1Perhaps Luna isn't as clueless as she seems, too bad the same can't be said for Neville and clumsiness. (Luna/Neville and a bit of Draco/Ginny).
Luna stared down at her latest edition of The Quibbler, wearing a type of swirly helmet that made a quite irritatingly loud buzzing sound. She was reading a quite interesting story about Linklepunqs mating habits, and often had to make hushing sounds to Ronald and Harry during their wizards chess games. The train cabin contained herself, Ronald Weasley, Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Draco Malfoy, and Hermione Granger. A girl Luna wasn't particularly fond of for the main reason that she often tried to correct her on things that the know-it-all, fluffy-haired, buck-toothed, silly little prefect really knew nothing about. Of course, Luna tried her best not to let on about her dislike for Hermione, and found the best method to ignore her when possible.
Draco was sitting in one of the corners of the cabin with Ginny on his lap, who had been snogging the entire way from platform 9 3/4. Something that drew many glances from Ron and Harry alike. Hermione and Ron often left the cabin to patrol the hallways and fulfill their prefect duties, at which time Harry usually bugged Luna into gently placing her paper on her lap, and talk to him while she counted the seconds until she could again read on about the mating calls of female and male Linklepunqs.
Luna looked up and rolled her silvery eyes as Hermione stood up and tapped her foot, waiting for Ronald to understand her sign and stand up himself so they could fulfill their duties. Luna had just enough of her head visible over The Quibbler to allow herself to glance at Harry, who, with a wave of his wand, cleaned up the mess his last game with Ron had made. She thought hopefully that she would not be distracted again from the most interesting article. But of course, she was. Only not by Harry.
Just as Hermione and Ron opened the cabin door to exit, Neville Longbottom stumbled through the door, holding his nose with blood dripping through his fingers, and Trevor in his other hand. Luna soon realized she had not seen him since they left the station.
"Bloody hell, Neville! What happened to you?" Ron called, taking a few steps back as to keep his new trainers from being stained red.
"Wehb, somb slyberins caughb be wheb I bas gettinga on da traib abb decibed do not be berry dice..." Neville sputtered, leaning against the far wall of the cabin. He succeeded in being the only thing to distract Ginny and Draco from their snog session the entire train ride.
"Goodness Neville, I don't think I understood half of what you just said." Hermione exclaimed, inching closer to Neville, enabling herself to get a better look at his nose.
Luna sighed as she put down her paper again, and flicked a switch on her helmet to silence the buzzing sound. "He said, 'Well, some Slytherins caught me when I was getting on the train and decided not to be very nice." Luna said firmly, flashing a helpful smile to Neville.
"Yeb, dats ib." Neville nodded, but ceased as he winced in pain.
"You should lie flat on your back, and hold this over your nose..." Luna said thoughtfully, handing Neville a sticky-looking sheet of yellow goop.
Neville's eyes widened as he looked from Hermione to Harry and Ron for help.
"Nonsense, I know a perfectly fine charm just for a bloody nose..." Hermione said, retrieving her wand from her back pocket. Luna's airy gaze traveled from Neville to Hermione and back to Neville again as he let out a sigh of relief.
"Ndo offedse Luda, bud I dink I'hl go wid Herbiode od dis ond. Idll be quicker." Neville said, trying not to offend Luna to his best ability. Luna shrugged, turned her helmets buzzing back on, and went back to reading her article.
The sudden distraction wasn't enough to occupy Ginny and Draco's attention for more than five minutes, and all the excitement was over quite quickly as Hermione waved her wand and made Neville able to speak comprehensively again. Ron had obviously been hoping Hermione would forget about their prefect duties, but had been let down as she cleared her throat very loudly as he was about to sit down for another game of wizard chess. Ron rolled his eyes, but Harry said he would go with them as he had to use the loo anyway.
Neville snorted as he glanced at Ginny and Draco, who seemed to be off in a different universe in their own little corner. He decided to sit down next to Luna, and perhaps have a chat while he waited for Hermione to return. He found he had taken a liking to Hermione, and was hoping to get up the courage to ask her on a date this year. Unfortunately his small commune from one side of the cabin to the seat next to Luna was not as easy as it would have been for you or me. He didn't realize his left trainer had come untied when he stumbled into the cabin, which would start the trail of it all.
His right foot caught his left shoelace, and he tripped with no hope of regaining his balance. He fell straight forward, and fell straight through the center of Luna's magazine, landing on top of her. It all happened in such a blur, that it took Luna several seconds to realize she was no longer reading about the loud chirppish mating call of the female Linklepunq, but was staring directly into the clumsy boy's deep yet frightened eyes, their noses just millimeters away from each other. Her wide eyes grew even wider as realization struck her. Neville clumsily scrambled to his feet, his cheeks as red as fire. Luna sat there for a moment, eyes shifting from the two halves of magazine (one in each of her hands) to Neville's embarrassed face, still figuring out what had happened.
"I... I'm s..." Neville began, almost completely unable to speak. Before he could finish, Luna began to giggle. Her soft giggles quickly erupted into hysteric laughter, a bit too dramatic for the circumstances. None the less, her laughter set comfort to Neville's embarassement, and he was soon laughing along with her. Luna doubled in chuckles, and Neville's laughter grew stronger as well. He decided to try and sit down again next to her, but walked more slowly, still laughing at the incident. Although their laughter was drawn short as Ginny and Draco looked up from their corner and said in unison "Shut up, will you?" which did quiet the laughter, but only to silent tear-brimming hysteria.
Luna and Neville finally calmed down a bit, both red in the face and cheeks streamed wet with tears from laughing so hard at something that really wasn't that funny.
"Sorry about your magazine..." Neville began, pushing a piece of his some-what long hair our of his eyes, and handing Luna one half of her magazine that had fallen out of her hand onto his shoe when she started laughing.
"Oh, it's perfectly alright. Nothing Hermione Granger can't fix, I'm sure." Luna said, meaning her comment as a joke. Usually at the sound of Hermione's name, Neville would become shy, but not this time. Now he laughed alongside Luna at her small joke. He never realized how comfortable he felt with this mysterious girl, who seemed to make his unfortunate clumsiness less of an embarrassment and more fun.
"So..." Neville began, unable to think of anything to say, purposely looking away from her big bright eyes.
"Do you have a date to the graduation ceremony?" Luna asked, unlatching her helmet strap and placing it on her lap, a distinct tone of curiousness in her voice.
Neville was taken aback by this sudden, and sort of personal question. He had been planning on asking Hermione to the ball that would be held for the students graduating, but now he wasn't so sure he could. "What?" Neville asked shyly.
"Which part didn't you hear?" Luna asked quite politely, smiling nicely as she stared into Neville's eyes, even though his were staring at the floor.
"Wha... well... um... I..." Neville stuttered, feeling his cheeks turn crimson.
"Oh." Luna said, disappointment showing in her voice. "I understand." She said, wishing she had her magazine to hide behind.
Neville looked up quickly into Luna's now sad face, his jaw dropping. "No, I didn't mean that." He said quietly, raising his hand to her chin and lifting her face so he could look into her eyes. Neville could not believe that he was taking these actions, it was as if someone else was controlling him, but he was completely aware of his actions. "I was just surprised." He said softly.
Luna was quite startled at this. For once someone was acting very kind, and genuinely... but no, it couldn't be... was he actually interested in her?