Chapter 14- Neville's Choices

Over the next few days, Neville found himself watching Dean whenever he could. Being who he was, no one noticed. Neville could find out anything, though no one realized it. He was always an observer; he knew the normal habits of every student he had class with, including Dean. So when Dean started eating breakfast nervously, and 'jumping' whenever the post came, Neville noticed.

'Dean is scared. He's done something that's made him scared. But what?'

He was sitting in the common room, on a couch in front of the fire when it hit him. 'Malfoy!! It has something to do with him. Now what could Dean have done that would also have something to do with him?'

Nothing came to him. 'Alright, what activities does Malfoy participate in?'

Neville scribbled down ideas as they came to him.

Quidditch

Potions

Tormenting other students

Sucking up to Snape

'No, Dean wouldn't do any of those things…but those are only the things I'm POSITIVE Malfoy does. What if it's something we only strongly suspect Malfoy does…like –'

It hit him. 'Dean is going to become a Death Eater! Damn…what do I do?'

Neville thought of his possibilities, as once again everyone ignored the slightly pudgy boy.

'I could:

Deal with it myself

Tell a professor

Or hand the job over to Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who always figure everything out.'

Neville stared at his list, unsure of the answer. For several minutes, he didn't move, just looking at the parchment. Finally, he had an answer.

1 End Chapter 14

I'm so sorry this chapter took longer to come out than most did! But I had written the chapter, when I decided it sucked, and I needed to take it in a whole new direction, so I had to rewrite it, but I had no ideas coming. I've been working on this chapter for more than a week, and I finally decided last night at like…3:30 in the morning what to do with it! So here you go, chapter 14 because I had a HUGE case of writer's block.

I'm so sorry!

Keep the reviews coming! I really appreciate them! And thank you to the reviewer (who's identity I cannot remember at the moment) who just wanted to make sure I wasn't dead. I got a laugh out of that one! Thank you!

~Herbie (who's losing track of the Harry/Hermione fluff…)