'Thoughts'
Chapter Fourteen!
It was Thursday afternoon and Luna was heading back to her dorm to change and make herself look good for her master and friend, Harry Potter. She couldn't help but chuckle as she thought about her life and how it had gotten to this point, as for as long as she could remember many in the wizarding world had thought that her family were mad because they believed in things that others didn't. Because of this she didn't have any friends apart from Ginny and she found making new friends difficult because of her father. She loved him very much but he went a little too overboard at times even before the death of her mother. With a sad smile she remembered how she and her mother indulged her fathers strange and sometimes weird beliefs, like the Ministry of Magic performing illegal potion experiments on Goblins or how Minister of Magic Fudge was a Dwarf taking growth potions. She and her mother didn't mind his quirks, in fact it was one of the things that they both loved about him but she knew not everything he believed in was fictional after all both she and her mother knew the at the animals that were written about in the family newspaper, The Quibbler, existed.
Among the many things her father printed in The Quibbler the majority of space was dedicated to conspiracy theories and crypto zoology, stories that most part people had a hard time believing in. Luna however found out when she was about seven that some of these stories were just a cover to encode hidden message from The Department of Mysteries. They had came to them, seeing as they contracted work out to her mother, asking if they could help by printing the coded messages and seeing that her father liked a good conspiracy theory he was more than happy to help them.
For years they were a happy, if eccentric, family and sure they were teased for what they believed in but they had each other and were content with this fact. Everything changed when she was nine, her mother was investigating a form of experimental magic for the Department of Mysteries when it went catastrophically wrong, spiralling out of control, killing her and nearly severally harming Luna as well.
With the death of her mother and her father madden with grief, finding it hard to discerning reality from his imagination no one noticed at first subtle change in Luna's personality. Luna's outlook on life had been changed due to a head injury, she became very protective of her father as he slipped further into his madness losing sight of what was real and what wasn't. She acted aloof and disconnected from reality but underneath that mask she had no inhibitions, no moral compass, she would do anything and everything if she felt it was necessary and felt little or no remorse for anything she did. She had feeling but she couldn't relate to them as a normal person would, it one of the reason she had cope so well with what had happened to her for the last few years at Hogwarts.
In a rare display of concern, The Department of Mysteries and the Unspeakables that worked within it wanted to help the Lovegood Family as they felt responsible for the death of Selene Lovegood. For Xeno Lovegood they tried to help him but his mind was too far gone with grief, he was able to look after Luna but they couldn't snap him out of the state he'd fallen into. The Healers found that the magic that Selene was working on, when it blew up, changed Luna's mind and combined with the head injury she had suffered it altered her mental state. The Unspeakables thought that because of Luna's lack of inhibitions and moral compass she could become a good Handler, someone that would work with one of their agents to make sure that he or she had everything they needed. They knew that a good Handler would do whatever it took to make sure a mission would succeed, even if it meant killing people or the agent. Luna turned them down however as she blamed them for her mother's death and for giving her mother a dangerous piece of magic to investigate. The Unspeakables calmly accepted her refusal, they understood but said that they were still willing to help her and her father, convinced that maybe she might change her mind one day and as a contingency they offered her training on the condition that it remained secret, a condition she readily agreed to.
Over the next few years a female Unspeakable, Nyx, helped Luna to come to terms with what happened to her mother. At first it was difficult as anyone who upset Luna would be injured as she lashed out. After a couple of months and severely injuring an Unspeackable who was helping Nyx it was agreed by Luna and Nyx that Nyx alone would become Luna's anchor, a person to show Luna right from wrong and hopefully teach her how to react to her feelings in a socially acceptable manner. Luna, knowing her choices were now either being watched or living in a padded room, agreed to this condition too but only if when should she find someone else she wanted to be her anchor, she could change to that person, no questions asked. Seeing that they wanted Luna to join them of her own free will, they agreed to this, thinking that she would never find anyone and in time join them anyway.
A side effect of the magical backlash that altered Luna's mind Nyx discovered was that it granted her the ability to "view" magic, to see the energy that flowed around those who had magic, be it human, beast or plant. She was able to see magical creatures that people who couldn't see magic didn't think existed, furthering the view of people who knew the Lovegood family that they were mad.
