Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and its Characters.
This is a 5-chapter story about interhouse unity and interhouse love. But no Hufflepuff, unfortunately.. :3
It was a fine and sunny day at Hogwarts. There were no storm clouds floating above the castle, and the breeze wasn't too hot nor too cold. The snow was starting to fade from the grass, the ice in the lake starts to melt, and the Whomping Willow's leaves were growing again. In short, it was a perfect sunny day in Spring.
Students were jolly, happy and active that day and they were ecstatic to get out of the gloomy castle. They ran around Hogwarts's hallways until they reach the great entrance. First, Second and Third years headed to the Black Lake. Their excited faces showing it all. Even the Fifth and Sixth years looked like joyful little kids. And then there were the Seventh years. The batch where the famous Harry Potter is from. The batch that has the War Heroes in it. The batch with the Golden Boy, the Quidditch King and the Brightest Witch of all.
Speaking of the brightest witch, she seems to be standing beside a strange contraption. And from the looks of it, it was muggle. A muggle pickup truck to be exact. Hermione Granger was impatiently tapping her foot looking like she was waiting for someone. Well, she is.. or was.
"Augh! Where the hell is Luna? She was supposed to be here fifteen min-" the headgirl stopped her rant when she saw a flash of dirty blonde hair running straight towards her. "Luna! Where have you been?"
"My apologies, Hermione. I was held up by Micheal. He was asking me some questions about Umgubular Slashkilters. You see, I had a theory that Cornelius Fudge had one before and he was asking where he could get-"
"Of course." Hermione said, stopping Luna from babbling more about some non-existent creature, her voice lacing with sarcasm. "It's okay. Shall we start, then?"
"Okay." was the soft reply.
"Alright, Luna. We are just going for a round or two on the grounds. So please, follow my instructions okay?" the brunette started to explain the rules and regulations to Luna before they officially start. But Luna seems to look a bit distracted and looked like she had a lot going on in her head.
"Okay." she still answered nonetheless.
"Do not press anything without my permission, okay?"
"Okay."
"and never, ever, press this button over here, okay?"
"Okay."
"Hop on." Hermione sighed and got inside the car. She figured that explaining the instructions to the daydreaming blonde would probably be pointless. Better get started now than waste a few more minutes trying to get those words in Luna's head, right?
"Okay." Luna followed her example.
"Luna?"
"Hmm?" the girl replied seemingly distracted by the round mechanism in front of her.
"Don't you ever say anything other than Okay? Like, Alright, Copy that, Hoorah?" she grimaced when she finished her sentence. Hoorah?
"Alright, Copy that, Hoorah, Hermione." Luna answered, following what Hermione had said. Bloody Hell, Hermione thought. I never meant this kind of following. She thought about what she had said to Luna. Something about following all her instructions. Hermione just shook her head and groaned.
"Let's just get this over with. Seatbelts." Hermione instructed and Luna gleefully followed. "Start the engine," the blonde girl twisted the keys in its slot and the sound of the engine commenced. "So, we have to-"
Hermione's sentence was unfortunately cut off when Luna kicked on the pedal and promptly sped up into the forbidden forest. The Gryffindor screamed so loud that the windows might threathen to break. "I'm sorry, Hermione. This is the only way I could get there in time.." Hermione looked at her in incredulity. "Professor McGonagall banned me from using brooms. She didn't say anything about cars." She smiled in amusement at finding a loophole. Hermione Granger was still speechless. She always knew Luna was sorted into Ravenclaw for a reason.
As if a miracle was brought on her, she finally spoke up. "Luna! What were you thinking?!" Hermione then looked back in front just in time to see a tree just a few feet away from them. "Look out!"
Luna turned the wheel to the left and the backside of the pick-up tuck scraped the tree. "Woops." Lovegood said and the other girl beside her felt like fainting. Hermione held on to the wheel of the car as if yanking it.
"Give me the fucking wheel! Damnit!"
