*Snap!* Colin waves the photo he had taken of me laughing.
"First picture of the year!" he grins. He sticks it in the potion to make it move and takes it up to his dorm.
"Night!" Ginny and I giggle as we stalk upstairs. I yawn and crawl in bed. Our dorm was us and Hermione, and she was already fast asleep. "Hey, Gin!" I whisper-yell to her. "Hm?" she says, sitting on my bed. "Do you still like Harry?" "Mmmmhm," I giggle at her response. "You still love Neville?" "What?" I almost fell off the bed. "When have I ever, EVER said I was in love with Neville Longbottom?" She starts laughing at me. "You don't have to. The way you blushed earlier today, When I first mentioned you might like him. You act like you've known him longer than you have." If only you knew, Gin...
"Uuuugghhhnnnnugh..." Hermione sits up,"What are we talking about?" "Meg loves Neville!" I shove Ginny off the bed. "Since when?" Hermione looks wide awake now. "Since never," I huff. Ginny rolls her eyes and whispers to Hermione. They both giggle. I roll my eyes, "I am completely done with both of you." I roll over and go to bed.
The next morning, I am ready much earlier than Ginny, and right now, I don't really care. I am just happy to be here, and I'm hungry. I'm not really in the mood to wait for her to be awake. I walk down to breakfast, wand in hand. Looking around, I notice that Colin isn't awake either, and, knowing Luna, she already ate breakfast. I look down the Gryffindor table to see Parviti, Seamus, Dean, Lavender, Percy and his friends, and Neville, all by himself. I went and sat next to him. "Good morning!" I say quietly.
"'Morning," he takes a bite of bacon. I look at the food on the table and begin putting some fruit, toast, and eggs on my plate. We talk about our summers and I tell him about Ms. Peters. "She sounds awful," he says. I scoff," You don't know the half of it." And I'm right. I haven't told him any of what happened before Hogwarts. I've told Ginny what I told Neville, and I told Hermione and Collin less. I told them she was terrible and why: She is abusive. Harry has heard as much as Gin and Neville.
Professor McGonnagal came and passed out our schedule. Defense Against the Dark Arts first. Brilliant!
