St Mungo's Hospital.
Katelyle watched Neville Longbottom approach Ward 49 of the psychiatric department, looking somewhat nervous, and felt endless emotions well up inside him.
Two special patients lived in this special room.
They were a married couple, and both Aurors.
They had fought against Voldemort and hunted him down.
But after Voldemort went into hiding, the Death Eaters who were searching for him and firmly believed he was not dead captured the couple and subjected them to inhuman torture.
As a result, the two accomplished and renowned Aurors became madmen, trapped in this hospital for more than a decade.
They were Neville's parents, Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom.
In a sense, Neville Longbottom's life had been even more miserable than Harry's.
He had parents, but they had been tortured into madness, and he had been one of the witnesses. The shock had been so great that a Memory Charm was cast on him, causing him to constantly forget things as a child, leaving him mocked, ignored, and even resented.
But in truth, Neville Longbottom's life could also be called almost legendary.
He had come so close to becoming the Boy Who Lived.
He had come so close to becoming the hero who saved the wizarding world.
He had come so close to becoming the Savior.
So close, so close—there had been too many near misses.
In the original story, during their first Divination class in their third year, Trelawney's prophecy had actually been aimed at two people.
They were Harry and Neville.
Both Harry and Neville had been born in July, and both were destined in the prophecy to kill Voldemort.
Unfortunately, compared to Neville, Voldemort believed Harry Potter was the one, so Harry Potter's parents were killed, and Harry became the Savior, the Boy Who Lived.
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