Ten Compliments

-This is the Deathly Hallows Time Period-

Neville was staying after Herbology to help Professor Sprout with a few things.

"Thank you, Neville." Professor Sprout thanked him, after an hour or so of the working. "I appreciate you helping me out."

"No problem, ma'am." Neville smiled at his professor. "But, I better get going. I have detention with Professor Carrow."

"Alright, see you tomorrow Mr. Longbottom." With that, Neville left to the castle.

When he arrived in the dungeons for solitary detention, he saw Hannah Abbott shaking slightly at the entrance to the door.

"Hannah?" Neville looked at Hannah quizzically. "Do you have detention?" Hannah jumped slightly, but then turned around. She rushed to Neville's arms, and flung her arms around him.

"Neville! Thank goodness you're here! I'm so scared! I don't want to go in there! It's my first solitary detention." Hannah exclaimed in one big rush of words.

"Wow, Hannah slow down." Neville said as he awkwardly hugged her back. "It's going to be alright. Solitary isn't bad compared to Curse Detention. Haven't you been to Curse Detention?" Hannah nodded her head. "Well then, this will be a breeze."

Neville knocked on the door.

"What's like, Neville?" Hannah asked, and he could hear the fear in her voice.

"Well, they just keep us in the dark with no food or drink for as much time as they please. It's different every time." He told her. "Longest I've been in solitary was 8 hours." Hannah gasped.

"Really?" She moaned.

"Really." He took her hand in his, as the door to the dungeon opened.

"Welcome." Alecto Carrow said in a fake sweet voice. "Enter." She opened the door wide, and gestured for the two to enter. Two chairs were set up with cuffs for the legs and arms. "Sit." She ordered.

Neville and Hannah entered and sat down. The cuffs automatically closed onto their arms and legs.

"Four hours for you two." Alecto told them and then laughed. As she left she laughed louder, almost a cackle.

"Neville?" Hannah asked nervously.

"Yes, Hannah?"

"Just making sure you were there." They sat there in silence for ten minutes, then,

"Neville, are you still okay?" Hannah asked into the quiet room.

"Yes, Hannah. Are you alright?" Hannah nodded, and then remembered he couldn't see her.

"Yeah, I'm good."

That's what happened for the next four hours, Hannah would check on him every ten minutes or so. When the four hours ended, Alecto came in and lit her wand.

"Ms. Abbott, you may leave." She undid Hannah's cuffs.

"What about Neville?" Hannah asked, as she rubbed her wrists.

"Oh, he needs a little more time. Just go Ms. Abbott, before it gets ugly." Alecto warned the girl.

"Alright then. I'll see you later Neville." On her way out, she whispered, "D.A. meeting tonight. I'll tell Ginny to get it together." She then left the room.

"Curse Detention, now." Alecto informed Neville as the door to the dungeon closed.

"Crucio!"

After the detention, Neville made his way up to the seventh floor, and to the Room of Requirement.

"Dumbledore's Army room… Dumbledore's Army room… Dumbledore's Army room…" Neville paced three times in front of the wall, and the room opened.

"Hey Neville!" Neville heard Seamus greet him. He looked around the room to see the whole D.A.

"Neville, Hannah called this meeting because she wanted us to all talk about our detentions. I thought it was a wonderful idea." Ginny informed Neville; from her perch on the beanbag she was sharing with Luna.

"How was your detention?" Luna asked.

"Four hours of solitary, and then an hour of Curse." Neville then turned to Hannah. "But, Hannah was with me for solitary." Hannah smiled.

"It was my first solitary, and it was awful. I was so scared." Many people nodded.

"I'd rather have solitary than curse, though." Susan said.

"Me too." Many other people chorused.

"True. But, solitary is just so scary, and boring!" Hannah exclaimed, and many of the friends laughed.

"Completely agreed." Ginny said. "It's too much thinking time." Everyone knew Ginny tried to run from herself, from her thoughts, so solitary was not a good time for Ginny. In Curse she felt she was "being brave" for Harry.

After an hour of talking, and planning, everyone started to leave.

"Ginny, I'll catch up with you later." Neville told her, as he walked over to Hannah. Ginny smiled knowingly, and then left the Room of Requirement.

"Hannah, you were very brave earlier. You showed some Gryffindor." He smiled at the Hufflepuff.

"Thank you, Neville. For you it's just natural. I'm not brave at all. I'm just a hard working Hufflepuff." She smiled.

"Well, I happen to love Hufflepuff. The girl I fancy is in Hufflepuff." At this statement, Hannah's whole face fell.

"Oh." Hannah took a deep breath, summoning all of her courage, "Is it Susan?" She asked quietly.

Neville smiled at her, "No, she has blond hair."

Hannah thought for a moment, "Is it that sixth year, Maya something-or-other?"

"No, she's a seventh year."

Hannah tried to think of all the seventh year Hufflepuff's. Everyone she thought of had darker hair, or a dirty blonde.

"What shade of blond?" She asked with a blush.

"Well, it's very light. Just like yours." Hannah felt a twinge of jealousy that Neville would rub in that he like someone else, when she had been dropping hints to him all week.

"Oh, well, fill me in. I can't think of any blond Hufflepuff's." Hannah said after a minute.

"Ok. Her name is Hannah Abbott. Do you know her?" Neville smiled as Hannah's face turned from jealousy, to annoyance, to shock, and then to happiness.

"Really?" She all but squealed.

"Really." Neville reassured her. He then leaned in to kiss her. It was soft and gentle, and short.

"I like you too, Neville." She said when he pulled back.

"Good, I'm glad." He told her. He led her to a beanbag, and pulled her down with him.

"Name ten things you like about me." She asked with a small trace of a blush.

"Well, you're really pretty. I love your blond hair." He whispered in her ear, and she felt her spine tingle, and the feeling of his hot breath on her neck.

"And you have a wonderful personality…" He smiled as her breathing quickened.

"And you're a very brave Hufflepuff…" He thought for a moment.

"And you're smile brightens up my day…" She smiled brightly at him, and laughed. "Just like that!" He exclaimed, as she laughed too.

"You're a good friend, and you don't let anyone down. You're the perfect person to befriend." He kissed her again. "You are a great kisser, or so I know so far." She laughed.

"Your laugh is amazing too." Neville looked thoughtfully for a minute.

"And you are very smart."

"Thank you." Hannah told him. "I don't know why I needed that, but it felt nice to hear those things."

"Well, hopefully I'll be able to tell you many more things I love about you. But only if you'll be my girlfriend?"

"Alright." She smiled. "I'd love that."

-finished-

A/N- Sorry that this is late. But, I LOVE it so I hope you do too, and are not to mad. Please REVIEW! –Lyric