Lorelai || Neville Longbottom

Chapter 4

September 7th, 1995

It's been almost a week since detention with Umbridge. Ever since then, I haven't been talking in her class. The worry of getting another detention overbearing me.

But, even though I was stressed in her class, I was still able to relax during free periods, and unwind. I wasn't going to let her ruin my year. I even got to do the prank on Fred that me and Neville were planning!

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I was sitting on the common room couch with Neville, pretending to be talking about homework, when in reality we were waiting for Fred to come downstairs.

"When do you think he'll wake up?" Neville asks in a whisper.

"I don't know, hopefully soon." I whisper back, because some of the other students in the common room started to look at us with confusion.

All of a sudden, I heard a scream coming from one of the dorms. And then, footsteps running down the stairs.

"Alright, who did this?" Fred yelled once he reached the common room, George close behind.

I looked at Neville, and as soon as I did, I lost it. We both started laughing, knowing we wouldn't be soon stopping.

Fred then looked at us. "It was you guys, wasn't it? I swear I am going to kill you both!" He yelled as he chased us down. George was chasing him with a Polaroid in his hand, laughing as hard as we were.

"This is definitely going into the scrapbook, thank you both!" George yells to me and Neville, almost falling over with laughter.

As soon as the others in the common room took notice of what was going on, they started joining in and laughing as well. Out of all of them was Ginny, who came up to us with a bright red face.

"This is hilarious, seriously! How did you do it?"

I looked at Neville. "Well, actually, Neville did most of the work. He snuck into the boys dorm and put it into the water on his bedside table. I just kept lookout."

"Alright Nev!" She exclaimed.

When I saw Ginny call Neville the nickname I call him, something stirred inside of me. And I didn't know why. Seamus and Dean called Neville "Nev" all the time, so I didn't understand how this could have been so different.

I turn to Neville, waiting for him to meet my gaze.

"I'd say this was a success," I say with a grin, causing Neville to smile and nod.

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It was a Saturday, meaning I didn't have any classes. I spent most of my time reading. I was almost done with finishing Carrie, so I was occupied with that.

I was also occupying my time by listening to music. I've mostly been listening to ABBA and Alice In Chains, my favorite bands, that also happen to be muggle bands. The song I've been listening to most I feel like is "Nutshell" by Alice In Chains, it becoming my favorite.

I also learned a new spell from Hermione to hex the common room radio to play muggle stations, so I've been listening in on that for quite a while. A band I took notice to was called Fleetwood Mac, when the station played a song called "Landslide." I really liked them!