The Floo Powder Accident

Chapter 12

Hi, I've been forgetting to do the disclaimers so: disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or the Hunger Games. I do hope you enjoy this next chapter though of my own story including the characters of the Hunger Games and Harry Potter.

The day for the interviews arrived. Luna and Draco were nervous; this is where it all begins. The day was filled with prepping for the interview. Effie went first with Luna.

"Luna, it's like you're already a natural at sitting up straight!" Effie exclaimed happily. "Unlike Katniss," she whispered with a giggle. "Alright, let's move onto smiling, you never smile, because you're always dreaming so, smile!"

Luna nodded and sat down on the chair opposite of Effie and smiled. Effie started to ask questions and she answered with a smile, or at least tried to smile. Effie was done in less than one a half an hour so they went onto walking in heels and in a dress.

Luna got changed quickly and came out with a pink dress (Like the one when she went to Slughorn's Christmas party). Effie gasped as Luna did excellent in heel walking. Effie gave a posed clap with her hands and said that she would practice walking for a little while and then they'd be done.

Luna was with Katniss and Peeta after Effie told her time was up; they were talking on what her personality would be during the interview. They thought her personality would be weak in ways but intelligent on topics about plants, Luna had learned a lot about plants recently. They talked and talked until their time was up and Cinna, as well as Portia, came into the room.

Luna was in a simple red dress. (I based it off of the one she wore at Bill's and Fleur's wedding but with red on the dress) Cinna would make it be able to go off on fire like he did to Katniss' dresses when she was a tribute. Luna walked in red heels as well and waited with Draco for the other tributes to have their interview's done.

One by one they were pulled out and off to the stage. Finally, it came to be Luna's turn after fits of nervousness she walked out, dreamy-like but stable. Caesar introduced her as she walked out and held out her hand. She took it gracefully and sat down on the chair next to Caesar Flickerman's.

"Welcome, Luna, welcome," Caesar started, "Let's get right to the point." He smiled revealing his white teeth, "What a lovely dress you have there."

"Thank you," Luna said giving a nice smile. "Cinna made it for me."

"He makes the most absolute wonderful dresses." Caesar commented, "Doesn't he?" He asked the audience which burst into applaud. Caesar's glance turned back to Luna and asked her, "Are you a hunter or gatherer?"

"Um… Well, I'm a gatherer; I know a lot more about plants than animals." Luna said awkwardly. Caesar gave a reassuring smile to Luna.

"Wonderful, there's got to be a lot of plants in the arena, I bet," Caesar said, he paused for a second, "How do you feel about the situation you found yourself in?"

"I think I'll make it out, hopefully, Draco, um, and I have been friends for a long time so we'll be helping each other out?" Luna said unsure to reveal that or not.

"Oh, that's wonderful! But horrible…" Caesar made a dramatic pause and then the timer went out for Luna's interview, "I wish you the best." He said as Luna got up and walked off the stage waving and smiling.

That was really quick, Luna thought. I hope Malfoy does well in his interview, I guess…

Draco walked on stage and sat down in the chair next to Caesar, not giving a hand shake or anything just looking at the crowd, he looked nervous yet confident that he'll do alright. Caesar sat down awkwardly, as he didn't shake his hand; no one usually refused a hand shake.

"Well, hello, Draco," Caesar said out loud recovering with a smile, "Luna just told us you were friends?"

"Yes, we are, she's really nice, brilliant," Draco said trying to smile, "We've been friends since children… Now we're supposed to be against each other… It's horrible…" The crowd gave a sympathetic moan almost as Draco finished his sentence.

"I'm sure you two will be alright though," Caesar said with a small frown, it quickly turned into a grin. "Let's move along… Are you a hunter or a gatherer?" He asked the same question he asked everyone…

"Hunter," Draco stated simply with no smile on his face. He was taking the serious and dangerous personality, of course. How could such a person be friends with a dreamy and nice girl? Draco attempted to smile, he achieved as his lips moved upward.

