white roses // neville longbottom

two

lex sits on my shoulder as i try and find neville. i bump into someone and lex squawks. "sorry- oh. it's just you." i say. "y/n." draco says. "draco." i greet. "you better get your uniform on we're almost there." draco says. "aw you care." i tease. he rolls his eyes and walks away. he's right though, i really should change. i begin to walk back to where i came from. "i'm hermione granger, and..you are?" i hear a girls voice from rom and harry's cart. "ron weasley." ron says as i walk back into the cart. i put lex in his cage. "we should change into our uniforms, we're almost there." i say. i introduce myself to hermione and the boys leave the cart so we can change.

the girls uniform was a grey short box pleated skirt with a white dress shirt tucked in and our black robes on top. we get our ties and such when we're sorted into our houses.

when we're done changing the boys come back in. "what houses do you want to be sorted into?" hermione asks. "i want to be in ravenclaw, all of the smartest people are in ravenclaw." she adds. "gryffindor. all the weasleys are in gryffindor, as long as it's not slytherin i guess i'm fine with it." ron says. i nod. "i definitely don't want to be in slytherin. everyone who's ever gone bad was in slytherin, my mom included." i say. "gone bad?" harry asks. "y'know. joined you know who. the one who gave you that scar." ron says. "your mom joined volde- you know who?" harry asks. i sigh and nod. "but i'm nothing like her. at all. she abandoned me when i was a baby so i never even knew her, i only knew the terrible things i heard about her." i say. "you're muggle born right?" i ask hermione, quickly changing the subject. she nods. "you might want to steer clear from draco malfoy, and any of the slytherins. they don't really like muggle borns." i say. hermione slightly frowns. "but don't worry, there's plenty of people who don't even care." i say. "and we're those people." ron says smiling.

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"first years this way! into the boats!" a big bearded guy says. "four to a boat!" he adds. "that's hagrid, he helped me buy all my things." harry says as we all step on to the boat. we start to drive to the school/castle. "this probably isn't safe, what if someone falls in?" i ask. as if on cue a boy a couple boats infront of us falls in. i lean over the edge and try to grab his hand. ron and harry come to help me. we pull him onto our boat and he's shivering. "holy shit." i say. i quickly take off my robe and wrap it around him. i rub the boys arms. "are you ok?" i ask. the boy nods. ron harry and hermione continue rowing. "i'm y/n lestrange." i say. "seamus finnigan."