Ten Things Luna Lovegood Knows About Neville Longbottom (That no one else does)

His middle name isn't actually Frank. He doesn't have a middle name, but he tells everyone it's Frank because that's his dad's name. Once he gets out of school, once the war is over, he wants to have it legally added to his name, but he's afraid he doesn't deserve it. (But she knows that he does, and she reminds him all the time.)

He has a scar on his left shoulder blade, because when he was 6 his Uncle Albie tried to scare some magic out of him by pushing out a window. His entire family thought he was Squib until he busted a park bench when he was 8. (She can feel the scar through his shirt when she hugs him, and whenever she does she tells him that he's better than they all thought he could be.)

On the anniversary of the day his parent's torturing every year he has the same night mare. He watched his parents driven insane, stuck in a corner and he can't do anything about it. When he joins the DA, other people get tortured as well. (This year, Luna refuses to let him suffer it alone, since she knows her nightmares are worse during times of stress, and she sleeps in his hammock with him.)

Everywhere he goes he brings a small wooden chest that his father gave his mother on their first anniversary. It locks, and has an engraving of a lion on top. The box contains exactly 213 Droobles gum wrappers. Each time Neville visits his parents, his mum gives him a gum wrapper. He has kept every single one. He has never lost one, or left it in his pocket and washed his pants. (Luna thinks this is both the sweetest and saddest thing she's ever heard.)

He loves his grandmother, and he knows she's proud of him, but sometimes he wishes she was a little more vocal about it. He feels bad for wanting her to say it, but he can't help it that he feels unwanted sometimes. (When he tells her this, Luna hugs him close and tells him he's brilliant.)

His greatest fear is that he'll die in battle without making his parents proud, and without avenging them. He just wants to look in the mirror and feel he deserves to be their son. (Whenever he mentions this, Luna tells him that she has no doubt in her mind his parents would be proud of him already. Because he's fighting, and he is brave enough to keep going even if it means death or pain. She means it more each time she says it.)

He loves dancing. He continued trying to teach himself after the Yule Ball. He is best at the waltz. (He tells Luna this and blushes as if embarrassed, and she makes him teach her and he tells her he hasn't felt happier in months.)

He wants to have a family almost as much as he wants to make his parents proud. He wants to raise a child in the happier future he helped make. But the fact that that child will not have his parents in its life makes him sad. (Luna doesn't say anything about this, but she holds his hand and rests her head on his shoulder. It is the fourth time she sees him cry. It is not the last.)

He doesn't want to be an auror, and sometimes he feels guilty about not following in his dad's footsteps. He wants to take over for professor Sprout. He loves the school, it's his home. And he wants to help make it that way for other people. (Luna tells him that teaching is an admirable profession, and that she's sure his parents would be thrilled he wants to shape young minds.)

His favorite subject is herbology because his father, as he is told by his gran, was a whiz with herbology. When he finally got up the guts to ask out his future wife, he charmed the school roses to ask her to go to Hogsmeade with him. Working with plants makes him feel closer to both of them. (Luna clutches his hands and tells him that it's beautiful that he feels that way. He asks why she's crying and she shakes her head and doesn't tell him it's because he'll never love her the way his father loved his mother.)