Chapter 1
I walk through the halls of Hogwarts, alone and sad, I stare down into my arms at my tattered bag. Malfoy had got into it again; you think he'd be a bit more mature at 15 but he's still as mean as ever. I walk through the school trying to hold in the tears until I see the comfortingly familiar tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy.
I walk up and down three times in front of the wall opposite, just wishing I could have somewhere to cry. As a large wooden door appears I hear footsteps behind me. I turn in horror, but it's only Luna Lovegood. In truth this girl used to scare me, but we're friends now; it's nice to have someone to talk to who isn't embarrassed to be with me.
"Hello Neville," she calls softly, her voice distant and dreamy as always. Together we walk into the room of requirement.
Inside there's a big, fluffy couch with lots of pillows. I smile, dropping my books on the floor, and crashed onto the couch. I smile at Luna and she comes sits next to me, I wipe my eyes and nose with the tissues that appear next to me.
Luna puts her arm around me leans in and whispers.
'What's wrong Neville?" Her eyes pale, beautiful, are big with worry. I stare into them for a second, then look away quickly as I feel my face get hot.
"Just Malfoy and his cronies," I whisper, my eyes roll down to her knee length pleated blue skirt them up to her light blue blouse them to her twisted nargel repellent necklace then her thin, elegant neck, and then finally back to her beautiful eyes the worry now replaced with something I don't really recognise.
A weird feeling stirs in my stomach and something beyond my control makes me lean forward slowly staring deeply into her beautiful eyes, she leans closer with me until we're millimetres apart then I close the gap and out lips touch.
About an hour later, we're walking hand in hand down to the dining hall for dinner; we walk through the large wooden doors. A few people turn their heads to look at us -I hear some cruel comments from the Slytherin table- but I just ignore them; I don't even care anymore. I lean forward and kiss her on the cheek and then we part to our own tables. I walk up and sit between Dean and Harry, Dean is arguing with Seamus again about soccer and quidditch.
I turn to Harry who is looking at me with a silly grin, causing me to blush.
"What?" I moan.
"Nothing" he says, smiling. Sitting across from me Hermione just rolls her eyes at Harry and turns to me and asks.
"So, you and Luna?" She smiles at me, and I can't help but smile back I tell them a little bit of what happened in the room of requirement.
"So, you were snogging Luna in the room of requirement?" Ron gasps through hysterical laughing.
Hermione smacks him over the back of the head, but he just keeps laughing. I look into my sausages, blushing. Harry pats me on the shoulder, I look at him; it's good to see him smiling, he's been pretty distant lately.
We finish our dinner with mild conversation. Towards the end I see Harry looking at something his pocket, and as we're walking out I feel something getting hot against my hip. I look at the gold galleon in my pocket and start heading up to the Dumbledore's Army meeting that's starting in five minutes.
On the way out of the hall I see Luna she's smiling and has that dazed look in her eyes. I walk up behind her and slide my hand into hers. She turns and hugs me.
"Are you going to DA?" she asks her head tilted slightly to the side.
"'Coarse I am" I answer she mirrors my smile and we start walking through the school, hand in hand.
