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Hogwarts
Year 3
Will has seemed to be growing with Neville. So Neville has to figure out a way to turn his clothes ghostly. which worked surprisingly well.
Neville showed him spare Hufflepuff robes "I think you'd be a Hufflepuff. Neville smiles sweetly at Will who smiles back and takes the robes. Putting them on. He looks gorgeous in the robes, his hair is longer than he'd want but he can't fix that.
There was chatter as Ron and Harry entered the dorm room "er. Neville. What are you doing?" Harry asked, Ron looked at Harry. "His gran told me that he suddenly developed Schizophrenia." Ron shrugged. Neville's heart stopped. "I don't.." he muttered under his breath but sighed, grabbing the clothes Will placed on the floor and putting them in his trunk then sitting on his bed.
Will watched Harry and Ron chatter. Sometimes Harry would whisper something and Ron would do the same back. Everything seemed all too well. Not for Neville but in general. Will walked to Neville's bed, it was surrounded by plants of all different colours. There were three plants next to each other. A pink rose, a daffodil, and a cornflower..
Will sat on Neville's bed staring at the boy with wonder. The bed doesn't dip when Will gets on it. But the sheets do move.. not much but if you're looking for it, it's glaringly obvious. And Harry saw Neville's red blanket shift a little. So he walks over moving his hand into Wills chest. Flinching back "geez Nev! Your bed is freezing!" Harry yelps.
"That's not the bed, you just had your hand in my friend." Neville grumbles. Friend? Maybe he's right and he actually does have a friend. He just can't see him.
Harry muses and as he thinks something showed up in his vision. Very hard to see. Like a boy with a disillusionment charm on him. "Wait... I see something.." he muttered, narrowing his eyes at the boy. Neville looked at Harry with shock. "You do?!" He smiled turning around
"A boy.." harry reached towards will then pokes him. Suddenly he saw him perfectly. "Hello?" Harry greeted Will in shock "hi..." Will greets back equally as shocked. Neville smiled excitedly "you believe he's here too..!" He hugged Harry and Will. With a big smile
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Neville watched Harry Hermione and Ron yell at Draco. Who laughs at them. Something about Buckbeak getting the death sentence. Will. On the other hand is collecting all the fire on the chandelier "wait... Can I actually cast fireball on that blonde guy?" Will chuckles turning the fire into a ball and throwing it at malfoy, who screams, now on fire. Harry looks behind him wide eyed at Neville and Will.
Neville grabs Wills wrist and runs "OH MY GOD WILL THAT WAS SO FUNNY BUT WHAT THE FUCK" "oh hi harry and Hermione- waitaminute" Neville turned around and stared at them before shrugging and walking away.
Neville takes wills to a tree nearby the black lake "Will.. did you kiss anyone before you died?" He asks the boy. Will shook his head. Neville shuffled close to Will and gave him a quick kiss on his lips it was cold but soft. Will gasps and giggles
"I swear, one day I'll bring you back to life, so instead of a ghost boy, you're a zombie boy." Neville giggles, hugging Will. Will hugged back with a small smile "you don't need to do that, you've already figured out a way boy you and Harry can see me.." he tells Neville. Neville shook his head "not enough, you deserve everything."
Neville got up and pulled Will to his feet. Bringing him into Hogwarts. Telling will about how he got thrown out a window. Will just gave him a look that said 'what the fuck'
"Mr Longbottom." He hears a dark voice behind him that makes him freeze and turn around "professor Snape.?" He smiles fearfully. Will got ready to cover Snape's mouth."I heard from someone you threw a fireball at Draco Malfoy. Ten points fro-" silenced. Not even muffle, straight silence when Will covered his mouth.
Snape was confused and angry. Neville ran for his life. When he turned the corner will let go and ran after him. Snape mumbled something about 'out of the ordinary' and 'i will mention this to dumbledore' walking the other way with a sneer.
"He's not even coming after you!" Will chuckled Neville laughs slowing to a walk "really?!" Will nods as he followed Neville "let's just get to the Gryffindor tower." He hummed and ran to the Gryffindor tower.
Will followed happily.
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After the night
"Dumbledore." Snape spoke as he walked to the desk. Dumbledore looks up at him with a smile "it appears mr longbottom has powers that are out of the ordinary to most Aurors, let alone a regular child wizard." Dumbledore looked surprised as he sat up, "how so?" He asked
"Fireballs. And being able to silence people without a wand, and without opening his mouth at all." Snape explained. Dumbledores looks confused, almost concerned. "That's certainly something, especially out of the ordinary.. I will note that"