SCOTLAND HIGHLANDS. HOGWARTS SCHOOL. THE ROOM OF REQUIREMENT.

the room of requirement all rushed to find their robes, seperating different houses to leave in different parts of the castle closest to their house in order to travel up to the great hall in orderly fashion. y/n and Harry had swung a crimson robe over their shoulders and over their regular clothes. harry managing to slide in besides Ginny and removed his glasses, instantly growing unrecognizable meanwhile y/n slipped in between Pavarti and Lavender, using a charm they created to magically make her whole head blonde again, just how it used to be at the start of the hogwarts year.

With their heads down, the houses all gathhered one by one into the Hall, Slytherin entered first standing in an arranged clump on the right side of the hall with Hufflepuff copying onto the left, Ravenclaws joining along with Gryffindors last, all students afraid to even bring eye contact with the Carrow siblings, or even their headmaster, feeling his mysterious and dull presence tour past them and eventually glance back to his students when stepping onto the professors table.

"Many of you are wondering why I have summoned you at this hour. It's come to my attention that earlier this evening, Harry Potter and y/n Black were sighted in Hogsmeade," Snape announced, causing a ripple of whispers to flow across the large room, stopping quickly once their headmaster spoke: "Now, should anyone, student or staff, tempt to aid Mr. Potter and Miss. Black there will be punishment, Furthermore," he told in his monotone voice. "Any person to have knowledge of these filthy traitors whereabouts, I advise them to step forward," snape told the hushed hall, eyes on each student, sorted in each house. "now," he finished.

with a small pause as the room understood nobody would dare to step out, until two bodies decided to step away from the crowd specifically in Gryffindor, two rows away from each other, harry placed his circular glasses against the bridge of his nose meanwhile y/n took both hands brushing her hair back to reveal her black highlighted blonde hair, harry shifting his raven hair to reveal his lightning bolt shaped scar.

"It seems despite your exhaustive strategies headmaster, we still have a bit of a security problem headmaster," harry began, the gryffindor robes looking bulky against their layers of clothes. The Hogwarts students sucked their breaths as the doors of the Great Hall widened and in walked the Order of the Phoenix, including some of the DA, Hermione, Ron and Neville, all holding wands tight in their grip.

"and im afraid its quite extensive" y/n finished.

"How dare you stand where he stood," harry hissed, a vein in the top of his head pulsating.

"tell them how it happened that night, tell them how you looked at him in the eye, a man who trusted you and killed him, tell them,"y/n added, raising her voice to gain dominance, noticing shocked faces fall against the Hogwarts students and a dirty smirk to form on the Carrow siblings.

Seeing the sight of the Order and the two God-siblings, Severus Snape reached for his wand and targeted it towards the teens, provoking the students to jump back slightly until Professor McGonagall stood in front of the teens with her wand fiercely positioned towards the headmaster, making all of the students to rush back into the walls.

McGonagall didn't hesitate before shooting a hex from the tip of her wand only for Snape to defend himself quickly. With anger, McGonagall snapped more hexes towards the younger man, watching as he repeatedly used protection spells, using two of the hexes McGonagall casted to block and repell them back towards the Carrow siblings behind him, knocking them out as Snape bursted out in a mist of black smoke, exploading through the stained glass window at the end of the hall.

"coward!" Mcgonagall shreiked, turning back to the students before lighting the room up again. the whole room errupting with cheers meanwhile harry removed the robe and tossed it away, y/n copying and headed over to where Neville stood with confident smiles against their faces.

the loud joy had quickly lowered when a bitter breeze washed over the room, alarming anyone who stood inside. y/n turned back to harry who had fallen against the floor his hands pressed up at his throbbing scar, which was an instant red flag.

the atmosphere worsened as a second year ravenclaw undertook an awfully pitched scream which alerted the students and staff standing inside the room. harry immediately jumped up, his head began to pound. everyone noticed the small girl cornered in the edge of the room, her eyes squeezed shut as well as her sheilding her ears.

students glared at the young girl oddly until another voice began to scream, all heads whipped back to see Padma Patil mirroring the young girl.

