[Neville's brow furrows. It certainly doesn't sound like Lily had made an informed character assessment and found Snape a selfless hero worthy of Harry's sudden and bizarre adulation. What had he been playing at? What is even going on here? Neville frowns, trying to put together the puzzle with missing pieces and just growing more and more frustrated for it.
He shifts on his feet, fingers twisting in the hems of his own shirt.]
He made a lot of people think he had changed, I think. Professor Dumbledore, too. [Because Neville outright refuses to believe that Dumbledore would have ordered him to let Death Eaters torture the students, to have the muggleborns thrown into Azkaban when they arrived at the start of the school year. No matter what Harry and Hermione say on the matter. And then, suddenly, it occurs to him how she had phrased that: between when I knew him back home and the time we've spent here.
Mouth dry, he finally manages to look up into her face.] Has no one told you, what he did when he became Headmaster last time?
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Date: 2014-03-27 07:12 am (UTC)He shifts on his feet, fingers twisting in the hems of his own shirt.]
He made a lot of people think he had changed, I think. Professor Dumbledore, too. [Because Neville outright refuses to believe that Dumbledore would have ordered him to let Death Eaters torture the students, to have the muggleborns thrown into Azkaban when they arrived at the start of the school year. No matter what Harry and Hermione say on the matter. And then, suddenly, it occurs to him how she had phrased that: between when I knew him back home and the time we've spent here.
Mouth dry, he finally manages to look up into her face.] Has no one told you, what he did when he became Headmaster last time?