I don't own Harry Potter or any of it's characters.
This is just a simple fanfiction that my friends urged me to put on here.
I do hope you read and enjoy :]
The chill of the moonlit water hung in the moist air,
the girl with the pearly blonde hair breathed it in emphatically;
oblivious to the glaring eyes of the others in the small boat.
When they reached the shore the others clambered out of the watercraft,
eager to get as far away as possible from the strange girl;
leaving her to stare at the castle and the stars.
When her attention was called to reality again,
she noticed all of her peers walking briskly towards the massive castle,
already forming friendships and creating cliques.
With a slight sigh she exited the boat and trailed behind her classmates.
when they reached the enormous door, she followed her classmates into the entrance hall.
The girl's eyes shone with joy, it was all she had ever dreamed.
"Welcome to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, I am Professor McGonagall;
Head of Gryffindor House and I teach Transfiguration.
When you enter the Great Hall you will all be sorted into your separate houses.
The houses compete in Quidditch and other School events."
The woman pushed open the doors and the children nearly trampled her all aflutter with the scene before them.
Four tables stretched from each end of the room,
older children smiled at their future housemates.
The girls gray eyes wandered and to her surprise,
she could still see the stars through the ceiling.
She occupied herself with them until she heard her name called out:
"Luna Lovegood"
She noticed Professor McGonagall staring at her, holding a long piece of parchment.
She skipped forward and sat on the chair before her,
glad that her legs could have a rest after standing for what felt like hours.
The woman placed a hat atop her head,
"Ah, brilliant and clever too. Must be: RAVENCLAW." she heard the hat scream.
A table of student's faces lit up and cheered.
Luna skipped towards them smiling.
She sat beside two girls friendly looking older girls who welcomed her warmly.
"Luna, I'm sure you'll love it here. I'm Padma and this is Cho."
The tanner of the two spoke quickly through her wide smile.
"I'm going into my second year and Cho's going into her third."
The girl named Cho nodded, her eyes still on the rest of the students being sorted.
"So where are you from, what do your parents do?" Padma asked Luna.
"I'm from Ottery St. Catchpole. It's a small village. My father is a magazine editor and my mother died while in the line of duty."
Luna answered, her eyes wandering to the golden platters that had magically filled with delicacies.
"Your mother fought . . ." Padma lowered her voice to a whisper, ". . . You Know Who?"
Her eyes fell on Luna, shocked and sad.
"Oh no, I meant my mother died while doing her job. She was testing a new spell she had created and well, she just passed." Luna smiled.
"Oh, I'm so sorry! How old were you?" Padma replied, her face questioning Luna's smile.
"I was 9. I had a question about Crumple Horned Snorkacks and I walked in the room and she told me she would answer it after one more spell." Luna began filling her plate with a small portion of food.
"Oh that's terrible Luna! I'm so sorry." Padma comforted her classmate, wondering what a Crumple Horned Snorkack is.
"It's fine, I'll see her again someday." Luna said, her mind drifting to her mother.
"Did I hear you say your father is a magazine editor?" Cho asked, her attention returning to Luna.
"Oh yes, he's in charge of the whole thing." Luna sipped from the goblet in her hand.
"Is he head of Witch Weekly? Oh Luna you have to tell me all about Gilderoy Lockhart!"
Cho begged the new student.
"My father is the editor of The Quibbler. And who's Gilderoy Lockhart?"
Luna inquired, the name sounded faintly familiar.
"That magazine is absolute rubbish." an older girl sneered from across the table.
"Shove off, Penelope. No one asked you." A boy sitting next to Cho furrowed his brow.
Penelope got up from the table, frowning, and walked to the Gryffindor table.
"I'm Roger." He extended a hand toward Luna.
"Penelope likes to think she's better than everyone because she's a prefect, it's inflated her ego like mad."
Luna giggled.
"So have you met Harry yet?" Roger asked, his smile unfading.
"In a school with this many students I would imagine there is more than one Harry."
Luna looked around at all the students milling from table to table.
"I can see why you're in Ravenclaw," Roger chuckled.
"But the Harry I was referring to was Harry Potter."
"Oh, isn't he the one who defeated Lord Voldemort?" Luna tilted her head in question.
All nearby students turned their heads and stared at her.
"Did I say something wrong?" Luna felt the tiniest bit self conscious.
"Don't say the name." Cho snapped in Luna's ear.
"Oh, I'm sorry everyone. I never meant to offend."
