Memories-The resolve

A/N- I know that I am not J.K. Rowling , after reading this you should too.

On another note, I am sorry it took me so much time to update.

Please do ignore my grammatical errors and also the repetition of certain words.

I have been too busy preparing for my entrance exams.

By the way I love reviews, you can be as critical as you wish as long as you do not make me cry.

It was September first I was trying to locate a compartment on the Hogwarts express it was due to leave soon. It was my final year at Hogwarts. I was supposed to be excited, my friends were supposed to be with me but they were no where to be seen.

I had this dreadful feeling in the pit of my stomach. This year was going to be unlike any but not in a good way, which is why even though I was in the middle of finding a compartment for my self my eyes were scanning for every familiar face that I had not yet seen aboard the train.

This time of the year had always made me feel happy even though I tend to be a nervous wreck or I used to be a nervous wreck, something in the past few years had changed me. I had faced near death situations and survived.

I finally found a nearly empty compartment there was only one person in it, a familiar someone she had long straggly dirty blonde hair. If it were me from some years back I would not dare enter the compartment but that day, I took a deep breath and entered.

"Oh hello Neville how was your summer" Luna asked from her seat.

I plopped into a seat next to her and said "it was fine how about yours"

As Luna was about to answer the door swung open and Ginny Weasley entered the compartment and slid back the door looking utterly morose.

"Had a bad summer" Luna asked and when Ginny nodded, she I mean Luna turned to me with her calm, serene yet surprised look of hers and asked "So who is going to be teaching DA this year"

Ginny and I turned at once to look at her and we both kept looking.

We were not looking at her in shock. No we were deliberating what we were going to do for we knew it would be soon, very soon that we would be reaching the place we had come to consider our second home.

But we also knew that it was no longer the safe haven we once loved and we would have to take a stand against what lay ahead waiting for us at Hogwarts.

As I was getting off of the Hogwarts express my heart felt like molten lead had been poured into it but as we three stepped towards the carriages the lead froze leaving a heavy weight on my chest.

When we got to the carriages I saw her, surrounded by a group of greeting Hufflepuffs. I recognised those pigtails those rosy cheeks and my heart filled with hope and warmth. Yet as soon as those feelings washed over me I saw her eyes and all those feelings of dread and anxiousness retuned but this time they came accompanied by another feeling.

A rage so powerful that it could have burned me coursed through my veins. However useless the rage proved it self to be, at that moment it did the best thing it could for me, it burnt into me the determination to fight whatever Hogwarts held for me I was resolved to fight it head on, my head held high and as I got into the carriage I could feel the determination that surrounded my being surround my two remaining best friends who were already seated.

Seeing Hannah had brought home to me how simple yet powerful Luna's question had been.

These were the thoughts that ran through Neville's mind as he rushed to Saint Mungos.