Harry watched in horror as Neville sped from the room.

"Damn it!" she cursed. Her eyes skittered between Gin and the door, silently pleading the boy for permission to seek out the other.

Gin let out a sigh. "Go ahead. It is obvious that you care about him. I hope you patch things up."

Harry bolted from the bed with a muttered 'thanks'.

"Well, that pretty much bombed…" the redhead said to himself, leaning back onto the bed and surveying the ceiling.

"I wouldn't say that." A voice said from the corner of the room.

Gin bolted upright. "Who's there?" she asked.

Hermione walked out of the shadows and the boy let out a sigh of relief. An indignant look then spread upon his face, "You were there the whole time? Watching?"

"Yep." The girl said devilishly. She plopped herself down next to Gin and leaned against him lightly. "Perhaps this is a good thing."

"And why do you say that it may be a good thing that Harry likes Neville and not me?"

Hermione was silent for a moment.

"Hermione?" Gin asked, his eyebrow arching upwards into his bangs.

"Well… You… you get the message when it is obvious that someone doesn't want to be with you. You don't want to be with someone who is half-assing it, right? So now… now you know that Harry is no longer an option for you. You can move on." The brown-haired young woman answered. "And also, since you understand, Harry won't have to worry about you going all jealous, disturbing ex-crush on her at some point."

"Mmhmm." Gin said, knowing for a fact that that was not the real answer to the question. But he decided to let it go for today. He would ask later.

((The Pretender))

Harry ran up the stairs to Neville's room. The door was open and she saw Neville sitting on his bed, looking down at the ground. The young woman closed the door behind her and leaned against it.

"Neville." Harry said quietly.

The brown-haired young man looked up, looking the girl over. She looked calm, but he could tell that she wasn't by the way that she was chewing at her lip continuously.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt you and Ginny." Neville said.

"You didn't interrupt anything, Neville. Gin was…" the ebony-haired girl let out a sigh, "Gin was trying to figure out if I loved him. I don't. I will be honest with you Neville, I used to be head over heels for him, but… But not anymore."

"And that was why he was kissing you." Neville stated, his voice incredulous and his left eyebrow raising.

"Yeah… I don't really understand it either." Harry stated as she rubbed the back of her neck. "Girls are weird…"

Neville let out a laugh, "He isn't a girl anymore, you know. And you just called yourself weird."

"Well, aren't I? I mean, I survived the Killing Curse at the age of one, I am a parselmouth, I've got a Dark Lord after my life and I used to be a boy. Doesn't that kinda define 'weird'?"

"You do have a point there." Neville said. He thought for a moment and then continued speaking, "Professor Snape talked to me."

"Oh?" Harry asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah. He told me that if I kept being mad at myself about Gran's death, that I would be pretty much missing out on life. And Gran wouldn't be too happy about that. And he made me realize that I was pushing everyone away. Especially you, Harry, and I'm sorry for that. Your friendship is the most important thing to me. To lose you… I just… I know that I would fall apart."

Harry nodded, "I know what you mean. When you weren't talking to me I was really disappointed. I thought that you would let me in. Like I let you in when Sirius died. But you shut me out and it felt like a part of myself was gone."

"I'm sorry." Neville said, looking up into Harry's eyes, keeping her gaze.

"You're forgiven." Harry said, grinning broadly as she made her way across the room and plopped herself onto Neville's lap. She hugged him close, breathing in the scent of soil and water.

Neville wrapped an arm around the young woman, returning the hug, and with the other he carded his fingers through her long hair.

((The Pretender))

Conditions Met:

1. More than one character must have their gender switched.
2. They are switched involuntarily.
3. Snape gets somebody to love.
4. At least one person dies.