wand with a unicorn hair core.

Hermione gets her wand first so I sit on the bench inside beside the door. The bench wasn't visible behind from outside due to its shortness. She still hasn't gotten her wand yet, they are all wrong for her so far.

Finally, she got her wand. It was beautifully made of vine wood with a dragon heartstring core with a length of 10 3/4. It was now my turn for a wand to pick me so I stood in front of Mr.Ollivanders tall desk.

He picked up the first wand he thought would be mine. 11 inch elm wood with a Phoenix feather core. I gave the wand a little wave and strong air flew around me. At this, I have guessed the wand has chose me.

It was now time to head up to Madam Malkin's Robes to get our outfits. Hermione and I walk into the store to see Draco Malfoy. He gives us a nasty snarl "well if it isn't two nasty little mudbloods " he laughs. My fists get a slight tone of white from clenching them at my sides. A mudblood is the worst name to call a muggle-born wizard/witch.

The platinum blonde haired boy leaves as we get a robes fit. When we finish we walk to Sugarplums Sweet Shop to get some sweets for the ride tomorrow. Hermione personally loves pumpkin pasties and my favorites are Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans!
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Hermione has already gotten on the train so I start running after her. She has always been faster than me. Every time we played tag in the backyard, she would always win.

Next thing I know, I have fallen on my butt after running into somebody. I look up and in my presence was the chubby brown-haired boy I saw at Ollivanders. "Oh my god I'm so so sorry!" I apologize to him. "It's all good" he says with quite a bit of stutters.

I get on the train and sit with Hermione. She gets out of the booth telling me she is looking for her Defense Against The Dark Arts book. Just as she walks out of the booth, a large, brown toad jumps in my lap and sits across cosmo, my pet toad.

I walk down to every booth asking if anybody has lost their pet toad. I didn't even ask before the chubby boy yells "Trevor! Thank you so much for finding him".I laugh "I think HE found ME first". He doesn't seem very nervous currently.

I notice that the boy is sitting all alone and it makes me feel bad. "Do you want to sit with me? My sister went to sit with two boys in another booth. It's just me now!" I tell him. He nods and follows me to the booth that I was sitting in.

"What is your name?" I ask him as we both sit down. Shyly, he replies with "Neville Longbottom. It's ok, feel free to laugh. I'm used to it". I reply to him with "why would people make fun of your name, I really like it!" . A smile lights up his face "r-really?" I nod at this. "I'm Makayla Granger!" I say when we are done talking about his name.

"I think we should have nicknames for each other ya know. I mean if we're friends then why wouldn't we" I say to him. His face lights up at the word "friends" and he agrees. " I think I will call you nev! I say with an excited smile plastered on my face. He replies " and I'll call you Kay!" He's not stuttering at all which makes me happy knowing he is comfortable.