Harry Potter One-Shots

Dating Neville Would Include...

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Dating Neville is like a dream come true. Both of you are extremely shy and it took until nearly the end of sixth year for him to ask you out, but you couldn't have been more excited to say yes. The two of you are a perfect pair, both a little quiet and awkward but when you're together, a side of you comes out that no one else has ever seen before. You're constantly smiling and when you aren't physically together, it feels like something is missing from inside your heart.

You took things slow at first, since it was both you and Neville's first relationship, but that didn't stop you from falling head over heels for him rather quickly. Holding hands in the corridors between classes, sitting together at meals, walking around Hogsmeade and gazing into all the shop windows, all felt like a fairytale, almost too good to be true.

During the Battle of Hogwarts, you watched as Neville stepped forward to seemingly join Voldemort's side. Your knees collapsed out from under you and you fell to the ground, sobbing. You thought you had lost your love forever. Instead, he pulled out the sword and killed Voldemort's snake, leaving you speechless. When Harry had finished off the Dark Lord forever, you ran to Neville's side and flung yourself into his arms, nearly knocking him to the ground. For such a notoriously private and reserved couple, it was quite a shock to the rest of the students to see you kiss him passionately and sob into his chest that you never wanted to lose him again.

When you first visited his parents in St. Mungo's you weren't sure what to expect, and Neville seemed to be a bit nervous, but seeing how much he still loved them and cared for them made your heart swell. He saved every single chewing gum wrapper his mother handed him, and when you arrived home he showed you a shoebox stuffed full of wrappers from all the years he had been visiting her, ever the dutiful son.

His kisses are slow and sweet, almost unsure, which isn't surprising considering his (and your) lack of experience. He loves to sit across from you in the library and watch you study, one hand turning the pages of your textbook and the other absentmindedly grasping his across the tabletop. The way you mouth the words to yourself as you read always makes him chuckle a bit on the inside.