My first Harry Potter fanfic. Please be nice! I hope you like it!
Luna Lovegood led a hard life.
When she was nine, her mother cave her a charm. It was a red and pink, in the shape of a strawberry. Luna loved it a lot, but he loved it even more when her mother unexpectedly died.
Pandora Lovegood was experimenting with a potion. She mixed an Erumpent Potion with a Replenishing Potion in a fragile cauldron. Luna was watching her on a small bench, grasping her charm, which she considered lucky.
But Pandora supplied to much Erumpent Potion to the mixture. It was a grave mistake that resulted in Pandora's death. And Luna was there to see the tragedy. She went to her father, Xenophilius Lovegood, and brought him to the scene.
And unlike many fathers in these types of stories, Xenophilius was comforting, even though he was overcome with a river of sadness. Young Luna was very depressed after it as well. But eventually she got over it, and two years later, she got a letter from Hogwarts.
As you most likely know, Luna got sorted into Ravenclaw House. She always kept her charm with her. Usually it never left her body unless he was transporting it from one place to another.
But one day changed everything.
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Luna's PoV
Luna was doing her Potions homework in the Ravenclaw common room in her third year. She disliked the teacher, but she was good at the subject. And like her mother, she was experimenting. She did that a lot.
She were mixing two Potions Snape had simply labeled as Potion 113 and Potion 57 to try and see what their effects were. This day, she had attached her charm to a bracelet.
Then Millicent Bullstrode's cat came romping through the common room, its paws pounding at every step—and it was huge. How did it get into the common room? Luna thought. And how did it get that big? Maybe some Nargle Juice?
The cat twisted and turned. It shook around, and hairs were sprayed around the room.
Phew, Luna thought. Maybe it was just and accident—maybe Millicent needs some help with her cat.
Then the cat slammed her tail against the bookshelf. It collapsed, and Luna was very startled as heavy books dropped onto the carpet with a THUD!
Her bracelet slipped off her wrist and landed in the potion. The potion automatically exploded. Bits of the potion splattered on Luna. A swirl of emotions confronted her. Sadness, anger, fear…
Luna rushed to the Ravenclaw bathroom and fetched a towel. She went through the orange potion, with the towel on her hand like a glove.
Luna didn't touch anything solid.
Luna's lucky pendant was gone.