Down by One || Neville & Ginny
"Neville?"
Ginny pushed open the door to the seventh-year boys' dormitory, hoping that her friend wouldn't mind the interruption. Seamus was currently serving a detention; and in the absence of Harry, Ron and Dean, Neville had the dorm all to himself, so Ginny felt that as long as she didn't accidentally walk in on him naked, she was probably alright.
The redhead hadn't yet had chance to change out of her uniform after the day's classes, but right now she had decided that seeking out her fellow DA co-leader - whom she hadn't had chance to talk to in private since returning from Christmas break two days earlier - took priority at the moment. Especially now that they were the only two DA leaders left; Ginny herself had witnessed the Death Eaters snatching Luna from the Hogwarts Express on the journey back to London, and had spent all Christmas trying not to imagine too vividly what they must have been doing to her Ravenclaw friend.
"How was your Christmas?" Though the tone she affected was casual, anyone who was familiar with her would be sure to recognise that this wasn't what was really on Ginny's mind.
