It Started With a Kiss

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On his first day.

On his first day he was covered in dragon manure.

Great....just abso-bloody-loutely spiffing.

Neville spat out a mouthful of the muck and wiped his eyes as Ron and Harry fell about laughing. Even Jackie their Transfiguration lecturer was struggling to keep a straight face.

‘Oh it’s not funny!’ he exclaimed a a great clod of manure fell out of thin air and hit him on the head with a distinctive and wet splat

‘Yeah you’re right it’s not funny’ Ron said with a great snort ‘it’s hilarious’

Jackie pointed her wand at Neville and muttered ‘Evanesco Finite Incantatem’ The dragon manure disappeared along with it’s odor.

‘That was revolting!’ Neville exclaimed with a shiver ‘I’m supposed to be Transfiguring a cat into a dragon statue how the hell did I cover myself in dragon manure? I told you I suck at Transfiguration!’

‘You said Extraho Ahmo instead of Extraho Amo’ Jackie said with a grin.

‘How the hell did I manage that?’ Neville asked ‘they’re two different spells in fact I’m not entirely sure the first one is a spell’

‘It’s not you just weren’t concentrating fully’ Jackie said ‘with the sort of Advanced Transfiguration you are learning it’s imparative you concentrate fully. Part of your first year exams will require you to perform a series of Transfigurations while under pressure. If you’re going to stuff up now is the time to do it when you can correct your mistakes and not get marked down for it. And converting a cat into a dragon statue is fairly easy in the scheme of things I’ll be wanting to start you three on human transfiguration next Monday’

That earnt a collective groan from Neville, Ron and Harry.

‘Ah it’s not that bad’ Jackie said with a grin ‘okay we have ten minutes left before I have to get you off to Potions Neville have a go again remember to concentrate hard this time’

Neville gripped his wand and pointed it at the ginger moggy he had been working on for the past hour.
‘Extraho Ahmo!’

With a squeak from the cat and a loud ,i>pop the cat turned into an elegant Chinese Fireball ornament rocking slightly from the energy of the spell.

‘Well done great effort’ Jackie said ‘your homework is to work on that spell’

Neville groaned.
‘Homework on the first day?’

‘Oh yeah all of you are going to have to work on this til our next session on Thursday’

‘I hate you’

Jackie laughed.
‘Nah you don’t she said ‘you love me’

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Twenty minutes later Neville, Ron and Harry left their Transfiguration lecture and headed down to the Potions Department’

‘Jackie’s on drugs if she thinks that spell is easy’ Ron grumbled ‘in an hour and a half I only managed to transfigure my cat once’

‘At least you didn’t cover yourself in dragon shit’ Harry said with a laugh.

‘Oh sod off Harry’ Neville said rolling his eyes as he ajusted his satchel over his shoulder ‘I’m going to take an ad out in the Daily Prophet to advertise the next time you do something stupid by mistake if that’s your attitude’

‘Feel free’ Harry said with a grin pushing open the door to the Potions Department ‘have a word to Luna I’m sure she could talk her Dad into doing a special edition of the Quibbler on it’

‘And the Quibbler has a higher distribution these days you know’ Ron said ‘Mind you I think it should change it’s name to the Harry Potter Appreciation Society Newsletter’

Neville laughed as Harry made a face.

‘Okay who wants to take bets on who’s going to be the first to blow something up today?’ he asked as they made there way into the lecture room and settled at their stations ‘I’ll admit I’m evens’

‘I dunno about that I had a look at the study schedule last night and this term we’re going to brew potions we only ever talked about at Hogwarts’ Harry said kicking his satchel under his station ‘even the Transfiguration study list is heavy McGonagall only breifly mentioned some of the stuff we’ve got to tackle’

‘Well we are allowed one major explosion a week’ Neville said with a grin.

‘I think Les was joking about that’

Moments later Les Williams the Potions director entered the room bringing with him a strong chemical smell.

‘Afternoon boys ready to get started?’ he greeted them brightly.

‘Yea....what the hell have you been brewing?’ Harry asked screwing up his nose ‘it stinks’

Les gave them an apologetic smile.
‘Sorry boys just been working on a new potion for the Orthapedic Department over at St Mungos and it exploded do I still smell like acid?’

‘Yeah’

Les weilded his wand and instantly the sickening smell disappeared.
‘There that ought to last for the duration of the lecture’ he said.

‘So what damage is there to the St Mungos potions rooms?’ Neville asked.

‘Oh only minor stuff’ Les replied going to his desk and retreiving a sheaf of papers from a drawer ‘over there they have their potions on induvidual tables so it only broke one table magic couldn’t fix it though...okie dokie the start!’

The boys groaned.

‘That sounds ominous’ Neville replied.

‘Nah it’s not so bad’ Les replied ‘this terms project is da dum da dum Veritaserum!’

That earned a louder groan.
‘Oh it’s not that bad’ Les said jovially it’s like a Swelling Soloution to a first year, easy as pie’

‘So you say’ Ron said under his breath.

‘Okay turn to page twenty four of Advanced Potions and their uses in Defence Against The Dark Arts and collect the Dried Sneezewort, a vial of Devil’s Snare Oil and a handful of powdered Fire Crab Shell from the stores the rest of the ingredients will come from your own supplies’

Neville led the others out of the room and into the huge room that contained all the preserved ingredients used in Potions.

‘So has your Dad started converting your shed to a potions lab?’ Neville asked Ron scanning the shelves for Dried Sneezewort.

‘Yeah he took today off to make a start on it’ Ron replied ‘I think Mum may be standing watch over him to make sure he gets rid of everything she calls ‘that muggle rubbish’

‘I gather you don’t think he’ll get rid of any of it?’

‘Not straight away if he just shrunk it all and put in on a few shelves I think that would appease Mum’ Ron said grabbing a vial of Devil’s Snare Oil ‘but Dad did say at Breakfast he ought to have it ready by the end of the week. I don’t think Veritaserum will be something we can work on at home so we can maybe practice simple potions to get back into the routine of making potions. I haven’t done anything remotely potion related for a good twelve months leading up to when Kingsley gave us that study package at Tonks and Lupins wake’

‘So what did you make?’ Neville asked finding the Dried Sneezewort and putting a scoop into one of the jars he had brought with him and setting off to find the powdered Fire Crab shell.

‘Shrinking Soloutin, Hermione helped me but I still don’t think it was perfect. It was more Lilac than purple but it still shrunk the garden gnomes we tested it on. Harry made Hiccouging Soloution and it was so strong it gave Dad hiccups all day Sunday. Harry can’t go into Diagon Alley without being pounced on these days so Mum apparated into London to get the missing ingredients for the neutralising draught. We had everything except Aniseed’

Neville noticed Harry had gone red.
‘Then Hermione gave me a lecture about not making a potion unless we have the ingredients to make the neutreliser’ he mumbled measuring out a scoop of Dried Sneezewort.

