Harry Potter and What Happened After - Sahits

down at the floor, "I guess the spell kind of' fried your floor. Sorry Harry, I'm a bit distracted."
It was then that Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione noticed the sad look on Neville's face. "Neville,
what's wrong?" asked Ginny, going to put an arm around her friend.
"Luna," Neville said, and left it at that.
The four friends all got horrified looks on their faces, "Is she ok?" asked Hermione, finding herself
standing, her wand in her hand once again.
"Yeah," sighed Neville, "But she's going to Australia to finish out the school year on some study abroad
program." Neville was staring at the floor, it seemed as if all the confidence he had gained in the past
few years had simply disappeared.
"Ok, when is she leaving?" asked Ginny. Beside her Hermione sat down, stowing her wand away.
"After the wedding," said Neville, his tone getting even sadder, if that was possible.
"Well, than you'll have to go visit over Easter break," said Harry, "and she'll be back at the end of the
year."
"I know," sighed Neville, "but she broke up with me." At this he burst into tears.
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were all shocked into silence. Neville and Luna had seemed like the
perfect couple, both were a bit…different from the other students, and they seemed to connect
perfectly. "Why?" was all that Ron could manage.
"She said she didn't want to 'maintain a long distance relationship,' and that she wanted somebody who
would be willing to travel with her to look for 'exotic magical creatures'." Neville seemed to be calming
down a bit, but it was obvious he could break at the slightest provocation.
"Well, did you tell her that you would be willing to travel with her?" asked Ginny, not able to resist.
Neville looked up at her, a somewhat embarrassed look on his face. "Well, I kind of said that I wanted
to do something different than spend my life looking for exotic magical creatures," Neville's face
reddened even more, "that didn't exist."
"Well that shouldn't have offended her, she's been hearing that her whole life." said Ron.
"Ron!" exclaimed Hermione, just glaring at her fiancé.
"What?" asked Ron, not really sure what he'd done.
"I've told her before that I thought she was right about the creatures," said Neville, both answering
Ron's question and berating himself for being so stupid.
"Oh," said Ron, his face turning slightly red as he seemed to sink into the couch that he was sitting on.
"But the thing is, I want to start a green house and study magical plants," said Neville. Then a gleam
came to his eye that was obviously one of ambition, "I've never told this to anybody, but one day, I
think I'd like to teach Herbology at Hogwarts."
"Well that's a great goal," said Hermione, trying to be encouraging, "but maybe you should tell Luna
that, she'll understand that you have your own goals and dreams."
"That may work, if that were the only problem," said Neville, now finished crying.
"What else did you do?" Ginny asked, suddenly ready to defend Luna.
"Nothing," insisted Neville quickly, "but our relationship has been on rocky ground for a while. The
stresses of seventh year have been getting to us both and we haven't been spending much time together