Neville's Yearned-For Fighting Style

Fred and George hurried off, planning to borrow Practical Household Magic from the library.

Watching their retreating backs, Wizet began to understand why the selection assessment had been set up here...

Because it was close to the library, making it easier for students to go back and forth to look up information.

"Wizet..." Ron looked at the returning Wizet. "Did Fred and George pull you aside to talk about something?"

"They wanted to know which book in the library would be best for dealing with this selection assessment," Wizet replied.

"Using a longsword against Devil's Snare..." Harry frowned. "Does the Hogwarts library... even have books like that?"

"It does, actually..." Wizet reminded them. "Have you perhaps forgotten the image of Headmaster Godric Gryffindor?"

Hermione caught on and rattled off, "It's said that Godric Gryffindor possessed a sword, a weapon he commissioned goblins to forge for him..."

"The goblins always wanted to reclaim the sword, but because of Godric Gryffindor's formidable strength, all they could do was spread the rumor among their people that 'Godric Gryffindor stole the sword.'"

"During several later goblin rebellions, they even made similar demands—return the Sword of Gryffindor and apologize, and the goblins would agree to cease their planned rebellion."

"This belonged to Godric Gryffindor..." Harry said in utter astonishment. "Not only were they supposed to return it, they had to apologize to the goblins too?"

"Otherwise, why do you think wizards all hate goblins?" Ron shrugged. "But there's nothing to be done... They're good at calculating this and that, so they're well suited to Gringotts."

"Wizet, what was that book called—the one about using a longsword against Devil's Snare?" Neville brought the conversation back to the original topic. "I'd like to read it..."

Michael asked curiously, "Neville, why do you want to fight like a