Gryffindor Common Room -- Open

[enchante_violet]

Pansy had never felt so odd at Hogwarts, not even when she had sat under the Sorting Hat, as she now did going to the Gryffindor common room at curfew. She returned from the library and gave back every curious or nasty glance as she joined the informal queue in front of the portrait. Once inside, she paused to view the room, having decided she

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[divinepatil]

Neville had been pretty distant to everyone staying pretty much to himself. When he wasn't in his dorm he had been in class. The only person he had talked to had been Gabrielle at dinner when they sat at the Ravenclaw table.

He had decided that the four walls of his dorm were starting to close in on him, and he would go down to the common room to sit beside the fire. No one really talked to him if he didn't initiate it unless it was a close friend. Those seemed to be dwindling at the moment.

He walked slowly down the stairs and vaguely looked around the room for Zed. They could sit in silence and study or just think without feeling uncomfortable with each other. He did not see him, though. It wasn't until he got by the fire and the chairs and tables that he spotted Pansy drawing in her sketch book. He decided not to disturb her plus he didn't feel much like conversation so he went to the seat closest to the fire and sat down on the floor and leaned his back against it rather then sit in it.

[enchante_violet]

A few minutes after he had sat down, a little folded note fluttered over to Neville and landed on the floor beside his foot, where it flapped its little wings before unfolding itself.

Dear Neville,

You don't want company?

Pansy

[divinepatil]

He wrote back and enchanted it to flutter back to Pansy.

Pansy,

If you feel like being with a sulky young idiot you may come over.

Neville

[enchante_violet]

Pansy used a levitating spell on her things, and walked over to him with them floating along behind her, save for the sketchbook and pencils, which she chose to carry. She stopped and looked down at a despondant boy.

"You're acting like you don't have your common room," she said.

[divinepatil]

"Please don't! I don't want any Slytherin to do anything. If anything I want Gryffindor to once again look bad and the Slytherins look good. If Slytherins can be perceived by others in Gryffindor to be able to handle attack and only dish on the defensive and not attack back then maybe they will start to rethink their thoughts on Slytherins. I know that is awful for me to say, and I don't even know if I could do it if I was put in your shoes. That would be what is best though.

Castro has been sick, and in the hospital what would have been the good of punishing him then? Before that what do you expect McGonagall wouldn't want Castro out of the game any more then Snape would have wanted one of his players out of the game if it were reversed. You see? It just goes to show just how much Quidditch matters even though it shouldn't."

He stretched out onto his stomach then rolled over onto his back looking up to the ceiling of the common room.

[enchante_violet]

She gave him a sympathetic look. "Alright. I won't do anything like that. It will take a lot to provoke me and I will only do something defensive, if I have to.

"But as to quidditch, there are reserve players."

[divinepatil]

He tilted his head back looking at Pansy in an upside down prospective.

"True, but to tell you the truth none of our reserves were any good because of the lack of practice because of the ban on being outside.

Do you think I am a fool to continue to have hope in this? I mean it looks like I have little behind me in my own house only Kris. How can I stand against my whole house to make this work? I just feel so weak right now. Tell me I am still doing the right thing." He rolled back over onto his stomach and looked at her with sad pleading eyes.

[enchante_violet]

"Then we would have won." She smirked. "See, I'm only being Slytherin, right?"

Pansy grew more serious when he rolled over and she saw his eyes. "Mister Neville Longbottom, you are doing the right thing," she assured him. "I think you're the enlightened one. You and Kris, that is. They're being the fools." When she said 'they're' she waved her hand in the general direction towards the other Gryffindors in the room.