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Chapter Three: Hogsmeade
Padma's POV
I awoke the next morning to find Luna standing on her head reading a book about Crumple Horned Snorknack hunting. For a second, I thought that she probably didn't notice I was up, I mean when you're standing on your head, it's probably hard to notice anything but the blood rushing to your head.
"Hello, Padma. Finally awake? I've been up since five! What's wrong with you?" she asked, not once taking her eyes of the book.
"Er…nothing. I'm fine." I said, slightly dazed.
"Well, do you want to go to Hogsmeade? I mean, anything to get you back to normal." Luna said, pulling her protuberant eyes of her book. Normal? My best friend, Luna Lovegood, was telling me how to be normal. Man, do I need a psychologist. But, of course, I didn't say that to her. I mean, she is my best (and not to mention only) friend.
"Yes, I guess it would be a good idea to go to Hogsmeade. But I thought you hated Hogsmeade?" I asked, surprised.
"Well, I need to go to use an owl to order something out of this book." She said gracefully getting right-side up and handing me the book.
"Okay. Well, let me change out of my pajamas." I said.
"All right, I'll wait." She said, gazing out the window.
10 minutes later
We set out to Hogsmeade, Luna reading her book, and walking at the same time. I was surprised that she didn't bump into anything because every time I try to read and walk I always end up tripping over something and falling flat on my face. Well, this was Luna I was talking about.
"Can we go to that owl place first?" Luna said so randomly, I flinched.
"Yeah, er…sure." I said, calming down. We entered the store and I decided to look around while Luna went and did her own thing. I figured she'd find me when she was finished. I started looking at a snowy owl when I noticed that Ron was looking at a barn owl only about ten feet from me. I froze on the spot for a second. Should I talk to him? Should I run away? I bit my tongue and walked over to him. It seemed that when I started walking that every step I took was like piercing my leg with a knife. But I kept moving forward. You're seventeen. You shouldn't be afraid of this.
"Hello Ron." I said. He seemed to redden a bit.
"Oh, hi Padma." He said. Yes! He knew it was me!
"Er… don't you have an owl already? Why don't you use it?" I asked looking at the floor.
"Well, it's a long story." Said Ron.
"I have time." I said as I looked up at him. I gave him a smile. He returned it. That's a good sign.
"Oh, okay. Well, I gave Pig to my sister, Ginny. When I gave it to her, I said that it was being a bloody annoyance and shoved it into her hands. Well, now I'm kind-of regretting it now because I have to send a letter, and I have no owl. And if I ask Ginny to let me use Pig, she'll laugh at me and tell me no because I was so mad at it last time. Does that make sense?" He said in almost what seemed like one breath.
"Perfect sense. But why don't you just borrow Harry's owl?" I asked slightly staring at him.
"Hedwig is currently sending a letter somewhere else, and I have to send the letter soon, and I don't want to wait for-who-knows-how-long on account of I don't know when Hedwig will be back." He said, looking at me.
"Well, if you want to, you can borrow my owl, Binket. He's really nice." I said. I do have an owl, he is nice, just incredibly lazy. I didn't tell him that though because I really wanted him to come with me to the owlery.
"That would be cool." He said, his eyes lighting up.
"All right, meet me in the owlery at…let's say…1:00?"I said.
"Okay, see you there." He said.
Before I could say anymore, Luna came up to me and we had to leave.
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