‘So is Mr Weasley okay now?’ Neville asked gettng his Manticore shell powder.

‘Oh yeah he was fine the hicups went the minute he swallowed his measure of neutraliser but he was hiccupping so hard it was hard to get it into him. Bill and Charlie thought it was hilarious’

‘So did everyone else they were just really good at hiding it’ Ron said with a wide grin.

‘Oh bite me’ Harry retorted.

‘Did you try making any potions at home?’ Ron asked Neville as they all headed back into the lecture room.

‘Yeah really simple first and second year stuff thought to get back into the routine of it’ Neville said.

‘Back into the routine? Didn’t you do seventh year potions?’

‘Yeah I started to but then I went into hiding with all the others and quickly got out of the routine of brewing potions. And as you know I was never any great shakes at it so consequently I never really absorbed much about the subject’

‘Okay lads I want you to tell me two facts each about Veritaserum’ Les said with a grin as Neville Ron and Harry slid into their seats ‘any two, Neville you first’

‘Well to state the obvious it’s a potion that when ingensted forces the consumer to tell the truth’ Neville said ‘and it was created by Cornelius Rackharrow the brother of Urquhart Rackharrow who invented the Entrail Expelling Curse’

Les raised an eyebrow in surprise and Ron and Harry hissed.

‘Oh you are so going to squash us in this subject’ Ron said under his breath.

‘Ha as if!’ Neville scoffed.

‘Good stuff Neville it’s not common knowledge who created Veritaserum’ he said ‘even to a lot of Potion Masters how did you come across that?’

‘When I was in St Mungos after the Lockinge Valley Death Eater Riots’ Neville said ‘I researchd a lot into the Entrail Expelling Curse while I was there and came across Cornelius Rackharrow while I was doing it’

‘Hmm good lad how about you Harry?’

‘Well Veritaserum only has a shelf life of twenty eight days which is why it has to be constantly brewed and once it goes off it can be used as amongst other things poultices, I had a Veritaserum poultice on my knee after the battle. But it reeked after a while’

‘Hmm it does tend to do that I supposed it smelled much like rotten fish?’

‘Oh yeah like you wouldn’t believe’

‘That would be the powdered Fire Crab shell while they’re a freshwater creature they are related to the joe average Blue Swimmer Crab which gives it that distinctly fishy smell. When you smell the fishy smell it’s beyond the use of even poultices....now Ron how about you?....’

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‘Well that wasn’t the worst potions lesson I’ve ever taken part in’ Neville said with a tone of releif an hour and a half later as they left the Potions Department and headed down the hall to the lift ‘I didn’t blow up anything which is a minor miracle’

‘Aw I nearly did’ Harry said ruefully slinging his satchel over his shoulder more securely ‘damn Veritaserum it’s a bastard of a potion’

‘Well if it’s any consolation I think it’s going to be the easiest potion we tackle this year’ Ron said.

‘No it’s not but thanks anyway’

‘How about we go to the Leaky for a pint to relax? Neville suggested ‘we can put those glamour charms on us that Hermione taught us, Teddy’ll be fine with Mrs Weasley Harry’

‘If you buy first round I suppose one or two won’t hurt’ Harry said ‘how about you Ron?’

‘Of course I’ll need one after that lecture I might go for a whole keg, want to help me go through it Neville?

‘Hell no just a couple I’m having dinner at Hannah’s tonight and I don’t want to turn up off my face’

Harry and Rnon suddenly burst into uncharacteristic giggles and cat calls. Ron actually wolf whistled.

‘Oh go and fondle yourselves in a dark corner’ Neville mumbled turning bright red ‘bastards’

Harry and Ron’s teasing was interrupted a moment later by the door of the Charms Department flinging open and Frankie and Mack exiting.

‘Hey girls just finishing up for the day?’ Neville asked.

‘Yeah and it was a shit of a day I don’t think I did a spell right all day’ Frankie said screwing up her nose ‘how about you just had potions?’

‘Yup and it wasn’t much easier’

‘I nearly blew up the lecture room’ Harry said ‘it started sparking and if I hadn’t added the Lacewing Flies the Potions Department would only exist in conversation’

‘What were you brewing Polyjuice?’

‘Nah Veritaserum’

‘Yeah that is a shit of a potion we started it this morning’ Frankie said ‘how did your fitness test go this morning? I could’ve killed Olivier had I had the energy he made me do sit ups til my guts literally hurt’

‘I did so many push ups my arms are still cramping’ Neville said ‘but I did unintentionally floor Archie with a right hook when he got distracted and lowered the boxing pads he had on his hands’

Harry and Ron sniggered.
‘That was hilarious’ Ron said ‘he looks like half a panda’

‘Oi I didn’t do it on purpose!’ Neville exclaimed ‘I’m surprised I did so much damage considering I punch like a girl’

‘Didn’t look like you punch like a girl’ Harry said with a grin ‘a punch like that would drop an elephant’

‘Oh crap’

‘So did you have to do extra sit ups for dropping the big cheese? Mack asked with a grin as they reached the lift.

‘No thank Merlin Archie was pretty good about it to be honest I think he knew it was an accident’

‘No he was scared if he gave you the chance you’d do it again’ Ron said with a grin.

Neville just rolled his eyes.
‘We’re heading into town for a few pints at the Leaky after we truly knock off are you girls interested in tagging along?’ Neville asked as the lift arrived and they got in.

‘Yeah sure I could do with a pint after today’ Frankie said brightly ‘who’s buying first round?’

‘Me I can stay for a couple of rounds but then I’m...’

‘Off to have dinner at the girlfriends....whoo hoooooooo!’ Harry and Ron chorused with identical cheeky grins.

‘Sod off guys you both have the maturity levels of a newt’ Neville said dryly as the lift arrived at the department of Magical Law Inforcement ‘do you want me to buy a pint for you? Because I can quite easily go home right now if you like’

‘Ahhh we deserved that’ Ron said with a grin as they set off down the hall toward the Auror office.

‘I should tell Hermione then she’d hex you’ Neville said with a grin ‘if I ask her nicely enough she might even leave a scar’

‘Oh ha ha’

The group reached the Auror office and no sooner had they entered the room Olivier stalked by looking furious and bellowing ‘IL S’ACCOUPLER A COCHONS! That caused Frankie and Mack to collapse in fits of giggles.

‘What’s so funny?’ Neville asked as the door slammed shut after them and they headed for their desks.

‘Il s'accoupler à cochons’ means ‘he mates with pigs’ or ‘pig fucker’ Frankie said with a grin ‘so whoever has pissed Olivier off must’ve done something really bad because it’s very insulting in Franch culture to insinuate someone gets jiggy with animals’

‘It’s the head of the Department for International Magical Co-operation’ Kim one of the senior Aurors said overhearing ‘he’s a right prick and he particularly grates on Olivier’

‘I take it it’s not just Olivier who he grates on?’ Neville said dropping his bag on his chair.

