Chapter 2: "Neville Long bottom" The Boy Who Lived
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"Bye mum, see you at Christmas" said Harry into his mother's ear as she hugged him goodbye.
"Goodbye Harry, take care and don't get into trouble," replied his mother softly but he knew she meant it.
Then he turned to his father, he thought he saw a glisten in his eye but it disappeared as soon as Harry spoke "see you soon dad"
"See you soon son, have fun" responded James.
Then the train let of a large whistle telling the students that it was now time to get on the train and get seated. When Harry got on he stood at the door until he couldn't see his parents waving at him. Then he turned and went to find a seat.
He sat in silence taking in his surroundings when to boys knocked on the compartment door and asked if they could sit down "Hi I am Neville Longbottom and this is Ron Weasly" said the taller boy.
" Neville Longbottom? As in the boy who lived?" said Harry curiously.
"Yes that's me" replied Neville confidently.
" Well nice to meet you then, and you too um… Ron is it?" asked Harry
"Yeh, nice to meet you…?" said Ron
"Harry" said Harry
" Nice to meet you Harry" said Ron.
Then a girl called lavender brown came and asked Ron and Neville if they wanted to join her and her friends in compartment 12.
When the other boys left Harry decided he better get his robes on ready for the welcoming feast that awaited him at school. When he saw the castle looming over the hill he had a wave of nervousness and then suddenly from behind him he heard
"Awesome isn't it?" he spun around to see a brown haired boy with brown eyes around the same height as him
" Yeh it sure is" said Harry a bit startled by the other boy's sudden presence
"Sorry I didn't introduce myself, I'm Ben my brother Luke is somewhere back there talking to a girl in think she said her name was hermy-own or herm-I-own-ey". " arr speaking of the devil and my brother to" there stood a blonde haired boy with blue eyes very thin not as tall as Harry or Ben but still not short. And next to him stood a girl with extremely bushy brown hair. " Luke, herm-I-own-ey (then he gave a glance to hermione who nodded and he carried on) this is…um actually I didn't catch your name" said Ben
"Oh sorry it's Harry, Harry potter"
When he got to the castle Harry stood with Luke, Ben and Hermione whilst waiting to be sorted. They all seemed nice. Hermione was extremely intelligent but seemed kind all the same, Ben was what I guess you would call "The Comedian", Luke was a bit quieter but extremely kind and caring (from what he could tell anyway). They all seemed likely to be some very good and close friends.
"Hermione Granger" said the lady who had said her name was Professor Mcgonagle.
"Good luck" chorused the boys as she walked up calmly to the sorting hat.
"Gryffindoor" announced the hat after a few seconds of deciding.
When Hermione came down she said " it was going to put me in raven claw but then at the last minute changed its mind before finding her seat on the long house table.
They waited a few minutes before Professor Mcgonagle called Harry's name. The short walk u to the sorting hat seemed to take hours to Harry he felt sick what if I don't get into Gryffindor what if the hat puts me in slytheryn and my parents disown me? He thought. When he finally reached the hat and put it on his head it started talking in his ear " arr plenty of the mind I see, yes…you have courage I can tell you that…hmmmm better be…Gryffindor" Thank god he thought.
When all the sortings were over Ben had been sorted into Hufflepuff and Luke was sorted into Ravenclaw. So that just left Hermione and Harry in Gryffindor out of the four of them. So as the feast concluded Harry and hermione followed the other first year from Gryffindoors some including were: Neville longbottom, Ron weasly, Seamus Finnigan, Dean Thomas, Lavender Brown and Pavarti Patil (whose twin Padma was in hufflepuff) when they got up to the common room the prefect that had been guiding them (Percy weasly) gave the portrait the password "fairy lights" and they all settled in.
Harry ended up in a dormitory with Ron, Dean and Neville. So far by what he had seen and heard Harry didn't like Neville very much. He was full of himself; because he was "The Boy Who Lived" he thought he was above everyone else. Ron seemed nice enough but seemed to follow Neville around because of who he was. Harry hadn't really talked to dean but he seemed all right.
