So here I come with a brand new fic about Luna and Seamus, a pairing that I think looks so cute that I couldn't let without story. I hope you enjoy it; the begining is quite related to Christmas because I felt inspired by all the Carroll's that were playing at home at the moment haha
Please review, I know I need to improve my writting, since it's not my mother language hee hee
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Everything begins at Christmas
Is it music? Candles? Or maybe all the shiny lights? I don't know what, but there's something at Christmas that makes us look all the good things, feel happy even if there's not an actual reason for it. There's a general sensation of no-problem that surrounds us everywhere we go. It is a time that makes us forget all the bad things that happened during the year, at least for some days. What is it that makes these times so special? Whatever the answer to that question is, it works as real magic; a kind of magic more powerful than any other you could think of at the moment, one of the prettier magic it exists, it's Christmas Magic.
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Today is the last session of the DA of the year, not the academic year, of course, but of the actual year. There are only a few days of break, nothing to do with the big summer break, but Christmas one has a special power to clear bad things off; and after it, lots of new wishes are made. This year, it's going to be different, though; I don't think that some wishes under the tree are going to improve our world's situation right now. It's been a year of fun, for sure – not every year the Three Wizards Championship is held at your own school –, but terrible things have happened too, and more and worse are coming…
I slowly get out of my thoughts and come back to the Room of Requirements where we are all looking at "Super-Harry's" huge deer Patronus. It's not like I'm not his friend, but I still have some doubts about all the Dark Lord's return; I think it's normal, isn't it? It's something too big to believe in like that, from night to day. Nevertheless, I'm not angry anymore, and here, at the DA I try to learn as much as I can from him. I guess today we're going to practice Pratonuses again, I hope mine gets a body this time, because it nearly did in last session.
"Today we're only going to practice a little bit, I'll let you get out earlier, you know, because it's Christmas" Harry says, "but in exchange we're going to practice the Patronuses, I know you don't control them yet."
Some people make noises of approval and then let him speak again. "Get scattered all along the room, you don't want your Patronus to fight with your partner's one."
I automatically go next to Dean, Neville is there too; we always have a great time with him, he never gets to do anything, poor boy. Anyway, we always go to the same corner of the room, where nobody can hit us with their spells. But today there's some that isn't usually with us; that girl, the Ravenclaw one, she's so weird!
"Hey, Dean, have you ever talked to her?" I tell him in whispers.
"Never ever" he answers.
"Hope she doesn't do anything too weird… What was her name? Luna?"
"Yeah, Luna Lovegood; I think she's friends with Harry, but she's still too bizarre".
"I think she's nice" Neville always surprises us…
"Oh, do you?" Dean asks containing his laughing "Have you ever talked to her?"
"Actually yes, and she's brilliant. I met her a few weeks ago at the library while I was looking for some Herbology stuff I needed; it was about a kind of fungus that is so hard to find…
"Please, get to the point" It's not like I want to be mean, but I think I'm becoming an expert in Herbology just thank to the stuff he always tells.
"Oh yeah; so I was there looking at the fungus shelf when I heard somebody talking to herself. At first I thought of some poor Hufflepuff gone crazy because of the bad times we're living, but then I saw Luna, it did look as she was talking to herself, but I heard something about Nargles; she was looking for them because she thought they'd taken her stuff.
"So as I am a polite guy, not like you are; I walked towards her and introduced myself and asked her about what she was looking for. She had lost a pair of socks and she absolutely believed that Nargles where behind that. I just couldn't answer; everybody knows Nargles do not exist, do they? She noticed my surprised sight; - Neville, as discreet as always - but she didn't get upset as all the girls I mess up conversations; she just said with a voice that sounded crazy "I can in your eyes that you think I am crazy, but don't feel sorry, there's some times that even I think I am crazy" and then she smiled and walked away, well she started jumping a little bit as she got out of the library".
"Oh my god, she is absolutely the nicest person you've ever met Longbottom!" Poor him, we have to teach him a little bit about girls.
"Yeah Neville, you've absolutely convinced me that she's not a freak, really" Dean always speaks too loud. Why in the world these things happen to me? Is it because I'm Irish? Jesus…
"Hey guys; don't make as if you weren't talking about me; I've been listening to your tale the whole time, Neville". Luna Lovegood turned her almost silver blonde head and stared at us, not looking angry though. Her sight was so weird that I wouldn't be able to say it reflected a specific emotion; she did really look a bit unbalanced. Aren't Ravenclaws always very smart? Surprisingly, in spite of the fact that we were just stating the evidence of that girl being weird – I mean, she actually is – I felt guilty, she looked innocent too.
"Sorry, er… Luna, right?" she smiled at me and looked at me so intensively that I thought she was going to look through me at any moment "we were just talking, you know, we've never seen you and we were… er… wondering" I smiled stupidly, I can't believe I just told such a lie…
"Oh, did you know each other?" Thank you Harry, you could have come earlier though. I've heard he's friends with her, it looks that she was one of the few that trusted him back in September, when we didn't.
"Yeah, well, we've seen crossed once or twice in the corridors" Neville said saving the situation and Dean and I smiled as stupids again; he can be a bit weak at spells and girls, but he knows how to manage uncomfortable situations better than nobody, he so good at talking to people like that.
"Okay, well, try your Patronus, this is our last session before Christmas and I want you guys to be safe during the break" he laughed a little bit and then turned his head to look at Cho Chang; is everybody going to get a girlfriend this year? Except me, of course, the little funny Irish guy that makes girls laugh but that's it.
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It was already two hours later and I still hadn't produced a body Patronus, but that weirdo of Luna Lovegood finally showed her Ravenclaw side and made it an hour ago, making me feel retarded. She offered to help me, but I couldn't let myself get so down, come on, I'm a Gryffindor and I'm supposed to be valiant and brave!
Dean and Neville have also made their pretty shiny animals, I might be one of the last to do it, if not the only useless person here not to have a memory happy enough – okay, that's not my case, it's more that I cannot concentrate with a person that looks at the Blibbering Humdingers behind me; for goodness sake, those do not exist!
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I gave up, I wasn't able to do it and I asked her… I had to, there was no other option, and Harry was too busy helping the others and Dean and Neville were far, with Ginny and the rest of the Weasleys. So I went cautiously and began to talk.
"Er… Luna, could… could you help me with my Patronus? I'm not really good at it, you know"
"Oh, sure!" she came jumping towards me, can someone be less normal? "I've been watching you for a while… You seem to be very nervous, just try to relax and it comes by itself" She smiled again, looking like a little girl explaining a children's game to an adult that seems to be not understanding. I don't know why, but I couldn't help giving her back the kindest of mines.
Then I breathed deeply and tried again, "Especto Patronum!" Nothing happened at first, just the familiar failure; but then, a sudden wave of something I couldn't describe went all over my body to and got out through my wand, producing a white light that slowly turned to be a little fox that ran happily all around the room and finally faded.
No words came out of my mouth, I had made it; I had made a wonderful fox that had run all across the room. I automatically turned to thank the Lovegood girl; after all it was her help I used to concentrate – who would believe that? – But she was no longer there; it looked as if she had gone just when I had finally achieved my Patronus! That girl was weird before the smile and still was after it, but she had something, something about what I needed to learn more. That girl had a strange behavior that had attracted my interest…
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