IN WHICH NEVILLE’S WONDERING JUST HOW IT’S ALL WORKING OUT
On tuesday Neville was waiting patiently for the whole thing to fail spectacularly.
Instead Harry Sirius and Mrs Weasley had arrived through the floo at nine sharp. They had greeted him and his grandmother and invited them to the Burrow.
HIs grandmother took one look at the room and said
“Fabian and Gideon’s style all the way” Mrs Weasley smiled sadly “They would have loved it,”
After that his grandmother had taken some tea with Mrs Weasley and then left him at the Burrow.
Harry placed his arm around his shoulders in a weird side hug
“So? What do you think of my plan?” he asked with a hopeful smile
“i’m waiting for it to fail, i honestly have no idea how did we make it this far” instead of getting offended, Harry laughed
“I know right?”
“Let’s go outside. I wouldn’t stay inside too long, you never know when Fred and George are going to make something explode again” commented Ron showing Neville to the back garden. Neville looked pretty frightened, but at the same time Harry tried to reassure him
“They don’t always make stuff explode”
“I’d say a good 40% of the time” commented Theo, who had been playing chess with Percy outside on the little table.
“Oh, Heir Nott”
“Heir Longbottom, can I tempt you to a chess game?”
Harry shook his head so hard that Neville thought it would fall off
“Potter shut up” snapped Theo
“I didn’t say anything” argued Harry
“YOU’re discouraging him”
“Tell me I’m wrong though” Theo shot Harry a death glare, but Harry only shrugged
“Theo is great at chess, almost as good as Ron. I wouldn’t recommend going against him” Harry explained to Neville, who was looking at them confused
“See! now you’re telling him…” The two continued to bicker as Percy kept looking at the chessboard with brows crossed from the concentration
“I don’t think you’d like to play Quidditch, but I’m pretty sure Luna’s at the meadow, we can make flower crowns with her if you want” said Ron with a smile. He had understood that Nevill probably would have fun doing their usual activities
“Sure” smiled Neville.
So Neville and Ron made their way to the meadow where Luna was putting wild flowers in Cederic Diggory’s hair.
Neville’s eyebrows shot to his hairline and pointed at the pretty boy and then jestured in the direction they came from, as if to say ‘Does Harry know he’s here?’ Ron just laughed and lightly pushed him forward
“Good morning people and wild animals, I brought someone fun”
“I am yet to see Ginny” said LUna in her usual dreamy tone, while Cedric didn’t even open his eyes and said
“Hi Ron, HI Harry”
“One this isn’t Harry, second very Rude, Luna” the girl giggled as Cederic corrected himself
“Longbottom right?” Neville nodded
“YOu’re welcome to make a flower crown, the flowers multiply at nighttime so leave one or two of each and you can take the rest” he said as he let Luna place a dandelion between his eyebrows
“Come” said Ron sitting down on the grass
“What about Harry?” Neville asked: it felt rude not to call him
“He’ll come once he’s done arguing with Theo, don’t worry. At worst Ginny will use him for Quidditch practice” he said as he picked up ten daisies to make a flower crown.
Right under Neville’s eyes the stems began to regrow the Daisies “Wow!” he said
Ron smirked “I knew you’d like it”