brutal jealousy (hermione/you)

ᴄᴏɴꜰᴇꜱꜱɪᴏɴ ʜᴏᴜʀ

Third person pov

"I reckon it's one of these," Neville pointed out, showing it to Y/N. She ducked her head to look at the jar.

"Isn't that what you gave Potter at the Triwizard Tournament?" She asked as she picked up her head. Neville nodded, smiling to himself, reminiscing being a help to one of his closest friends that day.

"Okay let's cross off Gillyweed." She took the pen from her back pocket and wrote an 'X' next to the name. For their herbology class, they had to do a little scavenger hunt around the campus to find the various plants that were listed.

"What have you guys finished so far?" Aurora walked closer to the two with confidence.

"More than you, I'm sure." Y/N joked, looking back at Neville who laughed with her. "Oh really? Show her."

Hermione came to view and showed the clipboard that had almost everything crossed off except three. Y/N widened her eyes, "we started like — 15 minutes ago."

"When you have a Hermione as a partner, you'll basically finish in a jiffy." Aurora teased before walking off to the other direction to find more. Hermione sent a smile to Y/N before following her partner.

"What's up with you two?" Neville asked as he put the jar in his big tote bag.

"Nothing," Y/N pushed it off. The boy only looked at the girl with amusement, walking closely to her. "You know, I don't know what happened to you and Ginny, but I think it was maybe for the best. Don't you think?" He showed a genuinely smile, one of his eyes slightly closing since his smile only perked up in one corner of his lips.

"Maybe. Ginny was a sweet girl." It was like her name being repeated was a spell of appearance, because next thing the two knew, Ginny and her partner were walking towards their direction.

"Speaking of," Neville said quietly. He raised his hand to wave, but Y/N quickly got a hold of his arm, dragging him the other way. "I didn't get to say hi," he complained.

"Not today."

"Y/N!" Ginny called out. Y/N ignored her and kept walking, avoiding her gaze. "Y/N!!" She said even louder.

"I — uhm think she wants to speak to you." Neville tried to tug his arm back, wanting to stop to greet Ginny, yet Y/N didn't let him with her tight grip.

Y/N ignored her calling. Luckily, she stopped, causing Y/N to slow down and letting go of Neville. "What was that about?"

Ginny watched Y/N walk away so quickly, obviously avoiding her. "Did you guys end things?" Ginny's partner, Lavender asked in a nosy tone.

The gryffindor straightened up and turned around to look at Lavender, "kind of. We're working things out, I guess you could say."

"Better keep her close. I heard lots of people have been eyeing her after seeing her profile on wizalove. They obviously haven't matched with her because it says she hasn't been active. But people are having hope." Ginny clenched her jaw at the thought of Y/N being with someone else. It was unfair how she gained possessiveness over the girl, I mean, she did kiss around with Y/N's best friend. Ginny knew very well it was wrong for her to feel that, however, she didn't care much. She needed to talk to Y/N.

Y/N finally turned in the sheet to the Professor as Neville placed the filled jars in a wooden crater assigned to them. "Well done. I'll let you know how much you got right next class."

"Thank you Professor. I'll see you later Neville," Y/N said, patting his back while he still unloaded the jars. Neville smiled at her and nodded, he was occupied.