The next day at breakfast Harry sat with Hermione. When they were handed their timetables they saw that they had potions first up with the slytheryns. When they arrived they sat down in tables of 3. As Neville was trying to impress everyone he sat with Dean and Seamus so Ron was left without anyone to sit with.
"Hey Ron, over here" called Harry
"Thanks mate, I thought I would be sitting with Neville as I was his first friend, but he rejected me" replied Ron.
"Ron this is Hermione, Hermione this is Ron" said Harry look between his to friends.
" Hi hermione" said Ron shaking her hand lightly
"Nice to meet you Ron" said hermione slightly blushing.
"Silence there will be no unnecessary chatting in his class," bellowed the teacher as he walked into the room " I am professor snape". Neville was still talking with seamus so snape yelled "Mr longbottom our new celebrity hmm yes you should get on well with Mr potter if he is anything like his father…. thinks he is to good for everyone else that HE DOSENT HAVE TO LISTEN IN CLASS! 15 points from gryffindoor" the rest of the lesson went on in the same sort of manner and when lunch came Harry was well and truly ready to go to sleep and not awaken until it was time to go home.
After lunch Gryffindoors had charms with the Ravenclaws so hermione and Harry went searching for Luke. When they found him he was sitting with a boy called brodee. " Thank god you found me" said Luke as hey walked away from the Ravenclaw table leaving brodee to finish his lunch "he is so…boring if I had to stay another minute I might of burst from bord-ness, computer games this msn that, by the way what is a computer an msn?"
"Oh ok, he must be muggle born then, a computer is a thing that muggles use to interact, write with or play games on and msn is a interactive program where you can talk to people from other computers." Informed Harry.
"How do you know all of that? Your not muggle born are you?" asked Luke.
"No, but I have a cousin who is a muggle". Responded
" We have to get to class, the bell is going to ring any minute" said hermione an tugged on Harry's arm rushing him an Luke of to charms.
At the end of the day Harry met up with Ben, Luke, hermione and surprisingly Ron at the lake for a quick walk before dinner. "I know Ron wasn't invited to come for a walk but I found him all alone because Neville had gone off with dean an Seamus and thought it would be nice for him to have some people to talk to" said hermione to Harry
"Yes of course that's great, hey Ron" replied Harry. They where around the lake when they saw some people flying brooms around in the Quidditch stadium and thought that they would go have a look.
" Hi I'm Oliver Wood," said a voice from behind them.
"Oh sorry for the intrusion we were just curious" apologised hermione.
"You see my dad used to be seeker on the gryffindoor team and he has taught e a few things and since hen I have been very interested in quidditch and when I saw people flying I couldn't help but come over and have a look" said Harry
"What's your name? I might have heard of your dad," said Oliver interestedly
"My name is Harry Potter" said Harry "my father was…."
"James potter, I can believe it, guys come over here this is James potters son" interrupted wood.
"Can we see you fly" said one of the boys with flaming red hair
"That's my brother" said Ron " he is a beater on he team along with George his twin"
"Um…I could fly for you if I had a broom" said Harry
"No worries borrow mine" said wood. After 10 minutes of Harry showing he team what he could do Oliver had decided that he had just found himself his new seeker.
Wow Harry seeker on the quidditch team. That would mean you are the first, first year on the team in ages" said Ron
"A century to be precise Ronald" said hermione
" How is it that he knows everything?" asked Ben
"Honestly boys haven't any of you read Hogwarts a History?" inquired hermione rather impatiently.
" We better get to dinner, I'm starving" said Luke.
After a huge serving of roast beef, potatoes, carrots and peas Ron, hermione and Harry headed up to the common room.
" I'm going to hit the hay, going to be a big day tomorrow" said Harry
"Oh, I'm glad you have finally come to your senses and understand studying is a big deal" said hermione happily.
"No, I actually meant Quidditch training in the afternoon" said Harry before trudging upstairs to bed.
"Boys they never learn" said hermione huffily.
