PART 2:
NEVILLE'S POV:
I do like Ron, he seems like an alright kind of guy. Nice and all around the kind of person that Grandmother always told me is the right kind of person to take as a friend.
I like to think that I have.
After all I don't have very many friends and my dorm mates are really the only people I could count as being such.
There is something rather lonely about him right now.
Understandable seeing as how Harry's not around anymore and all that has happened since 5th Year.
Which is a lot.
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End of Neville's POV:
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There is something that seems to be missing for Ron.
He knows that Harry's whole disappearing act and melodramatics are the brunt of it. After all not everyone has the Boy-Who-Lived as their best friend and as a result being the biggest thorn in his backside…
He knows that he shouldn't be upset over it.
But there's the fact he's waiting for the worst news to arrive in the owl post. There goes the fact that early in the morning he can't look out the window in the dorm room because he's afraid of seeing Harry's raven hair head on a pike near Dumbledore's tomb.
That's what it ultimately comes down to.
His seemingly hormonal state where he needs to be laughing with Dean or Seamus; eating in the presence of a thousand houselves…
Hell, he can't even insult the Slytherins anymore… knowing that they're all going to be dead within months…
He knows, as he knows that his hair is bright red, that the Slytherins are not really at fault with who they are destined to be.
One of the things that Percy always made sure to preach at him when they were younger no ones at fault when it comes to the things you learn at home. After all Percy may be a stuck up pin head but he's still has the qualities that make him a Weasley.
So Ron knows that he shouldn't judge the Slytherins based on what they forced into being.
But admittedly it is hard.
Especially when the people you care most about are in the thick of it.
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To be honest he would like to say that Hermione and Ginny don't get him.
Of course that's probably a big lie, if there's anything he's learnt it's that females understand everything to a bigger degree than he does.
Well, actually everyone understands things better than he does.
"Come off it Ron, Harry will be fine."
"Oh really? How do you know that Gin, just because he's still your little hero--"
"Shut up Ron!"
"Why should I!"
OK maybe that rule isn't quite right when it comes between siblings.
"Kingsley and Tonks will make sure nothing happens. After all they are fully qualified--"
It doesn't really matter that Ron REALLY likes Hermione when she goes off on her infuriating 'I know Everything' phases.
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When he thinks about it he realizes some things about the selfishness of his friendship with Harry. Being that Harry is the Harry Potter. The future Saviour of the Wizarding World.
When he thinks about it it's unfair for him to be sitting at school listening to Sprout while his best friend is out there getting killed.
Harry Potter is just something that people use to label his best friend.
The only person when he's around him he's able to joke and be himself, just enjoying life.
Even Ginny couldn't do that around Harry.
After all Harry was Harry Potter for her.
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"I'm worried about Neville. I mean he doesn't really talk to anyone and just locks himself in the Greenhouses."
When Ron does turn to look at the small brown haired boy he does notice that the jolly appearance is gone and Neville has lost some of that softness that added to his personality. Instead this thin presence of hardness over covered what was once a bright and sunny exterior.
But he still does talk.
Ron asks him to pass the butter and he asked why he didn't just use the one right beside his right elbow.
Hermione just overreacts.
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