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Chapter 4

The years fly by

Luna, Lily, Roxanne and Violet were best friends for the whole year. No-one could break them apart, because they learnt to know what each other meant when they said, did or looked like anything. If anything came up the others would spot it immediately, and it would be sorted before an hour passed.

Roxanne had tried many times, but failed, to join Next-gen Marauders, the elite group of pranksters her brother was in. He kept telling her that she was way too young to be in there. She made him promise that next year she could join, so the "Second years and up" rule was in place, and quickly became official. Fred also warned her that there was a "No prefects or Heads" rule as well, and Roxanne was quick to tell him there wouldn't be a chance in hell of her being one (which, naturally, everyone agreed with).
Lily proved to be stunning at Potions and DADA, okay at Transfiguration, while not so good at Charms and, obviously, horrendous at History of Magic. She was a top student in many classes, although she kept denying it and blaming it on her parents being friends with most of the teachers so apparently they were going easy on her (she was just being modest). She also made the quidditch team as a chaser, and reserve seeker (her brother, Albus, was the seeker)
Violet was good in most lessons, but developed a talent for singing. She introduced the others to some muggle music, which they all started to enjoy. She also started to draw a style of muggle art called anime, where everyone has big, strange looking eyes with unusual colours. And she took to sneaking to the astronomy tower at night, using the invisibility cloak Lily stole from Albus.
Last but certainly not least, Luna found she loved Herbology, and often could be found studying advanced spells late at night in the common room. She soon found out about the kitchens, which led to a disaster of a trip that they'd all rather not be mentioned. Not to mention that as July drew nearer, she became more and more depressed, with a temper worthy of a Weasley.

The cause for this came with the ending of the school year. She reluctantly pulled her trunk to an empty compartment and slumped down on one seat. Lily, Violet and Roxanne followed, shot each other worried glances and sat opposite. They had guessed long ago that she didn't exactly live a life of luxury at the orphanage, and that people there hated her for being a freak (her own words).

"Luna?" Lily hesitantly tried to get her friend's attention.
"What?" Luna snapped.
"Luna, it's not right to be this moody. You should have some fun; take your mind off the next few weeks." Roxanne tried.
"So it comes quicker to hit me in the face?" Luna replied.
"Come on, Luna. We're just trying to help." Violet said, and Luna sighed.
"No."

The rest of the train journey went by with the three of them playing wizard chess, which they were all terrible at, exploding snap, which made Luna explode when the third one hit her in the face, and finally them sitting, trying but failing to make a conversation. The other Weasleys popped by a couple of times, and Violet reminded them that they'd be seeing each other every day when they got home, and they'd probably be writing at least once a week in the next year.

Luna walked back to the orphanage, dumped her stuff in her room and life returned to normal. The only thing that indicated they'd even realised where and why she'd gone was that everybody hated her more. Some were jealous she got to have more things, and others just hated her for being more of a freak. The days dragged on, and she swore someone had charmed her clocks and calendar to run thrice as slow. Luckily, everyone was too scared of her new skill to do anything to her, as she had conveniently forgotten to tell them about the part where she was too young to do magic out of school.

Luckily, they were also too scared to stop her doing anything. She often went to a little pub that not many people knew about called the Leaky Cauldron. It was run by Hannah Longbottom, wife of the Herbology teacher at Hogwarts. Luna would go out of the back into Diagon Alley, the little wizarding street where you could get all your school supplies. It was mostly empty, not many people came when there was no point, but some adults would be around, getting things for their businesses. Luna would usually get a pumpkin flavoured ice cream at Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour, then wander around the streets. Each year she got 100 galleons to buy her school equipment, but she rarely used it that. She had set aside 100, because she had plenty left from the original 500 she got from her first year. She had barely used 50 galleons by the time students started showing up, as the lists had come. Luna decided to wait until she saw her friends, because the orphanage had not given her any mail. Her small window had been locked for as long as she could remember, so all the mail must have come through the usual way, the letter box. She knew her friends would have tried to talk, but they would have guessed Luna couldn't get the mail and stopped trying. But Luna knew her friends well, and knew they would have arranged a day to all get their things together. And she knew they knew her well, and they knew she lived in London, therefore she knew they knew she'd be in the Leaky Cauldron every day. It was no surprise to her when she arrived at the Leaky Cauldron to find them at a table, eating sandwiches one day.

"LUNA!" Lily shouted.
"Hey Lils, Rox, Vi," Luna shouted, running across to meet them, "You've no idea how dull these past weeks have been."
"We guessed, seeing as you probably had no way of communicating." Roxanne pointed out.
"We were worried you'd be expelled for getting so angry you'd probably blow someone up!" Violet added with a grin.
"It almost happened. Lucky I forgot to mention about the whole not-allowed-to-do-magic-outside-of-school thing. They'd lock me in my room if they knew how helpless I actually am. So I've been having ice-cream every day!"
"And here I am thinking my life has been great. Honestly, living above the shop's awesome, especially since we've been the demonstrators. Pulling pranks on innocent customers, that's my life!"
"Honestly, Rox. I've been at home, catching up on my internet life. I've had to use the excuse "I go to a boarding school and I can't bring my computer" for everything. I've handed over leadership of all my online things to others, as I just can't be there to run them anymore. I've quit so much as well. I've got barely anything running. However, I have found a handy little website. It's run by muggle-born wizards for internet geeks, so there's no apologising for my absence or making up excuses. Everyone there are wizards and witches. They know why I haven't been online!"
"Yeah, yeah. As much as we love you, Vi, we don't care."
"Roxanne Weasley. Apologise at once."
"Okay, okay. I'm sorry. Happy, Lils?"
"Very."
"Guys, just quiet. So, we have one person left. What did you do, Lily?" Luna asked, changing the subject expertly.
"The usual. Hanging around, doing chores, homework and seeing far too much of her-" She nodded her head at Roxanne who said "HEY!" in a fake hurt voice "-to do me any good."
"Great. Now we're all caught up, let's get our things. Do you guys have lists, they haven't let any of my mail through."
"Yeah, don't worry. We figured as much. I faked a very important Hogwarts letter you apparently didn't get" Roxanne shrugged.

