I sat at the breakfast table the next day, staring at the empty seat that Seamus usually filled. The funny banter in which we usually experienced had disappeared, leaving me to listen to Dean complaining that he couldn't find Lavender anywhere and about how much he liked her. "I'm going seeing Seamus now, you coming?" I cut him short before he could describe to me anymore about how beautiful Lavenders eyes apparently were. " I have to go and get my bag from the common room, I'll meet you up there," Dean said as I stood up to leave.
The corridors seemed unusually empty as I went to the hospital wing. People were usually going to lessons at this time, whilst I had decided to skip Divination. Besides professor Trelawny would never miss us, she's usually to busy predicting everyone's deaths than to realise who's in her class or not.
I arrived at the hospital wing quicker than I had suspected, to find Madam Pomfrey sat at her desk outside."Come to see Mr Finnegan have you Longbottom?" she asked as I nodded. She pointed me in the right direction. Seamus' bed was in the very far corner at the end of the wing, and blue curtains surrounded it so he couldn't be seen. As I approached Seamus' bed, I could hear a faint murmur of a whisper. I came to a standstill just outside of the curtains, as I listened intently the voices sounded familiar. Lavender? She was whispering to Seamus, "I've always liked you, even when I was with Ron, I thought it'd make you jealous. It seemed like you never noticed me but I really like you Seamus, it may even be love you know?" at this I drew back the curtains sharply and stared at a horror struck Lavender. "Please don't tell anyone, Neville, no one was meant to find out" she stammered at me. It was at that point that I heard footsteps behind me and a voice shouted," how is he?" it was Dean. "Ooh what's going on here then?" said Dean jokingly" I thought you loved Divination, favourite lesson isn't it Lavender?"
"Well, yes but … I thought this was a bit more well you know, important" stammered Lavender again.
"Oh, ok no need to get defensive. Anyway has he, well done anything?" said Dean
"No Dean, he's unconscious!" I replied back
"Ah okay …" an awkward silence descended upon the situation, it was only until Seamus let out a small cry that Lavender flew into hysterics over him. I looked at Dean before I decided to leave. It was far too awkward for me to stand. As I left the Hosptial wing, I looked at my watch which unfortunately revealed that I had only missed ten minuets of my most favourite lesson. Yey! I grimaced before deciding to wander up to Divination; after all I didn't want to end up in the bed next to Seamus did I?
The climb up to the Divination tower seemed more tiring than usual as I stopped at the top to catch my breath before ascending the ladders up into the tower. I somehow managed to sneak into the back of the classroom unnoticed as Professor Trelawny was distracted by her crystal ball. I tapped Luna on the sholder before sitting on the cushion next to her. "Has she predicted that I'd turn up to this lesson?" I joked as she dreamily looked up at me before replying, "no she told me I was going to have a horrendous death though." I smiled at her as she carried on. "Im quite looking forward to it. She said a manor of strange creatures would be involved. I bet its Knargles. Always up to no good they are" I didn't have a clue what she was talking about, but I smiled all the same. My gran has always told me to be nice to people, no matter what the mental instability of the person! Luna was different though, she seemed sort of cool.
I watched Luna fascinatingly as she was entranced by Trelawny's lecture. How she managed to stay out of a coma whilst listening to the lesson I'll never know! My mind began to wander back to Seamus in his hospital bed, unknowingly stuck in a love triangle. Poor lad! It was while I was wondering whether to tell Seamus about Lavenders crush, that Professor Trelawny stopped in front of me, forcing me to jump and nearly fall off the cushion I was sat on. Oh how I love Divination!