Through All the Pain // N. Longbottom

Fourth Year // Chapter 10

About a month has passed, and everything is still quite off. Harry has been doing all these interviews, well more like he sits there and listens to what that bitch Rita Skeeter WANTS to write. Both Harry and Cedric are tired of the women. 

"If I have to sit through another interview with the women during my Potions class ... I think I'll be disqualified for murdering her," Cedric told me after the most recent interview. "She so intent on finding out stuff about Harry, she could care less about Fleur, Viktor, and I."

I couldn't help but actively glare at her every time she walked by. Luckily I heard through the gossip tree that all the staff was getting fed up with her bullshit as well. My only hope would be that she would get kicked out of the school grounds unless a task begins happens. 

Now it was a nice breezy fall afternoon. I was standing at the water's edge with Neville as we examined some of the various plants near the water. Harry was sitting over on a rock tossing pebbles into the water, bored out of his mind. 

"Amazing," Neville muttered as he knelt down to the ground and pulled a plant from the soil. I couldn't help but chuckle as he held the little plant in his hands as if it were a baby. "Amazing, completely amazing!"

"You're doing it again, Neville!" Harry snapped from his rock. I sighed and patted Neville's shoulder as he dropped his head a little bit. That's when I noticed the book lying in the sand on the shore.

"Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean?" I questioned. "Where in the world did you get that? I don't ever recall seeing it in the library." I said picking it up.

"Moody gave that to me. You know, the day after class and we had tea?" I nodded as I flicked through a few pages. Harry came over and scanned a few pages as well before going back to his rock. 

I placed the book on another rock near the water and walked back over to Neville. I saw he waved behind me, and I turned to see Hermione, Ginny, and Ron walking over to us. I turned to Neville and mumbled under my breath.

"If any words come out of his mouth aren't the words 'I'm' and 'sorry'. You're gonna have to hold me back." Neville just nodded as Hermione got closer and started bickering with Ron. Now, harry noticed they were there and got up with a sigh. Hermione rolled her eyes and walked over to us.

"Ronald would like me to tell you that Seamus told him, that Dean was told by Parvati, that Hagrid was looking for you." I glared over at Ron before turning to see Harry's response.

"Is that right? Well -- what?" Harry asked in confusion. Hermione walked back towards Ron, bickered with him some more. Then walked back over to us and spoke again. 

"Dea was told by Parvati that ..." She looked between the three of us. "Please don't ask me to say it all again, Hagrid's looking for you." She began to walk back as Harry spoke up. 

"Well, you can tell Ronald-"

"I'm NOT an Owl!!" Hermione snapped as she cut him off. Hermione grabbed Ginny's arm and they stormed off together away from the Lake. Ron followed behind the two like a lost puppy. 

"That went better than expected," Neville muttered as he went back to looking at the plants. 

"Yeah. What would have made it better was if Ronald would get his wand out of his arse and apologize to Harry." I said sitting down and tossing a pebble into the lake.

"He needs to apologize to you too, Lori," Neville spoke. "He did say some awful things."

"I could care less about that right now, Nevy. It's just not right to have Ron and Harry be at odds like this."