Chap21: Letter

Okay you guys please DO NOT freak out! This chapter HAD to happen in order to work with a good romance plot. There is NO arguments, so don't worry :) Enjoy!

Luna happily skipped through Hogwarts until she entered the great hall. She found Ginny and Neville and sat with them.

'Good morning,' she said jovially. They were surprised by this, seeing as the day before she was mad at them.

'Er... morning.' Ginny said awkwardly. 'Aren't you mad at us?'

Luna waved her hand carelessly. 'Oh, no! I was just a little moody! Silly wrackspurts, they were messing with my head.' she smiled happily. 'It wasn't your fault. I'm not cross anymore.' she grinned as she took a sip from some juice.

Neville and Ginny exchanged looks of slight confusion but happiness nonetheless.

'So, how have you been?' Luna asked conversationally. 'What with all the wrackspurts flying around, I daresay you've been being very unusual. Not to mention nargles... they can make one very confused in school work. I expect that's why you aren't going to well.' she said knowingly.

Ginny grinned at Luna's forwardness but replied politely.

'We've been fine, thank you.' she chuckled a little. 'So... how are... things?'

By the tone in Ginny's voice Luna knew she said "things" but really meant "Fred, Rolf and Harry".

Luna waved her hand carelessly. 'I spoke to Fred yesterday. We are friends again, also. I don't know about Rolf, and honestly, I don't really care. And Harry... well, I haven't spoken to Harry in a while.' she looked at the enchanted roof thoughtfully.

Ginny nodded seriously. 'You shouldn't worry about Rolf. It's good that you don't. Harry and Fred are way better than him. And NOT just because he's a Hufflepuff.' she added.

'I agree.' Luna said absently. She was distracted by one certain ginger looking at her. When he realised she caught him, he flushed and looked away, making Luna giggle. He then saw he got a reaction so he looked up and grinned. Luna returned the grin, and blushed a little, which made Fred chuckle.

Ginny looked in Fred's direction, and then back at Luna.

'Are you two flirting?' she looked back at Fred, then back at Luna.

Luna flushed even more. 'Oh, no. Just politely smiling at each other.'

Ginny nodded slowly, with a sly grin forming. 'Right.' she said, as if she didn't believe Luna.

'Oh, look, morning post!' Neville called, pointing to the owls that were now flying in the great hall. 'I think that one's coming for you, Luna.' Neville pointed at a barn owl flying towards Luna.

'Oh!' Luna said in surprise, as the owl dropped the letter near her food. She picked it up, opened the envelope, pulled out the letter and began to read.

My dearest Luna,

I hope you are having a lovely time at Hogwarts. I hope you haven't taken your nargles repellent charm off. I think the world is having a plague of nargles!

Anyway, I decided to write to you because I thought it was about time I talked to you about that boy you like, the Fred boy. I want you to know that having an older man is not a good decision and can end up in disastrous ways. And, for once, the wrackspurts would NOT be involved.

I don't want to scar you for life by getting into detail, but I do not think this boy is good for you. Everything I do and say to you, Luna, is for your own health and safety. And if he is older, than it isn't healthy nor is it safe. But, as I said, I won't go into detail.

Basically, I'm telling you that you should not date this boy. How about that Rolf boy you told me about? Isn't his grandfather Newt Scamander? He would be PERFECT for you, not to mention appropriate!

I hope you do not go against my wishes. But it is your life, I suppose. But if anything should happen to you because of this boy, then grant me permission now to say "I told you so".

Lots of love,

Dad

Every word she read, her jaw dropped a little lower. How could her father be so TACTLESS, and rude? Fred was a perfect gentleman and a LOT better than Rolf! If she had only owled her father about how awful Rolf was to her than he wouldn't have written this!

She winced every time that her father wrote "this boy". It made her feel angry and upset inside. Well, she was going to go against her father's wishes PERFECTLY. She decided that, without getting into anything to serious, that she would be as sociable and as nice to Fred as she could!

'Luna?' Ginny said, looking at Luna's horrified and angry face. 'Are you okay?'

'No-' Luna tore the letter in half. 'I-' she tore it into quarters. 'Am not okay!' she tore it again.

Neville and Ginny winced every time she tore the letter.

'My father... rude... horrible... Fred... urgh!' Luna muttered to herself as she stood up (throwing the tiny pieces of her father's letter everywhere) and exited the hall.

There was absolutely NO way that her father was going to stop her and Fred being together, or at least being friends. Not even if he bribed her by getting a Crumple Horned Snorcack horn. Nothing could stop Luna's friendship with Fred now.