Eventually, with Ron's vague and amused but reasonably helpful encouragement, all the Gryffindors had managed to summon brooms into their hands, even Hermione, who Neville suspected had been listening even though she was pretending to ignore Ron. Neville, although he'd tried to convince himself (and his broom) otherwise, was already feeling a creeping sense of doom. I'm going to fall, he was thinking, feeling sick to his stomach, I'm going to fall and everyone's going to laugh -