Neville Longbottom

Chapter 3

"I am on my way to Hogwarts right now. Anyone who tries to stop me, will die. Anyone who brings me Harry Potter will be rewarded. I give you one hour" Someone on the other side of the Great Hall, a first year girl, started to scream. I have to say, I was shaking too! "Well go on then! Someone grab him!" Pansy Parkinson said, pointing at Harry. "And Slytherin's are to make their way to the dungeons." McGonagall replied. The whole Great Hall jeered and cheered (apart from the Slytherins of course) Harry was one of my closest friends and I wanted to help him, but if the Dark Lord found out I was, I would be killed. I looked over at Luna and she smiled at me. Oh, Luna. She was always the one, you know? Never mind. "Students out of bed! Students out of bed! Students in the corridors!" Filtch came bursting in. "They are meant to be out of bed you blithering idiot!" McGonagall replied. Filtch looked embarrassed. I always hated him. He also gives me the shivers... I was surprised though, because McGonagall would normally have people in detention even if they were only one minute out of hours. Everyone drew out their wands and started rushing all over the place, desperate to find someone else to four with them. I ran over to Professor McGonagall with Luna. "You mean, you're really letting us do this?" I had looked around and the Order of the Phoenix was here too! "Of course I am letting you do this, Longbottom" I smiled and wandered off into the other direction. I couldn't believe it! We were actually going to fight You-Know-Who's army! And with the Slytherins out of the way, we had nothing in our way... Pretty much...