They went out into Diagon Alley and got all their school things. Luna got very depressed at the end, but the girls promised to go again sometime for a bit of ice-cream. She went back in much higher spirits which went unnoticed.

When September 1st came along, Luna had met up with the girls twice more. They had arranged it together, and just appeared at the Leaky Cauldron one day. Luna dragged her trunk to King's Cross, glad that she'd finally have most of a year away again. Back where people didn't judge her because her eyes were neon green, oddly shaped with cat's pupils or because her hair was naturally a midnight blue colour (in fact, many people thought it was cool). She dragged her trunk onto the train, easily found an empty compartment – it was only 10 o' clock after all – and started reading a magazine Lily had told her about called the Quibbler. Apparently her Aunt Luna, her Godmother (and not really her aunt) was the editor, and head writer. Lily had given Luna all the copies she could find, and Luna was looking forward to being able to have a subscription for herself, at least until Hogwarts ended for the year. Now however, she had her feet propped up on the opposite seats, much like in her first year, and she was reading.

Flashes of red caught her attention, and Luna looked out of the window and smiled. The Weasley Potter clan were arriving. Lily scanned the windows of the train for a moment, saw Luna and smiled in greeting. Luna quickly waved, but Lily's attention was drawn to Violet, who ran up to her at that moment. Roxanne joined them, and they walked to the train.

"LUNA!" Violet shouted, jumping over to Luna and hugging her.
"Woah, Vi, calm down!"
"I haven't seen you in about a week!"
"Yeah, wow, a week." Luna stated sarcastically.
"And I thought we had it bad with us meeting up yesterday and all. Think about it though. Our suffering is nothing compared to our dear Luna's separation for a whole week!" Roxanne rolled her eyes, and sat down. Lily sat down in the seat next to Luna, who took her feet down for Violet to sit. They talked and talked, and eventually they arrived at Hogwarts for another fun-filled year.

"WHERE'S MY BLUE JUMPER?"
All five girls were packing their things, early in the morning before they had to get on the train to leave school.
"Look for it yourself, Lils. I'm busy." Roxanne sighed.
"Fine, fine. Don't blame me if we miss the train though." Lily said, running a hand through her hair.
"I wouldn't mind." Luna shrugged
"Well of course not, you're as good as abused at home. On the other hand, some of us have grandmas who are extremely great cooks." Roxanne folded her arms across her body.
"Plus you'll be at the Burrow for most of the holiday." Lily cut in.
"Oh, yeah! How could I forget?" Luna slapped her forehead. "Stupid memory."
Sierra, the white haired girl with whom they shared a dormitory with, left the room at that point.
"How does she get all her things neatly into her suitcase and everything?" Lily asked incredulously.
"Umm… Probably by summoning them. Accio!" Violet flicked her wand and her skirt flew across the room, and Violet folded it and packed it away neatly. Soon all the girls had summoned their things, which were now packed away in their trunks.

Ten minutes later, they were all sitting on the train.
"Hey, girls, James does this thing where he and his friends talk about their favourite things that year. So, I'll start. I loved the prank we played on Filch, the one with the fireworks, the paint and the puffskein." Lily laughed at the memory.
"Getting into Next-Gen Marauders has to be the best thing that's ever happened. That team prank where we glued all the furniture to the ceiling upside-down," Roxanne chuckled. "Loved it!"
"Forging that love-letter to your brother! Teresa Abercrombie's face when he started asking her about it- hilarious!" Violet giggled. Luna sighed.
"Another year, away from the Orphanage with the three people who mean the most to me." She said, and after a moment's silence, the others engulfed her in a huge hug.

A/N

So, this chapter was terrible when I originally wrote it as a phone memo (which is how I write everything, but after getting really annoyed at having to type everything up so I've quit using phone memos) but I've re-typed it and, well, it's (OMG! Spellcheck, is it "its" or "it's"?) way better now. And it was really short (the others were about 6-8 memos, while this was 3), but now I've added more, put parts in more detail, and basically fattened it out. And it's like one of the longest chapters I've ever written… typed… whatever. And next chapter we'll be introducing a little side plot thing. It'll be sooo obvious! Of course next chapter is when Luna goes over to Lily's house. (Mwahahahahaaaaa!)

I'm a bit upset with the amount of reviews, not including from chapter 1. A.K.A: None. If you read, please review to at least assure me someone is reading. I think this has the potential to be really interesting, if I do say so myself.

Argh, stupid sequins. Basically it was my little sister's twelfth birthday on Saturday (7th) and my mum thought it would be funny to get her a card with millions of hexagonal sequins. You can now see the pink of the card on the front, only it's a little bit difficult to see anything else in my house. It's all pink and shiny.

Woah, I never thought I'd write an A/N this long.

Edit: And now I'll make it longer. Well, all I really had to do was one line. And of course the disclaimer. Remember, if you get the right language then you get a shout-out! Well, ta-rah!

Please R&R!

~Lil-Lioness-Cub