Date: 9 June 1998
Characters: Neville and Augusta Longbottom
Location: Hogwarts
Status: Private
Summary: He'd known Gran would hear eventually...
Completion: Closed
Two days had passed since the cramping attack in the greenhouse. Neville still wasn't allowed to work there, nor at any of the more physical tasks around the school until the potion Madam Pomfrey had prescribed had more time to take effect. He'd spent today in the library, helping to repair and reshelve books, but he already longed for less enclosed spaces and the kind of dust and dirt that signified the promise of life and growth rather than the age and slow decay of old parchment pages and cracked leather covers.
Disgruntled, he left the Hufflepuff common room and started toward the Great Hall for the evening meal. Tomorrow, he thought, he might go home, if only to tinker around the house and fix what he could. There was no point in staying here while he remained essentially useless.