Meeting Luna: First Year
Elizabeth wasn't sure why she had stopped. Perhaps it was just intuition that stopped her. Perhaps she was meant to meet Luna like that. Either way, Elizabeth had stopped on the corner of a hallway, hearing voices. She peered around the corner using her 'mad ninja skillz' and blinked.
Four girls, either second years or third years, were surrounding a small, blonde girl. All five of them seemed to be in Ravenclaw, which was strange. Ravenclaws weren't exactly known for their ganging up on a fellow student, especially from their own house. Elizabeth tried to recall the name of the blonde girl and suddenly remembered her from the Sorting. What was her name…Ah, yes, Luna Lovegood. She had been the name right before Elizabeth's.
"Hey, Loony, where's your weird animals now?" questioned one of the girls.
"Is your animal opening the Chamber of Secrets?" mock-asked another girl.
"Oh no," said Lovegood dreamily. "Everyone knows a Basilisk is the monster in the Chamber of Secrets."
Elizabeth made sure to check up on Basilisks, even if Lovegood usually made up animals. Actually, Elizabeth had heard about Lovegood from the other first years. They all thought she was a joke.
Suddenly, one of the girls pushed Lovegood so hard that her head smacked against the wall.
"Poor Loony, Loony Lovegood," the fourth girl taunted. "All alone in her fantasy world with no one there with her."
Elizabeth had seen enough. She stepped out of the corner. "Hey, idiots!"
The four Ravenclaw bullies turned around. Lovegood, however, stared dreamingly at the opposite wall.
"Oh, I guess you guys are idiots then," stated Elizabeth, smirking and wondering how such a ploy managed to work. Weren't students from Ravenclaw supposed to be intelligent? "You did turn around."
The first girl growled. "Slytherin, what are you doing here?"
"Apparently, helping a follow first year Ravenclaw from bullies like you," replied Elizabeth.
"A Slytherin? Helping people? What lies," spat one of the Ravenclaws.
Elizabeth smiled. "Ravenclaws? Bullying people and making general arses of themselves? Oh, how shocking…"
"Rictusempra!" shouted one of the Ravenclaws.
Elizabeth, who hadn't been expecting the attack, doubled over in laughter, breathless in her glee.
"What is going on here?" asked a stern voice.
A blast of light later and Elizabeth was able to stop laughing. She glanced to look at who was the stern voice and blinked. It was Professor McGonagall. She glanced sternly at everyone in the hallway, including Lovegood who was clapping her hands weirdly.
"This Slytherin was attacking us!" exclaimed one of the Ravenclaws. "We were only defending ourselves!"
"Yes, because a first year would definitely ambush five Ravenclaws, four of them being in a year higher than me," said Elizabeth dryly. "What really happened was that I saw the four upperclassmen bullying Luna Lovegood. I tried to stop it, by talking, and they attacked me."
Although everyone but Professor McGonagall knew what Elizabeth said was the truth, Elizabeth was worried that Professor McGonagall wouldn't believe her. She was a Slytherin, after all, and they weren't exactly known for stopping bullies; they were bullies.
"Miss Lovegood?" asked Professor McGonagall kindly. "Would you care to tell me what happened?"
Good, at least Professor McGonagall was smart enough to ask from a non-biased opinion. Well, possibly non-biased.
Lovegood blinked, stopping her clapping. "I'm sorry, but there were too many nargles," she told everyone sadly. "I was just trying to bat them away when my housemates came. They were saying something that I suspect was due to the nargles and Moreau came to stop them. The nargles then controlled the Ravenclaws to curse Moreau and then you came and that was it."
The Ravenclaw girls had a shocked look on their face. Elizabeth smirked. Although Lovegood was speaking some nonsense about nargles, it was still the truth.
Professor McGonagall nodded. "Ten points from Ravenclaw and detentions for all four of you. Five points to Slytherin for helping a fellow student in need."
It seemed that the rumours were true; Professor McGonagall was fair.
All four of the upperclassmen left, grumbling and glaring at Lovegood and Elizabeth. Whoops, Elizabeth might have made Lovegood's life harder. When they were all gone, including Professor McGonagall, Lovegood walked up to Elizabeth and held out a hand.
"My name is Luna Lovegood," Lovegood said. "You can call me Luna. What's your name?"
"Elizabeth Moreau," said Elizabeth. "You can call me Elizabeth as well. Let me know if those Ravenclaws bother you again, okay?"
"Want to be friends?" asked Luna brashly.
Elizabeth blinked, and then smiled. It had been a while that she could truly and honestly call someone her friend. If being Luna's friend offered her more protection, then she was all the more willing to do so. "Alright then."
From then on, Luna and Elizabeth were friends.
A/N: Urgh, horrible, I know. It fails epically, I'm sorry. D: Very short too. ;~; It's alright, it's not like anyone ever reads this anyways…
