Hermione met up with Ginny at Hogs Head for lunch. After exchanging Hellos with Aberforth, they sat down with 2 warm butterbeers.
"Okay, what did you say to Neville?" Ginny had an accusing tone to her voice.
"I didn't say anything insulting, just that I'd be studying in my room from now on." she said. "I don't want him to carry me to bed that's embarrassing."
"Are you trying to avoid him?" Ginny asked.
"What! No. Why would you think that?"
"Better question is, why would he think that?" She asked Hermione.
"Why does he think that?"
"Maybe because that's all he's ever known. Up until he took over the DA, he didn't really have any friends. I mean he had friends but nothing close to you, Harry, and my brother." She stated. "After he took over the DA he gained a lot of confidence. I guess trust didn't come along with it. And he trusts you, he's afraid of me." Ginny chuckled. "I think you need to patch things up with him, and a way not to do that is by spending all of your free time studying, especially in your room."
Hermione knew she was right, but she was still uneasy about being carried to bed. "I'll just be more careful about not staying up to late dong school work."
"That's my girl. Now about those dreams. Did you have another one since we talked?" Ginny scooted closer to her friend and lowered her voice.
"No but do we really have to talk about this?" She whispered.
"Yes!" Ginny screeched. "Have you thought about who it could be?"
"Why does it matter. It's just a dream it doesn't mean anything." huffed Hermione.
"It means everything. It means your subconscious is trying to tell you to shag this guy senseless. It means you are attracted to this man but you won't let yourself realize it." Ginny said. "The question is who could it be? There's not a lot to pick from at Hogwarts. This may take some thinking."
After finishing their lunch and bidding a goodbye to Aberforth, the girls made their way back to the castle. Hermione stopped by the greenhouses to see if she could find Neville but Professor Sprout informed her he had just left. She meandered on up to the Heads tower to see if he was there since it was still too early for dinner.
She walked through the portrait into the common room. The only hint of him being there was his jacket laid across the back of the couch. She went to his bedroom door and noticed it was already open so she gave it a little push to open it. "Neville?" When she opened the door, she regretted it immediately. There was Neville stark naked fresh from a shower running a towel through his brown locks. To say Hermione got an eye full would be an understatement. With his broad shoulders thick thighs and nice toned back muscles and a round bite worthy ass, Hermione appreciated the bags of soil she saw him carrying around much more now. "Oh Merlin, Neville I'm so sorry!" He turned around and that's when she saw it. His member was not that of some boys. No that was a man's penis, and Hermione couldn't take her eyes off of it. Neville wrapped the towel around his waist and turned the darkest shade of red. Hermione snapped out of her snake trance and turned around and did the only thing she could think of, she ran.
Hermione's footsteps carried her all the way to the Gryffindor common room, to find Ginny who was currently flirting with her ex Dean Thomas.
"Ginny, I did something awful I don't think I'll ever be able to go back! I don't know what to do! Ginny I'm a horrible person!" Hemione was close to tears as Ginny grabbed her a pulled her up to the Seventh-year girls dorm. She pushed Hermione onto her bed.
"What the hell happened?" Ginny was standing over her with her hands on her hips looking down at her. Which reminded her too much of Molly Weasley.
"I walked in on Neville!" She stood and started to pace.
"What do you mean 'walked in on Neville'. Walked in on him doing what?" She inquired.
"I walked in on him naked!" Hermione yelled.
Ginny went wide eyed and then started laughing so hard her face started to match her flaming red hair and she fell on her bed. "I can't believe it!" She gasped in between laughs.
"What am I supposed to do now Ginerva! I can't ever see him again!" Hermione plopped back down on the bed staring into space.
"Well did you like what you'd seen?" Ginny asked.
"No... I don't know. Maybe... Okay yes!" She placed her face in her hands.
"This is so great! You have to tell me everything, leave nothing out."
"What! No, I can't do that. That's got to be a breach of trust or something." Hermione was still in a panic over what to do now that she's seen, well, everything.
"No, you're right you'll tell me as soon as you shag him." Ginny laughed.
"What do I do now, Ginny. Help me!" Hermione cried.
"There's not much you can do. You could try to talk to him about it. Or you could shag him." Ginny laughed.
"Shag him! Is that the only answer you've got!" Hermione could feel her heart racing. She felt like the walls were closing in on her.
"Lighten up Hermione. So, you saw him naked, it's not the end of the world. Just act like nothing happened and if he brings it up just apologize." Ginny was still in a fit of giggles by the time Hermione left her friends dorm.
Hermione couldn't go to the great hall for dinner as it was still a couple of hours early. So, she did what any bookworm would do, she drowned herself in a big boring book from the library to try to get her mind off of Neville's penis. Which was not working at all.