Category: Birthday

Today, July 30th, is one our favorite Gryffindor’s birthdays! We want to wish Neville a happy 33rd birthday!! Without Neville, many of us would not be fans of the lovely Matt Lewis, and what a shame that would be!

Neville was a key player in the defeat of the Dark Lord in 1998. Neville lead the rebellion of the students in his Seventh year at Hogwarts and pulled Gryffindor’s Sword from the Sorting Hat to behead Voldemort’s Final horcrux, Nagini. After the Battle of Hogwarts, Neville became an Auror for a short time. Currently Neville is married to Hannah Abbott (of Hufflepuff) and is the Herbology Professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Neville’s creator, J.K. Rowling has this to say:

I love Neville. I love Neville so much. Always loved Neville. And I always had big plans for Neville, you know? And he really was The Boy It Could’ve Been, because as you know, as I made clear, he was born hours before Harry, he was born on the 30th of July, Voldemort singled him out as the other possibility. But the great thing about Neville’s story for me, the over-arching story about Neville, is that he proves himself to be a boy who could’ve done it too. Yeah, Harry had the scar and arguably, Harry had an edge more talent because Harry– he has an extraordinary instinct for the right thing to do. He’s just got the right instinct, and that’s what would make him, in due course, a phenomenal Auror. But Neville was, I think, amazing in the final battle, and proved himself a hundred times over worthy of being a Gryffindor, his parents’ son, despite the very difficult childhood he had in the hands of his very pushy grandmother, and I know, she loves him and he loves her, but she’s not an easy person to be raised by. So yeah, so that for me, was the big thing about Neville. x

Today, July 30th, marks Neville Longbottom’s 32nd birthday! As we all know Neville was a key player in the defeat of the Dark Lord in 1998. Neville lead the rebellion of the students in his Seventh year at Hogwarts and pulled Gryffindor’s Sword from the Sorting Hat to behead Voldemort’s Final horcrux, Nagini. After the Battle of Hogwarts, Neville became an Auror for a short time.

Currently Neville is married to Hannah Abbott (of Hufflepuff) and is the Herbology Professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Neville’s creator, J.K. Rowling has this to say:

I love Neville. I love Neville so much. Always loved Neville. And I always had big plans for Neville, you know? And he really was The Boy It Could’ve Been, because as you know, as I made clear, he was born hours before Harry, he was born on the 30th of July, Voldemort singled him out as the other possibility. But the great thing about Neville’s story for me, the over-arching story about Neville, is that he proves himself to be a boy who could’ve done it too. Yeah, Harry had the scar and arguably, Harry had an edge more talent because Harry– he has an extraordinary instinct for the right thing to do. He’s just got the right instinct, and that’s what would make him, in due course, a phenomenal Auror. But Neville was, I think, amazing in the final battle, and proved himself a hundred times over worthy of being a Gryffindor, his parents’ son, despite the very difficult childhood he had in the hands of his very pushy grandmother, and I know, she loves him and he loves her, but she’s not an easy person to be raised by. So yeah, so that for me, was the big thing about Neville. x