"Neville, why are you grinning like that? You're just dating someone. Is it really necessary?" Ron looked disdainfully at Neville, who had come in from outside with a radiant smile.
Neville and Daphne had made their relationship official, causing quite a stir throughout their houses.
Although Neville was also a pure-blood and met the Greengrass family's standards for a partner, it had been quite some time since anyone had seen a romance between a Gryffindor and a Slytherin.
Things were actually fine on the Gryffindor side, but there was no shortage of snide remarks from Slytherin.
Yet Daphne once again changed Harry and the others' understanding of her.
Rather than backing down because of her classmates' comments, she grew even closer to Neville, to the point of holding hands in public and flaunting their romance in front of the single people.
Harry and Ron declared that, fortunately, they had girlfriends too. Otherwise, wouldn't they have had their roommate's romance rubbed in their faces?
Seamus and Dean wondered why the hell they didn't have girlfriends and had to have their roommate's romance rubbed in their faces.
After this, Harry and Ron, who had still harbored some resentment over Daphne, a Slytherin, inheriting the Gryffindor Legacy, both changed their opinions of her considerably.
Still, when their roommate started dating and spent all day grinning foolishly, it was perfectly reasonable for Harry and Ron, those two terrible friends, to make snide remarks at his expense.
"Oh, no, no." Neville waved his hands repeatedly. "That's not why today."
"Oh, that's not why today?" Harry, the sarcastic jerk, immediately spotted the problem in Neville's wording. "So that is why you've been grinning like an idiot these past few days."
Neville opened his mouth. Although he had long known that Harry's capacity for sarcasm was already