[Neville's brows furrow at the question, thoughtful. It's decidedly lesson-like, sure, but there's something about Dumbledore's manner that makes Neville more at ease here than he'd ever been in any class but Professor Sprout's.
Though, the lack of classmates might be helping there. He's friends with everyone in his house in his year, sure, but he also knows how he comes off and thinks they weren't wrong to think he was a bit of an idiot and quite a useless wizard for the majority of his school career.]
That it's rubbish, isn't it? That they've not go a real reason to take away our magic and replace it with theirs if the toads have got some kind of traveler's enchantment on them. [His lips twist slightly, and he leans over to grab at a second, slippery toad with a bit of highly practiced ease that makes it clear he's got a long and storied history of snatching Trevor off the floor as he tries to make a bid for freedom.] But I bet we'd be able to scarper if we still had it, and they'd have to fight their own war.
[He looks up, suddenly, toad in one hand bucket in the other. Like he thinks saying that will have made him sound like a coward.]
I wouldn't, I mean. I've not got a problem with helping them, really, they do seem to need it. I just think I'd be more use if they had regular- I mean, magical plants here. [Uh maybe and your own magic, Neville.]
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Date: 2014-04-07 09:29 am (UTC)Though, the lack of classmates might be helping there. He's friends with everyone in his house in his year, sure, but he also knows how he comes off and thinks they weren't wrong to think he was a bit of an idiot and quite a useless wizard for the majority of his school career.]
That it's rubbish, isn't it? That they've not go a real reason to take away our magic and replace it with theirs if the toads have got some kind of traveler's enchantment on them. [His lips twist slightly, and he leans over to grab at a second, slippery toad with a bit of highly practiced ease that makes it clear he's got a long and storied history of snatching Trevor off the floor as he tries to make a bid for freedom.] But I bet we'd be able to scarper if we still had it, and they'd have to fight their own war.
[He looks up, suddenly, toad in one hand bucket in the other. Like he thinks saying that will have made him sound like a coward.]
I wouldn't, I mean. I've not got a problem with helping them, really, they do seem to need it. I just think I'd be more use if they had regular- I mean, magical plants here. [Uh maybe and your own magic, Neville.]