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'Wha!' a chocolate stuffed male voice exclaimed.

'Are you out of your mind!?' another outraged male voice sounded.

A choking sound came as some food was caught in a throat. Luna rubbed the gasping male's back; despite her irritation she did not want anyone hurt.

'Undoubtedly she is. Luna, I'm taking you to the hospital wing,' said a slightly patronising female voice, the hand connected to the voice gripped down rather forcefully on Luna's pale arm.

The now no-longer-choking-on-food voice said, 'Good idea, Mione! Merlin knows what the Ferret has done to her. Don't worry, Loony-'

'Ron!' Hermione hissed.

Ron flushed slightly and continued, 'Err, don't worry, Luna, we will get you fixed up and hopefully have the Ferret expelled for this.'

Luna just smiled vaguely at the quartet. She had pulled Ginny into the deserted corridor to inform her that she was dating Draco. The Golden Trio had followed them and overheard, the three quickly deeming that their opinions mattered more than hers in this personal matter. She considered punishing them for the rudeness of, firstly intentionally eavesdropping, and secondly giving their onsought and rather rude opinions in response to her happy news.

She looked towards the fiery red-headed girl who she got along with well, given Luna's concealed blood purity views. Ginny gave a weak apologetic smile in response. Not going to be much help then in this situation, Luna concluded.

'Harry, Ron, Hermione,' Luna began as she gently pried Hermione's fingers from her arm, 'I thank you very much for your attempts to save me from devious characters, however I am an excellent and capable witch, as I am sure you recall given the battles I have assisted in and the fact that I am a Ravenclaw in the top four students of my year. I thank you for your concern, but it is entirely unnecessary. I care for Draco very much, as he does me, and I promise you that this is a topic he is unable to deceive me on given my magical abilities. While I know you do not like him very much, I do, and I will thank you to keep your negative opinions to yourself.'

The trio looked slightly put out at this response, Ron's face flushing in embarrassment and anger at a perceived slight to them.

Luna raised her hand to silence them. 'As I was telling Ginny, I am very happy with this development and I have high hopes for the future. If you truly care about me, you will hold your tongues and support me. I am not asking you to be his friend, I doubt that will ever happen, however you will be polite to him when I am around, or else I fear I will not be able to be around frequently.'

Ginny stepped forward first, 'I am delighted you are so happy, Luna. I look forward to becoming acquainted with Ma- Draco.'

Luna smiled genuinely at Ginny. 'Thank you.'

The trio stood still; Hermione wringing her hands with stress, Ron shifting from foot to foot, and Harry looking slightly betrayed.

It was Harry to next to speak as he whispered, 'Luna, he believes in blood purity… I'm sure he hasn't changed his views despite his refraining from calling Hermione foul names.'

Of course he believes in pureblood supremacy! In the muggle world people had to be fully integrated in a country's culture before they could work in or lead its' government, that magical folk want the same thing to protect their way of life is hardly surprising, she thought. Still I need to be delicate so I do not lose my influence.

'I will tell you a secret, I have a magical gift that allows me to know what people's souls are like,' Luna began carefully, ensuring she used words that Hermione would not be able to link to her forest nymph heritage if she decided to research her gift. 'Through this ability, I know that Draco is a good man. He might be traditional in his views-'

Hermione snorted and Luna looked at her blankly until the girl blushed.

'- but he is a good man who matches my personality and cares for me, deeply.'

'Fine, we'll support you,' Harry said as he gestured to his friends. 'But, if he steps a toe out of line, you tell us and we will make him regret it.'

'I am quite capable with my wand, Harry,' Luna chided. Desiring to get away from the trio now that she had imparted her news to Ginny, she glanced up and said, 'Oh, look, a Swirkle-shelled Beetlenack! I must follow it so I can tell my father if they really do like to dance the polka.' Luna gave a dreamy wave goodbye as she skipped down the corridor while watching the ceiling.

'Well, she seems normal enough, for her anyway…' Ron said as he bit into another chocolate frog.

'Ron, where did you get that?' Hermione asked suspiciously.

'It was in a bowl on the table at lunch. Why?' Ron replied.

Hermione looked at the boy with concern, 'Chocolate frogs haven't been served at Hogwarts the entire time we have been here…'

Ron suddenly paled as his sister began to giggle. He swung to her, 'What do you know?'