‘Yeah he grates on everyone he thinks he’s better than everyone else. He’s a pompous git’

‘Tell us what you really think’ Harry said with a girn.

‘Okay who’s first?’ Ron said drawing his wand.

‘I’ll go’ Neville said taking off his outer robes ‘Be nice and if anything is permanent I will hex you in groinal area’

Despite the office being clearly busy Ron and Neville had drawn the attention of their fellow workmates.

‘Ere what are you doing?’ Patricia the only other female Auror in the office said in interest as Ron began weilding his wand gradually changing Neville’s appearance.

‘We’re going to the Leaky for a pint and none of us can go out without being swamped as you can see form this morning’s Prophet so we’re just applying a few Transfiguration and Glamour charms so we can relax in peace’ Harry said as with a flick of his wand Ron gave Neville shoulder length black hair ‘I had to apparate from Scrivenshafts and into Madam Malkins yesterday when getting my work robes it was humiliating’

‘I thought that was a load of crap’ Kim said ‘I don’t believe anything Rita Skeeter wrote and when it said ‘Potter disapparated from Scrivenshafts and into Madam Malkins acording to witness accounts’ I thought it was a load of claptrap’

‘Nah that bit was true’ Harry said as Ron transfigured Neville’s collared shirt into a casual t-shirt ‘word got around I was in Madam Malkins and Rita turned up and near enough tried to hex the door off the shop front’

‘There you go’ Ron said to Neville after changing his trousers to jeans.

‘Well you’ll fool anyone’ Patricia said ‘Nice work Ron you don’t look like you Neville’

‘Thanks’ Neville and Ron chorused

Ron changed Harry’s appearance then Neville began changing his appearance.

‘Do you want to go with the buzz cut you went with on Friday night?’ he asked changing Ron’s steel capped boots to sneakers.

‘Nah I fancy hair long enough to tie back’

‘Girl’ Harry said with a grin.

‘Fuck off’

‘Okay that’s it I reckon we can go to the Leaky without being hassled’ Neville said a few minutes later pocketing his wand.

Harry drew his wand and flourished it in Ron’s direction, a very pink very girly headband appeared on his head pulling back his shoulder length brown tresses. Evryone else in the office burst into laughter including Archie who had emerged from his office moments earlier.

‘Oh bugger off Harry you fecking prat!’ Ron exclaimed pulling the headband from his head and vanishing it in a puff of smoke ‘add your own pink headband you knob’

How’d your first day go?’ asked striding over to the transfigured trio.

‘Well I covered myself in dragon manure Harry nearly blew up the Potions department and Ron nearly hexed our Charms lecturer’ Neville said ‘so all in all it was a spiffing day’

‘Did you get much homework?’

‘Enough to be going on with dammit’

Archie laughed heartily.
‘You’ll get used to it’ he said with a grin ‘give it a month and you’ll be asking us for more material to take home’

‘That’ll happen when the fiery pits of hell freeze over’ Ron said making a face ‘okay I need a pint let’s go!’

‘See ya tomorrow lads we hit the gym tomorrow’ Archie said cheerfully.

Neville, Harry and Ron could only groan loudly. They gathered up their things and left the office making their way downstairs to the Atrium.

‘Okay see you at the Leaky’ Harry said.

‘Yup’

Harry disapparated with a snap and Neville and Ron followed they arrived just outside Scrivenshafts and made their way into the nearby Leaky Cauldron. Neville quickly got their pints and the trio set themselves down in a booth in the back of the pub near the kitchens.

‘I propose a toast’ Neville said holding his pint aloft ‘to us and may we sail through training without any major mishap’

They clinked glassed and there was silence for several moments as they took several refeshing draughts.

‘Today wasn’t so bad you know’ Neville said ‘not half as bad as I thought it would be, I thought I would totally suck at Potions but I didn’t. It was hard but not stupidly so’

‘You think so? Ron said doubtfully raising an eyebrow ‘bloody Veristaserum it’ll take is til Cristmas to brew it. I’d rather do Polyjuice, at least I know how to brew that’

‘Maybe we can start a batch at my place’ Neville suggested ‘I think we’ve got everything but lacewing flies, Fluxweed, Knotgrass and Boomslang Skin we’ve got Bicorn Horn but not enough to make three batches of Polyjuice’

‘Lacewing Flies and Boomslang skin cost a bloody fortune’ Ron said.

‘Don’t worry this one’s on me you can buy everything we need for the next potion we make’

‘Deal’

‘The apothecary further down will have it all’ Harry said after swallowing a mouthful of beer. Do you think it’s worth starting up our own batch of Veritaserum at home?’

‘No way’ Ron said ‘if something goes wrong we could blow a crater in the ground, we’re having enough trouble with it in class and we’ve only just started. I reckon it’s better til we’ve gotten a bit more experience with supervision’

‘Yeah I s’pose you’re right’ Harry said ‘let’s stick to Polyjuice for the time being that way we don’t always have to rely on glamour charms it’s easy enough to carry a flask of it around on us and it lasts ages if brewed properly’

‘You guys are going to have to walk me through that’ Neville said ‘we didn’t get around to it in the classes I attended before going into hiding, and....hang on when did you two brew it?’

‘Back in second year in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom’ Ron said ‘long story’ he added at Neville’s raised eyebrow ‘anyway it was more Hermione’s doing’

‘Should we get her in on the act?’

‘We can but in six days she’s off to Hogwarts and by the time she comes home for Christmas Holidays it’ll have finished brewing’ Ron said ‘but I’m sure she’ll have no issue with giving up the ‘safety in potion brewing’ lecture like the one she gave Harry the other day’

‘Yeah yeah yeah I hear ya’ Harry said dryly.

‘Hey how are things going with George?’ Neville asked a few minutes later as the trio neared the end of their first pint ‘any more progress?’

‘No not in the last few days’ Ron said swirling what was left his drink ‘he’s lost so much weight now Mum reckons he’s emaciated. I don’t think it’s gone that far but if he keeps up only eating a sparrows diet it’s not far off. He’s definitely got sunken cheekbones now and when Percy spent a few days at home over the end of last week and this past weekend he saw George come out of the bathroom he could see every one of his ribs’

‘Has anyone tried adding an appetite acellerator potion to the food he does eat?’ Neville suggested ‘it’s collourless and tasteless and you only need a tiny amount’

A look of dawning comprehension spread across Ron’s face.
‘I don’t think so but I’ll suggest it when I get home’ he said ‘I know he was on some when he was in St Mungos a few weeks ago. The thing is I don’t know if it’s a classified potion or not if it is George’ll have to go to a healer and there’s no way in hell he’ll do that. If he were underage Mum could do it but that’s not that case’

‘We can ask Hermione she knows what potions are classified and which ones are not’ Harry said draining his glass ‘or if she doesn’t she can find out easily. You know Hermione she’s a human library’

‘If it’s not a classified potion maybe we could make it one of our projects’ Neville suggested ‘generally the classified potions are the hardest to brew whereas the unclassified one are easier. We could tackle it before we attempt Veritaserum or Polyjuice at home’

‘Smart idea’ Ron said ‘okay my shout next the same?’

