[By then, Neville's busied himself with the journal, examining it at a cautious distance as well as he can manage in the darkness. It'll be a minute before he realizes someone else is nearby, though he does jump at the passing of most forest creatures. Even enshrouded by nightfall, he makes a skittish shape at best.]
[Action,because it's never too early to prod "nearly drowned me in a lake" references from Harry :3]