Neville Longbottom and the Black Witch
2019 · 17m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Kali Bailey
Genres: action, drama, fantasy
Although the tragic bravery of Harry Potter's family is widely known throughout the Wizarding World, there is another story of the same worth that remains untold — until now: the Longbottoms' confrontation with Voldemort's most devoted servant, Bellatrix Lestrange.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Fan fiction dressed up as tragedy — it's working *within* the Potter apparatus rather than against it, which means Bailey's basically remixing someone else's mythology instead of cracking open her own. Pass.
Bailey's choice to stage the Longbottoms' confrontation as a formal, almost operatic counterweight to the canonical narrative shows real curatorial intelligence — this is a short that understands its place in a larger textual tradition and argues for it with visual and tonal discipline.
The decision to keep Neville offscreen for most of the runtime, letting us experience Bellatrix's violence through parental witness rather than heroic perspective, is the hinge that transforms what could've been fan service into something genuinely unsettling and small.