Luna rose her voice so all could hear and conversations resumed once again.
Luna rose from the bench.
"I'm going to go look around for a bit, thank you so much for welcoming me." She smiled at Padma, Cho and Roger.
They bid her goodnight as she opened the door and skipped towards the entrance hall.
She walked through the castle, finding herself at the foot of the moving staircase.
She gazed at it in awe for a while before making her way back to the Great Hall.
When she reached the entrance hall she saw two boys with dirt on their faces entering the hall.
Luna sped after them, she realized that she most definitely was not supposed to leave when she did. She sneaked in behind them as the Gryffindor table was full of chatter.
"HARRY I HEARD YOU WERE EXPELLED! WHAT HAPPENED?"
Luna heard a girl with bushy hair exclaim. She wandered over to their table.
"Honestly Hermione, you don't think we'd be daft enough to get ourselves expelled."
The redheaded boy sat down beside the girl.
"I heard you crashed into The Whomping Willow with a flying car, Ronald.
The sad thing being that I believed it after knowing you two and the talent for trouble you two have."
Hermione replied.
"Snape gave us hell for it, McGonagall said we would only be getting a couple of detentions though."
The boy with the scar murmured.
"Let's get out of here, Harry you look exhausted."
Hermione patted Harry on the back as the trio turned to exit.
"Wait," Luna grabbed the arm of the bespectacled boy.
"I'm Luna Lovegood, I'm in Ravenclaw this is my first year." she introduced herself.
"What is this about a Whomping Willow? My Father was thinking of planting one in our yard."
she said thoughtfully.
"Are you mad? That tree nearly ripped us to pieces!" The redheaded boy exclaimed, shocked.
"Ron your tact never ceases to amaze me. It's very good to meet you Luna, I'm Hermione.
And this is Ron" she elbowed the ginger looking boy.
"And I'm sure you could tell this is Harry" she pointed to the green eyed boy.
"It's very nice to meet you Luna, but we have to go. I'm sure we'll se you around."
Harry said before turning to walk away, the trio left speaking in low whispers.
Rather befuddled by her encounter with the three, Luna found the first year Ravenclaws who were all exiting the Great Hall lead by Penelope who was spouting random facts and pointing out pointless paintings.
Luna let her thoughts overwhelm her as her eyes darted from stair to stair.
Her attention drifted away from where she was going and then . . . .
SLAM!
Luna felt a powerful shoulder collide with into her.
"Watch where you're going!" she heard a harsh voice exclaim.
Luna felt herself fall to the ground with a thud, before her stood a boy with blond/silver hair.
"Oh, I'm so sorry. Do help me up." she extended a hand towards the boy.
He lifted her back on her feet with ease.
The boy looked at her a minute "What's your name." his left eyebrow rose.
"I-I'm Luna." the girl stuttered.
"Draco. Draco Malfoy." the boy held her hand longer than needed.
"Be careful on these stairs, you never know what sort of vermin is on them."
The boy looked about, half sneering at his classmates. With a nod, he let go of her hand and he and left her staring after him. When she returned to reality her classmates were on the 5th floor and walking up a spiral staircase, making her sprint after them.
When she had caught up with them she was deeply breathing. Penelope was explaining how to enter the common room.
"One only has to knock," her hand rose to the eagle knocker on the massive wooden door that lacked a handle, and she rapped it once. Before all of their eyes the eagle beak emitted what Luna thought was one of the most beautiful of all voices:
"What do the wise do in cases of adversity?"
"One must answer the question the eagle asks for admittance. If you cannot conceive the answer-" her eyes fell on Luna, a slightly wicked smile stretched across her lips.
"You must wait for one wiser to need use of the common room." her eyes fell back on the crowd of new students before her, her smile leaving as she answered the door:
"The wise outwit the instigator." she smiled a proud smile, clearly satisfied with herself.
The door swung open to reveal a large common area, Luna's eyes fell on the mountains,
glorified in the sunset. Penelope babbled on before releasing the students to their dormitories.
Luna stood at the foot of her fourposter for a moment before launching herself onto it,
and closing all of the curtains. She needed time to think about all that had happened her first magical day at Hogwarts.
Luna thought about every part of her day, staring at the canopy of her fourposter.
Her dark rabbit climbed into her lap; his whiskers tickling her fingers.
"You know what my favorite part of the day was Arius?" she whispered to her bunny.
"Meeting Draco." she smiled to herself before kissing her rabbit and drifting off to sleep.