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Neville Longbottom stared up at the ceiling from the bed where he lay. Just one more day and he would be getting on that familiar train that would ship him back to Hogwarts, school of witchcraft anf wizardry for his seventh,and last, year. His Gram had wanted him to stay after the frightful news that the Dark Lord was at large again, but he insisted that he must go back, that he needed and wanted too. Somehow he had managed to get her to let him go. Now he was rethinking why he had wanted to go so badly. He skimmed his mind to try and pick out the reasons, he wanted to get better at his magic...he wanted to see his friends...

' What friends? I always seem to be a tag along, it's not like it would matter whether I was there or not. ' Neville thought bitterly.

Then his mind came to her. The one girl who he couldn't get off his mind for some reason and felt a feeling he'd never felt before whenever she popped into his head. The one thing that overpowered every excuse and made him decide to go back to Hogwarts. He had written to her all summer, and she had written back, much to Neville's surprise and joy. He had recently sent her a letter about school, and how he felt it would be, knowing that half of the school would be gone due to the new pure-blood rule. She hadn't replied yet, and he wondered if she was a pure-blood like him. He knew that her mothered had passed away when she was younger, but didn't know whether she was a pure-blood or not.

He heard Gram downstairs fixing dinner and rolled his head over to look the window of his room. The sky was darkening and the sunset was getting fainter. He saw a fluffy brown owl with a necklace that had a very small radish around it's neck flying towards his window before looking back up to the ceiling. Suddenly, his eyes widened as his mind registered what he saw and he quickly sat up and looked back over to the window, where the owl was now fluttering just outside, waiting to be let in. Neville stood up and swiftly moved over to the window, almost knocking his desk chair over as he did. He raised the window up and the owl flew in and landed on his recently occupied bed.

Neville walked back over to his bed and untied the letter attached to the owl's leg, then sent the owl back out his window and shut it. He walked over to his desk and sat down, looking at the handwriting on the envelope, already knowing who it was from. He was happy she had replied before school had started. He carefully opened the envelope and took out the pink and orange shaded parchment that she always sent to him and began reading.

Dear Neville,

I'm doing well, thanks. I hope you are doing good too. Though my father is becoming more worrisome of The Quibbler. He's gotten lots of threats from Death Eaters about it. He said I won't have to worry because I'll be protected but I'm not so sure. I do hope he'll be alright by himself, while I'm gone.

I have been thinking of school as well. I can't wait to go back so I can see you and Ginny and the others who are kind to me. I would include Ron, Hermione, and Harry, but I'm afraid they might not be coming to Hogwarts this year. I went to Bill Weasley and Fleur's wedding and Death Eaters attacked us somehow. Harry, Ron, and Hermione disappeared and we haven't seen or heard from them since. The school sure will be lonesome this year, with the new pure-blood rule and others whose parents are afraid. We'll have to stick together.

I wonder who the new headmaster will be. I hope it's Mrs. McGonagall, she seems nice and has helped me recover some of my things when my classmates hide them from me. Who do you think will be headmaster? Oh, well, you can answer that tomorrow. surely I will be seeing you on the train. I look forward to seeing you again, Neville. I've missed you, as well as the others, very much.

Hope to see you very soon,

Luna Lovegood

Neville sighed and smiled lightly. He noticed that Luna had drawn a hare and jinxed it to hop around the parchment.

' Her Patronus.' Neville thought as he gently folded the parchment back and put it in the envelope. He then gasped and shook his head as he remembered what she had said about Harry and the wedding and Death Eaters. He closed his eyes tightly and rubbed his temples.

' This is going to be one long and challenging year.' He thought and slowly opened his eyes again.

He gently ran his fingers across the front of the envelope, where she had written his name, before storing it in a small box with all the other letters she had sent to him, which he then placed back in his luggage bag, which was filled with his school robes as well as other daily needed things. He walked over and picked Trevor, his toad which he had had since his first year at Hogwarts, off his desk and put him in a small cage which he had finally decided to buy for him.

"Gram will be taking care of you this year. I'm sorry you can't come with me, mate, but you're a lot of trouble sometimes and you won't like it this year anyways." Neville said to Trevor, more to help himself than to help his toad. This would be a hard year but he would be ready for it.

"NEVILLE, TIME FOR DINNER!" He heard Gram yell. Neville Longbottom quickly closed Trevor's cage and stumbled out of his room and down the stairs towards the kitchen.

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A/N - So, how did you like it? My first Harry Potter Story and I can't wait to write more. I promise another update will come soon. Maybe even tomorrow! Please review, and tell me what you think. I have much in store for this story. -big grin-