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Ned nodded. Now that she knew Ten wasn’t mad at her, she was going to go down to the greenhouse every single day. Maybe she’d even try her hand at gardening too. She’d never had Ten’s natural affinity for it, but she was sure she could make herself useful watering flowers or digging holes...

When had Felix gotten so mature? Eluned didn’t like it. Mind you, he’d always been the sensible one. That was why she liked to pick on him so much. Mervyn had given her a stern talking to about that, too, but it hadn’t stopped her; making Felix miserable made her feel better. She was a...

Ned had managed not to cry thus far, but as soon as she saw tears rolling down Ten’s face, the emotion came. “I do want you around,” she said. “I just feel like you’re always angry with me. I feel like you want me to go away.” She hadn’t realised how much Ten has been going through. That was...

Now that Felix the Mediator was here, Ned suddenly felt a bit sheepish. She avoided looking either of them directly in the eye as she leaned against a table. “Ten thinks I don’t care about her because I don’t chase her around enough. Then when I do chase her around, she tells me to go away.”...

Ned scoffed. So it was her fault Ten didn’t want to hang out with her any more, because she should have found something else to do? The girl was ridiculous. She wanted to be a victim, that was her problem. She’d hidden from Ned and expected her to realise there something was wrong. But until...

“I didn’t know you wanted me to!” Ned cried. “I didn’t used to have to ask you to invite me to things. We used to do everything together, we didn’t plan it, we just did. Now you’re off ‘gallivanting’ round the castle while I sit around on my own, waiting for you to show up. So project harder...

Ned stopped sharply. What? Where had she been? Where had she been? “Where have YOU been?” she shot back. “You abandoned me! I always left a space for you, and you didn’t come!” If Ten wanted to start picking at her for being a bad friend, she had to admit she’d been a rubbish one herself. “I...

Ned didn't realise Ten had made off with an entire bowl of mashed potatoes. It took her a moment to recover from the surprise. "Well, I want some of those tatties back," she said, prudently maintaining a bit of distance. With Ten in a mood like this, Ned was liable to receive those potatoes...

Dinner time at the Gryffindor house table was always a little chaotic. It wasn’t unusual for Ned to get separated from Ten in the rush for the best seats. What was unusual was for Ten not to show up at all. Eluned cut up her roast potatoes, tonging a few spares onto her plate before all the...

Mate

"Pointless. I've tried everything." All right, that was an exaggeration, but the only things Ned hadn't tried would have bored her to tears. There was simply nothing out there that interested her. Not enough to make a career out of, anyway. And now Ten was considering getting a job at fifteen...

Ned's relief made her so lightheaded, she might have fallen out of the tree without any assistance. That was the Ten she knew. "Uh-huh. Don't forget what happened to Felix. There's a lake over there and I'm not afraid to dunk you in it." She grinned, swinging her legs gently back and forth in...

Ned felt the glare like a knife. She had done something wrong. What she'd done, or when she'd done it, were mysteries she would only uncover with some delicate probing, and she wondered whether it was even worth trying. All she'd ever tried to do was be good and nice to people, especially Ten...

"Sheesh," said Ned. "Who p!ssed in your cornflakes?" Ten wasn't usually such a killjoy. All this huffing and sighing made Ned feel like she'd done something wrong, although she suspected there was more to it than that. After all, what could she have possibly done? They never got annoyed with...

Ned was an expert at climbing trees - particularly this tree, which she and Ten had claimed as their hangout spot in first year, and which she had consequently climbed dozens of times. She hauled herself up onto their favourite branch, shimmying her way along to make space for Ten. "One day...