The training that Luna was subjected to was two-fold, it acted as an observation tool for the Unspeakables and as therapeutic tool for Luna. The subjects were far ranging and included skills to "trick" people, such as confounds and memory charms. The training also had Luna learning how to avoid people finding out about her new personality, should she lose control of herself.
When she started Hogwarts because of her and her father's beliefs she was bullied badly. At first she lost control, attacking and nearly killing the bullies but she was able to catch herself in time before she landed any fatal blows and then quickly heal and alter their memories to protect herself. After talking to Nyx she told Luna she had to find some way to stop herself from getting bullied, which could cause her to lose control again and possibly kill someone and so Luna began to try and find some way to sort out this problem.
Enter one Matthew McQuillen, as a fifth year Ravenclaw he told her that he and his friends would protect if she would do a few 'favours' for them. When Luna asked what sort of 'favours' they wanted McQuillen brashly and arrogantly told her that she was to provide them with any pleasure they desired and for as long as she did this they would protect her from most of the bullying. For any normal twelve year old (her birthday fell on the start of term) they would have gone straight to their Head of House and/or to the Headmaster, but the simple fact was, Luna wasn't normal. Not only did she lose her morals, but her sexual desires awakened too. Up until now, she had been using spells to satisfy herself though. With no morals to guide her and the onset of sexual needs, she saw this as a fair trade, after all with the protection from the bullies there was no danger of her losing control of herself. She also knew they believed her to only be eleven, and not twelve, so this would give her an extra year to work out a way to deal with the bullies in another way as she also knew that as soon as she turned fourteen Matthew McQuillen and his friends would want sex for the protection.
Over two years McQuillen and his friends did as they said they would and protected her, but not always, seeing that they saw no need to after getting what they wanted. However, they did protect every now and then, so that Luna would allow them to continue to use her. Even though they still used her, they would sometimes return the favour and finger her or eat her out, fulfilling her sexual needs so she was mostly happy with the arrangement. Nyx knew that there was nothing she could do to stop this from happening, even though she would like to, as over the years of teaching Luna she had come to think of her as the daughter she never had. So she taught Luna a few protection charms in case the bullies ever forced themselves on her and told Luna to use them if she ever thought she needed them.
But it all changed on the second night of her third year back at Hogwarts. That night she met her new Master and anchor Harry Potter.
Earlier that day, the Nargles as she called them, told her about how Harry Potter had changed over the summer and that he could now become a Kneazle. In fact they even went as far as placing an image of what Harry looked like in his Kneazle form within her mind so that she would recognise him if she saw him. She didn't know why they would tell her this seeing that she'd never met him or talked to him before. That evening however after once again her fellow Ravenclaws had "pranked" her, stealing her clothes and locking her out of the Tower, she was walking around Hogwarts and she saw the Kneazle the Nargles had shown her earlier. Once she had gotten Harry to transform back and talked, she realized that he wasn't like everyone thought he was. He was kind and caring, and as they talked he gave his robes to her to put on. When she went to kiss him and was about to do more to thank him for the robe he pushed her away. All he wanted was her to say thank you to him and nothing more. It was a surprise to her seeing as that over the last few years, be it boy or girl, should anyone do something for her they wanted something in return; which was usually a sexual favour. For the first time since she was nine, she felt something, she didn't know what it was and if she had to put it into words she would say it felt strange that a person didn't want anything from her; a sense of confused disappointment maybe. After talking to him a bit more and informing him that she didn't want to tell on the bullies, naturally assuming that it would probably become worse, he invited her to visit the Chamber of Secrets and, ever the Ravenclaw, she accepted the invitation.
