Harry Potter Preferences And Imagines

Neville ~ Explosive Love

Neville and I are rushing around with the other students trying to prepare for the dawning war. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared but I had to protect everything I have ever loved. Especially Neville. My Plan is to stay with him throughout this whole thing, never leaving his side. Even though I am terrified for my own life, I am more scared of losing Neville. Neville has to live. Even if It means risking my own life to save his. I love him. He's my best friend. And as I am probably going to die tonight, I figure now is as good of a time to tell him.

"Neville," I say grabbing his wrist to stop him from walking any further. He turns around looking at me eyebrows furrowed.

"What's wrong?" he asks stepping closer putting his hands on my shoulders.

"N-Nothing. I Just... I..." I put my head down looking at mine and Neville's shoes. Come on Caroline just tell him. You may be a Ravenclaw but that doesn't mean you can't be brave. I feel Neville's hands slide to the sides of my face gentle pulling it up to meet his eyes.

"Whatever it is you know you can tell me," He says still holding my face in his hands. Well, it's now or never.

"Neville I L-"

"Longbottom. l/n." Neville and I tore our gaze from each other looking over to Professor McGonagall walking by "Come with me." Neville drops his hands and we start walking towards McGonagall. "I need you two to blow up the bridge." She says with a straight face walking towards the courtyard.

"What!" I say stopping in my tracks.

"You heard me Ms. l/n now come on." She says ushering me to walk. I catch up on the other side of Neville.

"Let me get this straight, Professor...You're actually giving us permission to do this?" Neville asked.

"That is correct, Longbottom"

"To blow it up? Boom?!"

"Boom!" She yells. I giggle a little at her while Neville looks to me smiling.

"Wicked"

"But how on earth are we gonna do that," I asked staring at her confused.

"Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics." She says as we stop walking.

"I can bring her down," Seamus says from behind us. I whip around startled. When the hell did he get here?

"That's the spirit. Off you go" She says shooing us away. Neville, Seamus and I start jogging towards the bridge. After a moment or two, I hear thumping and turn back to see the statues of Hogwarts marching out the front door. Tears begin to sting my eyes as the reality of the situation begins to really hit me. We reach the beginning of the bridge and Seamus drops the bag he had been carrying and starts to go through it. Neville turns to me slightly out of breathe and sees the tears threatening to spill from my eyes.

"Hey. Everything is going to be okay. Alright" He says holding my hands "You're my Best Friend and I am not going to let anything happen to you. Understand?" I nod my head as a tear slips down my face. The word friend hurting more than anything. He pulls me into a hug rocking back and forth. "Now what were you talking about earlier," He says as he rests his head on top of mine. Friend begins to echo inside my head so just hug him tighter and tell him it was nothing. I look up at the sky as tiny beads of light begin to create a shield.

"Alright," Seamus says standing up looking at three separate piles of explosives.

"Where did you get those?" I asked pulling away from Neville and walking over.

"The twins," He says shrugging. "We're going to put them along the lower structure of the bridge and connect one with a fuse. You just have to hit it with a spark and one will set off the other and so on. We'll set them up towards the end of the bridge. Caroline you'll have to stay at the end of the bridge and wait until they come on to the bridge. Then you run and set off the explosives."

"No way," Neville said crossing his arms sternly. "There is no way she is going by herself."

"Fine go with her but we need to get this done," Seamus says as he levitates a pile and begins walking down the bridge Neville and I following suit. After a while, a small group of people came to help and we were eventually done. The dome around our school was being lit up by spells smashing against it trying to bring it down.

"Alright, we better start heading back. See you when you get back" Seamus says giving us hugs along with everyone else. Neville and I walk to the end of the bridge staring into the dark forest. After a couple of minutes, I begin to hear a dull sound in the distance and grip my wand tighter. The sound gets louder as the death eaters approach. They clear the trees as they come screaming and running. Then Three of them suddenly combust into blue shards of light as they cross the shield. Neville and I jump at the sudden burst. The whole group of death eaters comes to a halt.

"Yeah. You and whose army" he says happily. I hit him on the chest.

"Voldemort's army you stupid idiot!" I whisper-yell at him furiously. He just shrugs still smiling like an idiot. Then I see something out of the corner of my eye and I can feel myself turn pale. Neville's face drops as an ember floats down and a death eater flicks it away with his wand. The death eater slowly puts his foot out taking a step. He smiles a little pointing at us. They scream and begin to charge.

"GO!" Neville said pushing me in front of him as we start sprinting. We're trying to dodge spells and I begin to fall behind. Neville grabs my hand and begins to pulls me along as we run. He shoots a spark behind him and I begin to hear whizzing sounds soon followed by booms. The bridge begins to collapse and I can see everybody standing there waiting for us. Neville pulls me out in front of him and shoves me forward. I land safely on my stomach and turn around just in time to see Neville fall with the collapsed bridge.

"NEVILLE!" I scream as Ginny comes up to me and holds me away from the edge. I begin to cry furiously into her cardigan. Then I hear something rolling across the wood and turn to see a wand and someone's hands on the edge. I straighten up as I see Neville's face pop up over the edge.

"That went well," He said struggling to get up. I jump up and run over to him beginning to help him up. He stands up and I punch him in the shoulder.

"Don't you ever scare me like that again" He just chuckles rubbing his shoulders.

"God I love you," He says staring at you smiling. I force a small smile.

"Yeah, I know. I'm like your sister" I say sadly looking down to hide my pained expression. He laughs shaking his head walking over to me and grabs my waist putting his lips firmly on mine. I wrap my arms around his neck kissing him back just as hard everybody clapping in the background. He pulls back looking into my eyes smiling widely.

"I'm in love with you" he whispered "Have been since our third year" I just smile putting my hand on the back of his neck and pulling him into me kissing him again.