"The Project"
Harry Potter Fanfiction By Kaigara Rating: PG-13
Chapter 1
"Alright, class. I have a little project for you all," Professor Calvin, the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher said, tapping a stack of papers to his desk and setting them down. He stood up, running a hand through his unruly copper hair, and glanced around with gray eyes through glasses at the faces of fifth year Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students. Jacob Calvin stared, puzzled, at a very strange girl in the back left-hand corner. Luna Lovegood appeared to be tying the ends of her long, dirty-blonde hair in knots. He shook his head. That girl had always been beyond him.
"I thought we could have a little fun, and show off our acting skills," Calvin began again. Exasperated sighs came from the class. Inside, he smiled, knowing the fifth year groups always got annoyed at his love for acting. He had, after all, been an actor before he found his wizard powers. A murmur went around the class.
"Class, class! Now, I know I get annoying with my acting obsession, but I used to do this all the time back when I was a teacher in America. Of course, it wasn't a wizard school, but you get my drift. Anyway, I have paired you all up with students from the sixth year, and you and your partner are to prepare a five-minute skit having to do with the Dark Arts, and banishing it, or the dangers of it, or something. As long as it's not all rainbows, butterflies, and sparkly carriages, I'm fine. Now, I've paired you up by houses. Hufflepuff, you will be with sixth year Gryffindors, and Ravenclaw, you will be with sixth year Slytherins."
There was a moan of disappointment from the Ravenclaw side of the room.
"Oh, come on, it won't be that bad! Now, I'm going to call your groups, and—Yes, Miss Lovegood?"
Luna sat up straight in her seat and spoke dreamily, as always, "Professor Calvin, Just a thought, if you expect us to perform these skits for you-"
"Which I do."
"-how will you get all of the groups together?"
"Miss Lovegood, I'm going to make adjustments to the schedules. I've met with the headmaster, and he's alright with it. For maybe a week, you all and the sixth year Gryffindors and Slytherins are going to meet in the Great Hall. Don't worry, it won't be that hectic."
Luna slouched and continued her hair-knotting.
"Now, here are your groups. For Ravenclaw and Slytherin, Harriet Amond and Pansy Parkinson, Kara Atchison and Millicent Bulstrode..."
For Luna, Professor Calvin's voice faded off. As usual, she was in her own little world. She felt like she had déjà vu, and was sure she had dreamed this moment. She had dreamed every moment, except her pairing, and became extremely alert when her professor came to the L's.
"...Aaron Lenard and Katherine Marks, Marianne Louis and Denton Rice, Luna Lovegood and Draco Malfoy..."
Luna choked on air at the hearing of her partner. Professor Calvin glanced up from his paper.
"Jeremy Hall and—Something wrong, Miss Lovegood?" he asked, realizing Luna's fit of coughing and her wider-than-normal gaze. She nodded.
"Draco—Malfoy?" she managed to say between coughs. By now, the whole room was staring at her.
"Yes, that's what the paper says. Now, do you need to go to the hospital wing about that sudden cough?"
Luna shook her head and rested her head on her desk as the professor read off of the list for mainly the rest of the class. 'Draco Malfoy?' she thought, 'Rude, obnoxious, hating Draco Malfoy? No, it can't be. But, somehow, it is.' Now she realized that she never really wanted to know her pairing in the dream she'd had of that day. Yet, she couldn't figure out why she wasn't as upset as she thought she would have normally been. That was Luna, the unexpected Loony Lovegood. When anyone, even herself, expected one thing to come from her, something else always did.
But this was different.
Draco Malfoy? Why wasn't she hyperventilating? Why wasn't she screaming her head off and running down the corridors? Last time she'd checked her mind, which definitely hadn't been more than five minutes ago, if that long, she'd hated—no, detested Draco Malfoy.
"And, that should do it!" Professor Calvin placed the list on his desk and looked at all of the students. Most were fine with their pairings except, of course, Luna.
"Head off the desk, Miss Lovegood. Now, for homework tonight, and this is for the sixth year Slytherins and Gryffindors, too, you are to meet in the library with your partner, and, you can do this while doing homework for other classes, if you choose, discuss your skit with them. I want these skits done in four weeks, not counting the holiday break. Have a good day!"