‘Yep’

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An hour and a half later Neville feeling a a bit light headed stood up to leave slinging his satchel over his shoulder.

‘Well lads I better be off’ he said shaking Ron and Harry’s hand see tomorrow morning yeah?’

Ron drew his wand and with a flick undid all Neville’s glamour charms.
‘Yeah no worries’ he said ‘you okay to apparate?’

‘Yeah I’ll be fine’ Neville said ‘I’m not totally off my guts and I’ve apparated before drunker than this’

‘You could get fined for that’ Harry said with a grin swallowing the last mouthful of what was his fourth pint.

‘Possibly but I’ve been lucky so far okay lads see you tomorrow’

Neville wrapped his cloak around him and furtively left the Leaky Cauldron. He paused on the doorstep then disapparated with a snap.

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Right on the stroke of six o’clock Neville who had taken a large measure of Hangover Draught on his earlier return home disapparated from the Manor and to Hannah’s house a large bouqets of Gerberas and Orchids in his grasp. He walked down the long drive and positively skipped up the porch steps ringing the doorbell with the point of his wand

Neville heard footsteps on the other side of the door and a sillhouette appeared through the frosted glass. There was a click and the door swung open. Hannah stood there in a summery summer dress and in bare feet. Her face lit up when she saw Neville.

‘Hey beautiful’ he said going forward and kissing her soundly on the lips ‘looking good’

Hannah giggled.
‘Oh you!’ she said pushing him playfully ‘are these for me?’

Neville nodded.
‘Beautiful flowers for a beautiful girl’ he said with a grin ‘all from the garden at home’

Hannah took the flowers and kissed Neville on the lips. Neville ran his fingers through her long golden locks and returned the kiss pushing his tongue forward and tasting the tang of her minty toothpaste.

They were onterrupted moments later by a loud groan.

‘Oh gross guys that’s a revolting sight!’ Jake Hannah’s four year younger brother groaned theatrically covering her eyes ‘Hannah are you trying to suck Neville’s tonsils out?’

Without opening her eyes or parting her lips from Neville’s Hannah whipped her wand out from her dress and set a hex over her shoulder. There was a flash of red light a snap and Jake clutched at his rear end.

‘Ahhh bloody hell! DAD HANNAH HEXED ME!’

‘You probably deserved it!’ Mick called from further within the house ‘leave them alone and come and set the table’

When Jake disappeared Neville pulled back for breath and laughed.
‘So were you trying to suck my tonsils out?’ he asked huskily.

Hannah grinned.
‘No but if you’re lucky and we can get away later after dinner I might suck something else’ she said in almost a whisper ‘I put a blanket over the hay in the loft earlier today so we can be comfy if you’d like to join me there’

‘Sounds like a good idea’ Neville replied rubbing his nose against hers ‘but first let’s go in and have dinner yeah? It’d be rude to stay on the porch all night’

They went inside the door closing with a ‘click’ behind them. A pair of huge Great Dane dogs galumped out of the dining room and bounced up the hallway.

‘Who let you gits inside?’ Hannah groaned grabbing the dogs collars before they could leap all over Neville ‘Jake put Merlin and Paco outside would ya? You know they’re not supposed to be inside at dinnertime’

‘What makes you think it was me?’ Jake complained coming into the hallway and taking control of the dogs.

‘Because it usually is’ Hannah said dryly ‘go on’

Rolling his eyes Jake led the dogs down the rest of the hall and out the back door. Neville followed Hannah into the kitchen where the rest of her family Father Mick sister Louise and youngest brother Zac were placing bowl of vegetables on the table. Twelve year old Zac who was fast becoming friends with Neville waved as he entered the garlic scented room

‘Hey Neville!’ he said.

‘Hey pal’ Neville replied as Hannah went to the sideboard and began arranging the flowers in an elegant crystal vase ‘been riding today?’

‘Yup fell off twice Chocky was feeling stupid’

‘She was being an airhead’ Louise said with a roll of her eyes ‘bucking and pigrooting, Neville ever since you stopped riding her she’s been loopy’

‘Maybe she misses you’ Hannah said with a grin levitating the vase over to a side table and flicking her wand so the flowers waved lazily.

‘Or maybe because you were riding Magic and she’s in season and wanted his babies’ Louise said dryly ‘Sable doesn’t behave like that when she’s in season’

‘Yeah well she’s not an airhead’

‘Out of the way out of the way!’ Mick called moments later bringing a sizzling leg of lamb out of the oven.

The leg came to a rest in the middle of the table a moment later and shortly after that Hannah brought over a basket of garlic bread.

‘Alright everyone sit down then two for six eight bog in don’t wait!’ Mick announced plopping down into his chair.

Neville sat down beside Hannah and Mick began charming the meat to cut itself while everyone helped themselves to the vegetables.

‘So how has your Auror training gone so far Neville?’ Mick asked spooning peas onto his plate.

‘Oh great’ Neville said enthusiastically ‘I started the day with a physical and health assessment that nearly killed me then finished off with Charms, Transfiguration and Potions. Had a bit of trouble in Transfiguration managed to cover myself in dragon manure’

Jake, Zac and Louise sniggered loudly. Hannah and Mick snorted furtively into their plates.

‘It was revolting’ Neville said making a face ‘and I have to work on that spell til our next lesson on Thursday’

‘What were you trying to Tranfigure?’ Mick asked in interest.

‘A cat into a dragon statue’ Neville replied ‘I said ‘Extraho Ahmo’ instead of ‘Extraho Amo’ It fell on me like an erupting volcano. Of course Harry and Ron thought it was hilarious’

‘We think it’s hilarious too’ Zac said with a grin ‘care to give a demonstration after sweets?’

‘No way I’d rather hex my face off’

‘If I give you my pocket money would you do that?’ Jake asked after swallowing a mouthful of mash.

Neville rolled his eyes.

‘Jay shut up’ Hannah said dryly shooting her brother a death glare ‘eat your dinner’

Jake laughed.

For the next hour and a half Neville enjoyed dinner with Hannah’s family then after sweets he and Hannah headed outside down to the stables for a walk. The sun had almost completely set and grey wispy clouds were trailing through the pink and orange sky. Hannah led Neville to the Coraal fence and leaned on it to watch.

‘Isn’t it lovely?’ Hannah sighed leaning her head on Neville’s shoulder ‘I love these sorts of sunsets they’re so beautiful’

‘Like you huh?’ Neville said drawing Hannah into his embrace and kissing the bridge of her nose.

