She's always kind (Neville X Reader story)

Chapter 4

Hogwarts school of
witchcraft and wizardry - Scotland

The Feast had begun and all the tables were soon filled with rows of delicious plates with chicken, roast potatoes and other wonderful food. All the student immediately tucked into the food that had appeared before them, Ron was a little more eagar than the entire hall, stuffing his face with chicken drumstick. Everyone had begun talking, starting to get to know one another, (Y/n) had gotten to know Ron's older brothers, the twins Fred and George, then his prefect brother Percy. She wasted no time in pursuing a conversation with the twins about quidditch of which they were so enthusiastic about, she expressed her desire about wanting to train as a beater which almost seemed to light a positive fire under the twins. They knew straight away that they were going to be great friends.

Later, (Y/n) overheard her twin talking to Dean and Harry about himself and his sister "We're half an half" he motioned his fork to point at (Y/n) "Our dad's a Muggle, Mam's a witch, bit of a nasty shock for him when he found out" (Y/n) only smiled and sighed, remembering that fateful day when she was 4, how pale her father went when he was told. Suddenly, Ron let out a frightened yelp and dropped his food, (Y/n) looked up to see the head of a grey faded man with white curly hair in the middle of the chicken drumsticks. He turned and faced Ron "hello! How are you? Welcome to gryffindor!" As he said that, from every angle of the hall, ghosts started flying from the walls, some gracefully, some mischievously. She gasped in amazement at the ghost when she heard Percy speak "Hello Sir Nicholas! Have a nice summer?" The tall ghost has floated out of the table and stood above it "Dismal! Once again my request to join the headless hunt has been denied" The girl only smiled up at the ghost apologetically before he turned around about to float off when ron shouted "I know you! You're Nearly Headless Nick!" "I prefer Sir Nicholas if you don't mind" Hermione however looked very confused.

"Nearly headless? How can you be nearly headless?" (Y/n) piped up "uh Hermione, I don't think that's a-" "Like this!" He interrupted and with that pulled his head to the side almost looking decapitated. Hermione grimiced as Ron jumped in shock. He flicked it back onto his neck and floated off as if it were nothing. (Y/n) looked back at her plate of food and pushed it away having lost her appetite a bit. Soon the feast had ended and Percy began to lead the first year gryffindors to the seventh floor of the castle. (Y/n) gazed up with fascination at the changing staircases as they climbed them. Once at the seventh floor corridor, they walked until they came to a rather plump but stern lady in a portrait. (Y/n) already knew that portraits could move due to there being an album full of photos that her mam kept in the attic which she'd bring down every Christmas and look through it with (Y/n) and Seamus. The stern woman noticed Percy and spoke "Password?" Percy stood tall and replied "Caput Draconis"

Once he uttered those words, the portrait swung open like a door and through it lied a beautiful room with a warm looking fireplace, an abundance of comfy looking red archairs and sofas and a few tables with bookcases here and there. The first years filed in and stood in a group in the centre of the room "Welcome to the Gryffindor common room" Percy announced "Boys dormitories upstairs to your left, girls the same on your right, you'll find that all of your belongings have been brought up there already" Once (Y/n) had made her way up to the girls dormitory, she had noticed that the robes she was wearing were now lined with a bright ruby red and had the gryffindor crest on the breast pocket and her once black tie was now a beautiful gold and red striped colour.

She found her trunk next to a big four poster bed that had a rather large window next to it with the sheets being a crimson red and a sturdy wooden night stand stood next to it. She had started talking to the 4 other girls in her dorm including Hermione and got to know them a little more. There was one of the Patil twins from earlier who was separated from her sister who was called Parvati, there was a curly haired brunette with a sweet personality called Lavender brown and finally a blonde haired girl by the name of Day Dunbar.

Once she had met all of her fellow dormmates, (Y/n) opened her trunk and began to search for her pyjamas. After a while, she had found them however she realised that they were a pale blue colour meaning that her pyjamas had been swapped with he brothers. She sighed and put all of her uniform and casual clothes away before standing up and heading for the boys dormitory. Gently, she knocked on the door and from the inside, she heard a loud this as if someone had fallen off their bed. Soon she heard a muffled "I'll get it" and sure enough the door swung open to reveal Dean still in his uniform "oh hey (Y/n) what's up?" She smiled kindly and said "Hi Dean, is everyone decent in there?" He poked his head around the door to look around his dorm before poking his head back round and nodded "Is it ok if I come in then, I just need to speak to Seamus" "oh yeah sure, I'm sure the guys won't mind" he opened the door wide and stood aside to let (Y/n) in. The room looked exactly the same to hers, except the boys already had clothes strewn everywhere.

She laughed at the state of the dorm and walked into the centre of the room "Hey everyone" all the boys greeted her back as she made her way over to her twin who was putting uniform away in his dresser "oh hey Saileach!" he jumped up and hugged his sister who only giggled and hugged him back "I'm going to assume you haven't started to get ready for bed yet" he shook his head "no, why?" She held out the clothing to him "Mam got our pyjamas mixed up and put them in the wrong trunks, can I have mine back please?" He knodded and took the pyjamas from her before searching through his trunk and then handed her a pair of white and pink striped pyjamas almost identical to his except his were blue and white. She thanked him as she took the clothes from him and smiled. She was about to turn around and walk out when Ron sat up and ,with a mouth full of chocolate ,muffled "Wha dove he meam by Saileach?" the girl turned to him and smiled "It means Willow in Irish Gaelic, his nickname for me" all the boys in the room cooed and laughed a little, but not hurtfully.

"Before I leave, can I just ask who fell off their bed?" Almost simultaneously, everyone in the room pointed and said "Neville" Neville sat on his bed almost as red as a tomato. (Y/n) turned to him with a slightly worried look "are you alright Neville? it sounded like you but the floor quite hard" the boy blushed as stuttered "I-im ok, d-dont worry" that's when harry spoke up "His toad heard you knocking causing it to jump and in turn, Neville fell off his bed trying to catch it" she looked at Neville and smiled "make a little bed for him on your bedside table with a warm cloth, it worked wonders for our scaredy cat back home didn't it Seamus?" She asked looking at her twin who nodded in agreement. Soon after, she bid them all good night and walked back to her dorm, got into her pyjamas and went to brush her teeth before climbing into bed and slowly drifting off to sleep.