The class gathered their things and scuttled out of the classroom.
'Four weeks. I have to put up with Malfoy for four weeks. Then I can go back to detesting him, and things will be like they always were.' Luna thought, walking by Professor Calvin's desk.
"Good bye, Professor," she said, dreamily.
"Ah, Miss Lovegood, may I see you for a moment?" he asked. Luna nodded and stepped up to the mahogany desk.
"May I ask," Professor Calvin lowered his voice, "what is wrong with having Draco Malfoy as a partner?"
Luna's normally surprised-looking wide eyes narrowed to the size of a normal persons, and her voice lost the dreamy air. "I hate to be rude, but I can't stand him."
"Well, Luna, I'm sorry I put you two together. I agree, Draco is not the nicest student—"
"He's the rudest, most obnoxious, most hating."
"—But I think all he needs is a good influence. You just might be that good influence, Luna."
The Ravenclaw looked taken aback, and her eyes widened again.
"Just think about that, Miss Lovegood."
Luna nodded, waved to the professor, who winked and smiled at her, and walked out of the class.
She walked briskly down the hall to Potions class, just as—guess who—was walking the opposite way down the same corridor.
Draco nudged his goons, Crabbe and Goyle, and smirked at her, laughing as she walked past. She stopped for a moment, her misty gray eyes meeting his stone ones, as he walked past her. As they turned the corner, she blushed and wondered what they were laughing at, looking down. Luna began to wonder why she even cared, when she noticed the knots still in her hair. As she hurried to Potions, she tried to untie them.
As she sat next to Ginny Weasley and another girl, Luna found herself distracted by the thought of the feel in her stomach as Draco's eyes had met hers, and the way his silvery-blonde hair fell in his stone-gray eyes.
A/N: Well... There is chapter one! I have the pairings all planned out, and the first one should be painfully obvious. But... I NEED SOMEONE FOR RON! Poor Ron doesn't have anyone... Help me pair him up, please! Alright, here's the people taken: Harry, Hermione, Luna, Draco. The rest I doubt he would be paired with. Please review! I'll still put chapter two up, but it's nice to get reviews once in a while.
Harry Potter Fanfiction By Kaigara Rating: PG-13
Chapter 1
"Alright, class. I have a little project for you all," Professor Calvin, the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher said, tapping a stack of papers to his desk and setting them down. He stood up, running a hand through his unruly copper hair, and glanced around with gray eyes through glasses at the faces of fifth year Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students. Jacob Calvin stared, puzzled, at a very strange girl in the back left-hand corner. Luna Lovegood appeared to be tying the ends of her long, dirty-blonde hair in knots. He shook his head. That girl had always been beyond him.
"I thought we could have a little fun, and show off our acting skills," Calvin began again. Exasperated sighs came from the class. Inside, he smiled, knowing the fifth year groups always got annoyed at his love for acting. He had, after all, been an actor before he found his wizard powers. A murmur went around the class.
"Class, class! Now, I know I get annoying with my acting obsession, but I used to do this all the time back when I was a teacher in America. Of course, it wasn't a wizard school, but you get my drift. Anyway, I have paired you all up with students from the sixth year, and you and your partner are to prepare a five-minute skit having to do with the Dark Arts, and banishing it, or the dangers of it, or something. As long as it's not all rainbows, butterflies, and sparkly carriages, I'm fine. Now, I've paired you up by houses. Hufflepuff, you will be with sixth year Gryffindors, and Ravenclaw, you will be with sixth year Slytherins."
There was a moan of disappointment from the Ravenclaw side of the room.
"Oh, come on, it won't be that bad! Now, I'm going to call your groups, and—Yes, Miss Lovegood?"
Luna sat up straight in her seat and spoke dreamily, as always, "Professor Calvin, Just a thought, if you expect us to perform these skits for you-"
"Which I do."
"-how will you get all of the groups together?"
"Miss Lovegood, I'm going to make adjustments to the schedules. I've met with the headmaster, and he's alright with it. For maybe a week, you all and the sixth year Gryffindors and Slytherins are going to meet in the Great Hall. Don't worry, it won't be that hectic."
Luna slouched and continued her hair-knotting.
