"Don't get your knickers in a twist!" Neville replied, raising his hands in a gesture of surrender. "But I had a bet with Dean that you and Harry would kiss or start going out at some point during our time at Hogwarts. We kept trying to catch you at it, but by seventh year, when it was clear you weren't coming back, I had to concede and pay up. Of course, that cunt Alecto Carrow saw it, used Veritaserum on us to find out what we were up to, then took Dean's winnings and gave us ten magical lashes each for illegal gaming, which she made up on the spot as a new school rule, just to give her a reason to punish us."