The Lovegood Experiments
Chapter One - An Introduction to Luna
Disclaimer: I have no British accent, no money, and no books. Do I sound like J. K. Rowling? If so, I'm not. If I have to deal with it, so can you. Moving on!
AN: This is my first fan-fic ever and I have not even written past this chapter/prologue. Please feel free to say anything in your reviews and I will attempt to update as quickly as possible but I am in high school and you do not rule my life. I hope everyone enjoys the story and if not, tell me why! The story will not all be from Luna's perspective and this is not beta-read so terribly sorry for any mistakes. Thank you!
When an individual is part of the Unspeakable Department of the Ministry of Magic, they disappear. Their family forgets them, their lovers move on, and their lives no longer exist. This is why the Department has so few members and is almost always overlooked. A person is not hired to join the Unspeakables, they are sometimes offered the job, but normally they seem to simply know. Luna Lovegood was one of these individuals.
It was two years after Harry Potter, Luna's closest friend, had bested Voldemort. Luna was aware that Harry was in love with Ginny Weasley and that his closest friends would forever be Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger but she still found herself drawn to him. The man interested her and it was almost as if she was being told to spend her life discovering him.
Luna had joined the Unspeakables just after the war finished. All unspeakables spend their time on one project and no other living being is allowed to know what it is. There is no boss that checks up on the progress of the project and no colleagues constantly butting their heads into her life. An unspeakable is alone. Always. She spent the next year and a half trying to find her project but never landing on the right subject.
It was an early morning when she realized that someone had broken the rules for her and that that someone was Harry. The enchantments surrounding a contract signed when Luna became an Unspeakable should have forced everyone that knew her to forget her and yet Harry remembered. He had visited her and asked why no one else talked of her. "Ginny never speaks of you," he informed her, although he needn't have. She already knew. "She doesn't seem to recall that you were her first childhood friend."
Luna was floored. He remembered her. He knew where she lived! Ginny may have forgotten her but Harry did not. How? "Will you let me study you?" Well, that had come out wrong. "I'm an Unspeakable." No, no, no! He can't know that! Luna closed her eyes slowly, dreading Harry's reaction. "How do you remember me?"
Harry stared at her, looked away, and stared again. "Harry?" Luna asked, afraid that she had already scared away her one friend.
"Oh, sorry. I was just thinking. I shouldn't know you, yet I do. Study me… what exactly does that involve?" He sounded pensive, worried, and slightly out of place to Luna.
"Normally, any person involved in an Unspeakable's studying has memory charms placed on them. They remember being willing, but not what happens. For you though… well, none of our other memory charms seem to work. What do you say?" Luna tried to put a hint of hopefulness in her voice even though the situation did not seem particularly promising. After all, what slightly intelligent person would let another test them after said person had just admitted to probably having to make the other forget all about it? "You would probably end up spending more time with me than anyone else… I don't know how long that would last. Ginny might not agree to that very well…" This is just making it worse.
"Ginny, while she is a wonderful person… normally, I don't think we work well together. I was considering breaking up with her. I, Harry James Potter, agree to be a willing test subject for the Unspeakable Luna Lovegood and assist her in any way possible," Harry spoke with a odd tone in his voice but it was not uncertainty, "Does that help any?"
For the second time that morning, Luna was amazed. Not knowing what else to say, she told him to meet her the next morning at her house before she went to the Ministry. Before leaving, Harry asked Luna why she was acting so differently from their school days. "That was war. I had to get over my mother's death and knowing that no one in the world would recognize you, love you, or even know you, is a startling realization. I think it may have broken me," Luna was almost ashamed of this answer. No doubt that after spending a few weeks with Harry, she would be back to normal.
After this, Harry left to end his relationship with Ginny and quit his auror position at the ministry. He was getting tired of fighting.