Luna was sitting in the great hall, reading the Quibbler happily, when Fred came and sat next to her.

'How's life?' he said calmly.

Luna looked up, saw him, and smiled. 'Wonderful. And yours?'

'Fine,' he smiled back. 'Just fine.'

'Why fine?' asked Luna.

'I'm just... never mind.' he shrugged.

'Okay,' said Luna curiously.

'Hey Freddie, hey... what?' George Weasley sat next to Fred, and then he noticed Luna.

'Oh, Luna Lovegood.' Luna held out her hand.

George shook her hand. Her hand was warm and soft, and her touch was gentle. George had expected it to be cold, because her skin was so pale.

'George Weasley...' he said. He looked at Fred for some kind of explanation.

'We're friends.' Fred said shamelessly.

Luna smiled and nodded.

'She's a second year,' George whispered into Fred's ear.

Luna heard though.

'Oh yes, he is quite aware of that. Funny, isn't it?' Luna thought for a while. 'If I was 22, and Fred was 25, then, it wouldn't be so weird if we were friends, would it?'

Fred nodded in agreement. 'Exactly.'

'Yeah...' said George slowly. 'I'll catch up with you later, Fred. Bye, Luna.'

Luna waved.

'What's wrong with your brother?' she said immediately.

'Oh, nothing...' Fred smiled comfortingly. 'He's just one of those people who...well... think you are crazy.'

Luna continued to smile. 'So be it,' she said simply.

Fred laughed. 'Does it ever bother you? When people call you crazy?'

'Never,' said Luna. 'I'm sure it's just the Nargles.'

Fred laughed again. For some reason, she always was able to put him in a good mood.

'So...' Fred said. 'What's your favourite colour?'

Right now, he just wanted to get to know her. He was almost convinced that she wasn't crazy.

'Orange is my favourite,' Luna shut the Quibbler. 'You see, it's rather difficult to pick just one colour. Well, I like them all! But my favourites would have to be orange, purple and blue.'

Fred grinned. 'I like red... but I suppose I like blue too.'

'I love blue when it's in a gemstone. It looks beautiful then.' Luna said, carelessly playing with her hair. 'My mother loved sapphires.' she smiled at him, her dreamy eyes bright and he golden hair over her shoulder.

'They're beautiful,' agreed Fred, apparently unable to take his eyes off her.

'I remember when I got sorted into Ravenclaw, daddy got me a sapphire charm for my charm bracelet.' Luna held up her wrist. On it was a silver bracelet. There were several charms. She pointed each one out to Fred. 'The "Q" indicates the Quibbler, the one where I wrote an article. The star indicates the last activity I did with my mother, star gazing. There's the sapphire, it represents Ravenclaw. That one there, the one that looks all furry? That represents a wrackspurt. And there, is a locket.' Luna opened the book shaped locket. 'It's my favourite. Although, I haven't shrunk any pictures to put inside. Mainly because I don't know how.' she grinned.

'Wow,' Fred said, looking at them. 'They're really nice. So, when's your birthday?'

'25th of January. Yours?' Luna asked.

'13th of April.' replied Fred. 'Wow, you're birthday is,' he counted the months of using his fingers, which made Luna chuckle. 'Four months away! Are you doing anything special?'

'No,' sighed Luna. 'I'll be here. Not even daddy and I at the Lovegood house. Have you ever seen it?. It's rather dark; it looks just like a big rock,

'No way!' Fred said ecstatically. 'You're like, right over the hill from us! It takes us about 5 minutes to walk and see each other! How come we never knew it was your house?'

'I don't know!' Luna said, a little taken aback at Fred's sudden excitement. 'I guess over Christmas we will have to see each other.'

'Definitely,' Fred declared, right before he blushed a bit.

Luna chuckled.

An owl flew over the great hall.

'I don't like owls that much.' Luna said, wrinkling her nose. 'I prefer hares.'

'Yeah,' said Fred. 'I like wolves.'

'Really? Anyway, I have class now,' Luna apologized. 'I have to go... sorry!'

'Will I see you at lunch?' Fred asked, as she got up.

'Definitely!'