‘If you say so’ Hannah said with a giggle resting her head on his chest ‘hmm you smell yummy’

‘Define yummy’ Neville said with a chuckle.

‘A little bit of soap, cinnamon and orange’ Hannah said ‘geez that just sounded like I was describing a bottle of wine doesn’t it?’

Neville laughed.
‘It does a bit’ he said with a grin ‘you like always smell like Vanilla, now that’s yummy’

‘You complimentary soul you’ Hannah said ‘c’mon lets go to the barn I want you to see what I’ve set up’

‘You didn’t have to go to so much trouble you know’ Neville said following Hannah past the boarders barn to the smaller barn where Hannah and her family kept their horses. She pushed open the door and drew her wand muttering ‘lumos Neville did the same sliding shut the door behind him.

‘I love coming in here at night’ Hannah said softly ‘It’s quiet and serene and Magic isn’t advertising to the world he’s a stallion’

‘He advertises that?’ Neville asked in surprise ‘but he’s so quiet’

‘Well not really advertising he just neighs a lot when he’s inside and thinks he ought to be out. He doesn’t much like his box. That’s why he’s almost always outside in his paddock. In Summer he stays out all the time. All the horses do’

Hannah led Neville past the tack and feed rooms and tapped her wand against the wall. There was the scraping of wood on wood and from above their heads came a large sturdy wooden ladder

‘You go first I want to watch your bum’ Neville said with a grin.

‘Deviant’ Hannah said dryly placing her foot on the bottom rung.

Hannah went up the ladder first then waited for Neville to make his way up. When he was securely in the loft she tapped the ladder with her wand and it drew itself up. Neville turned around and saw a huge doona spread over a fluffy pile of bedding hay.

‘I cast several cushioning charms on it so we couldn’t get prickled in the bum by the hay’ Hannah said.

‘Can I prickle you in the bum?’ Neville asked with a great snorting laugh.

Hannah gave Neville a playful dead arm.
‘You sick bastard!’ she exclaimed kicking off he sandals and flopping down onto the doona ‘Neville Longbottom you need help’

‘Yeah I do need help but not the sort you think’ Neville said joining Hannah on the doona and wiggling hs eyebrows.

‘Oh brother you’re nuts’ Hannah said flicking her wand ad conjuring a pillow for each of them.

‘Nah but I have a pair’ Neville said with a great snort ‘and they might need a bit if attention. If you get my drift’

‘Yeah I get your drift’ Hannah said softly dragging the pad of her thumb across his bottom lip.

Neville leaned down and pressed his lips to Hannah’s. she slung her arms around his neck and drew him close. Neville gently pressed his tongue to her lips and a second later he parted her lips inviting him in. It was only the need for a fresh supply of oxygen that caused them to pull apart heaving for breath.

‘You know if Oxygen wasn’t a day to day necessity I would kiss you like that all day’ Neville said with a grin kissing Hannah again on the neck.

‘You’d chuck a sickie just to do that?’ Hannah said with a grin her lips slightly swollen from Neville’s attention.

‘Well maybe not a sickie but an entire weekend, or I would bum off a few hours at the pub with Harry and Ron’

‘Neville Longbottom your generosity knows no bounds’ Hannah said with a laugh as she started to undo Neville’s shirt buttons ‘now let’s see if we can get this off huh? I prefer you topless’

‘I can say the same about you’ Neville said with a grin stting back on his heels and taking his shirt off ‘like the other day’

‘Oh when Dad apparated in on us?’ Hannah said dryly her round cheeks colouring up as the pulled her dress over her head revealing a red and white lace lingerie set underneath ‘I still can’t look him straight in the face’

‘So did you chew him out after I disapparated?’

‘Yeah I did and to give him credit he was sorry poor bugger his face was so red you could’ve friend a dozen eggs on it. He promised me next time he would give me loads of notice’

‘Did he give you ‘the talk’?’

‘No Mum did that with me back in fifth year. But Dad did ask me to be careful and told me where to go for a contraception potion or to find the contraception charm. I told him we weren’t at that stage yet. But I would source the information he gave me when we eventually were’

Neville groaned.
‘I’m not going to be able to look him in the face!’ He exclaimed ‘Merlins ballsacks! How am I going to look him in the face after making you scream?’

Hannah grinned.
‘You’ve managed fine so far’ she said seductively biting on her bottom lip ‘Neville stop thinking about Dad as much as I love him he’s not condusive to making you hard’

‘And what is?’ Neville said with a grin.

Hannah grabbed his crotch and rubbed him til he started hardening.
‘I reckon I might be’ she said starting to undo his fly ‘budge up a little or I’m going to have use my wand’

‘Ooh that sounds kinky’ Neville said as the zip came down and Hannah pushed his trousers down ‘what would I have to do to get you to weild it?’

‘Don’t push me pal I might just get it’ Hannah replied pushing Neville down onto the doona and pulling his trousers off and flicking them over her shoulder. They caught the edge of a bale of hay and slid over the edge of the loft and landed on the floor of the barn the buckle of Neville’s belt making a little ‘chink’ as it his the cement floor.

‘Shit we can’t leave them there!’ Neville exclaimed sitting up.

Hannah pushed him back down.
‘Yeah we can’ she said climbing over him ‘I spelled the barn door to lock itself after you shut it and set a detection charm on the back door so we’ll know when someone leaves the house. I’ll summon then then. Now stop bloody worrying. Relax’

‘Bit hard to relax when you’re over me like that’ Neville said putting his hands on her hips ‘reckon we could lose the bra though’

‘Oh you are such a tits man’ Hannah said dryly taking her hair out of it’s tie and letting it spill down her back.

‘I just like to admire the goods’ Neville said with a grin sitting up and kissing Hannah on the neck then reaching around her and unsnapping her bra with a now expert flick of the wrist.

‘Oh the goods!’ Hannah scoffed in dry amusement as Neville captured one of her nipples between his lips and sucked til it peaked and pebbled ‘ah!’

‘Ah I know you like it’ Neville said with a grin turning his attention to her other nipple and swiping the flat of his tongue across it.

‘Only from y-ou!’ Hannah squeaked as ever so gently Neville nibbled on the pebbled peak in his mouth ‘anyone else I would hex to hell’

‘I’d join you’ Neville murmurred kissing her on the neck’ Now how about you lose that miniscule piece of material you call a pair of knickers? I want to see the proper goods’

Hannah laid down ont the doona and laid down, she lifted up her hips and slowly lid her knickers down her slender legs. The bulge in Neville’s y-fronts swelled painfully and it wasn’t that long after Hannah flicked her knickers to the side of the loft that his y-fronts joined them. His erection bouncing free of it’s restraints. He lay down and it lay hot and heavy against his abdomen.