"I know that many of you will want to fight," a startling whisper crawled inside their ears. some ducked or jumping at the sudden sentence to be spoken in their minds. "Some of you may even begin to think that fight is worthy but this is false, give me Harry Potter, do this and no-one will be harmed. Give me Harry Potter and I will leave everything untouched. Give me Harry Potter and you will be rewarded. You have one hour," the familiar voice of Voldemort ordered.

the cold atmosphere was lifted and the fire had relighted itself, the panicked young adults all glared back to where Harry stood, backing away from him with daring looks across their faces.

"What are you waiting for? Somebody grab him!" Pansy Parkinson yelled, pointing towards the boy. it wasnt too long before Ginny jumped in front of the boy, ron joining just behind her as well as y/n, Neville, Hermione and Luna, soon Cho Chang and Lavender brown, incuding member of the order.

"Students out of bed! Students in the corridor!" Argus Filch came screaming into the great hall with Mrs. Norris cuddled up in his arms.

"They're supposed to be out of bed you blithering idiot!" McGonagall hollered at the man who stood at the back of the hall awkwardly, noticing all the eyes against him.

"Oh, sorry ma'am," he apologised.

"As it happens mr. Filch, your arrival is most oppuntune, please take miss. Parkinson and the rest of slytherins house, from the hall," McGonagall requested, Flich nodded at the woman.

"Exactly where am I taking them to ma'am?" the caretaker questioned.

"The dungeons will do," McGonagall added, cheers erupted inside the room, the slytherin house miserably walking away with Filch ahead of them and McGonagall travelled to where harry stood y/n copied. "I presume you're both here for a reason, kids what is it you need?" the professor questioned them.

"Time, professor as much as you can give," harry filled in for the pair of them watching McGonagall nod back towards them.

"Do what you need to do, I'll secure the castle," she ordered them, turning on their heel to look back at Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Luna and Neville looking back at them. "Potter, Black,". the profssor called, allowing the teens to turn back a faint smile appeared against her old face. "It's good to see you," she nodded at the teens, whch they copied.

"It's good to see you too professor," y/n told, watching as she rounded the students out of the hall as well as other students.

"Y/n you go with Neville, keep the fort, I'll go find the diadem," harry instructed y/n and nevile, holding both of their arms, turning to his ex-girlfriend before jogging away to where the moving stairs stood, still.

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"Let me get this straight professor you're actually giving us permission to do this?" Neville beamed looking towards his professor, who had a hold of her robes to help mobilise her more out onto the coutyard of the school. y/n trailing just beside him with a beaming smile, Seamus and Cho following behind too.

"That is correct Longbottom," McGonagall responded, watching herself as she walked down the steps.

"To blow it up? Boom?" Neville asked again, a smirk appearing on the older womans face.

"Boom!" the professor confirmed, pausing halfway down the steps.

"Wicked, but how on earth are we going to do that?" Neville eventually asked, Flitwick appeared from behind McGonagall and on the steps, including Molly Weasley, Arthur was higher up in the castle with Kingsley Shaklebolt and Dean Thomas.

"Why don't you ask your friend Mr. Finnegan as I recall he has a passion for blowing things up," McGonagall announced

"I can take it down a bit," seamus included with a cheeky grin, mcginagall nodded, nudged their arms.

"thats the spirit, off you go!" the professor told them, the four teens rushing off to the end of the courtyard that attached towards the back of the courtyard where another entrance of hogwarts stood.

"Y/n! Y/n wait!" y/n turned around to see Tonks come sprinting towards the teenage girl, her and Neville paused to look back at the woman, y/n's eyes widened at her flat stomach.

"Tonks? Did you have your baby already?" y/n questioned, allowing tonks to have a breather.

"oh my god!" she wrapped her arms around the teenager. "Yes, our little lupin is with my mother," she added, squeezing y/n a little tighter before releasing her. "Where are you going? Have you seen Remus at all?" She quizzed rapidly, holding y/n's shoulder, panic imbedded in her eyes.

"Not yet..why aren't you-"

"TONKS!" The two girls heard a male call from behind tonks herself, catching a glimpse of Lupins messy brunette locks bouncing against his scarred forehead with every step he took.

Tonks immediately let go of her cousin and also sprinted towards her husband, colliding intensely, his grip raised her from the cobblestone, holding each other with a way words didn't need to describe how much they did not want to let go.

"I thought you was staying home with Teddy?" the man asked, placing her back into her feet as she took hold of his cheek.

