1. Skirmishes

It had been months since the Muggles took over. Luna thought in her cell, one of many in the low stone room. They were wizard haters, who though wizard magic is a hell-spawned gift and proceeded to lock wizards up in cells and torture them. They had guns, metal wands that could kill Luna outright with a simple pull of the trigger. Luna hadn't found any way to escape though, since the cell's locks were combination locks and for some strange reason, there seemed to be this weird vapor in the air that prevented Luna from Apparating. She had acted even quirkier than ever to annoy the muggles. Although this came at a price of many knife slashes and a broken ankle, but that was totally worth it as Luna hated these muggles to the bone, something she didn't often do. Her train of thought was interrupted however, by a harsh-looking Muggle woman unlocking her cell and kicking Luna outside. "Decide to have a little daydream, eh? Well GET MOVING and join the others outside, FREAK!" She shouted, so concentrated on kicking Luna outside that she didn't notice that Luna had her wand out and the next thing she knew she had twelve guns pointed at her head. "DROP your wand and we'll spare you." And Luna had no choice but to drop her only weapon and hope for escape on the ground. For punishment Luna was locked inside her cell for the rest of the day, without a chance to wash her hair, which was becoming dirty and tangled, or her sweater, which had gross looking blood stains on it. Great. Even Luna was having some trouble keeping up her happy quirkiness in this dismal place. She HAD to get her wand back somehow...maybe wandless magic would work...

Luna couldn't sleep. This was hardly surprising, since her name meant 'moon', and she had the tendency of being a night owl. But tonight Luna just had straight-up insomnia, and she thought it must be creepy for someone to watch her bulging blue eyes staring at a spot on the wall, but Luna isn't one to care about other's judging and there wasn't anything else to do. That is, until she came face-to face with a pair of beady black eyes. The eyes belonged to an angular-looking raven with a weird silver crest on its head, claws gripping the bars of Luna's cage. Something told Luna that this raven is more than an innocent animal who'd wandered off. The raven started pecking the numbers on the combination lock keypad and surprisingly, Luna's cell door creaked open. That is one smart raven. Luna wondered, but the animal rolled its eyes and started hopping on the ground, motioning for Luna to follow her. This raven must be an Animagus. Should she follow? He or She seemed harmless enough...

Luna followed the raven to a vault-like room that ALSO had a security keypad, but the raven pecked in the correct numbers and the door gave a beep. It then beckoned to Luna to open the door, which she had to do by turning the handle the exact right number of times. The door opened to reveal a cabinet-like setup where each cubby held a wand. The raven cocked its head to each of the wands, to see if any one of them was Luna's. She finally picked out a light brown one with the handle fashioned into a skinny tulip shape. She got her wand back. They then crept towards the outside of the cell room, but it was guarded by Muggles, which rounded on Luna, grabbing her wand, but Luna was concentrated on the raven besides her; it morphed into Professor Snape. "What-how-" Luna blustered, but Snape cut her off with an impatient glare. They sprinted outside, until a deafening crack sounded and Luna felt her ankle burn white-hot. Luna saw Professor Snape gasp in pain, but he didn't take the slightest notice, just levitated Luna over the barbed-wire fence, and climbed over them himself. Wiping his bleeding hands Snape suddenly Disapparated, pulling Luna in with him.

"SEVERUS!" I've been so worried-stop, Molly." Snape cut Mrs Weasley off when the two arrived at Grimmauld Place. Snape had levitated the bullet out of Luna's ankle so she could clumsily stumble along the path to Grimmauld Place, and Luna had crudely mended her ankle herself. "Luna? You must be one of Harry's friends! Come right in..." The kindly Mrs Weasley let the two inside. Luna had just got a letter from Hermione that Harry had recently woken from a strange curse that had turned him savage for a moment, then left him unconscious. Luna had been relieved that he woke up, because Luna knew her fair share of wizard medicine and a permanent coma is worse than death, to some people.

Over the next few days the two continued to stay at Grimmauld Place, Luna needed to heal her ankle, and Severus (he had asked Luna to call him that) still needed to give regular Nutrient Potions to Harry which included many fights (Severus: Just take the BLOODY POTION, it's for your own good POTTER! I was RIGHT about your arrogance...) and a very angry Mrs Weasley. They didn't plan on leaving; Severus needed to plot a plan to thwart these Muggles.

