A/n- Written for the 'War of Angels' competiton on HPFC.
Prompt Used- Queen of Eagles.
Word Count-500
Hope you like it!
Disclaimer- Yah, sure...
"And The Award Goes To.."
The pudding had been the highlight of her night.
Luna Lovegood watched as the dirty dishes started to disappear, and was just standing up to leave, when she heard a female voice call out from the stage, "Please, can everyone sit down and stay with us for a few more minutes?"
The girl, whom Luna recognised as a sixth year, was standing where the Headmaster- headmistress, now- usually stood and she was speaking. Behind her, some crowns were flying with wings of rubies.
"We are here tonight, the last night before the N.E.W.T's begin for all of you, to give away some awards to honour students of the best senior class, ever."
The great hall was quite, everyone was listening intently as the junior class began to give away the honours.
"The first award is for the school fashionista and it goes too... Padma Patil." The crowd clapped as a crown flew over and rested itself of Padma's head.
Some other awards were given away, from the cutest boy (Dean Thomas), to the next headmistress of Hogwarts (Hermione Granger), and then came the award for the best transformation award, and to everyone's and no one's surprise, the award went to Neville Longbottom, who awkwardly stood up as the crown rested itself on his head.
"Next is the best couple that never was, now we've all thought at some point or the other that these two were together, but they weren't, so put your hands together for... Harry Potter and Hermione Granger."
This time the whole Great Hall erupted in cheers as Harry and Hermione, both red-faced, stood up to collect the crowns.
Luna couldn't argue with the logic, since the first time she'd met them, she thought they would be perfect, too.
The next awards were for the class clowns (Ron Weasley and Seamus Finnigan), the "it's about time" award (Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger), and the cutest couple in Hogwarts award (Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley). As the awards went by, a feeling unknown to Luna rose up her chest, a feeling she later recognised as disappointment.
Most of the time, these things didn't faze her, she was used to not being included, used to being on the outside, but still a part of her, the naive part ,was disappointed.
"Now, we reach the house heroes awards, so The king of Lions is ...Ronald Weasley."
The Gryffindor table erupted in cheers of Weasley is the King, and Luna clapped right along.
"The princess of Badgers is... Hannah Abbot." The hufflepuffs were laughing and clapping for the brunette.
"The prince of snakes..."The sound in the Great Hall died down," Draco Malfoy." The slytherin table was pounding, but so was the rest of Great Hall.
"Now, finally, the last award, The queen of eagles..." Luna braced herself to scream and clap for whoever won from her house, ignoring her breaking heart, "Luna Lovegood."
Looks like she'd been wrong before, she thought as she stood up to let the crown fly to her, turns out the pudding wasn't the highlight of her night.