Stunned and terrified, Neville stuck closely to Ron as they followed Percy through the throng of confusion, all thoughts of Ron and Parvati's argument forgotten by all present. A troll? Trolls were horribly dangerous, weren't they? And of course it must be, if the Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts had been so frightened by it. Parvati and Lavender were clinging closely to one another, and Seamus and Dean were awkwardly leaning on each other with expressions that approximately indicated "we are obviously too cool to hold hands (aaaaahhh)", which would have been funny if everyone else wasn't also rather frightened.