AN: Happy chapter 2! I am shocked at all the beautiful story reviews :) Special thanks to Kristy, Avaline Malfoy, and Dopey220. I wouldn't have gotten this chapter out so fast if it weren't for you! Just for everyone to know, if you're into goopy romance this isn't your story. There won't even be any romantic mumbo jumbo for a while, and I never imagined Luna a PDA freak so yeah.

Luna Lovegood didn't get bored. It wasn't her style. Life just couldn't be boring, there was just too much to do. Luna could just sit and stare for hours, no boredom added. That didn't mean she couldn't hear the whispers, people talking behind her back. Luna didn't mind, at least they noticed her.

When she first came to Hogwarts everyone whispered, then she made friends. They still whispered, but less. It almost made Luna lonely, the fact that now, they had better things to talk about than her.

Luna didn't get the big deal. It wasn't really like Voldemort was coming to school with them. So why did everyone care so much? Luna didn't dislike Riddle for the same reasons other people did. She didn't not like him because he was all that was left of Voldemort, but because of his stupid sense of superiority.

Luna had always hated the Slytherins, how they always acted better than everyone. Tom was the same, but worse, much worse.

"Harry, come on, we haven't gone to Hogsmead together just the three of us in like forever."

"Hermione you know the whole reason I baled on Tom was to spend some time here with Ginny."

"You spend all your time with Ginny. Ginny or them."

"Mione, how many times do I have to tell you, they have names."

"What you see in those jerks, I have no idea."

"There my friends okay."

"Honestly, they are friends, you just get off on the publicity of pretending to be their friends."

"How could you say that Mione?"

Harry and Hermione, Luna thought. There should be a movie about them. Friends who can't stop arguing over the stupidness of Tom Riddle and Harry's over swollen ego. They could win an Oscar. Oscars were for movies, right? Luna made a mental note to check that later.

"Besides I don't think Ron wants to be seen with me."

"Harry! Think about it. The golden trio, in Hogsmead. Reporters would love that." Hermione said hopefully.

"I have thought about it. Reporters would pay much more attention to something that could get the headline THE GOLDEN TRIO, BROKEN APART. HARRY POTTER, CAST OUT BY HIS OWN CLOSEST COMPANIONS, IS LEFT ALONE AND FRIENDLESS. WILL HARRY'S LIFE BE CAST INTO A PIT OF MISERY OR WILL HE DISCOVER WHERE HIS TRUE FRIENDS LIE. And they could put a huge picture of me on the cover!"

"You are impossible Harry."

"Some of us are trying to study." Luna snapped sharply. Harry and Hermione both stared at her. Luna stood, annoyed, and excited the room in a huff.

"What's up with her?" she heard Harry whisper to Hermione as she walked away. Luna was sick of everyone.

She'd never really liked Ron and Hermione, they were much too close minded. Harry had been nice, then he developed that swollen ego and bam! He became just as annoying as the rest of them. Nevil had always been great, but he got a job and wasn't in school this year.

Luna walked out onto the grounds. It was raining, lightly, but still almost no one was out. Luna liked rain, but she really wasn't in the mood to enjoy it today.

She noticed a light on in Hagrid's hut. She quickly angled toward it. Luna liked Hagrid. He was always sweet to her, and his cooking was better than her dad's.

She knocked twice, no response. She sighed and walked around back to the pumpkin patch. Sure enough Hagrid stood there wrestling with what looked to be giant aphids.

"Hello Hagrid." Luna sighed, a little less dreamily than usual.

Hagrid looked up from his task for a moment. The giant aphid thing made a run for it. Luna watched it escape toward the forest. "Good to see you Luna." Hagrid said, smiling, but looking somewhat flustered.

"Um, what was that?"

"That was something illegal, guess I'll have to go after it now."

"That's too bad." Luna said, shaking her head. Then she smiled. "Hagrid may I come with you. I do love the forest."

"I guess an extra pair of eyes never hurts." Hagrid said. Luna was ninety percent sure he was smiling under all that hair.

Luna shivered, the forest was cold. At least having to keep up with Hagrid was keeping her somewhat warm. "Should be around her somewhere," Hagrid muttered, more to the world in general than her.

About then Luna saw it. It was the smallest thestral she'd ever seen. It still staggered around, hardly able to stay balanced. "Hagrid look." Luna whispered.

"Must of been separated from it's mum." Hagrid sighed.

"What will happen to it?"

"It'll never get back on it's own, poor little thing, something will come along and eat it soon enough."

"That's horrid."

"Yeah. Specially seeing as the mom will still find its corpse." Luna felt slightly sick. She had always loved the thestrals. A thought suddenly occurred to her.

"Hagrid, I think I'll stay here, until it finds its mom at least."

"Fine by me, just be careful." Luna nodded and Hagrid walked away, calling out loudly for the weird aphid thing. Luna sat down next to the small thestral.

"Hello." she whispered. "I believe you're lost little fella." It licked her hand and she rubbed its chin appreciatively.

Luna was startled when a loud growl came from the bushes. She spun around and yelled, "Stupify." Something made a loud keening noise, then was silent. Luna stood and pushed aside the bushes. She had to suppress a giggle. Hagrid would probably be quite annoyed to know that Luna had found, and nuetrulized his beast in a few seconds. She left the aphid thing, and turned back to the baby thestral. Luna cried out in shock, it was gone. She pushed through the trees, following the smashed undergrowth that must be where it had went.

She stopped as she got to the edge of a large clearing filled with thestrals. It wasn't the skeletal horses that made her stop though.

"Come on Blaise, they really aren't that bad."

"Tom open your eyes these things are terrifying!" Luna groaned, of course she had to stumble into her favorite duo.

AN: Sorry it was so short, I promise to post more soon. More reviews would be nice :) I had something else to say, but I have forgotten, toodles!

~Lift~