Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Augusta Longbottom
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Character | |
| Augusta Longbottom | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Hair color | Unknown |
| Eye color | Unknown |
| Related Family | son Frank Longbottom, daughter-in-law Alice Longbottom, grandson Neville Longbottom |
| Loyalty | Albus Dumbledore |
Contents |
[edit] Overview
Augusta Longbottom, who Neville always refers to as "Gran", is raising Neville.
[edit] Role in the Books
[edit] Philosopher's Stone
We see Augusta on the platform at King's Cross chastising Neville for having lost his toad, Trevor.
Augusta later sends Neville a Remembrall, which Draco Malfoy tries to steal from him.
[edit] Chamber of Secrets
At breakfast the first day of school, Neville comments that he's waiting for the post owls, as Gran (Augusta) was going to send on some things he'd forgot.
When the post owls do arrive, Errol brings a Howler for Ron. Neville advises him to open it, as he had received one from Gran and not opened it, and it had been worse.
[edit] Prisoner of Azkaban
It is revealed that the thing Neville fears most is Severus Snape, so when he is preparing to battle a Boggart, he expects that the Boggart will appear as Snape. In order to make the Boggart appear funny, Professor Lupin suggests that Neville should imagine him dressed as his grandmother, wearing a hat with a stuffed vulture, carrying a big red handbag, and wearing a long green dress.
After The Fat Lady's portrait is destroyed by Sirius Black, she is replaced as Gryffindor tower guardian by Sir Cadogan. Sir Cadogan, in the interest of security, sets new passwords every few hours. Neville, who has trouble with remembering them, writes them down on a piece of paper, which he then loses, and Sirius Black somehow retrieves. Sirius uses this list to make his way into Gryffindor tower. Though no harm is ultimately done, Neville is in disgrace for the remainder of the year, and as part of his punishment, Augusta sends him a Howler, which he receives at breakfast two days later.
[edit] Goblet of Fire
Harry learns that the reason Augusta has been raising Neville is that his parents, Frank and Alice Longbottom, had been tortured into insanity by Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Rabastan Lestrange, and Barty Crouch Jr.. Professor Dumbledore tells him that this is Neville's story to tell, and asks him not to pass it on.
[edit] Order of the Phoenix
In St. Mungo's, where they have been visiting Arthur Weasley, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny Weasley mistakenly end up visiting Gilderoy Lockhart. Neville's parents, it turns out, are on the same ward, and Neville and Augusta are visiting them. Augusta recognizes Harry immediately, says that Neville has said good things about Hermione, and is generally approving of the Weasley family. When Neville's mother carefully gives Neville a gum wrapper, Augusta is dismissive, though Neville obviously plans to keep it.
[edit] Half-Blood Prince
Neville does reasonably well in Charms and is eligible for NEWT-level studies in that course, but says that his grandmother considers Charms a soft option. Professor McGonagall says that Augusta had failed her Charms OWL, and implies that is why she was denigrating the course. Neville is quite cheered by this discovery.
[edit] Deathly Hallows
As Harry, Ron, and Hermione return to Hogwarts, they are met by Neville. Neville has suffered at the hands of the new school order, for having dared to stand up to the increasing use of Dark magic and for re-creating Dumbledore's Army. Having found that they can get at adults by kidnapping their children, the Death Eaters decide to try the opposite tack, attempting to control the children (in this case Neville) by kidnapping the adults (Augusta). In this case it backfires, with Augusta putting Dawlish in St. Mungo's and going on the run. Before her departure, though, she had expressed great satisfaction with the stand Neville was taking.
Augusta is the last person through the tunnel from the Hog's Head Inn after Aberforth leaves the inn to join the battle. Having sealed the tunnel, she then goes off to join Neville.
[edit] Strengths
Augusta has very great strength of character. She is strict and has high expectations of Neville who hasn't often performed to her standards. However, she is very proud of Neville's eventual leadership of Dumbledore's Army and their resistance to the Death Eaters' control of Hogwarts during his seventh year.
