Harry Potter and What Happened After - Sahits

in the last month or so." Neville took a deep breath as if to calm himself, "then she told me about
studying in Australia and I kind of went off. We started fighting and yelling and I told her that I didn't
think the creatures existed and she got real quite suddenly and walked out a bit later. Then this morning
she showed up at Gran's house and asked to talk to me. She told me that she was sorry, but she didn't
think she could sustain a long distance relationship, and that she wanted somebody who would look for
magical creatures with her. That's when I Apparated here."
Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione looked at each other, not knowing what to say. Ginny was the first to
break the silence, "well, you should talk to her before she leaves. You two have been through a lot
together."
Neville just nodded, not really sure what to say to that. "I'll talk to her at the wedding."
"That's good," said Hermione, "but for now, why don't you go back to your Gran's house, she's
probably worried about you by now." Neville got up and took out his wand but Hermione put her hand
over Neville's, "Why don't you take the floo network, you don't look like you're in any shape to
disparate right now."
Neville just nodded and allowed Hermione to lead him to the fireplace. Once he was there he threw the
powder into the fireplace and stepped in, shouted the address for his Gran's home and was suddenly
swirled away.
"Well that sucks," said Ginny as soon as Hermione returned from seeing Neville off.
"Yeah, they were perfect for each other," said Hermione, sitting down heavily next to Ron. She took his
hand and started absentmindedly playing with his fingers, he didn't seem to notice, or mind.
"Well, at least we weren't having them over for Christmas," said Ron, "that would have been a bit…
awkward."
Hermione glared at Ron again, but this time the glare seemed more like she was thinking about
something, not like she was mad at him. "Maybe we should invite her and her father over for
Christmas," suggested Hermione suddenly.
"Why?" asked Harry, "we already have 14 people coming, isn't that enough?"
"We had more than that for dinner most nights when we were here before our 5th year" said Hermione.
"Plus, she was probably planning to do Christmas with Neville, but now, she and her father will be
alone."
"I think it's a good idea," said Ron. He had learned that if Hermione got mad at him the best way to get
her to forget she was mad was to take her side on the first argument that arose between her and
anybody else, unless of course that somebody else was him.
"I thought we wanted this to be a 'family' affair," said Ginny, still hoping to keep the number of people
down. She had never cooked much, and never for the numbers of people that were coming to
Christmas.
"Well they're family with each other. And after all Luna's been through with us she practically is
family," said Hermione.
Ginny and Harry looked at each other, they both knew that it was a good idea and that if Hermione
hadn't brought it up one of them probably would have. "Alright, fine," said Harry, "send Luna and her
father an owl inviting them to Christmas dinner."
Hermione went up stairs and quickly wrote a note to Luna and her father, asking them to have
Christmas dinner with the Weasleys. She tried to come up with a polite way of inviting Luna and her