As they walked down to the Chamber, they talked more, about what he had been doing over the summer and what he was planning to do in the Chamber. Once they got to the Chamber floor, they had found that the Basilisk was indeed still alive and able to become a female human once she found Harry worthy. After finding a hidden room within the Chamber of Secrets they discovered Slytherin's personal library with a treasure trove of books within it. Harry had allowed her to borrow a book on zoology that contained information on many of the animals that her family believed in for so long. She had given him a kiss in thanks, but then as things heated up she decided to let things go wherever they went. She hoped that if he liked it he would agree to protect her from her own house and she knew that unlike the "protection" that McQuillen offered, Harry's would be all encompassing, because that's the kind of person he seemed to be. As kissing progressed to caressing Harry pulled away and asked if this was what she really wanted, asking her if she willing to give herself fully to him, to do as he liked for as long as he protected her. She only had to think about it for a few seconds before she willingly decided to call him Master and be his loyal servant and after she accepted, as she predicted, he took her virginity.
It had been almost a week since that happened and things were slowly changing. Although she had to pretend that she and her Master were only friends, and call him Harry, he had already started to protect her. First from his best friend and then from her own House, warning them what would happen if they went near her again. McQuillen and his friends weren't happy about this but they were Purebloods and they felt they could do whatever they liked, whenever they liked and no Half-Blood should be able to tell them what to do. So, they began following her wherever she went, trying to get her alone and have a 'talk' with her.
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Luna was walking back to the Ravenclaw dorms after class, deep in thought about her Master. She was truly amazed that she cared about her Master as it has been years since she felt any kind of affection toward another person and she didn't want to lose it. It helped that her Master was very kind to her and it hurt her a bit that she didn't tell him the full truth about why she wanted him as a Master but she wasn't sure how to explain her past or talk about how her mother died. She decided to talk to Nyx first before she said anything as she hoped that Nyx could help her explain to her Master what was wrong with her.
She also worried that maybe he didn't really care for her, sure she knew that he liked her, but there was a difference between being nice to the thing you could fuck whenever you wanted to and actually caring for it and making sure it was safe and happy. He had helped quite a bit so far but there were still parts of her that weren't sure, not ready to accept that someone could like her for who she was. It was a strange feeling and she had to smile, the first true smile she had made in years, that now had these feelings she really needed to talk to Nyx for help in understanding what they meant.
Whilst she was walking she had subconsciously noticed McQuillen and his friends. She had heard the 'talk' her Master had with him earlier that day but it seemed it didn't work and so to avoid him she took a route down different corridor. She wasn't aware of this choice, too lost in thought it was simply a reflex action on her part; her training in evasion taking over.
This happened several more times, the blonde Ravenclaw taking a different path because a bully was leaning against a wall or walking towards her. Eventually though Luna was cornered, she wasn't made aware of this fact until a hand grabbed her by the forearm hard enough to leave a mark.
"Finally, Loony! I've been waiting almost a week to talk to you." The older Ravenclaw who'd grabbed her arm said with a smug grin, "It's time for our payment to keep you safe."
"Have you forgotten, McQuillen?" Luna said calmly, "I am under Harry Potter's protection. I no longer require your services." "Shut up!" McQuillen snapped, he was a Pureblood, he could trace his family back at least eight hundred years. For the last few years he had done much for this useless walking blow/hand job machine, if it wasn't for him and his friends help she would be treated much worse then she already was and all that they asked in return was a few hand jobs and the increasingly common blowjob every now and then, was that so unreasonable? But now, somehow that damned Potter had found out what was going on and now he was laying down the law, saying that he and his friends couldn't go near Loony or else there would be trouble for them. He had to wonder who Potter thought he was, he, Matthew McQuillen, was a pureblood and Potter was a ruddy Half-Blood. Sure Potter was the Boy-Who-Lived, but that didn't mean he could tell him, a pureblood, what to do and he would have to show both Loony and Potter who was boss.
As Luna turned to walk off, thinking that McQuillen wouldn't do anything, she was hit by a body-bind curse as soon as her back was turned. She fell to the ground, her limbs locking up as the magic immobilised her.
Rolling Luna on her back and bending low McQuillen hissed, "You really think Potter can protect you from me!? Please, he's just a damn Half-Blood that got lucky as a baby. I think it's high time I showed you who the real wizards are around here, it'll also show Potter that he can't protect you like he said he would. After all once I take you, Potter will know you're mine and will leave you to me."
