HP drabble! Remembrall

I'm writing the Hogsmeade visit chapter of Inevitable. I'm 4,264 words in and we're not even *at* Hogsmeade yet. This is going to be a bear of a chapter. Needless to say, it won't be up today.

Now, a shiny HP drabble for my favourite guy: Neville.

Title: Remembrall
Characters: Neville Longbottom
Rating: G
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Author's Note: I'm one of those people who subscribe to the "Neville Longbottom saw his parents tortured by Bellatrix Lestrange and then had his memory modified" school of thought. This is written in that vein.

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Neville was ignoring his Charms homework, instead staring at his Remembrall.

The smoke in the glass sphere was a dull grey-red, like always. It never went white, like it was supposed to. Neville supposed it was broken.

Behind him, Ron and Harry joked about something Ron's dad had said. Neville wished he could remember his own dad, from before, but all he could think of his mum and dad was from those visits to St. Mungo's, and a lonely pile of gum wrappers Neville hid in his drawer.

As Neville tried to remember his parents, the Remembrall's smoke burned blood-red.

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