‘You know it’s going to be a miracle I ever get this inside me you know’ Hannah said wrapping her fingers around his arousal and slowly pumping it ‘it’s bloody huge’

‘I’m sure we’ll find a way’ Neville said with a grin ‘no rush eh? I don’t want to push you to do anything you don’t want to’

Hannah grinned and lowered her mouth to his length where she proceeded to lick it’s entire length leaving a shining streak of saliva on it’s underside.

‘One day I’m going to bring a can of aresol cream with us’ Hannah said with a grin ‘I could easily lick sugared cream off your knob’

‘And I could easily return the favour’ Neville replied with a shiver.

‘But I don’t have a knob’ Hannah said with a shrill giggle rolling his testicles in her hand.

‘Oh ha ha you know full well what I mean’ Neville said dryly as Hannah flicked the head of his cock with the tip of her tongue ‘bloody hell that tickles!’

‘Shall I do it some more?’

‘Hannah darling not wanting to sound crass but if you do that much more I’m going to blow in your face’ Neville said with a grunt as Hannah shifted her position and slowly slid her lips over the head of his arousal and down it’s entire length.

The rest of Neville’s conversation died in his throat as Hannah began sucking him off in earnest. She grasped his testicles and rolled them in her fingers his sandy coloured pubic hair tickling her nose slightly. She started humming a tune and the sudden vibration made Neville thrust jerkily into her mouth.

‘Now now we can’t have you going off to early’ Hannah said with a grin licking the pulsing head of his length like a lollipop.

‘Oh hell yes we ca-an’ Neville said with a grunt ‘especially if you keep on doing that’

‘Doing what?’ Hannah asked innocently as saliva dribbled down Neville’s length and she made a performance of licking it up.

Neville could only groan.

Hannah’s nails cratched his skin as she gripped his thighs and once again took his entire length into her mouth. Her suction on his length and her efforts quickened until roaring like a stallion Neville climaxed and spilled his essence into Hannah’s mouth. From beneath them all six horses shuffled in their boxes spooked my Neville’s vocals.

‘Merlins ballsacks!’ Neville puffed as Hannah swallowed and licked his softening length clean ‘shit Han you undo me you really do!’

Hannah ran her tongue up his groin, abdomen and chest til she came to his face where she kissed him hard on the lips. She then at down his legs Neville’s erection laying on his abdomen totally spent.

‘I think we should spend a whole day doing it before I go back to Hogwarts’ she said gently massaging his cock ‘all of Sunday I want to spend the whole day blowing you stupid’

‘Han you see what I’m like after you doing it once after a whole day of it you’d kill me’ Neville puffed his chest heaving and his skin slick with sweat ‘I certainly wouldn’t have the energy to return the favour. And it’s not fair to just get all the benefits’

‘Well maybe just a morning then’ Hannah said with a grin leaning down and kissing him once again ‘you know I think you were so loud you scared the horses’

Neville snorted.
‘Sorry guys!’ he called down to the horses ‘I owe you lot a carrot’

Hannah snorted clapping a hand over her mouth she then burst into a fit of giggles falling off Neville and onto the doona. Neville raised himself onto an arm and leaned over her watching her bosom bounce in her fit of hilarity.

‘You ought to laugh more oftem I like seeing your boobage jiggle’ he said with a laugh tracing a finger around one of her nipples and leaning down to suck on it.

‘I’ll go without a bra then’ Hannah said jerking her torso so her breasts moved causing a fresh rush of blood to head toward Neville’s cock which twitched as it once again filled with blood.

‘I wouldn’t complain if you did’ Neville said huskily placing a wet kiss between her soft globes.

‘Neville hun I’m really really hot fuck the early stuff just go south’ Hannah groaned as Neville dropped a kiss just below her navel and ever so lightly palmed her hairless mound.

‘Now that would be rushing things’ Neville said with a grin ‘I don’t want you to go off early that would ruin all the fun. And I’m not quite ready’

‘How about I promise you a tit fuck if you go south early?’ Hannah moaned arching her back ‘you ban blow all over me if you like I don’t care’

If it were at all possible Neville became more turned on by Hannah’s uncharacteristic filthy language he ran his tongue over her mound and blew on it lightly. Hannah actually squealed when he did that and a collective shuffle from the boxes below told Neville the horses had been spooked for a second time.

‘You owe them a carrot too’ he murmurred licking her outer lips slowly and languidly his chin shining with her juices.

‘L-later’ she grunted running her fingers through his hair and pressing his face to her soaked core ‘oh maaaaaaaaan!’

Neville pulled apart Hannah’s lips and slowly inserted two fingers into her soaking core. He felt her clamp down around him and squeal as he lowered his mouth to her bundle or neres and swirled his tongue around it.

‘Oh Merlin Neville every time we do this I get closer and closer to wanting to go all the way-ughg!’ Hannah moaned looking at him through heavily lidded eyes.

‘Do you want to?’ Neville asked softly circling his fingers inside her pussy his warm breath floating across her soft mound ‘you know there’s nothing more I want to do than that’

There was a long pause as Hannah breathed deep her bosom heaving.

‘No not here’ she said finally ‘I am not going to lose my virginity on a pile of hay however comfy is is. When you finally take me I want it to be in a bed. Yours or mine I’m not fussed’

Neville smiled at Hannah and returned his attention to her dripping core. He slowly started thrusting his fingers in and out while ever so lightly sucking on her clit. Hannah let her legs fall open completely and fell back on the hay causing her pussy to push into Neville’s face. He started thrusting his fingers in and out of her faster and faster and circling her clit with the tip of his tongue til finally ith a cry she climaxed her inner mucles clamping around Neville’s fingers and flooding his hand with her juices. Neville kept on circling her clit with his tongue and nibbling on her lips til screaming and tears streaming down her face Hannah fell back her bosom heaving.

‘Fuck fuck fuck you Neville Longbottom!’ She heaved ‘I’m going to be bowlegged for a week after that’

‘Nah you won’t’ Neville said with a grin crawling up beside her and palming her mound gently ‘wait til we do it properly you won’t be able to walk at all once I’m finished with you’

Hannah laughed.
‘I no doubt that’ll be the case’ she said with a grin running her fingers through her hair ‘can’t wait to find out’

‘You’re not the only one’ Neville said ‘and after you being away at Hogwarts for three and a half months we’ll hve loads of energy to expend on extra cirricular activities’

‘You have this all worked out dopn’t you? You dirty old man’ Hannah said with a giggle.

‘Well I would be lying if I said I hadn’t thought of what I’d like to happen when we eventually go all the way’ Neville said blushing slightly ‘I would like it to be like in those muggle movies Mr Weasley always bangs on about, you know dinner somwhere fancy followed by scented candles a hot bath, white cotton bed sheets low lighting all that. I know it’s not likely to be like that though Algie told me he and Enid’s first time was awkward clumsy and far too short for his liking’

‘Well we can try and make it similar to what you’ve though’ Hannah said softly ‘At the very least we can have that fanncy dinner and the hot bath after that let’s see where things go eh?’

