A/N: Hello everyone!! Sorry I didn't put chapter four up Friday with the other 3 chapters...but work ended and it was my last day...that and some weird guy was protesting outside the courthouse and I kinda got wrapped up in watching him...lol
Anyway...thanks to everyone who's reviewed so far...I really appreciate it!!!
Here's chapter four everyone!!!!
The sun shone over London's King Cross Station as the Weasley's, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, and Luna Lovegood walked across the crowded platforms to the hidden Platform 9 3/4.
"Hurry up now." Mrs. Weasley called to the line of Hogwarts students walking behind her. "We don't want a repeat of what happened five years ago." she said sending an evil glance over her shoulder at Ron and Harry.
"What happened five years ago?" Luna asked Harry who was walking beside her through the on coming stream of Muggles.
Harry chuckled to himself before answering. "Do you know the house elf, Dobby?"
Luna thought about it for a second. "I think so...you mean the one that warned us about Umbridge and the Inquisitorial Squad the night we went to the Depart..." she trailed off at seeing the emotions flit across Harry's face. "that night?"
She watched as Harry put his walls back up around all the pain and hurt he'd experienced in his lifetime before answering her. "Yeah...that was him." his voice wasn't as light as it had been a few moments before...but at least he was talking, which was good. "Well, back in my second year he showed up at the Dursley's house right in the middle of my uncle's dinner party...he said that if I made one noise he'd lock me in the cupboard and never let me go back to Hogwarts. Well, Dobby isn't one to do anything quietly, even when he has permission to be there..."
"Have permission? Why would he need..."
"He was the Malfoy's house elf...needless to say they didn't know he'd come to warn me..."
"Warn you? About what?"
"Do you want to hear this or not?" Harry laughed, turning to look at Luna with true happiness in his eyes.
"Of course! You're just leaving so much out..." she laughed, turning away from him allowing dirty blonde hair to fall across her left shoulder to hide the blush that was slowly creeping across her cheeks.
He reached out hesitantly to brush the hair back behind her shoulder, but suddenly stopped and placed his hand back on his luggage cart. "Now, where was I before I was so rudely interrupted?" he laughed, causing Luna's cheeks to get a little redder.
"Thank god for long scraggly hair!" Luna thought as they stopped behind Ron and Hermione in front of the secret entrance to Platform 9 3/4. She watched as first Ron, then Hermione walked casually up to the barrier and disappeared through the seemingly solid brick wall. Following Harry she walked determindley at the brick wall and...opened her eyes to see the steaming Hogwarts Express.
"Come on, Lu!" Harry called from the train. She pushed her cart over to where he was, making sure to take long strides that made her look like she was dancing across the platform and putting on her dreamy mask. She didn't know if he noticed the sudden change in her attitude, but he helped lift her trunk onto the train and the two friends began to search the train for an empty compartment. (Ron and Ginny had to be in the Prefects compartment, while Hermione had to be there to give out duties...she was Head Girl...big surprise there.)
"So...continue on with the story." Luna said in her dreamy tone as the moved to the second train carriage.
Harry cast a quizzical glance over his shoulder before he continued. "Where was I..."
"Dobby, the house elf who warned us about Umbridge and her cronies, came to your uncle's house the summer before your second year to warn you about..." Luna supplied in her dreamy voice as they passed a group of Hufflepuffs.
Again that quizzical look. "Right...well, he came to warn me about strange and dangerous things that were going to take place at Hogwarts. He said it wasn't safe for me to return to Hogwarts, and he was willing to do anything to stop me from going. He stopped all my letters for the whole summer just to make me think that my friends didn't write to me. The weird thing was everytime he almost let something slip...like about who was planning these strange and dangerous things...or when he said something bad about the Malfoys...he'd punish himself. Extremely noisily."
"So, your Unlce Vernon locked you in the cupboard?" Luna asked as they stepped out into the freezing air between the carriages.
"Not quite." Harry shouted over the wind as he jumped across the gap between the two carriages. "Careful." he said as Luna stepped onto the connector to step across. The train sprang forward into motion, causing Luna to go flying into Harry, who wrapped his arms around her. His arms stayed around the Ravenclaw for a second longer than absolutely neccessary. "You ok?"
"Yeah...I'm...I'm fine." she whispered, turning to pull the carriage door open. "So, Dobby punished himself loudly and your Uncle didn't lock you in the cupboard..." she supplied as Harry followed her inside.
