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Chapter 25: Something Weird is Going on Here

Luna gazed in total dismay as Harry stormed off.

"Oh my god Harry!" Luna sensed cool tears sliding down her face, but she paid no heed

to them. Staring at Cho, she could only squeak with distress, as her hatred took over her

actions and feelings.

"You........you bitch." She yelped, her knuckles a colorless pallid; her body quivering

with fury and resentment. "How could you do something.....something so awful like

this!?"

Cho did not look offended. On the contrary, she appeared considerably unruffled.

"Because," she said, her features glowing with satisfaction at the prospect that Harry

detested Luna now. "Number one, you are a reeking, atrocious, little guppy that was

born into this world without a single purpose. Number two, cause you are an idiot.

Number three, cause I was trying to help Harry out from making the biggest mistake of

his life. Finally, number four, because I just despise you."

Luna scowled at Cho.

"You're foul." She retorted.

Cho laughed. What was once a giggly, high-pitched laugh, was now something revolting

and nauseating to Luna's ears.

"Well hun, I would stay and chat, but," Cho glimpsed at her watch. "I have N.E.W.T's in

a matter of hours and I still have to study a small amount. Toodles."

Luna fiercely watched Cho acquire the Pensieve and leave before plunging to the ground.

It wasn't fair, it just wasn't fair!!!

Luna glanced at her own watch. 9:49 pm. In only a few hours, her fellow Ravenclaws

would be awakening to a day of firm and complex labor as they would be starting their

finals. Thanks to Cho, Luna wouldn't be taking her final this year. Which meant that she

would have to repeat her sixth year for a second time.

Tears dribbled down her chin. Many times she had tried some way to escape;

nevertheless, not one of them had been successful.

Crawling into one of the soiled corners of her confinement, Luna shivered. It got

horribly cold at night and right now, night was leisurely creeping upon her.

Luna sneezed.

"Terrific." Luna thought gloomily. "I have been abducted, put in this grimy spot with not

much food, I am cold, and now I am sick. Could it get any worse?"

Thunder shook the Shrieking Shack, rain wept, and Luna was feeling crankier than ever.

"I didn't mean it!" Luna cried to the ceiling, rainwater promptly squeezing into her cage

through cracks and holes that laid in the walls.

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"Harry, have you seen Luna?"

Frances slightly flinched as Harry glowered at her.

"Do I really care where that arrogant, idiotic bitch is?" Harry snarled.

Frances jumped. She had known Harry and Luna had had something for a while, but that

was before the Tremendous Summer Ball. Now, Harry looked as if he would squish

anyone into a pulp if they mentioned her name.

"Oooook. How about you Hermione?"

Hermione slammed her book shut.

"Don't talk to me about that fucking, slimy piece of shit!" she shrieked.

"But Hermione!" Out of all the people she knew, Hermione was last on her list to be so

foul-mouthed about Luna. "You helped her so much!!! Like at the Majestic Christmas

Ball!! She would have been scrubbing floors if it hadn't been for your assistance."

"Yea, well now I am deeply regretting it." Hermione spat. "Now leave me alone. I have

to study for my Potions N.E.W.Ts."

Frances left in a rush. She had returned from the ball the previous night to find Luna's

bed vacant. The next morning, it was still unfilled.

Frances was intensely concerned. Something like this had never happened to Luna

before and her worried swelled like a balloon every minute.

Lissa had also been troubled with Luna's disappearance. Earlier that morning, she had

Frances to help search, but they were thwarted to conclude that Luna was no where to be

located.

Did you find her?" Frances didn't have to ask to notice the look of distress on her face.

"Oh Frances this is horrible!" Lissa sat down in the grass. "I have asked most of the

Ravenclaws and a lot of the other students, but no one knows where she went!"

"Then I guess," Frances swallowed the massive bulge in her esophagus. "I guess it is

time to go to Professor Flitwick."

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"This is terrible!"

The two Ravenclaw girls observed Professor Flitwich pace his office. After an hour of

asking every teacher in the castle about Luna and receiving no luck, Flitwick soon joined

Frances and Lissa's anxiety.

"Where could she be, where could she be?" Flitwick continued to stride all over his

office, intense fear slapped onto his face.

"Um... Professor?"

Flitwick halted.

Lissa felt uneasy.

"What do we do now?" she questioned softly.

Flitwick stared at her.

"Yes...um....right." Flitwick rested in his place behind his desk. "20 points for each of

you for bringing this concern to my notice. I will individually question each Ravenclaw,

and if she still cannot be traced, I will instantly alert Professor Dumbledore, who, I am

reasonably sure, will take it from there. You may go."

Frances and Lissa exited his office, but they were not any more reassured of Luna's

return then they had been before.

"Something weird is going on here." Frances told Lissa. "And I am going to find out what it

is! I just hope we are not too late!"

"What do you mean?" Lissa watched Frances frown sullenly.

"I mean," Frances's face lost it's color. "I hope that by the time we find her, if we find

her, that she won't be......be dead!"