white roses // neville longbottom

thirty

-in the common room-
outfit above

"finally we don't have to wear those bloody uniforms." i say slouching down on a leather chair. "finally a break from snape." neville says sliding in next to me. his hair is still slightly wet from a shower. i lean my head on his chest. "you smell nice." i say. seamus and dean walks into the common room laughing about a joke seamus probably made. they sit together on a couch opposite of us. "oh, hello lovebirds." seamus says noticing us. "shut up." i mumble as neville starts to play with my hair. "where's the three musketeers?" dean asks. "hagrid." i say. "you four are always sneaking out. with sirius black on the loose you're going to get killed." neville says twisting a piece of my hair around his finger. "ok dad." i say. dean and seamus laugh. "he's right though. black is dangerous." george says coming up behind us. fred follows him and they sit on the couch next to us. "oh y/n darling. it hurts me so to see you with another man." fred says. i smile to myself and take my head off of neville's chest. "oh fred, i've just seemed to find another lover." i say and kiss neville on the cheek. "oh woe is me." fred says and puts his head on his forehead as he leans over george's legs. george pushes him to the floor and all of us burst into laughter.

-later-

the trio walk into the common room. "y/n." harry says and nods his head over to himself. i get up from my spot and walk over to them. ron puts his hand on the small of my back as they lead me up to the boys dormitory. "what's wrong? what happened?" i ask. "they sentenced buckbeak to death." hermione says. "..what?" i ask. "lucius convinced the jury. buckbeak is going to die." harry says. "that git!" i shout. "anyway we need to talk to you..." hermione says sitting on ron's bed. "goyle called you a cheater..why?" ron asks. i sit on neville's unoccupied bed. "merlin." i groan. "you guys are going to hate me." i say. "spill." hermione says.

"well, lucius had made draco stay at my house and of course he invited crabbe and goyle when he came to stay over the break he came onto me. i didn't know what to do. i didn't want to upset him." "didn't want to upset him?! he's been upsetting us for three years!" ron says. "you didn't...y'know..did you??" hermione asks. "merlin hermione how low do you think of me?" i ask. "i was just curious!" she says. "no i didn't have sex with him. we just made out a couple of times. but i've completely shut it down..well..on my side of things." i say. "so goyle thinks you're still together?" harry asks. "we were never dating!" i say. "but he thinks you cheated." ron says. "i don't know how to sort it out!" i say. "we'll help you y/n, don't worry." hermione says.

-later-

harry had asked me to stay in the dormitory with him. we were looking through the map when ron suddenly pops up. "spiders! there's..there's spiders! spiders! they want me to tap-dance. i don't wanna tap-dance!" he says. "you tell those spiders ron." harry says. "right, yeah. tell them. i'll tell them." ron says laying back down. in a matter of seconds he's snoring. harry opens up a page on the mauraders map. "hey...peter pettigrew..isn't he dead?" i ask. "he seems to be pacing...that can't be right." i add. harry slings his feet over the bed. "come on." he says. i do the same and follow him. we walk out of the boys rooms and through the common room.

i pull out my wand. "lumos." i say and the tip of my wand lights up. "put that light out!" one of the painting say. "sorry." i say and aim the light closer to the map. the map shows peter to be getting closer to us. i wave the light around. he gets closer and closer yet we still can't see him. we turn to our right and harry jumps at his own reflection. i shine the light all around. "watch it there, girl." "we're trying to sleep here!" the paintings say. we look at the map and snape is on his way over here. "mischief managed. nox." my light goes out and i'm hoping that the map went blank. snape shines his light in our face. "potter, lestrange. what are you two doing wandering the corridors at night?" snape asks. "i was sleepwalking." "and i was following him. you know how dangerous it is to wake a sleepwalker." i say. "how extraordinarily like your father you are potter. he, too, was exceedingly arrogant, strutting about the castle." snape says. "my dad didn't strut. and nor do i. now if you don't mind, i would appreciate it if you could lower your wand." harry says. snape lowers it. "turn out your pockets." snape says. harry doesn't do anything. "turn out your pockets!" he says looking between the both of us. harry takes the map out. "what's this?" snape asks. "spare bit of parchment." harry says. "really? open it." snape says. harry opens it. snape points his wand to the map. "reveal your secrets." snape says. the ink on the map starts to form. bloody hell. "read it." snape says. "messrs. moony, wormtail, padfoot, and prongs offer their compliments to professor snape and.." harry stops. "go on.." snape says. "and request that he keep his large nose out of other people's business." harry says. i try and suppress a laugh. "you insolent little." "professor!" lupin says coming from behind snape. snape quickly turns around and shines the light at lupin. "well, well. lupin. out for a little walk in the moonlight, are we?" snape asks. "y/n, harry, are you two all right?" lupin asks. "that remains to be seen." snape says and snatches the map from harry's hands. "i have just now confiscated a rather curious artifact. take a look, lupin. supposed to be your area of expertise. clearly, it's full of dark magic." snape says and hands lupin the map. "well i seriously doubt it, severus. it looks as though it's parchment designed to insult anyone who tries to read it. i suspect it's a zonko product. nevertheless, i shall investigate any hidden qualities it may posses." lupin says. he fold the map. "it is, after all, as you say, my are of expertise." lupin says. "harry, y/n would you two come with me please? professor, goodnight." lupin says as we walk over to him. we follow him in the dark. harry snakes his arm around me as if to protect me from whatever lurks in the night. "come in." lupin says opening his classroom door. "now i haven't the faintest idea how this map came to be in your possession. but quite frankly i am astounded that you didn't hand this in. did it ever occur to you that this, in the hands of sirius black, is a map to you?" lupin asks. harry shakes his head as he nervously pops his knuckles on a desk. "no sir." he says. his other hand started to lightly shake so i reached for it to show him it's ok. "your father never set much store by the rules either. but he and your mother gave their lives to save yours. gambling their sacrifice by wandering the castle unprotected with a killer on the loose seems a poor way to repay them!" lupin shouts. "now, i will not cover up for you again. do you hear me?" lupin asks. "yes sir." harry says. "i want you to return to your dormitory and stay there. and don't take any detours. if you do, i shall know." lupin says. harry grips on to my hand tighter as we walk away. "professor, just so you know, i don't think that map always works. earlier on it showed someone in the castle. someone i know to be dead." i say stopping us. "oh really? and who might that be?" lupin asks. "peter pettigrew." i say. "that's not possible." lupin says. "it's just what we saw...goodnight professor." i say and walk out of the classroom
with harry.