"Just because I shoved Dobby in my closet when he came upstairs to give me one last warning. Finally!" Harry exclaimed, pulling open a compartment door. The two friends settled into seats across from one another before Harry continued with his story. "Everything went fine after that until I told him that I had to go back to Hogwarts. He ran out of my room and down the stairs into the kitchen. My aunt had made this enormous pudding for the dinner, and everyone was sitting in the parlor talking about drills...that's what my uncle's company sells." Harry supplied upon seeing Luna's confused look. "Dobby made the pudding float into the parlor and stopped it above the wife's head of the big business guy my uncle was talking to...and then he took the charm off and it crashed onto her head."
The two burst into laughter as Neville walked in. "What's so funny?"
"Dobby...in my second year..."Harry laughed.
"Oh...I remember you telling us that." Neville said, sitting next to Harry.
"So then what happened?" Luna asked, forgetting her dreamy voice.
Yet another questioning glance from Harry. "Well, Ron and his brothers came and whisked me off to the Burrow in their dad's Ford Angelia. Everything was great until we got to King's Cross. Dobby made the barrier close so that me and Ron couldn't get through and we missed the train. So then Ron got the brilliant idea to take the car to Hogwarts...and then he crashed it into the Whomping Willow."
"So that's what Mrs. Weasley meant about not repeating whatever happened five years ago?" Luna asked, making sure she spoke in her normally dreamy voice.
"Yep."
"Interesting..."
Harry and Neville began to talk about Quidditch and what they thought their seventh years would be like. Luna gazed out of the window for a little while and then remembered that EmeraldRaven had asked her to meet her in his compartment. She pulled out her cell phone and typed him a message.
MoonGirl12: Hey...excited about going back to Hogwarts?
Luna sent the message and gazed back out of the window to wait for his reply. Suddenly she heard the sound of bells coming from across the compartment. Harry and Neville pulled out identical phones.
"It's not me." Neville said, putting his phone back in his pocket.
"It's me..." Harry said scanning his phone message. "It's from this girl I've been talking to all summer." Luna watched as he typed a reply and sent the message before going back to the conversation with Neville.
Chirp Chirp
The two boys looked over to Luna who flipped her phone open.
EmeraldRaven: Yeah! It's like my home...you know the back story...you?
MoonGirl12: Totally...what are you up to?
She sent the message and looked up to see her friends looking at her. "Just this guy I met at WizardChat over the summer." she said and turned her attention back to the country flying by outside the window. A peak out of the corner of her eye told her that the two boys were once again engrossed in their conversation. She was wondering now if EmeraldRaven was...no it couldn't be...they weren't anything alike.
Ding Dong Ding Dong
Harry pulled his phone out again and copied his actions from a few minutes before. Luna was sure that EmeraldRaven wasn't Harry...but the message timing was just to weird to be coincidence. But they aren't anything alike! Actually they are...Harry's eyes are emerald and his hair is raven...that would ecplain the name. He was at the dock at the wedding and was the one that took her back inside...and EmeraldRaven had known what had happened to her there.
Chirp Chirp
EmeraldRaven: nothing really...just sitting here with my friends talking...you
MoonGirl12: same...who are your friends?
That was one way to find out. Luna waited for the sound of an incoming text message from Harry's phone...there it was, right on time. She watched out of the corner of her eye as he typed a reply and sent the message. She held her breath as she waited for the reply...it would tell her if Harry was EmeraldRaven.
Chirp Chirp
EmeraldRaven: Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood
A/N: YAY! So now Luna knows who EmeraldRaven is...but does he know who she is? Who knows!!!!! Oh that's right...I do!!!! haha
I know I skipped like the whole week between the wedding and the trip to Hogwarts, but nothing really important happened...just a whole bunch of talk between Harry and Luna as their screen names...oh and Voldemort attacked and killed everyone and now they're all ghosts...the wars over!!!! haha I'm just kidding...nothing happened of any interest
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P.S. I'M GONNA BE AT CHURCH CAMP ALL WEEK LONG...I WON'T BE ABLE TO UPDATE BUT I'LL TRY AND COME UP WITH THE NEXT CHAPTERS IN A NOTEBOOK OR SOMETHING SO I CAN UPLOAD A WHOLE LOT WHEN I GET BACK AND BEFORE I LEAVE FOR BAND CAMP...I PROMISE I WONT FORGET YOU ALL and this story!!!!!!!!!
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