Harry Potter And Common Sense

Neville looked around Gryffindor Tower. He'd been looking for Hermione. She hadn't been to their evening study session. He really wished he had Harry's map but it was Flint's patrol night, and while Snape no longer had Harry in detention every weekend, he still had him in quasi house arrest. Finally he found her in an unused classroom not far from the tower. "Here you are!" then Neville noticed the red eyes and tear tracks. "What's wrong?"

"Neville are you my friend? Or am I just a convenient source of homework help?"

"I'm your friend. What's going on?"

"Last night Daphne got mad at me for the way I treated Harry. She told me not to show up again, that I was smart enough or stupid enough to go it alone. My contribution didn't out weigh my attitude. If I couldn't be mature enough to make peace I didn't deserve to be there." She sniffed long and hard. "Harry will never forgive me, not after all I've done. He tried to warn me. He got me an etiquette book for Christmas and I only just finished it."

"When did you start it Hermione?"

"Last night. Daphne was right I'm a bitch. Ever since… Harry has warned me that teachers are human make mistakes, that I shouldn't put people on pedestals. That books aren't the end all and be all. I thought I knew so much, but then after what Daphne said months ago. I got angry and put it off for three months, now I know I was cutting my nose off to spite my face. I read the etiquette book and now I realize how bad a friend I am. I resent it every time he scores higher than me. I put the words of adults ahead of things he tells me. I mean it wasn't Professor McGonagall or Professor Dumbledore that rescued me in that bathroom back on Halloween it was Harry and you. Did Harry even get any points for coming and saving me? All I know was that Professor Snape did the whole make Harry make friends in his house thing.

I know the Headmaster favors Gryffindor but he's supposed to be Headmaster and show no favoritism but I look at how Tracey and Daphne get treated versus how Susan and Hannah get treated and it's not fair. And I look at the Weasley twins and how they treat Harry. But then when he didn't react to their pranks and started to circumvent them, it became this challenge to provoke him. I think at first it was the whole everyone expected him to be one thing but he was like completely different and it was like they were all mad at him. What right had they to expect anything? Harry is just a kid and no one really knows him.

It seems like they expect him to be this superhero. And then since the sorting they act like they expect him to be super evil because he got sorted into Slytherin. Haven't they ever heard of self-fulfilling prophecies? And I don't know, I'm just so mixed up and it's just so unfair. And then I've been so terrible to him and… and if I were him I'd tell me to drop dead or something else like that but what does Harry do he smiles and ignores my bitchiness. He just takes all the crap everyone piles on him and… and.." Hermione broke into heavy sobs. "I'm a terrible person!"

Neville was uncomfortable with hysterical people let alone hysterical sobbing girls. But since Mione was his friend, he'd suck it up. "Come on I think you could use a calming draught then we'll talk about this and come up with some ways you can be a better friend."

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