"I thought Ravenclaws were supposed to be intelligent." Draco hissed at Luna. It turned out he was to be her DADA tutor. It was a terrible end to a terrible day.

"W-well everyone has a weak point." Luna stammered quietly.

"Apparently so." Draco must have been getting teaching lessons from professor Snape. His snide comments could rival the man himself.

"Please Draco, its half nine. I'm tired. Can we carry this on next week?"

"NO!" Draco shouted at her. "Lazy little Ravenclaw. Stupid girl. Shaming the pureblood name. Stupid family, stupid parents. Absolutely no shame." he carried on under his breath, pacing as he did so. He may have only been a year older than Luna but at that moment he felt a lot older and Luna was truly terrified.

"Please." She pleaded. I'm tired and I can't concentrate."

"Very well. You may leave." Draco said before he turned and left leaving Luna sat in classroom. He had tried to teach her the expelliarmus spell but it just didn't seem to be working. So after over two hours of working on it Luna had had to admit defeat. She hated the feeling of being defeated, she loved to be the best she could be but for some reason she just couldn't. She thought last year was bad but this year seemed to be a whole lot worse.

George was out walking around the castle thinking things through in his mind. He had been very agitated of late. George couldn't help but feel slightly resentful towards Luna. He felt as though she was taking Fred away from him. He knew it sounded ridiculous but it was true. It had always been Fred and George. The terrible twins. Hogwarts legends. And yet now he felt as if that was being taken away from him. Yes he still had Lee but Lee was no match for Fred. They still had their laughs and fun times but it would have always been better with Fred there. George used to feel like he could read Fred's mind, know exactly what he was feeling. But now he hardly knew him and Fred was in no hurry to fix that. He was too occupied with Luna. The feeling of being replaced was horrible, George hated it but he hated the person who had replaced him even more.

"Fred, stop it." Luna giggled as Fred started bewitching little paper birds to follow Draco down the corridor. Draco turned around just as Fred and Luna dived in to the doorway of a classroom to hide. Luna looked as if she was about to laugh so Fred covered her mouth with his hand.

"ssh." he whispered pressing a finger to his lips but didn't take his hand off of Luna's mouth. He didn't trust her to not burst out laughing meaning Malfoy would catch them. He couldn't believe the way Malfoy had treated Luna. It disgusted him. He had waited outside the classroom the entire time. Only about ten minuets before Luna had finished with class had he remembered he was meant to have met George to plan some pranks. He was sure George would understand, though. He was pranking Malfoy, after all. And they certainly hated Malfoy.

Fred slowly peeked around the side of the doorframe. Draco had started walking again so he and Luna crept to follow him, Fred still firing more birds at the back of Draco's head.

All of a sudden Draco turned. "Expelliarmus!" he shouted.

But Fred was too quick. Before Luna could even blink Fred had his wand out. "Protego!" he shouted, Draco then flew in to the air and landed on his back, not giving his expelliarmus charm a chance to hit Fred. However, he quickly stood back up and pointed his wand at Luna instead, knowing that she would not be able to protect herself.

"Furnunculus!" he shouted but once again Fred was way too quick.

"Finite incantatem." he shouted.

Luna was terrified. Never before had she been so close to a wizarding duel and never had she had a real spell fired at her. Knowing she couldn't do anything about it made her positively determined to succeed in defence against the dark arts. At the same time, though, Fred amazed her. To most people he was just the funny one but in reality he was extremely talented. It was scary but awe inspiring at the same time. All Luna could do was watch in awe as Fred and Draco duelled in the corridors. She wanted to move but she was glued to the spot with fear, Fred's hair was falling into his eyes and his face was filled with concentration. An expression that Draco mirrored.

In the end it became all too much and Luna cowered in the corner behind a suit of armour that happened to be there. For some reason all the spells reminded her of her mother and made her relive the painful memory all over again. The fact that she was acting like such a child upset Luna more. She needed to be braver, to protect herself. Bu she couldn't. She was too weak.

"Luna. Are you ok?" Fred said grabbing Luna and picking her up. He kissed the top of her head. He was out of breath and clearly shaken, it was clear he was not a natural fighter.

"I'm fine thanks. There seemed to be a lot of warkspurts in the air."

"Yeh, I thought that too." Fred informed Luna. Still not letting her go. He was still too shaken to laugh.

"You were amazing, Fred. I never knew you could duel like that."

"Well. Just forget about it." he honestly hated fighting. He made a concuss decision there and then to only fight to protect his family. And Luna of course.

Luna didn't say anything and she certainly didn't stop thinking about it. In fact, it was the only thing she thought of as she fell asleep that night.