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I was reading a PJO x HP crossover when Neville Longbottom asked something like, "How can my mom be a goddess (Demeter)?"

This was a simple question to get our questers to explain about the Greek mythological world and Camp Half-Blood and stuff, but in me, it raised the question. How could Neville be a half-blood? I mean, both of his parents are kind of preoccupied, being tortured to madness and stuck in a mental asylum for life and all that jazz, to be Greek gods.

And Neville isn't adopted. He is a pure-blood, born to a family of wizards, and that family is pretty fricking convinced that he is one of their own, as you can assume from a story that Neville tells of when his great-uncle Algie dropped him out of a window to see if Neville had magical powers. Not convinced with that? In Pottermore, there is a short story written by J.K. Rowling herself, titled The Quill of Acceptance and The Book of Admittance, that tells of the magical activities of one Neville Longbottom. It has a paragraph about Neville's birth, where the second line tells of the midwife who attended Alice Longbottom, and how she assumed that it was his father who fixed Neville's blankets, not Neville's magical powers. Bellatrix Lestrange refers to Neville as the son of the aurors she tortured in DH. Even J. K. Rowling herself refers to Frank and Alice as Neville's parents.

Some of you might be like, "Well, there are still fanfics where Neville is the son of Ares. There is also no definite proof that Frank Longbottom was Neville's biological father. What about that?" First off, Neville is a pure-blood. If we've learned anything about pure-blood families, it's that pure-blood families don't allow outsiders. If their family doesn't know of your family, they don't approve of you. Second, does anyone really think Alice would've cheated on Frank? Really? And last, Neville is a chosen one candidate (in an alternate universe, Harry isn't the main character...) for a reason. His parents had thrice defied the evil wizard, Voldemort, just as the prophecy required. Ares or any other god wouldn't be able to do that. It's against the rules. They wouldn't be able to defy Voldemort once without being severely punished; much less three times!

That got me thinking. If Neville isn't a demigod, who else isn't?

Immediately, I thought of Luna Lovegood. There are fanfics where the kooky little Ravenclaw witch is really American and a daughter of Athena or Iris. She's a little less unreasonable than Neville; her mother's out of the picture and she's very wise, but it is very wrong. In the very first book we read her in, she admits that her mother is dead, and she saw it happen, in the scene where Harry sees the thestrals for the first time in OotP. If she watched her mother die, then it couldn't be any goddess. Not specifically because she saw her mother die, but because she was already old enough to remember and comprehend the idea of death when the event occurred, which, even for a genius, isn't any older than about 3. Once again, the gods couldn't interfere with mortals, and neither Athena nor Iris are the type to stay around. I mean, Annabeth, a daughter of Athena, said that she was left in a golden cradle at her father's doorstep. And you can't say that she saw Athena or Iris "die" when she was a baby, and that's why she can see the thestrals, because if that rule applied, Harry would have seen the thestrals in the first book, not the fifth.

And there are stories where Draco Malfoy, Harry's school rival, is a son of Athena, but in the movies, which I think are pretty canon, Draco cannot be any less the son of his parents. He's pretty clever, but I can't really see him as a son of Athena.

I know there is a big one, Hermione Granger, one of Harry's best friends, being the daughter of Athena, but honest to goodness, I can't think of any reason why she couldn't be adopted or anything. Her actor for the Cursed Child kind of threw me for a curveball (not that I have anything against that, but I always just imagined an older Emma Watson), so now I'm kinda questioning everything I know about her. I don't know; it's just the little things that get me.

So, did I miss anyone? I hope you enjoyed that, and I hope my non-Potterheads could follow.

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-FaeHunter