Title: Like Rudolph
Rating: K
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Luna Lovegood
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em - not making any money off 'em. Dern it.
Word Count: 167
Summary: Luna always felt like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Notes:
All Those Characters Challenge: Character – Luna Lovegood
Countdown to Christmas Drabble/One-Shot Competition: Day 20 – Prompt Used – Reindeer
Procrastinators United Competition III
The Year Long Story Count Competition
As Much As You Can Competition
Represent the Character II
Luna knows she's weird. She understands that she sticks out and is considered abnormal. She knows that's why her own house mercilessly teases her. She knows their treatment of her isn't right, but she doesn't hate them for it.
She knows of the muggle Christmas song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." She knows how Rudolph was different because of his glowing red nose, and because of that difference, he was excluded by his peers, something Luna can commiserate with whole-heartedly.
Throughout her early Hogwarts years, she felt like that particular reindeer. Even now, she feels like him. The similarities have continued because now she has friends, others who accept her as an ally, someone they can depend on in tough times.
She showed them what she could do at the Department of Mysteries, and like Rudolph, she is treated better because of heroism.
As she smiles with Ginny and laughs at Ron's normal pig-headedness, Luna surmises that she no longer minds the fact that she's comparable to Rudolph.