"So, Katie. Have you decided if you're going to stay?" Ron asks, staring at me intently.
"I don't know." I look over my shoulder to see Neville pretending he doesn't see me. I smirk.
"What can we do to make you stay?" Harry asks.
"Silly, there's nothing you can do." Well, there's nothing Harry can do. I'm still mad at him for playing Ron.
"Why is Neville acting weird?" Hermione says noticing that I constantly am glancing to see if the nervous boy is still there.
"Eh? I don't know. It might be something about my leave."
"You're leaving?!" Ron shouts unnecessarily.
"Did you not hear what I just said?" I shake my hands in despair before walking over to where Neville sat.
"Oh, Katie! I-I didn't see you there." He lies. We both know he was waiting for me to walk over.
I pull out a seat and sit. "You did see me. Anyways, how are you?"
"Uh, I'm okay I guess." He shrugs.
"You guess?"
"Yeah. I mean, you're going to be leaving soon, aren't you?"
"Do you want me to leave?" I ask. I already know he'll say 'no', I just want to hear it from him.
"No! If you left, who would be here to pick up all the crushed spirits? Hermione wouldn't be able to focus in school causing her to fail, Ron would lose all will to go on, Fred and George would never pull another prank again, and Harry would let Malfoy beat him up!"
"What about you, Neville? If I left, how would you feel?"
"I don't know. I'd feel depressed that the only person who really cared about me in some way was gone and I would feel like a hopeless nothing that can't do anything!"
"Neville! You are not a nothing. You are a Gryffindor wizard that will become something great! All Gryffindors become great, and you will become one of the greatest!"
"Don't feed me false hope." He turns his head away, but something in his eyes show me that he's playing it over in his mind.
"Hey, I've been planning on staying." He turns his head back to me with hope in his eyes. "If I stay, I want you to promise me something: to never give up hope, to be confident and to trust yourself. Can you try to do that?" He nods and I smile. I walk away.
"What was that all about?" Fred asks who showed up during my conversation with Neville.
"I'm staying." I answer.
"Katie!" Fred cheers and pulls me into a hug. "You're not leaving." He seems to sigh in relief.
"Katie's staying?" Ron pulls on a smile and his face seems to glow.
"Don't you have to tell Hagrid before 8?" Hermione says.
"Oh, yeah!" I say then rush out the door.
"Hey! You're not getting away that easily!" Fred says next to me.
"Fred! You don't have to follow me." I laugh.
"Yeah, I do. Hermione said someone should go with you to make sure you didn't leave. Ron was about to leave but I told him to stay behind so he didn't ruin it and make you leave."
"Okay." I say slowly. "But, really, you didn't need to come."
"So? I wanted to."
"Fine then."
…
"What took you so long?!" Ron shouts.
"Hagrid made us stay for a cup of tea and then Fang got in the way." Fred answers.
"Ahh!" Ron nods in understanding.
"You're really staying?" Harry asks.
"Yes, so no more bickering!" I say glaring at the two boys.
"Fine." They say glumly. It must be a guy thing to bicker and fight. A rather stupid guy thing.
"Good. Now I'm tired. Let me go to bed and we'll finish all this in the morning." I yawn as I head up the stairs.
I hear multiple 'night's from everybody and I swear I could hear Neville's voice in the mix.
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