"Lovely weather, isn't it?" Luna's dreamy voice chirped.
Draco grunted in agreement. Luna never failed to put a smile on his face. As the heavy rain beat against his skin and drenched his pale hair, he couldn't help but remember the day this all started, only a few years ago on a day astonishingly similar to this.
While the rain beat against the walls of Hogwarts castle, a pale blonde boy with grey eyes and a pointed fact sneered, "Come on, Goyle. It's not raining that hard."
Goyle, however, shrugged, seemingly scared for some reason.
Noticing Goyle's hesitance, though not nearly as much as his own, Crabbe mumbled, "It's getting dark anyways."
At this, the blonde boy began to laugh. "You're scared aren't you?" Draco chuckled. "Oh, brave old Gregory Goyle, afraid of a little rain."
"I just don't think it's safe to go outside right now," Goyle mumbled in a barely audible voice.
Hardly able to contain his amusement—not that he was trying all that hard— Draco asked, "What are you afraid of? I mean, honestly. Who's going to be out there? Sirius Black?"
Just then, the faintest, dreamiest voice imaginable spoke up, "Oh, you mean Stubby Boardman?"
Draco whipped around to see a semi-familiar girl smiling at him. She had scraggly waist-length hair that shone a dirty blonde. Her silvery eyes, which took up more than a fair amount of her face, shined with excitement.
"Whom?" Draco asked, unsure what had just happened.
The blonde girl looked around as though she were about to unveil top-secret information. "Sirius Black is currently disguised as Stubby Boardman, front man for The Hobgoblins."
While on a normal day, Draco would just laugh and tease anyone who said something as crazy as that, something in the blonde girl's innocent smile provoked Draco to simply ask, "What's your name?"
"Luna," she answered happily. "Luna Lovegood."
Draco smiled at this sudden memory when Luna piped up, "Are you sure you left your Potions book out here?"
The blonde boy shrugged. "I think I left them here because I was trying to study during the Hufflepuff's Quidditch practice."
"Oh, don't pretend you were studying," Luna laughed. "You were casting the Confundus charm on the Keepers just so you could laugh whenever they missed. You only brought the Potions book along in case a teacher walked by." After a moment, the blonde girl added, "You really should be nicer to people."
Draco brushed his wet hair out of his face as he walked towards Luna. "I'm nice to you," he replied with a pearly white grin.
"Yes, but I'm not people; I'm just a person," Luna retorted, scanning the muddy ground for a Potions book. "I'm afraid Wrackspurts must have gotten to you."
Draco smiled. After a few years knowing Luna Lovegood, you got used to her odd creatures. He then sighed at their lack of success and mumbled, "I don't see it anywhere. Maybe we should just go insi—"
"—Accio Potions book," Luna interrupted. As a leather bound book sailed straight into her open hand, she grinned playfully at Draco, who simply smirked.
"All right, give it here," he requested.
Luna, however, didn't follow Draco's orders. Instead, she giggled and sprinted straight towards the castle.
"Luna!" Draco shouted, laughing and running through the thick mud after the loony girl.
The pair sailed all the way into the castle, past the great hall, and into and unfamiliar corridor.
Draco skidded to a stop as Luna suddenly turned down another hallway and quickly ran after her. He barely saw the tip of her blonde hair sail into a classroom before she was out of sight.
He grinned and jogged into the classroom and had just opened his mouth to say, "Caught you," when he found nothing but an seemingly empty classroom. "Luna?" he asked, unconvinced that the room was really empty. "Haha, very funny," Draco muttered sarcastically as he carefully stepped towards the left side of the room, where all the usual desks had been sloppily pushed aside. He crouched down and scanned under the desks to see if the blonde girl was anywhere to be found. "Come out, come out wherever you are." Just as he cocked his head to the side to get a better view, however, he felt a small kiss on his cheek. Quick as a flash, Draco flipped his head around just as Luna gracefully leapt from the desk to the floor.
Draco was too fast, however, and before Luna could reach the door, he wrapped an arm around her waist and extracted the potions book out of her tight grip with the other hand.
At this point, Luna was in a fit of giggles. "You caught me."
Just then, a shadowy figure appeared at the door. As the sound of footsteps slowly echoed throughout the room, Luna stopped laughing and turned her attention to the mysterious silhouette.
The figure walked towards the center of the room and began in a scarily distinctive voice, "Draco, that is enough ruckus for one night." The voice was dreary and exaggeratingly pronounced every syllable as though it were its own word. "I would like to see you in my office," Snape explained, though it sounded more like an order than a request.
"Yes, Professor," Draco agreed, immediately releasing his grip on Luna's waist and following the macabre professor out the room. As he passed through the doorway, Draco gave Luna one last, fleeting glance before shuffling down the hallway.
Though Draco was already out of sight, Luna raised a hand and gave a small wave before sinking sadly to the ground. She sigh quietly before pushing herself off the ground and gliding all the way to Ravenclaw Tower.