The crowd had finally arrived, along with Luna's employees. She opened the gate and welcomed them all in, then hurried over to a booth that read tours. She smiled as she remembered that she wouldn't have to clean another cage for at least a few hours. A cluster of parents with young children clinging to them soon trickled over.
As soon as Luna had decided that she had a big enough group, she began her tour, starting with her beloved thestrals.
"First of all," she called above the murmurs of the crowd. "Thank you all for coming to Lovegood Zoo!" A few people clapped. "Here we have a small herd of thestrals, the most beautiful animal here, if you ask me. The have a ginormous appetite, but they are quite bony. They're basically big horses, but with wings."
"You mean like a Pegasus?" Piped up a young, freckled girl in the front.
Luna giggled. "No, silly! Everyone knows that pegasi are just a myth! Thestrals are as real as can be!"
The girl started to cry, and clutched at a necklace of a flying horse that Luna had not noticed before.
Her parents ushered the girl away, saying, "It's okay, honey. Don't worry, pegasi are still real. Let's get you away from the scary lady, alright?" The mother glared at Luna as she and her family left the group.
An older boy in the back raised his hand. "Um, excuse me, lady! I don't know if you are blind or something, but in case you haven't noticed, I think your horse things escaped."
She laughed again. "No, no! The herd is still there! They're just invisible. Trust me!" The boy looked amused.
"Hey! What's going on here?" Called a man from somewhere in the cluster of zoo goers.
"Yeah!" Called a woman. "What are you trying to do to our childrens' minds? Fill them with fiction and lies?"
The group started to murmur.
"Maybe we should move on to the next enclosure," said Luna cooly, and she turned to leave.