"No, Hermione. I'm sorry," Luna answered, slapping Hermione's hands away. Hermione was getting really worried because they seem to gain more and more speed. "It's just that, it's Wrackspurt season and they would only show up when the sun is shining. So we should hurry!"
"What the hell is a wackspoot?!"
"Wrackspurts, Hermione. Wrackspurts."
"Who cares about the wackspoots?! Stop the car right now!"
"It's wrack-"
"Look out!"
"Hey, Blaise. Do you think this bark is moist enough?" Draco Malfoy asked his companion across from him. They were gathering some potion ingredients for a mixture, which is probably illegal, in the forbidden forest.
Blaise went to Draco and touched the bark in his hand. He contemplated for a moment then finally answered. "Yeah. But not as moist as my skin."
"How.. vain, Blaise."
"You say it like it's a bad thing."
"Lovegood, Please. Stop. The. Car." Hermione gave up on prying Luna's hands off the wheel and controlling it herself and was now holding on for dear life. They were speeding off faster than the Hogwarts Express. "Please, Luna. I'm begging you. If you have a death wish, please oh please leave me out of it."
"Relax, Hermione. Once we get to the nest, they would heal you if ever we would crash. Only if we get there exactly in time, that is."
"I didn't die in the war, and I won't for the love of me, die in a car crash!" Hermione shouted and glared at Luna. They swerved to the side again for having avoided another tree. "I SWEAR, Luna Lovegood. If I die today and you live, I would haunt you. Oh, Merlin. WHY on Earth did I leave my wand?!"
"Oh no, you won't. We won't die today. Almost there."
"Hey, Blaise. Do you think this-"
"Same answer." Draco was about to say something cutting, but was unable to when he saw a peculiar object in the distance. "Holy butter biscuits."
"What? What is it?" Blaise turned to look at the direction Draco was staring at and his eyes immediately widened. "Is that Lovegood and-"
"Granger." they both were momentarily shocked but then Draco finally registered what the two of them were riding. His upperlip promptly curled up in distaste. "What is that abominable contraption doing here?!"
"Never mind that! They're headed straight toward us!"
"Hey! Stop!"
"Luna, hit the brakes! You're going to run into them!" Hermione screeched so loudly that even Luna thinks the glass in the car would break. "Luna!"
The blonde girl cringed but didn't exactly notice the two boys up ahead. She was too preoccupied thinking about the Wrackspurts. "Hmm?" she hummed, distractedly.
"For fuck's sake, LUNA!"
"Lovegood! Stop the car!" Blaise continued shouting but it seems Luna wasn't planning to stop the car anytime soon. "Merlin, she's not going to fucking stop the car!"
"The what?" confused, Draco asked.
It was really too close to the two gentlemen now that they could practically hear Hermione screaming inside the truck. Blaise realized, a second too late, that they don't have time to jump out of the way. "Stop the car!" screamed both Blaise and Hermione.
Blaise and Draco cast an immobilizing spell at the same time, causing it to backfire. The result was not even the opposite of immobilization really, the two boys got stuck on their backs in both sides of the pick up truck, unable to move. It was like both their spells created a magical super glue.
Luna finally noticed the two young Slytherins and smiled brightly at them. "Hi Draco, Hi Blaise."
"Lovegood," seethed Draco, unable to shout because of fear. "stop this muggle vehicle right now, or I'll-"
"Tree!" shouted Blaise.
"Reducto!" fortunately, Draco was holding his wand. Thank Merlin.
"That was close!" exclaimed Hermione in terrified relief. Draco couldn't agree more.
"Too close!"
"You have your wand!? Stop this car!" Blaise roared at Draco. "You stupid fool!"
Draco momentarily acquised but then his stubborn self took over. "Well, I'M sorry. YOU do it then if you're so smart."
"Malfoy, this isn't time to play the contumacious game!" Blaise boomed from the other side of the truck. Draco was about to retort when Hermione prevented him to.
"Oh for goodness sake. Shut up!" she yelled in frustration. "Besides, that won't work! This car is immuned to spells! As evidenced by your being stuck there."
