A/N: For the Summer 2013 Wizarding Modly Forum-Wide Comp of Awesomeness (Modwarts)

Challenge 1 (History of Magic) option b: write letters/notes/etc. Must mention a Slytherin character, no more than 1,200 words. [Hufflepuff, wand: Silver Lime, Unicorn Hair, 11½ inches, full score PM, please]

Also for the Song Fic Boot Camp using the song Drops of Jupiter (Train) and the prompt mother.

Note-In my head!canon, Mrs. Lovegood's name is Mona.

xox

12:00 p.m. 16th April 1992

Dear Mummy,

I know you'll never get this, but that doesn't stop me from writing it. No one knows I'm doing this, not even Daddy. I just wanted to let you know that it came today—my Hogwarts letter, that is. We were both excited, but it just wasn't the same without you being here.

I still miss you every day, and though I suppose I'm used to missing you, life with just Dad isn't the same. He doesn't quite understand me like you did. I guess that's just the mother-daughter relationship that I'm missing.

Anyway, I hope you're happy up there. Sometimes, I wonder if you miss me as much as I miss you. It's been two whole years, and still I'm as broken as I was then. Maybe you can send down some glue that'll put me back together?

Missing you every day,

Luna.

oxo

6:30 p.m. 12th October 1992

Dear Mum,

I'm at Hogwarts now. I'm Ravenclaw, like you and dad were. It's odd, being without dad for so long. I miss him. But I know you're looking over me; that helps.

I've been writing to you a lot lately, though most of these letters aren't nearly as long as this. My bedside drawer's full of them, mostly things like 'I love you' and 'I saw a flower today, it reminded me of you.'

I've got Astronomy tonight, it's one of my favourite classes. I like looking at the stars, and the moon—for you, for us.

Sometimes, I wonder if you got a chance to explore the world before you left, maybe even after you left. If you just got a chance to just journey into all the little nooks and crannies of the world and see the planets and stars close-up.

Stuck wishfully thinking,

Luna.

xox

3: 45 p.m. 27th May 1997

Dear Mum,

I haven't written to you in a few years. Not a proper letter, at least. A couple little messages have been added to the drawer over the years.

Things have been good on my end, I hope you're still alright up there.

I thought that I should write you a letter again. I've missed writing these, I feel like I'm growing closer to you through them.

I wanted to let you know first: I'm dating a boy named Theodore Nott, Theo for short. I haven't even told Dad yet, though I'm planning on writing him next. Theo is sweet to me, he stands up for me which is something most people don't do. Not many people, or Slytherins for that matter, are brave enough to act like that. He studies with me in the library in the evenings and he took me to Hogsmeade last weekend.

I don't have much else to say, but I wanted you to know about Theodore. Part of me feels like you really can read the letters I put in this drawer but I suppose I'll never know either way.

I love you,

Luna.

oxo

10:25 p.m. 30th April 1998

Dear Mum,

I'll make this short because it's late and I'm not sure if anything'll happen tonight or not.

Something's going to happen soon, I can feel it. Snape's snapped and the Carrows are getting even more brutal if that's even possible. The other teachers have been on edge all year but they won't do anything for fear of being the target of the Carrows' fury. I don't blame them, but it's not like it makes it any easier on the rest of us.

I know something's up. Hopefully it'll be nothing major, but if a fight breaks out, I want you to know that I'll be fighting. For you.

Always,

Luna.