white roses // neville longbottom

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"no matter how hard a try neville won't stop being mad at me." i say. seamus puts his hand on my shoulder. "can you really blame him?" he asks. "she's not her mom seamus." dean says. i nod. "i just wish there was a way to make him forgive me." i say. i look over their shoulder and see the slytherin quidditch team walking up to the gryffindor quidditch team. "hold that thought." i say and walk to them. i look to my right and see ron and hermione making their way over as well. "owing to the need to train their new seeker." oliver finishes as i walk up. "you've got a new seeker?" he asks. draco steps forward. "malfoy?" harry asks. "that's right. and that's not all that's new this year." draco says. all of the slytherin team shows off their new brooms. "those are nimbus 2001's howd you get those?"ron asks. "a gift from draco's father." flint says. "you see, weasley, unlike some, my father can afford the best." draco says. "at least no one on the gryffindor team had to buy their way in. they got in on pure talent." hermione says. i smirk. draco steps infront of her. "no one asked your opinion, you filthy little mudblood." he says. i cover my mouth with my hand. there's quiet gasps coming from the whole group. "you'll pay for that one malfoy, eat slugs!" ron shouts and gets knocked backwards. his broken wand caused the spell to backfire. all of slytherin laughs while the gryffindor team runs to ron. "eat shit draco." i say and walk over to ron. he throws up a slug and a first year, colin creevey, comes up and takes a picture. "wow! can you turn him around harry?" he asks. "no, colin get out of the way." harry says. i give colin a sympathetic look as we grab ron and lift him up. "let's take him to hagrid. he'll know what to do." harry says as ron throws up another slug.

"this calls for a specialist's equipment." hagrid says and brings ron a bucket. "nothing to do but wait till it stops i'm afraid." he adds. ron throws up another slug. "better out than in. who was ron trying to curse anyway?" hagrid asks. "malfoy. he called hermione a..well, i don't exactly know what it means." harry says. hermione stands up and crosses her arms. she slowly walks away with her backed turned to us. "he called me a mudblood." she says. "he did not." hagrid says. "what's a mudblood?" harry asks. hermione turns back to us with tears in her eyes. "it means 'dirty blood.' mudblood's a foul name for someone who's muggle-born. someone with non-magic parents. someone like me. it's not a term one usually hears in civilized conversation." hermione says. "i wouldn't dwell on it mione. see the thing is the malfoy family is horrible, sorry to say it so harshly but it's true. they're the worst type of wizards out there. as bad as my mother." i say. "they think they're better than everyone else because they're 'pureblood'." i add. "that's horrible." harry says as ron throws up a slug. "hermione i bet you know more about the wizarding world than most of the malfoy's. you're brilliant." hagrid says.

-later in the night-

"harry!" hermione says as we finally find him, after his detention with lockhart. "did you hear it?" harry asks. "hear what?" ron asks. "that voice." he says. "voice? what voice?" i ask looking around as if it'd help me hear it better. "i heard it first in lockhart's office. and then against just." harry stops mid sentence.  "it's moving. i think it's going to kill." he says. ron and i give eachother a 'what the fuck' look. harry rushes past us. "kill?" ron asks. "hat, wait! not so fast!" hermione shouts and we run after him. we run after him and down a corridor. he stops us infront of a punch of spiders trailing outside. i shiver. "strange." harry says. "i've never seen spiders act like that." he adds. "i don't like spiders." ron says. there's a pool of water on the floor. i look in the reflection of the wall and see some red writing. "what's that!" i say. we all look up at the wall at the same time. 'the chamber of secrets has been opened enemies of the heir..beware' is written on the wall, in what look like...blood. hermione reads it out. "oh no. it's filch's cat." harry says. more students walk down the corridor. mrs. norris is hung upside down from a light. "enemies of the heir, beware." malfoy reads. he shouts his head to hermione. "you'll be next, mudbloods." he says. i shoot him a dirty look. "what's going on here? go on. make way, make way." filch says pushing through the crowd. "potter? what're you.." he catches sight of his cat. "mrs. norris? you've murdered my cat." filch says. "no. no." harry says. "i'll kill you." filch says. he grabs ahold of harry's rob. "i'll kill you!" he shouts. "argus!" dumbledore shouts. everyone moves out of the way as he walks through. "argus i....everyone will proceed to their dormitories immediately. everyone except, you three." dumbledore says. i roll my eyes and walk off. i'm always left out. fred and george walk on the other side of me. "what happened?" george asks. "it's crazy, i'll tell you in the common room." i say.

-in the common room-

"ok so basically." i say and sit down on a couch in the common room. fred and george sit next to me. fred brings my legs up to lay across his lap. i choke from being surprised and i let out a quick cough. "well harry was hearing voices." i say. "that's not good." george says. "might have to send him to the looney bin." fred finishes. "he started running so hermione ron and i followed him. we saw the blood on the wall and then everyone started to file in." i say. "well that's boring." george says. "sorry my stories not good enough for you." i say and cross my arms