McQuillen was happy that they were in corridor that had a seemingly endless number of abandoned classrooms. Opening one of the unlocked doors, he tossed the blonde onto the ground in front of the desk closest to the door and turned to his two friends. "You two watch the door, try not to act too obvious, I don't think I have to tell you how many times that tosser Malfoy was foiled because his trolls gave him away."
The one on the right, a new Pureblood, his family gain the title of Pureblood only a few hundred years ago, named Kevin Wright chuckled stupidly, he wasn't much better then Crabbe or Goyle and had only gotten into Ravenclaw due to his desire to research physical strength enhancing rituals, spells and potions. He'd succeeded but they seemed to have rotted his brain. "How will we decide who gets to go next?" He asked sending a glance at the other member of their trio.
McQuillen shrugged, "Flip a galleon or something, I don't care. Just leave." He puffed out his chest a little, "I did a bit of growing over the summer and I want to see if I can make her gag."
The third member, David Lewis, another Pureblood, his family was a couple hundred years younger than McQuillen, so he was still an underling regardless of his Pureblood status, who had been silent until now, grimaced. "Too much information, mate. Just do your business and come get us, I want my turn." Without another word he turned on his heel and left, followed by his fellow guard.
McQuillen turned back to the blonde on the ground and after taking her wand and putting it on a desk beside him he undid the spell on her. He was pleased when she got on her knees without any prompting. "McQuillen, you're making a foolish mistake. When Harry finds out about this you'll be in trouble, so I say this once again; I am under Harry Potter's protection. Unless you want to get hurt, let me go now." Luna said.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," McQuillen replied in a bored tone of voice as he undid his pants and dropped them to the floor, revealing he was already hard. "Pretty impressive, yeah?" He bragged.
"Harry's bigger." Luna responded with a hint of pride, showing the first sign of emotion she'd shown since he'd seen her in the hall besides serene calm, annoyance.
The older student gritted his teeth and threw a Silencio at her. He didn't want to hear any more about damn Potter, especially if she would go on how much bigger Potter was then him. Walking closer to her, he grabbed a handful of her hair and rubbed the head of his cock against her lips. "Open up." He ordered, frustrated that she was keeping her lips closed. This continued for several seconds before he got fed up with her resistance and pulled back. He didn't remain motionless long, as he raised his hand high before backhanding her across the face. Luna's mouth opened in a silent cry of pain. The older Ravenclaw grunted in annoyance as he couldn't take advantage of this since she was thrown to the ground.
Reaching down he grabbed her by the hair and yanked her up onto her knees again making sure to pull her hair as much as possible. His eyes narrowed as her lips remained firmly closed again. "I am a Pureblood heir and you are a useless woman! I command you service me or I'll strike you again!" He yelled his cheeks red in rage.
She did nothing but stare at him, her eyes narrowed, which was something McQuillen would admit he'd never seen before. As he raised his hand to slap her again there was a loud banging sound from the door behind him. Turning around his eyes widened as he saw the door had spider-web cracks running from a dent in the centre of it. "What the -"
He was cut off as the door exploded inward, the body of his smaller friend, Lewis, apparently used as a battering ram, landed on the floor. His face was in ruins, two black eyes, a broken nose and several cuts on his face. McQuillen couldn't say how much of that was from being used to break through the door though as his attention was drawn to the doorway as he heard the muffled sound of someone being punched. An instant later his stockier friend, Wright, stumbled backwards into the room, toppling over as his foot caught on the downed body on the floor. The large boy didn't get up, one of his arms was bent at an odd angle and his face was in similar condition to his first friend.
McQuillen gasped and took an involuntary step back as he saw a very pissed off Harry Potter was standing in the doorway, his robe had been discarded somewhere, leaving him in his white long sleeve button up shirt, vest, and his slacks. One thing the school robes were infamous for was hiding girls figures but they also apparently hid just how big Harry had gotten over the summer.
The green eyed wizard walked towards the leader, the largest of the trio groaning weakly in pain as Harry stepped on him to get to the ring leader. Harry snapped his fingers, hissing something, and suddenly Matthew bent over as it felt like a bludger had just slammed into his bits. He didn't have to wallow long, or have time to examine the damage because Harry's knee shot upwards and impacted his nose, flipping him up and overonto his back. Seeing as the older boy wasn't getting up any time soon Harry turned his attention to Luna and walked over to her and crouched down, placing a hand on her shoulder and returning her wand that he'd picked up from the desk it was placed upon.