Ginny looked at him again and then burst into laughter, clenching her stomach as she tried to hold herself up.

'What!? What are you laughing about!?'

'Oh dear,' Hermione whispered.

'What!?' Ron shouted nervously.

'Mate, I think the chocolate frogs were part of a prank… we should take you to Madam Pomfrey.'

Ron looked into the glass window which usual showed a stunning view of Hogwarts grounds.

'Argh! Help me!'

Ginny leaned against the stone wall, gasping for breath as she continued to laugh at her brother. Ron was now green, warty and his stretched tongue was beginning to hang from his mouth. He was also starting to shrink.

When Ron finally stopped shrinking he was the size of a dog and looked to be a blend of half Weasley and half toad. The red mop of hair on his head clashing terribly with his now olive green skin.

'Ribbet.'

'Oh, Ron!' Hermione said as she levitated him with her wand and walked towards the hospital wing, a startled Harry and a highly amused Ginny in tow. Luna and her new boyfriend wiped from their minds as they focused of their floating friend.

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'Did he call me a ferret?' Draco's voice called down the corridor, capturing a skipping Luna's attention. 'And why are you skipping down the hall looking at the ceiling?'

'Just following the fictitious Swirkle-shelled Beetlenack. And, yes, he did.'

Draco smiled, 'Excellent.'

Luna gave him a blank look. 'The Beetlenack isn't real,' she clarified.

'I figured that by your use of the term "fictitious". I was actually commenting on Ronald Weasley's term usage.'

'Why are you happy about him calling you a ferret? I would have thought the experience, while interesting, would have been traumatic after your unwanted close encounter with your friend's underwear.'

'It was; which is one of the reasons why Blaise Zabini came up with a plan to remove it from his vocabulary. Weasley can't help but eat sweets when they are on the meal tables, but Blaise got the house elves to help him out by placing hexed food next to his seat. If Weasley says "Ferret" or "Black Widow" within an hour of eating the food, he is hexed.'

'Why "Black Widow"?'

'It's what Weasley has taken to calling Blaise's mother every time Weasley sees him in the halls. No idea why he has suddenly started that… Anyway, Blaise is now hexing Weasley whenever he get the chance, adding "Ferret" to the hex triggers is probably just a way to increase the hexing opportunities.'

'Still a bit mean… hexing for name calling, if I did the same thing everyone in school would be in pain at some stage or other.'

'Blaise is not nearly as forgiving and lovely as you, besides you just make fun of people in a different way as retribution.'

'Hmm, I'm beginning to regret telling you that.'

'I'm glad you did, it makes me love you more,' Draco replied as he swooped in for a passionate kiss.

'Whoa, PDA, really you should be ashamed of yourself, Draco!'

'Bugger off, Blaise,' Draco mumbled against Luna's lips.

'Something you forgot to tell me, mate?'

Draco leant away from his girlfriend to glare at Blaise for continuing the interruption. 'Blaise, this is Luna Lovegood, my girlfriend. Luna, this is Blaise Zabini, my best friend.'

'You should be careful, Blaise, there is a Swirkle-shelled Beetlenack near your head.'

'Huh!?' Blaise exclaimed as he ducked down, arms swiping up to defend himself. He glanced up from his position near the floor to see amused smiles on the faces of the couple. Slowly, he stood upright with a scowl. 'Not cool.'

The pairs' grins widened, and then Luna took on a faraway look to say, 'It's a pleasure to meet you, Blaise, we will be great friends if you enjoy magical creatures.'

Blaise looked to Draco and said, 'You chose wisely, this girl is perfect for you. Luna, I think I most certainly do.' A smile slipped onto Blaise's features before he controlled it and allowed his expression to blank. 'Now enough silly smiling, you both look ridiculous with those things stretched over your lips. Such a look would traumatise the first year Slytherins if they were to meander past right now.'

'We can't have that,' Luna replied seriously. 'There are no Silky-tailed Lorgs in this castle to help them sleep.'

Blaise raised a questioning eyebrow at Draco who shrugged with bemusement, having no idea if this creature was real or not. The latter wrapped his arm around Luna's soft waist and led her down the corridor, asking about the latest strange creature.

THE END


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