Chapter 119 - 119- bittersweet and a battle plan

Neville's POV

As Neville sat in the train, waiting to his friends to come and the train to move, he couldn't help but think about the bittersweet Christmas he had.

Flashback

Coming back home was nice, no matter how much his grandmother berates him, he always knew it was for his own good, it is why, even though he was scared, he decided to tell her about the conflict he had with Harry, even if it was two years too late, and ask for her advice.

"Grandma," (while outside the house he calls her grandmother, indoor she would forever be grandma, granny, or even Meemaw.) "I need some advice."

"What happened now Neville?." His grandmother said, knowing by his time that he did something bad.

"Do you remember my first friend from first year?"

"Yes, that lovely girl, Hermione."

"No, Harry, the twin of Marcus who got kicked out of the Potter family."

"Oh, you mean the boy who you told me changed after going to Slytherin? Neville, I already told you, there is nothing wrong with being in Slytherin, my mother was one."

"Yes, I know that now..." Neville murmured.

"What does you say? Speak don't murmur, it's like you haven't learned anything from me."

"I said I know it now, I know all of my negative thoughts about him were misunderstandings and that I abandoned him when he needed me!" By that point he was crying

"Tell me everything!" His grandmother demanded.

And so he did, he told her everything, crying and calming down in between again and again. He told her about their first meeting, the fight after the troll incident on the first year's Halloween, about the Christmas gift which he found insulting, about him publicly destroying it, about second year and the incident with the polyjuice, and he even told her about the bogart incident and their talk after, even if telling her what that creature changed into was harder then all else, and in the end all she did was sigh.

"Oh, Merlin, did I raise an idiot? Why didn't you tell me any of it before? Even if you didn't tell me anything else you should have told me about the wand not being right, especially as I only gave you the wand because you said it felt right to you and it showed sparkles, why on earth would you say that?"

"You always told me to try to be like my father, I thought that if I had his wand I would be closer to it."

"Never mind that, although we would return to the subject later. The most important thing right now is your friend, Harry."

"He is not my friend anymore."

"Oh, you can't let a friend like that, who, at the age 11 can think about you so much so that he not only finds the perfect gift, but buys it while not having much means, go. No, a friend like that you need to keep, you have to apologize to him, and not half-assed, no, this apologize need to be one that would make him fully forgive you. Especially as it took you three years to come to me about this. Oh, this Christmas we have a lot to do."

End flashback

While he didn't rest much this Christmas, he not only got his own wand - 9.5 inch, medium flexibility cherry wand, with a unicorn heir as a core, but he also created a battle plan (as his grandmother called it) to make Harry forgive him, as his grandmother said- as long as Harry still want, even a little bit, their friendship back, they would be friends again, and Neville couldn't wait.