Luna was silent, she wordlessly wrapped her arms around his torso and buried her face into his chest. Harry picked her up and carried her outside. He barely crossed the threshold of the doorway before she started sobbing silently. Not because of what happenedbut because her Master had found out somehow that she was in trouble and came to save her. It proved that her Master did care about her and wasn't just saying it so that she would follow his orders.
"Are you okay Luna?" Harry asked calmly, his voice belying his appearance.
Luna tried to reply but no sound came from her mouth.
Realizing the problem, Harry intoned, "Finite."
"Thank you Master," Luna said, she hadn't noticed that Hermione was a few feet behind them and could hear her. "I was worried, I… I thought that McQuillen w-was…"She couldn't finish what she was going to say.
"Shh, little one," Harry whispered in her ear, he knew what Luna feared would have happened and he knew that Hermione was behind him and would have heard Luna call him Master. She would probably have more questions for him but he had to deal with Luna and the bastards who dared to touch what now he considered his. He knew it was wrong to think like that but he realized that being out of the ordinary was part of who he was now and he had three powerful alpha males within him, one of them was a dragon and it considered Luna, Medusa and partly Hermione, seeing that she was his best friend, his. Anyone who dared hurt them, well may Merlin have mercy on their souls, because he wouldn't. First he used Parseltongue to conjure a simple cold wet sponge which didn't look very soft at all but at a moment notice, it was the best he could do. He made a mental note to work on conjuring. Giving the sponge to Luna so she could place it on her lips, which were now red and split from the backhand from earlier, he said, "You're safe now, no one is going to hurt you."
"I have been dirtied Master," Luna said softly, she started to scrub her mouth roughly at the thought of what McQuillen tried to do to her, "McQuillen tr-tried to make m-me to… to -"
"Shh," Harry said softly, as he grabbed her hand to stop her efforts. He pulled her close and hugged her, "You're safe, you said no and you tried to resist him. I'm proud of you. He was bigger and stronger then you. There was nothing you could have done." Harry told her as he kissed her forehead. "I'll be teaching you how to defend yourself. This won't happen again." He assured her softly, "If something does happen though, I'll always be here to protect you." Turning a bit more seriously, he instructed her, "Little one, I need you to be strong for me. I need you to take Hermione here," He paused to point to Hermione, where Luna for the first time saw her and started to worry, she realized she had called her Master by his title in front of one of his friends but she realized that her Master didn't seem to be bothered about it, as he hadn't said anything about it. "And I want you to take her to the Chamber. She and I've got a lot to talk about, even more so after… this." Harry said, waving his hand vaguely to indicate the three unconscious students in the room behind him.
"What about Medusa?" Luna asked.
"I'll deal with her." He said simply before turning to Hermione, "I know you've got a lot of questions, some I was hoping wouldn't be asked now. Seeing what just happened, that isn't going to happen right this second like you no doubt want, but I need you to wait a little longer, I need to deal with McQuillen. He needs to learn what happens when he crosses me and I need you to take care of Luna, she needs somebody right now and she can take you to the entrance of the Chamber in my stead." Then a thought came to him he turned back to Luna and hissing in Parseltongue he healed the bruise that started to appear on her face, he didn't want any questions asked just yet. Once he did this, he turned to face Hermione again and said, "Hermione, I know you got a lot of questions, but once I'm finished here I'll join you and answer any questions you have."