"Now, here are your groups. For Ravenclaw and Slytherin, Harriet Amond and Pansy Parkinson, Kara Atchison and Millicent Bulstrode..."
For Luna, Professor Calvin's voice faded off. As usual, she was in her own little world. She felt like she had déjà vu, and was sure she had dreamed this moment. She had dreamed every moment, except her pairing, and became extremely alert when her professor came to the L's.
"...Aaron Lenard and Katherine Marks, Marianne Louis and Denton Rice, Luna Lovegood and Draco Malfoy..."
Luna choked on air at the hearing of her partner. Professor Calvin glanced up from his paper.
"Jeremy Hall and—Something wrong, Miss Lovegood?" he asked, realizing Luna's fit of coughing and her wider-than-normal gaze. She nodded.
"Draco—Malfoy?" she managed to say between coughs. By now, the whole room was staring at her.
"Yes, that's what the paper says. Now, do you need to go to the hospital wing about that sudden cough?"
Luna shook her head and rested her head on her desk as the professor read off of the list for mainly the rest of the class. 'Draco Malfoy?' she thought, 'Rude, obnoxious, hating Draco Malfoy? No, it can't be. But, somehow, it is.' Now she realized that she never really wanted to know her pairing in the dream she'd had of that day. Yet, she couldn't figure out why she wasn't as upset as she thought she would have normally been. That was Luna, the unexpected Loony Lovegood. When anyone, even herself, expected one thing to come from her, something else always did.
But this was different.
Draco Malfoy? Why wasn't she hyperventilating? Why wasn't she screaming her head off and running down the corridors? Last time she'd checked her mind, which definitely hadn't been more than five minutes ago, if that long, she'd hated—no, detested Draco Malfoy.
"And, that should do it!" Professor Calvin placed the list on his desk and looked at all of the students. Most were fine with their pairings except, of course, Luna.
"Head off the desk, Miss Lovegood. Now, for homework tonight, and this is for the sixth year Slytherins and Gryffindors, too, you are to meet in the library with your partner, and, you can do this while doing homework for other classes, if you choose, discuss your skit with them. I want these skits done in four weeks, not counting the holiday break. Have a good day!"
The class gathered their things and scuttled out of the classroom.
'Four weeks. I have to put up with Malfoy for four weeks. Then I can go back to detesting him, and things will be like they always were.' Luna thought, walking by Professor Calvin's desk.
"Good bye, Professor," she said, dreamily.
"Ah, Miss Lovegood, may I see you for a moment?" he asked. Luna nodded and stepped up to the mahogany desk.
"May I ask," Professor Calvin lowered his voice, "what is wrong with having Draco Malfoy as a partner?"
Luna's normally surprised-looking wide eyes narrowed to the size of a normal persons, and her voice lost the dreamy air. "I hate to be rude, but I can't stand him."
"Well, Luna, I'm sorry I put you two together. I agree, Draco is not the nicest student—"
"He's the rudest, most obnoxious, most hating."
"—But I think all he needs is a good influence. You just might be that good influence, Luna."
The Ravenclaw looked taken aback, and her eyes widened again.
"Just think about that, Miss Lovegood."
Luna nodded, waved to the professor, who winked and smiled at her, and walked out of the class.
She walked briskly down the hall to Potions class, just as—guess who—was walking the opposite way down the same corridor.
Draco nudged his goons, Crabbe and Goyle, and smirked at her, laughing as she walked past. She stopped for a moment, her misty gray eyes meeting his stone ones, as he walked past her. As they turned the corner, she blushed and wondered what they were laughing at, looking down. Luna began to wonder why she even cared, when she noticed the knots still in her hair. As she hurried to Potions, she tried to untie them.
As she sat next to Ginny Weasley and another girl, Luna found herself distracted by the thought of the feel in her stomach as Draco's eyes had met hers, and the way his silvery-blonde hair fell in his stone-gray eyes.
A/N: Well... There is chapter one! I have the pairings all planned out, and the first one should be painfully obvious. But... I NEED SOMEONE FOR RON! Poor Ron doesn't have anyone... Help me pair him up, please! Alright, here's the people taken: Harry, Hermione, Luna, Draco. The rest I doubt he would be paired with. Please review! I'll still put chapter two up, but it's nice to get reviews once in a while.