"I needed to fight with you," Tonks comforted, looking at neville and y/n standing besides then. "where are you two going?" She asked them.

"We've been told to blow up the wonky bridge" Neville responded, tonks nodded, looking up to Remus again.

"Perfect, let's go and find Arthur" she told her husband, the pair looked towards the kids again. "Please, be safe" she told y/n firstly, before her eyes drifted to Neville too. "I love you," she added, reaching to y/n to plant a kiss against her forehead, holding her face, with a gentle smile again her own.

"I love you too," y/n responded, returning the smile. "Be safe!" She included, just at the couples both turned on their heels and headed towards their next destinations.

-

y/n and neville stood on the bridge anxiously watching as the blue spells was casted into the sky, forming a sphere shape to fold over the castle. y/n stood beside neville both gazing up at the starry night and the blue rim being created in awe. the teens were completely on edge. Everything seemed so odd and so off putting, picking at the skin around their nails or tugging at loose materail of their clothes.

"Seamus," neville looked down to see his roomate climbing on the wooden structure below them a satchel on his side, y/n leaned over to seewhere he was looking, seamus continued to lay down material for fireworks they'd bought from the Twins' joke shop. "Seamus!" y/n jumped at the sound of neville bellowing down to his mate. "You do know what you're doing don't you?" he asked the irish boy below him, smiling as he gave him a thumbs up, turning to y/n. "What?" he asked.

"Nothing, it's just you never yell," she looked away smiling, reaching out to his hand, placing is snug between her hands. "it's cool," she added, her smile still remained as the lights began to run down the sky like thick water, glooping around the edge of an invisible bowl.

Her soft gaze up to her boyfriend shifted in a second, her eyebrows raised for just a moment until she dived into his embrace, holding onto the cardigan he wore, knuckled turning white at her attempt of pulling his in closer. His arms were wrapped tightly over her shoulders, placing his cheek against the top of her head, gently swaying at the silence, their desperate breathe for each other was the only kind of music to their ears.

"Are you okay?" He asked in nothing but a whisper, pressing a kiss at the top of her head and returning back to his hugging position.

"I am now," she answered, sighing through her nostrils. "This year was awful," she added, releasing herself from the hug, holding onto her boyfriends waist as she gazed up to him, his hands sliding to her cheeks, concern seal up in his eyes.

"what happened?" He asked, still holding onto her face. she smiled as huffed to her feet, looking over the bridge at the blue barrier taking over the twilight sky.

"too much to explain now," she said, taking a deep breathe, pouting as a way to keep the tears in her body rather than exploding her emotions out suddenly. "we.." she paused trying to think of where to start. "snuck into the ministry and got a horcrux, snuck into bellatrix vault at gringotts and stole a dragon," she said with a smile, not a big wide proud of, one of those smiles that you make when you're just unsure how to process what you've dealt with and saying it outloud feels fake. "Me and Ron were homeless for about two months?" She continued, licking her lips as another attempt to hold back her tears. "I got tortured by bellatrix... and she stole the necklace you gave me," she finished with a dip of her head. 

With a small gasp leaving his mouth, he pulled her in for another tight hug, she copied, just holding her boyfriend as tight as possible. she could feel his empathy in all the kisses he scattered on the top of her head and across her cheeks. now there was no chance we could hold back some of the tears that were building up.

"this entire time I just needed you, and I was petrified that any moment you could be killed or she would've found you and would put you under all that pain," she sobbed, pulling her hands over her face, continuously wiping her tears away. "I've just been in a constant state of worry about where you was or how you was" she added, looking back at him. "It's more of a relief for me to just be standing here looking at you than I expected" she told, moving her hands to his face, smoothing down at his cheek, her thumb bristling past the slight stumble Neville had gained. "I just feel like I can finally breathe," she mentioned, with a smile; a genuine one, despite all the tears that had leaked from her eyes.

"You went through all that and all you could think about was me?" He asked, the front of his eyebrows were raised high on his forehead. Y/n could only nod. "I need you to promise me," he announced, pressing his forehead to hers, feeding his hands onto the nape of her neck, feeling their breathe hitch again each other and this noses squash gently against each other. "throughout however long this war will take, that you will focus on yourself and make sure you make it alive" he bidded, readjusting his hands against her neck and jaw, silence was loud.