Neville kissed her on the lips.
‘Yeah lets do that’

The pair lay on the doona for several moments silently kissing when Hannah put a hand on Neville’s chest.

‘What?’ he said.

‘Well I promised you a tit fuck if you hurried up earlier and I want to reward you’ she said with a grin reaching down and grasping his cock which was still hard and dripping with pre-cum ‘do you want to?’

‘Hannah darling that’s a stupid question’ Neville replied his breath hitching in his throat as Hannah massaged his balls then leaning down to lick the head of his cock.

‘Okay then stand up’

‘I’ll bump my head!’

‘No you won’t’ Hannah said getting up and sitting on a neary bale of hay that was covered by the doona ‘it only looks like a low ceiling because of all of the bales’

‘Okay then’

Neville stood up and grabbed an overhead beam. Hannah placed her hands on his bum and shuffled him forward til his length rested between her boobs. She squeezed them together and licked the pulsing head.

‘Merlins pants if this is what the real thing feels like I’m going to come early’ Neville goaned squeezing his eyes shit and thrusting lightly into her cleavage.

‘Well if you do we’ll just have to wait a while and have a second go’ Hannah said as Neville increased the speed of his thrusts ‘you can go faster you know my boobs won’t break’

‘Can I h-hold onto y-your shoulders?’ Neville moaned dropping his hands from the overhead beam.

‘Sure’

Neville grabbed Hannah’s shoulders and really went to town. He thrust so hard and raggedly the head of his cock bumped Hannah under the chin. She opened her mouth and took him in every time Neville thrusted upwards.

‘Fucking hell Han I’m not going to last l-long’ Neville grunted as his thrusting became harder and more erratic ‘ah shit’

‘Let go Neville let go’ Hannah breathed squeezing her breasts together harder causing Neville to groan loudly ‘scream if you need to, don’t worry there’s a silencing Charm on the barn’

Neville nodded shortly and squeezed his eyes shut gripping her shoulders and thrusting with all the enery he could muster the racing swell of near climax pooled in his pelvis til eventually he couldn’t hold back and he climaxed with a roar.

‘ARRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” he bellowed spewing his essence all over Hannah’s breasts and next as he thurust forward with each exquisite aftershock ‘ahfuckahfuckahfuck MERLINS BLUE BALLSACKS!’

Hannah giggled as she licked Neville’s softening cock clean.
‘That was good then?’ she said coyly running her tongue around his testicles and sucking each one into her mouth before releasing them with a sloppy pop.

‘Oh that was brilliant’ Neville puffed leaning down and kissing her on the lips ‘thanks’

‘No worries’ Hannah said with a grin standing up and giving him a hug ‘it was quite a turn on for me seeing you have such a good time you know. I want you to do it again next time we have some alone time’

‘Oh I can guarantee we’ll do that agin’ Neville said with a grin ‘er don’t you want to clean up?’

‘Nah I don’t think I will, I might leave your mark on me’ Hannah said with a grin putting her hands on her hips.

‘Hannah you can’t walk back into the house with my gunk all over you, your Dad would remove my testicles’

‘Nah he wouldn’t’ Hannah said ‘he knows we’re half a step away from going all the way and has just warned me to be careful. He likes you he won’t do anything’

‘He would if you walked in the house with me all over you. And your brothers and sister would hang it on you too’

‘Neville I was joking’ Hannah said dryly bending down and grabing her wand ‘you don’t honestly think I’d go in the house covered in your man juice do you?’

Neville laughed.
‘No not really’ he said as with a grin as with a flick of her wand Hannah cleaned herslf up ‘so should we head in? Or head up to Blackpool for a cuppa?’

‘Nah if we go to Blackpool we’ll be too late getting back here’ Hannah said summoning her clothes from the messy pile on the other side of the loft and pulling on her knickers ‘Dad does like me to be home at a reasonable hour’

‘Pity’ Neville said pulling on his shirt with a grin then summoning his underpants ‘I could quite easily keep you here all night’

Hannah rolled her eyes.
‘You’re turning into a dirty man Neville Longbottom’ She said dryly summoning his trousers from the floor below ‘ever since that day by the lake you’ve had your mind permanently on my bits’

‘Do you blame me?’ Neville said with a grin shaking his trousers then pulling them on ‘you’re a hot woman Hannah Abbott smoking in fact’

‘Oh the jokes just keep on coming don’t they?’ Hannah said putting on her bra and ajusting herself.

‘Nope just the truth’ Neville said tucking his shirt in and doing up his belt ‘one of the few things I can remember from our night out after the Order of Merlin Ball was all the muggle blokes saying how gorgeous you were, I almost hexed one when I overheard him trying to get your phone number’

‘You would’ve had the Ministry on your arse had you hexed a muggle’ Hannah said pulling on her blouse.

‘I know even as pissed as I was I knew to behave myself in front of a bunch of muggles. That’s why I kissed you when you came off stage’ Neville said ‘I made sure that muggle would see and sod off’

‘So you had ulterior motives?’ Hannah said with a grin.

‘Of course I didn’t hear you complain’

‘No I definitely wasn’t doing that’

Hannah and Neville redressed and returned the hay loft to it’s previous undisturbed appearance. Hannah shrunk the doona and poked it inside her bra just before they descended the steps.

‘Wait before we go’ Neville said as Hannah made to unlock the barn door.

‘What another snog?’ Hannah said with a giggle.

‘No a carrot for the horses’ Neville replied with a grin ‘we scared them twice and I know on my part I promised them a carrot. Horses have long memories you know. Next time we come in here for a bit of fun they might go nuts because they think we’re going to scream’

‘We probably will’ Hannah said dryly following Neville into the feed room ‘Neville you’re such a dag sometimes you really are’

‘Yeah but you love me’ Neville said with a laugh digging into the enormous bag of carrots next to the chaff bin ‘you love I’m entirely too sensible for my own good’

‘Yeah yeah whatever’ Hannah said reaching into the bag and pulling out a handful of the orange vegetables ‘but a promise is a promise even to a horse’

The first stall they came to housed Patrice a short fat Welsh Mountain Pony. The mare sleepily pricked her ears and flared her nostrils as she smelled her late night visitors offering.

‘Sorry for scaring you girl, I er lost my mind’ Neville said giving the pony a carot and scratching her nose ‘I’ll be a bit more careful and cast a silencing charm on your box next time’

‘Oh bull you will you’ll be too distracted’ Hannah said dryly giving her carrot to Patrice ‘you’ll be too distracted’

‘Oh yeah who says?’ Neville said with a grin as he rested his hands on her hips.