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Hermione was in shocked at the rapid series of events, she'd been confused when Harry had run off after saying Luna needed help. He'd seen something on the map, which she now realized was Luna and these three boys and so she had followed after Harry as fast as she could as he made his way to the fifth floor, which she knew had nothing but abandoned classrooms. She saw two boys who she knew had no reason to be there, but when she looked at Harry she was taken off guard as he hissed like he was speaking in Parseltongue when he asked where Luna was. When both of the boys answered that they didn't know what he was talking about, saying that were just exploring this corridor and Harry's eyes darkened a bit more. He seemed to think they were lying to him and then to her shock, Harry hissed again actually speaking in Parseltongue instead of just a hiss being added to his tone. She had little time to wonder how he managed to master this skill before he proceeded to thoroughly pummel them using wandless magic. When the stocky boy collapsed to the floor, Harry realized he wasn't going to get anything from him and started on the little one. A few more Parseltongue powered wandless blows to his face and he told him where Luna was and that's when Harry had used the boy body as a battering ram to open the locked door. She was too shocked to say anything to stop Harry and she had to wonder what the hell these two had done to Harry to earn this kind of treatment. When the door was forcibly opened the stocky boy tried to get up to stop Harry from entering, but one more punch, a physical one this time, sent him stumbling backwards into the room, toppling over backwards as his foot caught on the downed body of his friend on the floor. She was horrified to see a half naked boy standing in front of a prone Luna on the floor, who had tears in her eyes while her lips were red and bleeding slightly. Hermione could only fear what had transpired in the room before their arrival and she thought she couldn't be more shocked but she was wrong when she heard Luna call Harry master. Even more so when Harry didn't correct her. Minor jealousy flared when Luna called Harry Master, as the Kneazle part of her wanted to do the same. After all Luna wasn't his mate, Hermione was, she should be the one calling him Master, but her human side was too independent to admit this. She was shocked and horrified as she listened to what happened, or at least what she guessed happened, seeing that Luna was too upset to actually explain much. She had to wonder what Harry and Luna were talking about when they were talking about 'the Chamber' and somebody named 'Medusa' but these thoughts took a back burner when she heard what Harry was planning on doing once she'd left .
Guessing what Harry was planning, Hermione said, "Harry, I know what you're thinking and I'm telling you, don't, you're in enough trouble for what you did with the other two boys. Just tell the professors what they did and allow them to sort it out."
"Hermione, I know you're trying to help and protect me," Harry said understanding, "But how long will it last? Once they're done with their detention, they'll wait until the dust has cleared and then do it all over again. This time I was lucky, what happens to Luna if next time I'm not lucky enough to look at the Map again at the right time to stop it? My way, they'll think twice before going near Luna or anyone or anything I'm protecting again."
As much as she would like to argue, she knew that Harry was right. Meanwhileher Kneazle side was happy that he would be willing to do whatever it took to protect what was his but the way he said it made it sound as if he was only going to do this for his friends and people he cared about. Her Kneazle side thought that is how it should be, but her human side was having a hard time thinking like that, "Harry, are you saying that you won't help others to make sure that it doesn't happen to them again?"
"That's exactly what I'm saying." Harry admitted, "If I see it happening, I'll stop it, I'm not that much of a monster, but I'm not going to go out of my way to stop something from happening to people that aren't my friends. Why should I? In all my time here, almost everyone, even my own house-mates, have turned their backs on me for one reason or another, not once, but several times. To me they're all sheep, so I see no reason for me to help them. I might help every now and then if I come across anybody that needs my help being taken advantage of or bullied, but it'll be because I want to, since I might get something out of it." Seeing Hermione's shocked face, he finished with, "I know it might seem cold but they brought it on upon themselves, can you really blame me?" Seeing Hermione hesitantly shaking her head, he went on to say, "I know you have questions and I'll answer them, but for now follow Luna and I'll be with you shortly. Also, can you please keep an eye on her? She's been through a lot," Too shaken from everything that happened so far and what she'd heard, she just nodded and followed Luna.
Once Luna and Hermione left the area Harry went back into the empty classroom. He rolled the ring leader onto his back and slapped him awake. Groaning in pain, McQuillen opened his eyes and saw Harry leaning over him.
"McQuillen, McQuillen, I told you not long ago to leave Luna alone or you and me would have a problem," Harry said with an evil smile. "You really should have listened. Now you'll be the first to see what happens to those who cross me. I suppose I'd better make an example out of you. After all; first impressions are everything. Gotta send a proper message to the rest of you sheep…"
For the first time, McQuillen was truly scared of Harry Potter.
TO BE CONTINUED!