Opposites Attract

Luna Lovegood sat quietly writing in her diary on a cold winter day. She flipped her dirty blond hair out of her face revealing her wand tucked behind her ear as she wrote:

Hi. My name is Luna Lovegood. You may call me Loony, seeing as everyone else does. I, well let's just face it, I'm weird. I have like 3 or 4 close friends. The others are my tormentors. Ginny, Neville, Ron, and Harry. Hermione too I guess. She and I don't talk much. Plus, she's away now. So is everyone but Ginny. They graduated. Its Christmas break and I'm here writing in my diary. Ravenclaw fits me well seeing as I write so much. I guess I'll go for a walk now. Ginny is running D. A. now because she took over for Harry. They're going out again. Ever since Harry killed You-Know-Who for good. It's good to know evil is rid of the world again, at least most of it. I don't think they've examined the small packages of evil at Hogwarts. Meet my tormenters; they're the evil that have yet to be conquered, or at least by me.

Luna locked her diary, grabbed a couple of books, and headed towards the Great Hall for lunch. She decided to go for her walk afterwards and then to the library.

She was walking along staring at the ground when…BAM!

Luna fell hard on the floor.

"Damn," She said rubbing her head.

"Oh dammit, I'm sorry!" She heard a thick Scottish accented voice from above say. She looked up.

OLIVER WOOD'S POV

Ahh. It feels great to be back. I turned toward my office door. Wow, it feels great to say that. My office. I decided to go get some lunch.

As I was heading down the hallway, I saw a girl a little shorter than me. She had dirty blonde hair, that was straightened and she was staring at the floor. She was very pretty. She had a nice shape. I wonder if she's in my class…UGH! Wood, get a grip on your self! You can't have feelings for students…but she is only a few years younger…BAM!

Next thing I know, I'm on the floor and I jumped up to save myself from being known as the new clumsy Quidditch teacher.

"Damn," said the girl

"Oh dammit, I'm sorry!" I said picking up her books, but still fairly taller than her. She looked up at me. She had sparkling blue eyes.

LUNA'S POV

I looked up and I saw a great looking guy with brown eyes and a great build. I recognized him as Oliver Wood, Gryffindor Quiddich Captain until about 2 years ago. He was picking up my books when I realized I was staring. I stood up and said

"No, it was my fault; I wasn't looking where I was going." I said, realization kicking in.

"Oh, well, neither was I. I'm Oliver. Oliver Wood." He said sticking his hand out.

"Luna Lovegood." I said shaking it.

"Lovegood? Do you know the guy who edits the Quibbler?"

"Yea, he's m'dad." I said

"That's cool. That's the magazine who gave a good side to Harry a couple years back. I've read it since. Kind of interesting."

"Oh, uh thanks…bye." I said turning to walk away.

"Wait!" he said

I turned around with a hand on my hip.

"What? Wanna knock me to the ground again?" I said with a smirk

"No! I-I'm sorry!"

"Relax Oliver. I'm joking. I'll see you later."

"Where are you going?"

"Lunch."

"Me too, I'll walk you there."

"Pu-lease! I'm 'Loony Lovegood'; you do not want to be seen with me."

I started to walk but the guy followed me. I think he'd make a great stalker.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I have 4 friends, and 3 graduated. Ginny is my best friend. Others are my official tormenters."

"Not when I'm around. I'm a new professor here but I'll have everyone call me Oliver. I'm 18. Always young for my year. I was bumped up a year when I was 13 here. You?"

"18. I'm older than a lot of people in my year. So we're kind of opposite." He looked shocked but pleased that we were the same age.

"Well, you know, opposites attract…"he said oh so smoothly

"OLIVER!" I said, appalled "I am your student."

"Not yet and we're the same age! What's wrong with that?"

"It's against the rules!"

"But, if it weren't, would you…go out with me?"

"Absolutely not! Now if you will excuse me, I am going to eat some lunch!"

I stormed to the Ravenclaw table and grabbed a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup. I noticed when Oliver passed me, he was staring. I could feel his eyes burning into the back of my head. I groaned and headed off to the library. I got all my homework done and I decided to go to Hogsmeade. I went to the magazine stand and read the latest version of the Quibbler up in my dorm by the fire. My owl, coincidentally named Loony, flew through the window and dropped the letter.

Luna-

Meet me and Harry at the three broomsticks at 4.

-Ginny

I trudged down the stairs and used the secret passageways to get to Hogsmeade without waiting in line. I checked my watch; 3:45. I still had time so I walked around a little. I entered the 3 broomsticks and I grabbed a butterbeer and threw 5 sickles down on the counter. I looked around and saw a mess of black and fiery red hair very close together. I sighed. I guess I'll go sit somewhere else. Unfortunately the only seat was next to…

"Can I sit here?" I asked

Oliver smiled.

"Sure." He said motioning for me to sit

OLIVER'S POV

Argh! Women! Why do they have to be so damn difficult? I mean I was trying to be nice for God's Sake! I walked past Luna at her table. I noticed she had a wand tucked behind her ear. Hmm, clever. I was trying to catch her eye but that only resulted in her emerging a loud groan and stomping off towards the stairs. Oh well…

As I headed off to Hogsmeade, I saw the familiar dirty blonde haired head and followed it. I couldn't know for sure if it was her because she had her cloak on and her scarf and I was looking only at the back of her head. I couldn't see her face. As I turned the corner, I lost her and decided to go to get a butterbeer. I sat alone for about 15 minutes when the bell to the door rung and I saw Luna come in. Her cheeks were rosy and her hair had snowflakes all around it. Then I remembered who she was at school.

FLASHBACK

"Look, its Loony Lovegood!" Draco Malfoy sneered. He walked towards her and kicked some snow into her shoes so she shivered.

A young girl with the same dirty blonde hair, but curly and long, looked up and glared.

"What do you want Malfoy?"

"Well seeing as you are loony, we decided to give you a present."

"No thank you, Malfoy."

The younger Luna stood up to leave but Malfoy caught her arm.

"When I say something, you don't walk away, got it?" he said, holding him wand up to her face.

Luna was shaking with fear and her sparkling blue eyes were filling up with tears. She nodded. Her rosy cheeks almost immediately paled when he caught a hold of her arm.

"Now, hold still, geek." He muttered a spell and Luna was wearing a clown outfit that had 'Loony' written all over it.

Luna burst into tears and ran up to her dormitories.

END OF FLASHBACK

Wow. So that was a younger Luna. She looked different now. Her hair was shorter and much straighter. And she'd…well she'd definitely grown up nice. 3rd year Luna was still pretty but I don't think people would've noticed her because she wasn't the prettiest. Plus, she had many strange ambitions and hobbies. That's what I like about her. She's not just another good snog, she's more. Argh! I met her this afternoon and I already love her. Talk about love at third or fourth sight. I'm only saying that because I knew her when I was here and I never looked at her in that way. I just kind of knew that she was some weird 3rd year that I helped with her tormenting problems by giving them detentions. I gave Malfoy only a week of detentions for that. Fury burned up inside of me when I thought of him hurting her like that.

Why do I think of her like that! FRUSTRATION!

OW, I just hit my head. That hurt…

Oh God, she's coming this way. Why? Maybe she likes me…Dammit, Wood, you need to get control over yourself!

"Can I sit here?" she asked

I smiled and my heart leapt that she wanted to sit with me.

"Sure." I said, motioning for her to sit