"I can't live witho-"

"Please," he begged, hiccuping as he drew a breath. "Please promise me that you'll look after yourself" he continued, looking at her in the eye now, worry was the only thing written across his face. "I cannot loose you," he paused, bending his knees so he was fully eye level with her. "I need you to be alive so we can live together in our own house, to wake up together and have tea in the morning, to have each other for company and to be completely comfortable in our little life," he continued. "I love you, so incredibly much, I will be ruined if you don't make this either, but honey," he paused again to just lick his lips. "I need you to focus on yourself because if you die by being distracted by me, I will fall apart at the seams." He finished.

It was at this moment she realised how less of herself she'd prioritise, specifically throughout this entire journey. The reason why she ran away was because she needed to make sure she was keeping Neville safe and all the moments she was at her weakest, it was Neville who would immediately spring up to mind and sometimes those few moments where she was so sure he'd be luckier if they had never met or dated, so he could be completely safe. Even when she would think of all this, she would then remind herself how lonely she would've become. She is not the same person without Neville as he's the only person that helped her live.

She looked at his with the same expression, swallowing the lump that had formed inside of her throat, squeezing her lips together as she nodded, Neville nodding back at her and she nodded even more, gazing at each other with a complete ball of love.

Silently, the couple gazed to each other's facial features, eyes flickering at the parted lips that grew closer together. Neville letting y/n's left hand fall as his right raised to her cheek. He allowed his large thumb to stroke across her skin, a faint smile curled at his lips, causing a crimson to rush across both of their faces. It seemed for only a few seconds of the chaos around them didn't exist, that they were the only people alive, that there wasn't such thing as war, that they could simply stay in that moment.

"I love you," she told, studying that eyes with the freckle inside of his iris, watching it dance around as he scanned her face, a gentle smile spread across his cheeks.

"I love you too," he smiled.

The moment was wiped when Neville manged to notice the cluster of snatchers and death eaters sprinting towards the bridge they stood on, he lead himself over to where the end of the bridge stood, watching as thousands came trooping out of the forbiddean forest and screaming as they did so, pegging it down the hill towards where he stood, stunned when three men refused to stop running, charging straight towards the shield guarding them, and the three obliterating into nothing.

"Yeah you and who's army?" neville yelled, catching y/n's attention. the girl jogged to where neville stood gawked at the amount of the enemy that stood before them.

That was when the boarder suddenly bursted, causing the bluish lights to grow orange. The cracked corners of the boarder began to dismantle into flaky, burned off pieces. Everyone in or out of the boarder watch with astoniment when the shield slowly began to crumble down, alarming mostly y/n and Neville who still stood at the end of the bridge.

They watched as the leader of the snatchers (who had his matted hair pulled back into a pony tail, plaid trousers and long black leather coat this a thick red cloth wrapped around his left arm) used his wand to wipe away a flake that had seemed to fall off.

"We should run," whispered y/n, grabbing her boyfriends arm, eyes wideneding as the front man yelled. "NOW!" she screamed, dragging neville back into a sprint.

The teens managed to have their head start ahead of the snatchers with them almost stumbling back into a sprint. Their hands clenched against each other's as they tugged each other on speeding up, heads snapping back to the snatchers who constantly followed up behind them, wands flicking charms and here's towards the teenage couple.

That was until Neville used all his upper body force to flick back a charm towards the snatchers, hearing a slight fizzle that died down the faster they all ran away from the crowd speeding behind them. It wasn't too long before explosions were set off from the back of the bridge which was far down than expected. Ginny, seamus, romilda and lavender almost metres away when multiple explosions set off, covering their heads and felt the floor rumble below them. The teens looking back only to notice the snatchers were beginning to fall quicker than anticipated, the bridge was breaking into splinters.

The snatchers began to fall, including their leader who was sprinting at the front of the group, he began to notice the bridge break underneath him and soon cascade with his crowd and blown off planks wood towards the long river deep below them. Y/n and Neville noticed and continued to sprint on their burning legs, feeling the floor snap beneath their legs as they sprinted beside each other. Neville ripped his hand away before shoving y/n unexpectedly in front of him.

