Chapter 28: Into the Fold

During a Transfiguration class Harry had another memory attack, he passed out hard and McGonagall was quite concerned but Neville beat her to the rescue saying they had simply been studying late last night and he would take Harry to the Hospital Wing for a Pepper up. While in reality Neville took his friend back to the dorms and wrote a letter to the Slytherins he had seen his friend with and sighed as Harry made mumbled threats under his breath about Bill and headaches. So when the snakes arrived he quickly shuffled them up to his friend who was now hiding under the bed.

"Harry why in the world are you down there?" Neville asked confused, a mumbled noise made him blink and drop to sit near the bed, "Whose R and why are you so confused?"

Draco, Theo and Blaise blinked and sighed knowing they had to let Longbottom in on the secret of the letters if only to help their friend. Yet when Harry sat up and smacked his head off the bottom of the bed they heard the other teen curse loudly, "Son of a…" crawling out Harry rubbed his forehead.

"Harry why do you keep fainting and why are you friends with them now? Oh and whose R?" Neville asked which made his friend blink at him some, "What you're the best friend I have…of course I'm going to notice when things start changing around you, I thought for a while there that you were going to announce you're actually a Slytherin but then you seemed to get weird, no offense. Now your back to Harry and I'm a bit lost."

"Oh Nev…it's a long complicated and intricate story which I'm willing to tell you if you are as good of a friend as I think," Harry murmured before asking, "How much do you trust Ron?"

"I don't you know that," Neville sighed rolling his eyes before digging through his trunk and tossing his friend a headache reliever, "Here I think it might help."

"Love you!" Harry exclaimed as he drank it down happily not in the least minding the taste since he was so use to them, "Ah, much better. Now before I explain exactly what is going on please some one make sure no one is at the door."

Darting over Theo peeked out and checked for invisibilty spells, while Draco and Blaise made sure nothing in the room could record what was happening. Once everything was deemed good the snakes motioned at Harry to go ahead, "Alright Ron and Hermione locked my memories down," he said which made Neville blink and sit down, "Well you see all those letters I've been receiving are from someone who calls himself R, and he asked them to keep an eye on me and out of trouble. Well I befriended Theo, and Draco and Blaise just sort of fell in line with it…but I only remember some of our friendship and they are helping me figure it all out again."

"Sum up you have a secret admirer, befriended Slytherins, Ron and Hermione didn't like it and put the whammy on you?" Neville asked, which made the four nod, "So Bill is the one who figured out how to unlock your memories?"

"How did you know about Bill?" Harry asked tilting his head in confusion.

"I am not as stupid as people think Harry, you get this smile when around Bill or Remus is around. It's like your regular smile but softer," Neville said which made Harry blink, "Luna pointed it out to me."

"She would notice these things," Harry sighed before rubbing his face and asking, "Nev…we'll be friends no matter what I tell you right?"

"As long as you want to be my friend then yes," Neville smiled which made Harry smile softly before sighing and holding a hand out for him, taking his friends hand he was pulled down next to him on the floor.

"Alright," Harry sent out a small wave of magic which would make the conversation seem like they were talking about Harry fainting, "Alright for a while now I've been taking these three and meeting Bill, Remus, the twins, Lucius Malfoy and the Dark Lord in the Shrieking Shack."

"Why the last two?" Neville asked curiously.

"They know R, he sent them to me," Harry said which got a nod from his friend, "Everything good?" getting a nod he smiled some, "Now what did you say to McGonagall?"

"That we were up late studying," Neville smiled, "Everyone knows you help me study and that I normally need the help around this time of year-by the way can we have a study session soon? I haven't asked because you seemed busy."

"Oh Nev I'm so sorry, of course study session tonight I promise," Harry said and got hugged by his friend before he tapped his foot to his trunk, "Letters in there I know your curiosity is eating you up," and Neville jumped at the chance, yet he was cautious when approaching the trunk.

"It's a trunk, why do you look so contemplative?" Draco asked with a sigh.

"Well I'm a bit of a coward, trunks scare me, will you open it please?" Neville asked which made the blond roll his eyes and open the latches before getting stunned and tied in a bow with a red ribbon the words thief were writing themselves over Draco's face, "That…was too easy."

"Dray got played by Longbottom!" Blaise fell over laughing while Theo went to fixing his blond friend chuckling the whole time.

"What happened?" Draco asked sitting up before Harry just smiled, Blaise was still laughing and Neville was digging around in the trunk, "Theo?"

"Longbottom tricked you so he could get past Harry's tricks and traps attached to the trunk, really Draco you should have known. Why would you willingly open Harry's trunk? He's gotten very protective of his things since the whole memory lock down fiasco," Theo chided which made the blond pale a bit more.

"Alright," Neville settled next to his friend with the letters and began to read over them, he made it through them rather quickly before turning to his friend and tilting his head. Getting a nod he turned and looked at the Slytherins, "Class lets out in five minutes you should make yourselves scarce."

"Shack tonight?" Theo asked Harry getting a nod he smiled, "I'll let the others know," and they took off sneaking away into the castle.

Once alone Neville turned to Harry and asked, "So…is this…" Harry simply nodded which made his friend smile some, "Good."