Neville and his grandmother, Augusta Longbottom, lived in the Longbottom Ancestral House, which was no less old than Potter's house, but unlike the old Potter house, which had fallen into disrepair, the interior of Longbottom's house was cleaned.

Unlike Harry, who is the only one left in the Potter family, there are many members of the Longbottom family, such as Neville and an uncle and uncle.

It's just that they don't live in the old mansion, and they all leave one after another when they become adults.

Only Neville's grandchildren were present in the ancestral house.

Miss Augusta is a stern-looking witch, but she is very warm about Dudley and Hermione.

"You're Mr. Dursley and Miss Granger, Neville often talks about you."

Dudley said respectfully, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Lady Augusta. ”

For the stern-looking old man in front of him, Dudley was respectful from the heart.

Neville's parents. Because of his opposition to the Death Eaters and Voldemort, he was tormented by Bellatrix with the Diamond Heart Curse and went insane, and is now being treated at St. Mungo's Hospital for eleven years.

All these years, Ms. Augusta has been both a father and a mother, and she has single-handedly brought up Neville, supporting the family and the entire Longbottom family.

"You were the first friend to be invited to our house by Neville, and I was surprised when he offered me to invite them to our house."

"I'm glad he made friends at Hogwarts."

I could see that Ms. Augusta was really happy.

"Neville is such a cowardly kid, I'm worried that he'll be bullied at Hogwarts, he's slow to learn, and I'm worried that he won't be able to keep up with Hogwarts."

Ms. Augusta rambled on and on.

Inside and outside the sentence, you can hear his deep concern and ardent expectations for Neville.

"Grandmother!" Neville blushed.

I don't know if it's because I'm embarrassed or shy.

"Neville is excellent." Dudley said very seriously, "He's brave, he's strong-willed, he's a real Gryffindor. ”

Ms. Augusta hadn't expected Dudley to think so highly of Neville.

At the same time, Neville's cheeks reddened.

At the end, Dudley added, "And the grade is still sixth in this year's grade." ”

"yes, yes, I heard Neville." Miss Augusta sighed again, "He said it was thanks to the help of Mr. Dursley and Miss Granger. ”

"After a year of study, he has changed a lot. Especially the body, well, it's a lot stronger. ”

Speaking of being strong, Lady Augusta's gaze unconsciously fell on Dudley.

I thought my grandson was exaggerating, but I didn't expect it to be an exaggeration at all.

Is this really a first-year wizard? Half-blood giants are nothing more than that, right?

Dudley shook his head: "It's all the result of his own efforts, if a person doesn't work hard, no matter how many people help him, it's in vain"

After a brief conversation, a few words made Ms. Augusta smile.

There are few old people who don't like others to praise their grandson, and they are happier than they praise herself.

And she was also really grateful to Dudley and Hermione, who knew all too well what Neville was a year ago.

Now he's a little man.

After arranging Dudley and Hermione's room, and instructing Neville to study with them, Miss Augusta left to let the young men communicate on their own.

She is the head of the Longbottom family, and there are still a lot of things.

In this way, Dudley and Hermione took up residence in Longbottom's old mansion.

Life is back to before, exercise, practice, study, simple three points and one line.

However, Hermione also had one more way to ask Ms. Augusta for advice, and Dudley had one more direction to find alchemy + magic costume transformation.

Lady Augusta was a very powerful wizard, not far behind Professor McGonagall at Gryffindor House at Hogwarts, especially with her amazing transfiguration.

It's a pity that compared to her Transfiguration Charm, Lady Augusta is much inferior in terms of magic charms, because back then. LS fails Charms class and is biased against Charms class, believing that the class is not worth learning.

Although the Longbottom family has never had any big names in their ancestors, the family inheritance has never been broken, and there are many unique magic books, although they cannot directly enhance their strength, but many of them have given Dudley great inspiration.

I spent many days in peace.

These days have given Dudley two new decorations.

A ring with a red gem (Philosopher's Stone) and a ring with a blue gem (magic crystal).

"I'm afraid that eight more rings will be able to cosplay a certain Marvel villain."

Dudley said.

Until the three owls brought to break the peace, they brought the requirements for the Hogwarts second-year textbook.

"Break with a Female Ghost", "Traveling with Ghouls", "Vacation with the Dominatrix", "Walking with Trolls", "Traveling on a Boat with a Vampire", "Wandering with a Werewolf", "A Year with an XZ Yeti."

"Defence Against the Dark Arts textbooks? A set of seven books? ”

Hermione looked at the list of books on the parchment scroll with a strange expression, the most striking of which was the Defence Against the Dark Arts textbook, which required more books in one subject than in other subjects combined.

And these are not regular Defense Against the Dark Arts textbooks, they are some.

Crucially, it's not as good as what Dudley wrote.

Hermione had read Dudley's The Lord of the Rings and The Dragonlance Chronicles more than once, and had become a faithful reminder, coming to Dudley from time to time to see the rest of the story.

"Looks like our second-year Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher is this guy named Lockhart."

Dudley tapped the name Lockhart on the parchment roll with his knuckles.

Ten books were written by one person, and if the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher wasn't this Lockhart, it could only be his fanatic.

Hearing this, Hermione let out a mournful cry, "I hope I won't be like Quirrell last year, I can't learn anything."

Maybe it's not just that you can't learn anything. Dudley muttered.

Of all the subjects she was most dissatisfied with last year, Quirrell was lonely.

The only thing you learn is how to deal with trolls.

How can you help Dudley if you can't learn anything?

Hermione pulled out her pen and began to write and draw on the parchment roll herself.

She plans to buy books related to Defense Against the Dark Arts based on the textbooks of previous Defence Against the Dark Arts classes for self-study.

In the past, when she was in Oxford Dragon Primary School, she met the kind of teacher who did not teach well, so she used this way to study by herself.

Apparently she had lost all hope for Professor Lockhart.

Say, it's you, Hermione.

(End of chapter)