Y/n felt herself being thrown against the bridge, the last bit of wood that survived against all the explosions and feeling herself roll against the floor with her hands covering over her head as she slowed down, curling up in a ball as she waited for the rumbling to stop around her. Her eyes perked up as she lowered her hands slowly, expecting to smile and hug Neville tightly before coming to realise that he was missing on the last edge of the bridge, she could already feel the panic clog up in her throat.

Y/n immediately shot upright and in a frenzy crawled up to her feet with her wand in hand. Her chest began to heave with worry as she stepped back from the destructed bridge seeing a hand throw their wand up onto the surface. Both y/n and the DA drew their wands, until recognising the cardigan sleeve that reached up the path. Y/n yelped as she reached out, helping Neville be pulled up the bridge, allowing him to pause when he managed to get his entire upper body over the edge and huff before saying: "that went well,"

Y/n sighed as she continued to helped him up each time she touched his hands she heard him wince, Ginny and Seamus pouncing over to help the boy up and pant against the end to the bridge, the rest, of the DA running off to battle in the castle as y/n said they'll catch up with them in a second. Y/n held up large hands up only to spot the bubbling blisters from the fire works on the bridge.

"Oh my god your hands," y/n cooed as her body shook, all of the adrenaline had completely washed away and her fear finally catching up to her body but also wincing to the burns. She turned to his face noticing the specks of smoke across his face, placing her jittery hand up from his left cheek, swiping a small cluster of smoke that brushed under her thumb.

"Are you okay?" Neville swallowed, brushing the embers off from her hair and jumper. She nodded and sighed.

"Neville you can't expect me to promise to look after myself in this war then go and throw me in front of you when the bridge started to fall apart," she rambled, holding onto his shoulder, almost angry for not realising she should've made him promise the same thing. "Don't ever do anything reckless like that again, and especially not for me," she told, looking at him sternly in the eyes. "If I've promised to protect myself I'm going to have to make you promise too," she declared and watched as Neville gave her a toothy smile, gazing back down to her lips.

"I promise beautiful," he told her, letting out a small laugh meanwhile rubbing his hands together. "We've got this, we're going to make this" he added, reaching up to her face and gave her a light kiss in her cheek. "Let's save the actual kissing for once we've survived this," he suggested, watching as the blush splattered across y/n's face.

"Since when did you become such a flirt?" She smirked at her boyfriend. "You've missed me that much?" She grinned back at him, both gazing eagerly at each others lips.

"The fireworks are gonna go off again! Move!" Seamus screamed from the end of the bridge on the Hogwarts ground, the teens ripped off from each other once more, linking hands as the ran to the end of the bridge, flinching as they watch the rest of the bridge smash and fall to the bottom of the river.

The teens ran back towards the castle, seeing fire sprout from the stone walls, large parts of rubble raining down and crushing certain bodies, spells shooting past their heads as well as jumping over fallen students, and chasing themselves towards the moving staircase where it was swarmed with students.

The teens started sprinting up the stairs watching as all the students including themselves ducked, seeing a puff of smoke fall into the staircase besides them, leaving a knocked out body on the floor, finally noticing Harry's crème jacket and Raven hair appear from the crowds as he also spotted the three chasing up the stairs with them too.

"Neville, Ginny, y/n you alright?" He asked. Holding Ginnys hand tightly, y/n and Neville did the same.

"Never better, I feel like I can spit fire," Neville smirked down to his roommate, Harry nodded before turning to his sister.

"Y/n we haven't got time, I know where the ravenclaw diadem is, we need to go now!" He ordered her sister, the room rumbling and shook with another explosion, y/n watched as Ginny reached Harry for a quick kiss, offering his a quick nod before she and Neville ran up the stairs again, y/n chasing after Harry into the other hallway on the seventh floor.

update for the first time in two years...

I am SO SORRY about the wait, and for any spelling mistakes. since it's been summer I'm working on completing this story for good cause the lack of writing inspiration is real, it used to be the escape from school hobby I had but ever since I've gone and completed college and I'm going to UNI now (literally what is wrong with me I can't believe that) but I'm so fucking determined on finishing this because I still love Neville so much.

I'll give more of a life update once this war section is over & when I can FINALLY write all the NEVILLE X Y/N FLUFF!!!!

love you all!!! <3