Chapter 11

Harry decided not to disturb them. He left and went back out of the portrait hole as quietly as possible, when he saw Fred and George walking towards the portrait carrying Neville he quickly clambered back in he portrait hole and out of their sight.

"Ron, Hermoine are you in here?" Harry called. A noise came from up in the boy's dormitory and a minute later Ron and Hermoine walked down the stairs and into the common room, Ron was red in the face but other than that there was no sign that he'd just been making out with Hermoine.

"Just finished that homework." Hermoine said. At that moment Fred and George came into view at the portrait hole, they hoisted Neville up and through the hole, the climbed in themselves.

"What happened?" Hermoine asked looking down at the dazed Neville.

"You remember that trick step? The one that disappears." Fred said with a grin.

"Yeah." Said Ron.

"Well he didn't." George laughed." He stepped on it as we were walking back here, he fell over and hit his head on the wall. We've had to carry him all the way back here." They all looked down at Neville as he sat up on the floor, he had a confused look on his face and had a distant look in his eyes.

"Where am I?" he asked wearily.

"At the Gryffindor tower." Harry told.

" The what? Hey, who are you?" Neville asked starting to panic.

"Oh no, he's got amnesia." Hermoine stated." Neville calm down, were friends."

"Who's Neville?" Neville asked suspiciously.

"Harry, Ron help me get him to the hospital wing." Hermoine demanded. They guided Neville out of the common room, having to gain his trust first. Then they took him down the corridor.

"Hey, you two. Don't get into any trouble, we need you on top form tomorrow." Fred called after then.

"My detention! I'm going to be late." Harry realised.

"You go, we can handle the rest of the way on are own." Ron grinned looking at Hermoine. There gonna be at it again, Harry thought to himself as he race down the stair and into the great hall. As he came down the stairs he saw Professor Sprouts waiting.

"Ah, there you are Harry." Professor Sprouts called." I've been waiting for you."

"Are you taking the detention?" Harry asked him.

"Yes. We'll be planting some mandrakes." Professor Sprouts told him. Professor Sprouts led Harry out of the castle and down to the greenhouses. They walked into greenhouse three and an uneasy feeling came over Harry. There were five mandrakes and they were huge, their heads nearly touched the roof. They were all quiet and not moving.

"Don't worry, there under a spell. They won't wake up until sunlight." Professor Sprouts said after seeing the anxious look on Harry's face. After hearing this Harry felt better as the uneasy feeling left him.

"Lightio floatius." Professor Sprouts said pointing his wand at the mandrakes began to hover about a foot above the floor." Now take these two outside and leave them beside the edge of the forest. Harry pulled at the two mandrakes that Professor Sprouts had pointed to, he was surprised at how easily they were to move. He took them to the edge of the forest and saw Professor Sprouts pulling two more.

"Get the last one." Professor Sprouts told him. " And grab the two shovels." Harry ran back to the greenhouse and looked around for the shovels, the greenhouse was dark and it was hard to see. He saw them leaning against the wall by the door, he picked them up and pulled the mandrake with him as he walked to were Professor Sprouts was waiting for him. When Harry got back he saw that there was five crosses on the ground, he let go of the mandrake and put the shovels on the ground. Professor Sprouts picked one of the shovels up off the ground and handed it back to Harry.

"I need you to dig five holes where I put the crosses." Professor Sprouts told Harry. Harry began working, after twenty minutes he'd dug up four of the five holes. He started work on the fifth one, after digging the hole half way he thought he heard something. It was a voice from below him, he listened for a minute but the sound disappeared so he began to dig again. A while later he'd nearly finished the hole when he hit something hard, but he couldn't see what.

"Well done Harry." Professor Sprouts said coming over to him." You can go now." Harry didn't think about the voice or the hard thing he hit anymore. He said bye to Professor Sprouts and ran of to Hagrids hut, Hagrid opened the door to Harry with a big smile on his face.

"Hi 'arry, I 'aven't seen you in a long time." Hagrid said warmly. Harry walked into the hut, there was a kettle above the fire and a chair was seated in front of it.

"I've been busy." Harry told him, he was delighted to sit in front of the warm fire after that long dig.

" I've 'eard." Hagrid said." Do you want a rock cake 'arry.

"No thanks." Harry said." Did you want to talk to me about something Hagrid?"

"I just wanted to know if you were feeling ok, after what 'appened to Ron and all." Hagrid said worriedly.

"I'm fine." Harry lied." I don't mean to be rude but I'd better go, there's a quidditch match tomorrow and it won't be safe to walk back to the castle later."

"That's ok, I understand. I'll walk you back." Hagrid grinned to Harry. They walked back to the castle in silence and only talked when they reached the front doors.

"Bye." Harry said tiredly.

"Bye, and don't go getting in more trouble. Even if it is to get back at Malfoy." Hagrid laughed quietly to himself. Harry trudged up to the Gryffindor tower. He was stopped halfway by Peeves.

"Go away Peeves, I'm not in the mood to deal with you." Harry growled at Peeves while dodging a picture that Peeve had thrown at him.

"Ooooowwww, someone's not very happy." Peeves laughed at him, throwing another picture.

"What's going on here?" A voice came from round a corner; Peeves obviously recognised the voice because he disappeared before the Bloody Baron came round the corner.

"What's going on here?" He repeated.

"Peeves was here." Harry told him and walked down the corridor towards the Gryffindor tower.

"Password?" The fat lady in the picture asked.

"Slytherine suck." Harry said, it was a password the whole of Gryffindor had agreed on, and the portrait swung forward and he stepped inside. Ron and Hermoine were there on their own but they weren't kissing, although from the look of it they had just stopped.

"Hi." They said simultaneously. Harry said hi back and collapsed in a armchair next to them.

"Harry we have something to tell you." Ron said looking at Hermoine." Me and Hermoine are going out."

"I know." Harry told them before thinking about what he was saying.

"What do you mean." Hermoine asked suspiciously. Harry explained all about seeing them kissing, they didn't seem to mind this though.

"How's Neville?" Harry asked.

"He's fine, he's spending the night in the hospital wing but he's got his memory back." Hermoine answered.

"We'll I'm going to bed. We've got to be up by nine." He said and walked went up to bed and fell into a deep sleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.