Daphne and Pansy were tied for best students in Herbology with the Gryffindor Neville Longbottom. The two Slytherin girls enjoyed talking to Neville in class and in the Herbology section of the library, and neither girl had a problem being paired with him. Unlike the other Gryffindors Neville was quiet and shy, and was never heard yelling about how evil the Slytherins were. Although he was still wary of the Slytherin boys his friendship with the girls meant that they tended to leave him alone when they got into fights with his dorm mates Henry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas.