AN: Inspired by the Unusual Ship Bingo. Written for the D&D Harry potter Challenge (Year one)

Luna sometimes wished she was sorted into Hufflepuff. Firstly because their common was relatively easy to get into. Once you remembered what rhythm to type on what exact barrel you were good to go. Not that she did not like the ever present opportunity to learn that the entrance to her own common room provided, but it was a fact that she could have learned quite a lot of other things in all the time she spent just waiting outside the door when she did not know the answer to the question the door asked.

Secondly the Hufflepuffs were in general very friendly towards other students, especially of their own house. Luna supposed this had to do with the lack of nargles around their common room. Perhaps people were happier, and therefore more friendly when the nargles did not take their shoes?

But it took over a year to find the best part of Hufflepuff house. In oktober of Luna's second year, shortly before Halloween, some of her housemates felt the need to laugh at Luna. Luna was used to this, but she still found it rather uncomfortable. While she patiently waited for them to leave her alone a prefect appeared. Most of the prefects did not seem to care very much if some students were not being nice, but this one certainly did. After he sternly told them to leave her alone they actually had a nice conversation and he listened to her newest ideas about the magical properties of pumpkin juice.

Ever since that day Luna felt a bit more cheerful when she saw Cedric Diggory. After a while she even felt as if she had a blubbering humdinger in her belly every time she saw him. She supposed it was just a normal side effect of Cedric.