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Chapter 14: Luna Lovegood

A lot of people think I'm crazy, but I know better.

I don't like to be tied down by the restrictions of everyday life and I realized early on that if they think you're mental they don't expect you to. Its because of that that I'm given the freedom to do and say as I like without fear of retaliation.

It's just who I am and not many people seem to understand that, but one person does. Harry Potter. He understands me and doesn't try to change the way I am and I admire him for that. Even Ginny, my first friend, tries to make me more socially acceptable.

What she doesn't seem to realize is that I don't care.

I don't care if other people don't like me. I like myself just the way I am and the people I choose to associate with should feel just the same.

Harry accepts me for the person I am and sometimes I know he feels more comfortable in the world I choose to enclose myself in. He embraces my lifestyle in a way that many can not because of its flamboyancy.

Ginny accepts me to a certain extent, but mostly she feels pity for the way I am and feels its her duty to fix me. As if I'm her pet project, but I can't dislike her for that. She's only trying to help in the only way she knows how.

Hermione on the other hand would probably accept me more if I didn't challenge everything she believes in. I'm a contradiction and I know she likes me and even enjoys my company, but she doesn't understand me. She tries to, but when we bump heads over the creatures I know are there and the ones she can't see we have problems. But she means well.

Ronald is someone I can see myself with. I know that he's a wonderful man on the inside, but he's never allowed himself to grow. He puts himself in the shadow of others merely because he feels it is his place, but I confuse him.

I've known for a long time that these four had a journey to make in order to grow, but I had hoped they would have learned their lesson sooner. Now I'm left to watch as the boy I used to love turn into a man with someone else. I can see the resignation in his eyes as he watches Harry and Hermione interact and all I can do is pick up the pieces of his broken heart.

I want to show him what it feels like to be with your soul mate. I want to show him that he can have what Harry and Hermione has if he would only open his eyes.

Now Ginny is a different story. She's still caught in the idea that she belongs with the famous Harry Potter, but her journey is with another. I hope for her sake she realizes before Harry and Hermione see. I love her like a sister, but I can see where she's blinded. She's been blinded with the idea of being Mrs. Potter for so long she doesn't realize that she doesn't really love him, but the idea of him.

Harry and Hermione are truly blinded. They've settled into the idea that they belong with their Weasley counterparts that they haven't opened up to the idea that they could be so much more.

I can't tell them any of this because just telling them would only cause them to pull away from one another. I have to find a way to open their eyes to the possibility of so much more without just coming out and saying what we all see.

The End