‘I say’ Hannah said with a grin resting her forehead on his ‘I’ll make sure you are’

‘An how do you propose doing that?’ Neville asked dropping a barely there kiss on her lips.

‘My getting my baps out’ Hannah said with a great snorting laugh ‘whenever I get them out you turn into a great puddle of blubbering goo’

‘Well they’re a great set’ Neville said with a grin squeezing her bosom ‘don’t you agree? No wonder I have a permanent hard on whenever I’m around you’

‘Oh you crass bastard’ Hannah said with a giggle slapping his back ‘c’mon lets done out the carrots I want to get a decent snog in before we go inside’

‘A decent one?’ Neville exclaimed as Hannah headed off to Mercury’s box ‘hang on haven’t all the snogs tonight been decent? Hell I’d define them and bloody fantastic’

‘Aw yeah I suppose they were’ she said dropping a carrot into Mercury’s feed bin ‘actually you’re a fantastic kisser Neville I wouldn’t want to snog anyone else’

Neville and Hannah served out the carrots then made their way to the huge sliding door.

‘I wish we could spend more than a day together’ Hannah whispered as they parted from a very heated and very enthusiastic snog ‘a few hours during the day or an afternoon together really isn’t enough is it?’

‘Wait til Christmas’ Neville said dropping a kiss on her nose ‘we’ll go away for a week somewhere. Maybe Paris I’ve been going on about going there for a while’

Hannah lit up.
‘Oh I’d love to go to Paris!’ she exclaimed ‘the city of love!’

‘Let’s go there after Christmas then’ Neville said ‘if we book now the portkey’ll be cheaper than if we book at the last minute. You can come with me to the travel agents on Saturday. Once you’ve done your Hogwarts shopping in Diagon Alley we can apparate up to Hogsmeade’

‘Oh let’s do that!’ Hannah breathed in excitement her eyes glinting in the soft light of the barn.

‘Done now come on let’s get you up to the house if we’re gone longer everyone’ll get suss’

‘Oh don’t be paranoid’ Hannah said tapping her wand against the slide bolt of the barn which slid open of its own accord ‘everyone likes you Neville no one’s going to get suss’

‘I just want to be careful’ Neville said walking through the door.

‘Oh loosen up’ Hannah teased slipping her hand into his ‘I’ve never know a Gryffindor to be so tense’

‘Oh we’re all tense’ Neville said ‘in some small way each and every one of us has smething to worry about, Harry it’s being hassled by the public, Hermione it’s getting anything less than an O on a piece of work, Ron it’s his family and with me it’s worrying about angering your Dad’

‘You forget Dad was a Gryffindor too and unlike most of you he’s not delicate with his emotions’ Hannah said ‘anyway you get on with him like a house on fire, you’d have to do something like murder me for him to want your balls in a jar’

Neville laughed.
‘Well I’m not about to murder you’ he said squeezing her hand.

‘Good because there’s a few things I’d like to do before I shuffle off this mortal coil’ Hannah said as they ascended the porch steps.

‘Such as?’

‘Oh I dunno become landlady of the Leaky Cauldron’ Hannah joked opening up the door.

‘You serious?’ Neville asked in surprise ‘I thought you were going to get into the Jewellery business with your Dad and Uncle’

‘I am, or at least I plan to but wouldn’t it be cool to own the Leaky Cauldron? Seriously’ Hannah said ‘it needs updating. I could become a relly hip place to go like the Three Broomsticks with a few ajustments’

‘Apply for holiday work there then’ Neville suggested as they made their way down the hallway ‘loads of people from Hogwarts work there in the holidays and I know the Head Chef went to Hogwarts’

‘It would make a change from working in the shop’ Hannah said ‘might go to Tom on Saturday when we’re in Diagon Alley getting my school stuff’

‘Would your Dad mind though?’ Neville asked.

‘Nah I doubt it’ Hannah said as they neared the lounge room ‘I only started working in the shop lasat Summer and it was only a couple of mornings a week. The rest of the time I was here looking after the farm and giving lessons’ They entered the loungeroom where the family had now gathered, Mick was reading a book and Jake, Louise and Zac were playing the muggle board game Scrabble.

‘You two finished snogging then?’ Jake asked with a grin looking up from the board.

‘Oi shut up or she’ll hex you again!’ Zac shot back at his brother ‘I will too and you know Dad makes me clear the main paddock of manure all by myself when I do magic at home’

‘Yeah shut up Jake unless you want another zap in the arse’ Hannah added shooting her eldest brother a glare ‘when you get a girlfriend I’ll hang it on you too’

‘No woman would put up with his crap’ Louise said dryly placing a tile on the board ‘we only put up with it because we’re family and we legally have to’

‘Oh shut up’ Jake said rolling his eyes.

‘Oi you lot behave’ Mick said looking over the top of his book.

‘Well I better head off early start tomorrow’ Neville said ‘potions first up’

‘Potions sucks’ Zac said making a face ‘I hate it, Transfiguration is so much better’

‘Not my favourite either mate but you have to do it when you study to become an Auror’ Neville said.

‘Sod that I’m getting into Herbology’ Zac said confidently ‘I’d rather put dragon poo on devils snare than do another lot of potions studies’

‘You have to do some potios studies if you’re going to be a Herbologist you know’ Neville said with a grin ‘especially if you’re going to get into the National Wizarding Botannical Gardens study program’

‘Nuts’

‘I’ll see you out’ Hannah said.

Hannah and Neville left the lounge room and made their way down to the front door. Neville took his cloak of the hat stand and pulled it on.

‘I’ll see you here Saturday morning yeah?’ he said doing up the clasp ‘about ten okay for you?’

‘Yep the others will have gone by then’ Hannah said opening the door and stepping out onto the front porch with him ‘Dad said he would then take the others to see Jas and David in Doncaster so we’ll have the whole day together’

‘We’ll be able to spend a bit of time at St Mungos visiting Mum and Dad then’ Neville said softly.

Hannah put her arms around his neck.
‘Neville don’t worry things’ll go fine’ she said dropping a light kiss on his lips ‘don’t be so nervous I’m a tough bugger we Hufflepuffs are I’ll take whatever happens’

‘You’re too good to me’ Neville replied resting his forehead on hers and returning the kiss ‘what have I done to deserve you?’

‘Nothing specific’ Hannah said with a grin ‘I love you for who you are Neville not what you’ve done. Though your snake decapitating skills are enough to make any girls knickers wet’

Neville rolled his eyes and Hannah burst into fits of laughter.

‘Oh ha ha ha’ he said dryly as Hannah struggled to control herself ‘Hannah my dear you are the only one I know that I would let get away with a comment like that’

Hannah grinned and hugged him.
‘Go on you better head home I don’t want to be responsible for you falling asleep during potions and blowing up half the ministry building’ she said ‘see you Saturday morning'

'Til Diagon Alley'

Neville kissed her then with a wink disapparated.

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