Breakfast the next day was interrupted by a sharp knock on the door, which sent Mrs Black into her ever-present ranting. Molly reluctantly went to answer it, banging Mrs Black's curtains shut on the process. "Hello, er, miss, I am a member of the Magic Search and Contain squad and I am wondering if you're harboring one of our fugitives, Severus Snape? Long black hair, hooked nose... sound familiar?" The small man asked rapidly. He seemed to be peeking behind Molly blocking the door, and Severus tried, rather awkwardly, to hide his face with his cloak and disguise as a pile of laundry. "No. I don't know what you're talking about and I have no business with that, er, freak." Molly barked, hesitating just for a second on the last word. The man shuffled away looking angry, and Molly closed the door looking relieved. "Great. Now I have to learn to live like Sirius Black." Severus snapped. "I am hazarding a guess that no one is in favor of me disguising as Gilderoy Lockhart?" Severus queried sarcastically, but everyone raised their hands. "Well, at least it's better than exposing yourself as the 'greasy git'" George joked. That earned a growl from Severus that sounded more like a wolf than a person, and reproachful looks from Mrs Weasley. "He makes sense though." Hermione stated. "No. I will NOT go out looking like the muggle's idea of a superstar!" Severus half-screamed, but he had been won over.

It was an extremely grumpy Severus that had been sent out for 'groceries'. He didn't even know why Molly even bothered to send HIM out, other than the fact that she said Severus needed to learn more about the Muggle world. Molly had transfigured Severus' hair so it looked short and straw-brown; like Remus Lupins' basically. She had also shrunk his hooked nose so it became small and straight. Fearing the worst, Severus strode outside Grimmauld Place.

The day IS the worst. Severus thought it would be easy shopping the Muggle way, but no, he couldn't get into a store with enthusiastic fangirls on his tail. "Oh my god! I can't believe it! Is senpai Sevvy here?" An obvious Harry Potter fan squealed. Severus stopped dead in his tracks. "What is that you were calling me?" Severus hissed, in a tone that he would use with a whining student. "Senpai Sevvy. We can tell by those eyes. What other human has eyes that beautiful and dark? And that cloak..." Severus flushed an ugly shade of maroon. "Oh lords he's BLUSHING! Glad you accepted the compliment!" The girl squealed. Severus was aware, VERY aware, that people were staring at him in the grocery shop door, looking at the hold-up. Trying to ignore the raucous and oddly erotic-sounding fans, Severus slunk inside.

It was WORSE than he'd imagined. The fans followed him wherever he went, and to his horror he saw that some of them were wearing cloaks like him. WHY had Severus been so reckless and not switched into muggle clothes? Now the Search and Contain squad is sure to look for him... "Mister, can you please leave the property? You're causing quite the disturbance." One of the store workers asked. "I assure you, I am not the one causing the disturbance and If you're so determined, you should look at the crowd behind me." Severus growled. He used his wand to undo the Transfiguration that Molly had done- he was exposed anyways. "Oh really. Severus Snape? I'm a Harry Potter fan too!" The worker squeaked. Severus couldn't STAND IT anymore. Using the crowd as camouflage he morphed into raven form and dashed out the store at full speed- still caring to leave some droppings on the heads of some very annoying fans. At least the muggles didn't know about his disguise very well. He didn't care about anything except flying back to Grimmauld Place- until he heard an angry bark.

A large and annoying Jack Russel terrier was yipping and chasing Severus, with the boy that had him on a leash struggling to control her. "Get BACK, Spot! Stop chasing the bird!" Not wasting any time, Severus pretended to dive into a bush and transformed back to human form. "Woah! Did that bird just turn into a person?" The boy gasped. " Of course not dearie, why don't we go home and take a nap?" The mother tried to comfort the boy, rather to Severus' disgust. The rest of the words were drowned out by the dog's loud barking, until Severus got so annoyed that he stunned the dog with his wand, turning on his heel for a faster route to Grimmauld Place. Severus heard the boy burst into tears over the dog and soon the mother caught up to him, demanding a word. "What did you do to my son's dog? Restore him this second!" The woman barked rather pompously. "I assure you, the dog will wake and it really isn't prudent to waste other's time." Severus snarled, making the woman gasp in shock, but before she could annoy him even further, Severus Disapparated.