Neville's POV
I walked down the hallway, its only been a week and news spread quickly about what Umbridge was doing. I kept my head down for the most part.
I went to the Greenhouse, it seemed like that was the only place I could breathe. I went inside and saw Y/n sitting on the ground writing in a book, she slammed it shut as soon as she realized she wasn't alone.
"Hey Y/n" I spoke softly.
"H-Hey Neville" She replied.
"What are you writing?" I asked. She tensed up.
"I-It's nothing really" She told me. I nodded and sat down in front of her.
"I'm sorry I wasn't there for you last year" I felt the need to apologize.
"What does that mean?" She asked confused by my words.
"I wasn't there for you when you needed me, I wasn't there to help you through things after You Know Who's followers hurt you. Hell I didn't even know what happened to you and then you went home to-" She stopped me.
"Neville, if it's all the same to you I'd rather not talk about it" She said.
Your POV
Neville had a sad puppy expression as he listened to me. He looked down and saw my hand.
"Merlin...Y/n you need to see Madam Pomfrey, it's getting infected" Neville said taking my hand. I wanted to pull my hand away but I couldn't, Neville was just so sweet and caring. I really missed him. He looked into my eyes.
"Y/n I-" Neville was about to say something when Lucifer's spawn decided to interrupt.
"What are two students doing down here at this time?" Umbridge's annoying voice echoed in the Greenhouse.
"It's the middle of the day and last I checked there are no rules against studying here when it's not in use. Correct me if I'm wrong Professor" I said, I couldn't stop my tone nor could I calm my anger.
Umbridge was not pleased with my answer.
"Detention Miss Y/l/n" She smiled.
"Wha- but she just answered your question" Neville tried to defend me.
"Miss Y/l/n has an exigency for breaking the rules. Mr Longbottom are you aware of the uniform policy?" Umbridge asked. Neville looked confused but nodded. I rolled my eyes. She had to find something to punish me for.
"The girls uniform consists of a cloak, dress shirt, tie and skirt. Can you tell me which part of Miss Y/l/n's uniform isn't following policy?" She asked Neville. He just looked down.
"I asked you a question" She said firmly.
"I'm not wearing a skirt and you have something against girls wearing pants instead" I got in her face to get her attention off Neville.
"My office now" She said angrily turning around to walk out. I grabbed my stuff and was about to follow when Neville gently caught my wrist. I looked back to see his sad puppy expression. I gave him a small reassuring smile and left. I sat down at the desk in Umbridge's office.
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"You don't learn do you, is that a side effect of being knocked around or your need to rebel in order to feel strong?" She tries to get under my skin.
"You are weak but you don't want your friends to know, do you?" She said.
"You don't know a damn thing about me" My voice was like venom.
"Oh but I do. Tell me how does it feel having a family that don't care about you." She smirked. I curled my hand into a fist looking down.
"Knowing they will never love you" She continued. I clenched my jaw.
"Not even your friends care" She was lying, she had to be.
"They think you're weak" Umbridge messed with my head.
"No they don't" I mumbled.
"Not even that boy could keep pretending to love you, because no one ever could." Was the last thing she said.
"SHUT UP" I screamed, the room shook and I had tears running down my face. Umbridge looked around then back at me, she had a smug look on her face. She had successfully broke me.
"You can leave" She said, I grabbed my things and left. I put my hood up and tried to find somewhere quiet. I ended up going to the girls lavatory. I wrote everything she said to me in my book.
I searched through my bag until I found the small razor my parents threw at me as a joke. I sliced through my skin until I felt numb. I heard two gasps and looked up seeing Fred and George, they ran over to me. George pulled me into his arms and Fred started cleaning up the blood.
"W-Why did you do this, you were getting better" George held me tightly.
"I'm sorry, I couldn't-" My voice cracked.
Fred cleaned up my arms and wrapped them, he took the razor from me and hugged me too.
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"How did you know I was here?" I asked softly.
"Neville came to us in tears saying Umbridge was going to hurt you again" George said.
"When we couldn't find you we thought you might be here" Fred told me. I looked at them both.
"But Umbridge said-" I stopped talking thinking about what she said. Fred and George were extremely worried and wanted to know what she did to cause this. I was reluctant to tell them but I knew this time they weren't going to let me brush it off. I ended up spilling and telling them everything. They comforted me.
"She was lying, she just wanted to get under your skin" George brushed some hair out of my face.
"She needed to get to you because you are a threat to her, she wants to control the school but you are showing her that you are stronger than her torment. You are showing her that she can't control everyone" Fred held my hand.
"You thought she would punish Neville for not answering her so you distracted her, you are so strong. We all care about you, so don't believe anything she says okay." George added and kissed my head. They took me back to the common room after I got cleaned up.
"Let's cheer you up, we want to make you smile" Fred nudged me as we got back to the common room.
"How are you going to do that?" I asked softly looking at the two pranksters. They both smiled looking at each other then back to me. Then they both said in unison.
"Do you still have your skateboard?"