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Dinner was typically a solitary affair for Luna Lovegood though to be honest the same applied to breakfast and lunch as well. Alone in the crowd Luna eyed the roast beef on her plate with suspicion; poking and prodding the meat while she mulled over an issue that had been bothering her all day long. Since many of Luna's Ravenclaw peers went out of their way to ignore her no one notice the dawning clarity and intense focus replacing her trademark dreamy gaze. The sandy haired blonde pushed away her food and leaned back into her chair. Her blue orbs surveyed the Great Hall sweeping over chattering students and taking great care to note that every professor was preoccupied at the moment. Luna's gut told her to strike now while prime opportunity presented itself. Luna's intellect, however, disagreed after calculating the probable risks of her plan over its possible benefits and ended up with less than favorable results. Ultimately her gut won out.
With a soft sigh and iron resolve of a Lovegood on a mission Luna donned her lion hat and climbed atop Ravenclaw's dinning table.
"Oi watch it!"
"What the bleeding hell are you doing Lovegood?"
"Look Loony's lost her mind!"
"When did she ever have it?"
Luna heard all those comments from her housemates and far worse as she trampled food and drink underfoot, but she did not stop. No she continued marching along the table until she reached its center. Unbelievably few people outside Ravenclaw seemed to be aware of the commotion.
That would change very soon.
Luna cleared her throat. Her hat, Mr. Peabody, took the cue and expelled a massive roar.
Absolute silence followed and hundreds of eyes came to rest on a single figure standing head and shoulders above them. The sudden attention reminded Luna of not being particularly fond of public speaking. It made her stomach feel funny like a great stone had settled into it. Nevertheless the eccentric little blonde did her best to push the creeping tendrils of fear away because some things just needed to be said and she opened her mouth to do just that.
Luna passionately expressed her desire to save her beloved International Magic Relations class from being dropped from Hogwarts curriculum the next year. She spoke loudly, proudly, and fast, very fast. She had to. Luna needed to be heard over the din of students now fully recovered from their initial shock at her daring in addition to angry professors shooting spells at her as they demanded she cease and desist. Plenty of shouting, ducking, and weaving was necessary as Luna argued her position.
She did quite well for a while right until she leapt up to skip over a spell aimed at her legs by Professor Sinestra and caught another square in the chest courtesy of Snape. The spell knocked Luna off her feet and landed her flat on her back. It stung something awful.
She might have laid there for a while as the hard stone felt oddly comfortable at the moment, but she was hauled to her feet none too gently by a furious Professor Severus Snape. He took a firm grip on her elbow and began to lead her out of the Great Hall.
'For punishment no doubt,' Luna thought idly. The idea didn't bother her much. She knew going in the likely consequences of her actions.
So with that bit of peace of mind Luna followed her potions master serenely. The overall chaos left in her wake did not touch her nor did the taunts and teases of her classmates. What mattered was the message and her success in delivering it. Luna's wide eyes wandered over face after face as she walked along until they stopped inexplicably on a tall boy with pale blond hair. Draco Malfoy. She stared at him. He sneered right back. Luna simply smiled in return as Snape dragged her out of the Great Hall.
A/N: I wasn't planning on continuing this because I'm a one shot kind of a gal, but I'll try adding two or three chapters to this before ending it for good. Anyways I gave Luna's lion a name since I didn't remember him having one.