Draco almost cried in despair. "Brilliant," he sang sarcastically. "a magic-resistant muggle vehicle. Just bloody brilliant."
"Cast the spell to un-stick us, you idiot!" the Italian angrily shrieked, like a little girl I might add, at Draco.
The young Malfoy's blood boiled and in an equally shrill voice, he shouted, "Haven't you heard what she said? Magic-resistant!"
Up ahead, Padma was just coming down from a suspicious looking tree when she heard screaming. And there it was, four students in a muggle car. It was a sight, really. It was lucky enough that they were in a secluded place. And unlucky because she noticed they were in trouble.
"Padma!" shouted Hermione. "Help us!"
"Patil, help!" yelled Blaise.
"She's driving us nuts! Literally!" screamed Draco.
The Ravenclaw Patil twin dropped her bag and pointed her wand at the incoming automobile and shouted the same spell the two Slytherin idiots used.
"No!" all of them, except Luna cried out.
Padma cursed when she accidentally dropped her wand. Just like what happened to the two, Padma was pulled over to the car and got stuck on her back just beside Blaise. "What the-"
"Hi, Padma! Need a lift?" the other Ravenclaw greeted in a cheery voice.
"Now you're also stuck with us." Blaise informed her, desperation lacing his tone. "I hope you did what you already wanted to do because I think we won't see another day."
"Shut up, Zabini!" Hermione scolded. "While I might agree with you, there are worse things we should be worrying right now." she huffed and held on the dashboard a little tighter. "We might get expelled!"
In spite of themselves, Padma, Draco, and Blaise rolled their eyes. "It appears you haven't sorted out your priorities yet." the Malfoy heir retorted.
Insulted, Hermione opened her mouth to say something back but what came out was different. "TREE!"
Luna luckily avoided it and swung heavily to the right. "Woops."
"LOVEGOOD!" guess who shouted that one.
Theo was flying over on his broom, humming to himself and thinking about something when he heard all the shouting. He looked down and saw five students in a car. It was a sight, really. He smirked but it fell when he noticed how fast the car was going and the voices absolutely horrified. He swooped down and flew beside the speeding vehicle.
"What the-"
"THEO!" bellowed Draco. "Am I so glad to see you!" he held out both his arms, "Pull me off this thing. But you can't use magic!"
"What?!" Theo's eyes widened in shock. "Then how can I help you off that thing?!"
Padma's eye twitched. "Just fucking help us, you moron."
Theo just noticed Padma was on the other side. He didn't recognize her at first because her perfectly straight hair was all over her face. Theo smirked. "Well, well. Didn't see you there, Patil."
Padma's eye twitched again. "Now is not the time, Nott."
Draco noticed their interaction and was slightly intrigued. "I would like to know what the history is between you two, but first, I would want to be unstuck from this fucking puck-up truck first!"
"Pick-up truck." Hermione and Padma corrected.
Draco rolled his eyes. "Of course, you swots."
When they were momentarily distracted, they didn't notice Theo land at the back of the pick up truck. He secured his broom down and tried to pull Draco off first. It wasn't working. He tried to pull Blaise off, then Padma, but it also was a futile attempt.
Padma closed her eyes and counted from one to ten. She blew out a breath and said, "Now what?" the three boys didn't have the time to answer her because they noticed Hermione and Luna wrestling over something.
"NO!" came from Hermione.
"Please, Hermione. We need this now." said a dreamy, yet slightly panicked voice.
"What do you mean, we?! I said, NO, Luna. Are you out of your-" she never finished her sentenced because the car just shot up to the sky.
They all screamed. Of course, you could tell who screamed the loudest.
"LUNA!" This was the first time Padma screamed. The girl is usually composed and silent. And has a pretty damn good poker face.
Luna Lovegood just put on a pair of glasses and opened the driver's door. She looked down, cast a spell with her wand and closed the door. She took off her glasses and huffed. "I can't see the rest of them. I think we should-" presses another button.
The car speeds forward like a lightning bolt and disappears into the distance.
TBC.