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Neville and Hannah- part 4

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For Hannah, her 6th year at Hogwarts meant fear. Throughout the holidays and even at school, terrible news seemed to trickle through – promising a torrent.

She had passed her OWLs well enough , but not quite to the standard she'd need to become a healer – which had been her ambition since she could remember and left her feeling rather lost.

One of the only bright patches of her days were the times she spent with Neville, even just catching a glimpse of him now and then seemed to lessen the cloud of foreboding that's seemed to follow her now, so that she found herself distracted from conversations with her friends, even Ernie, on a regular basis and dwelling instead on the growing darkness.

With Neville, perhaps because she could tell he could feel it too, none of that mattered anymore. At the weekends they'd sometimes spend hours just talking or else walking around the grounds in companionable silence and scarcely noticing the time go by. When they were together she actually laughed for real and sometimes couldn't help herself just watching him sometimes when he wasn't looking at her, the lean muscles starting to develop on his arms and the easy way he walked and, of course, those hazel eyes which somehow managed to look both intense and full of light at the same time.

Sometimes she even felt her guard start to come down and thought of him in a way she knew she shouldn't with a boyfriend of two years waiting back at the common room. It was definitely time for a chat with Ernie.

She chose a time when they were alone together, sitting under a large beech tree next to the lake with their combined homework fanned out in front of them.

"Ernie?"
He turned to her with a strange look on his face.

"Yes, Hannah"

"You know you're my best friend in the world?"

His voice softened slightly.
"Of course I do Han"

"Well…I was thinking – I – I like you a lot you know, but it's only…i don't feel like you're my boyfriend anymore , like we've kind of just gone back to just being friends and – well…I was wondering if that was really such a bad thing…"

She chanced a glance up at his face, only to see him nodding slowly.
"I think you might be right."

"What?" she thought she must of misheard him. "I mean – really?"

He sort of half smiled.

"Yeah, well….things have been …different for quite a long time now haven't they?"
She nodded dumbly. She couldn't believe this.

"Of course, officially I'm completely heartbroken and full of regret of what might have been and so on" He continued, looking significantly more cheerful.

She laughed, and it was like nothing had ever changed between them.

"Oh of course – utterly consumed by grief, don't worry I'll tell everyone" She said with a wink, so many people didn't understand his way of doing things like she did, but that didn't stop her finding it hugely amusing.

They passed several minutes in companionable silence.

"So… who is this "someone else" then" he asked her out of the blue, grinning at her dumbstruck expression. "You going to tell me his name?"

She recovered herself slightly and couldn't stop herself beaming right back at him.
"Not yet Ern, but definitely maybe soon."
Even weirder chapter that the last one - no Neville in a HannahXNeville story and its really short compared to the others. It's just it kind of felt wrong stringing ernie along and this was just going to be part of the next bit - where things take a dramatic turn! (Bet youve guessed it if you've read the books) but i needed the next bit to be from Neville's POV and ...yeah XD
as always , all characters belong to the wonderful J.K Rowling and sorry for mistakes or excess of fluff.
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Please post more chapters, this is the cutest fic ever! <3