"Oh, well that's perfect," Caesar said nicely. They're next two minutes had gone by quickly as Luna started dreaming in her head about all sorts of stuff, nargles mostly and about Hogwarts.

That wasn't fun but I did alright! Draco cheered in his head; I just have to try to be nicer I guess in the arena to make them believe I'm actually friends with Loony.

He walked off the stage as Caesar Flickerman concluded the show, the seven of them, containing Effie, their mentors, Cinna and Portia, went upstairs onto their floor. Once the elevator's doors opened Effie clapped her hands loudly.

"Well that was marvelous! You two did spectacular!" Effie applauded the two of them but no one felt in such a cheery mood, for some reason, they were sad; but they did have a reason: Two of them were going into an arena tomorrow, and fight. "…Well, you six don't have to be so down at the moment! Enjoy it while you have it." Effie smiled waving her hands around.

They all slumped down onto the couch, Luna felt tired, she didn't appreciate smiling for minutes, even if it was a short time, and walking in heels, talking to a show host. She hadn't ever talked to a show host before but she didn't want to in the first place.

Soon, all of them were going to bed, preparing them for tomorrow, as the day they had to go into the arena came quickly.

Prim had made them all toast for breakfast, today was the day of the interviews. Prim was cheery in ways, she hummed when there was a brief moment of silence to keep things rolling. Ron had stared at her while she made the toast, Prim felt very awkward at the time being.

"Um… Sorry to be rude, I guess, but why are you staring at me?" Prim asked Ron, who knocked out of his trance, looked up at Prim startled almost.

"Oh, no reason, I just was watching you make toast, and serious thinking, I was doing…" Ron said trying to come up with a muggle excuse.

"Oh, alright, I guess," Prim replied, and went back to making the toast, her back towards Ron so she wouldn't notice Ron's stares. Why is he staring at me? Prim yelled in her mind.

That was embarrassing Ron thought. Ron walked away to find Hermione on the couch reading her book, Neville was also reading a book about "time travel." Ron sat down next to Hermione and sighed so she would notice him.

"What, Ronald?" Hermione asked, already annoyed, "Are you here to do something? If you want to do something, like fun, compared to reading for you, go find Harry or Ginny. I bet they're doing something, or help Prim make toast. It's simple!"

"Fine," Ron said, and walked away to find Ginny and Harry. He found them in a room talking to each other. They stared at Ron as he walked in, giving a slight knock on the door. His feet shuffled until he found a seat on the bed. "Hi."

They greeted Ron and started to talk to him about some spells they were discussing, like Aquamanti and how it could help Luna and Draco in the arena, and if they used Avada Kedavra would the Ministry find them somehow?

They stopped when they heard a knock on the door from downstairs, soon footsteps going to the door. It was Prim's, she greeted the person and the person greeted her.

"I just thought you would want some meat, even if you are at Katniss' place… It's fresher," said the voice that they didn't know whose it was from.

"Who is that?" Ron hissed. Harry and Ginny's shoulders slouched telling Ron that they didn't know. "Let's go find out." Harry and Ginny exchanged looks and started to get up off their seats. They climbed the stairs to the front door where they saw a large man, with brown hair. He was probably two years older than Katniss and Peeta.

Prim glanced over her shoulder, "Oh, uh, hi, this is Gale Hawthorne." Prim said stepping away from the front door. Harry, Ron, and Ginny just stood on the stairs. "He's my sister's old friend, well he still is I guess…"

"And who are these people?" Gale's eyes went wide. "Do you even know them?"

"Of course I know them, at least my sister and Peeta do! They said their parents were working… For like the time being of the arena thing and that they were allowing them to stay here…" Prim explained badly.

"Alright?" Gale questioned still. He placed the meat on the counter, as Prim let him in, "Do you guys have an adult here with you four?"

"Six actually," Hermione corrected him as she walked into the kitchen, "There's six of us here right now, and no. We don't really need one. We're all responsible."

