[And for once in his life while facing Snape, Neville doesn't quail, doesn't back down - he seems, if anything, bolstered by the effect he's having. Snape should not have brought up his parents.]
Well that's a bloody likely story, isn't it!
[Because Neville doesn't really know Dumbledore at all. He never got called into the Headmaster's office, never got tutored, was never given kind words or cruel truths directly. Because he's always only seen the friendly old protector, never the brilliant manipulator with a weakness for power and an eye for the long game. Because it's easier by far to believe Snape is a horrible, sadistic monster than to consider for half a second that Dumbledore, the man his gran had always told him to trust, would throw the children he'd given up his life protecting to the wolves like that.
For all of Aberforth's bitterness, his grumblings and gruff insistence that they give up their fight every few weeks, it was easier to see two brothers with an unresolved personal vendetta between them than to admit to himself or anyone else that he had spent a year enduring torture and leading an army in the name of a man who would have been willing to allow every nightmare he'd ever had to come to life. For any reason.]
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Well that's a bloody likely story, isn't it!
[Because Neville doesn't really know Dumbledore at all. He never got called into the Headmaster's office, never got tutored, was never given kind words or cruel truths directly. Because he's always only seen the friendly old protector, never the brilliant manipulator with a weakness for power and an eye for the long game. Because it's easier by far to believe Snape is a horrible, sadistic monster than to consider for half a second that Dumbledore, the man his gran had always told him to trust, would throw the children he'd given up his life protecting to the wolves like that.
For all of Aberforth's bitterness, his grumblings and gruff insistence that they give up their fight every few weeks, it was easier to see two brothers with an unresolved personal vendetta between them than to admit to himself or anyone else that he had spent a year enduring torture and leading an army in the name of a man who would have been willing to allow every nightmare he'd ever had to come to life. For any reason.]
You are a coward. You're a coward and a liar!