atlas.
by allecto

Sometimes Harry envies him, for all that his parents are locked in St. Mungo's and Neville's as much of an orphan as he is. For all that his gran is a bossy, controlling woman still sunk in depression for her missing son, for all that his uncle would drop him out the window for a biscuit, that even first years laugh at him on occasion, even friends, family, for all that, Harry envies him -- because Neville can lie there, cradled in his arms, and sleep peacefully, and his shoulders don't have to hold the world up -- just Harry.


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