Gale gave her a look, "You guys must be thirteen, and Prim, you're almost fifteen, but still you're not totally responsible. I think I should stay, Katniss would approve, because I know your sister."

"I am responsible!" Prim yelled. "I am responsible; the games have done a lot to me so now I am!" I'm totally responsible, Gale, Prim thought.

"Yeah, tell me that, when you end up cutting your finger or something, or hurting yourself, or when someone asks you, that you have no idea that they are, where do you live or something like that?" Gale said demandingly.

"Fine, you can stay with us," Prim said while she threw Gale a frustrated look. Still am responsible! She thought over and over to herself. "I am responsible though."

"I know you are, just not responsible enough to be living on your own with people you must not know very well," Gale replied. He looked at the Hogwart's students who gave nervous exchanges to each other.

If only we didn't walk down, Ron thought to himself.

Once breakfast was made by Prim and Gale, who insisted he helped, they ate in silence while Gale looked at the Hogwart's students over and over as though they might do something crazy. Finally, breakfast was over in twenty minutes though.

Prim suggested they go look at the candy store, Ron had no objection but Ginny did. "Ron, do you see my ankle? Are you crazy? I can't walk that far!" Ginny said angrily.

"Fine, then you and Harry, or Hermione, or someone could stay here and we could go shop!" Ron said happily, "You can do some healing." Ron gave a mischievous smile almost as he grabbed a left over piece of toast.

"It's alright, we can all stay here, maybe we could bake something, Peeta has a lots of baking recipes here, we could bake," she repeated herself. Ron groaned but everyone else agreed, Harry and Neville weren't very excited but Ginny and Hermione had done little baking in their life and wanted to do more.

"I'll be in the living room, then," Gale said as he grabbed a random book from the counter and walked over to the other room, sat, and read silently; sometimes he glanced up at the six of them.

Prim had gotten out a recipe for sugar cookies. "Do you guys want to make sugar cookies?" Prim asked the six of them. They all had no objection so they started to bake.

Ron looked grumpy as measured flour for the first time in his life. "This is hard," Ron said frowning as he dumped it into the bowl. "Can't we just buy some and then eat it?" Ron went back to measure more flour.

"But that's not fun," Ginny said happily as she cracked an egg, Hermione had done the previous egg and went to get brown sugar. "And then I wouldn't be able to go there with you."

This is so hard, no fun, and I can't even eat it! Ron yelled in his head. He could only stay on the topic of Ginny getting what she wanted and not having the food right away.

Harry and Neville didn't say anything as they measured a teaspoon of vanilla and baking soda. They just walked around pouring stuff into the large bowl, and then walked back. Neville tripped occasionally though.

Soon the cookies were done, and they frosted them, Prim being the best though, into flowers, Peeta had taught her one day, over the weekend, as she was visiting them. Finally, the cookies were finished baking, and being frosted, Ron smashed a couple into his mouth happily again. Prim stared at him as he did so, smashing them into his mouth.

"Do you ever stop eating or being totally disgusting?" Hermione said covering her mouth, her eyebrows raised.

"Nope," Ron said grinning as he picked up another cookie.

It was time to watch Luna's and Draco's interviews, Gale was in an armchair, Hermione, Ron, Harry on one couch, and Ginny, Neville, and Prim on the other. They watched eagerly as Luna was talking about hunting and gathering but then shock washed over them as the next part game cover them.

"What?" Ron burst out, "They're not lifelong friends!" Gale and Prim looked confusedly at Ron but the rest were still watching, "I mean not that I knew of, actually, never mind, they are…"

At last, Draco's interview tuned in and they watched, Ron still in shock, but Hermione sitting silently as she listened for everything, she wanted to know their plan, and she was finding it out quickly. Got it, Hermione thought to herself. That's a very easy plan…

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed it, and sorry I haven't updated soon, I didn't have a computer to write on so sorry. But now I do! So smile face. Please review.