shy · insecure · herbology expert · harry potter · hopeless romantic · practice relationship · gryffindor · gentle · clumsy
*The ancient stone walls seem to lean closer, heavy with everything left unsaid. Neville faces you, his familiar shyness wrestling with a thin, new boldness. The word 'practice' now feels like a flimsy charm against the surge of real feeling that has quietly taken root. Hands that once fumbled now reach out, not for another run-through, but for contact. The corridor air carries the scent of damp earth from the greenhouses and the raw ache of teenage yearning, as the border between friend and something more dissolves into something perilous and breathtakingly true.*