Legend of The Blood Moon

Chapter Summary: The Weasley twins make an appearance. We find out what Hermione, Snape, Ginny and Oliver have been up to, a little bit about Morgan's background and two of our couples get closer.

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: See Chapter One for Disclaimer

A/N: Thanks to all that left reviews. I swear that the action starts in the next chapter. I just wanted to establish the characters a bit more. Hope you enjoy!


Chapter Two - Stars and Drinks

The Leaky Cauldron was filled to its brim when Luna and Morgan walked in. It took them exactly two hours to get ready since neither one knew what to wear. It was Morgan who'd snapped them back to reality, stating that it wasn't likely that they'd see anyone important that night.

After finding a booth in the corner, they ordered their drinks (Firewhiskey for Morgan and rum for Luna) and started to look around the pub. They didn't know most of the people there but did recognise a few of their Ministry co-workers.

"This is a bit boring," muttered Morgan before taking a long drink. "I thought they'd be more people our age here."

Luna tore her eyes away from the crowd and looked across the table at Morgan. "Maybe Remus will show up," she smirked.

Morgan glared at her and kicked her under the table. "Be nice," she hissed as Luna started to laugh.

"What's so funny?" asked a familiar voice.

They looked up to see George and Fred Weasley and Katie Bell standing by their booth. George had his arm around Katie and was smiling about something.

"Nothing," said Morgan. "What you lot doing here?"

Fred smiled and stepped forward. "We closed the shop early and decided we needed something to drink," he said before sliding next to Morgan. "You don't mind, do you?"

"Not at all," muttered Morgan, who was now smashed against the wall.

Fred smiled at her as Katie sat next to Luna and George brought a chair up to the table. George ordered drinks for all of them and when they arrived, he leaned across the table and said, "Heard the latest?"

"Depends on what the latest is," said Morgan, looking at him.

Fred and George exchanged smiles. "It's about a certain Hogwarts student, who's now a professor," stated Fred, his grin not leaving his face.

Luna furrowed her brow. "Are you talking about Hermione?" she asked.

George nodded. "Seems she's engaged now," he said, proud to be the first to spread the news.

"You two are worse than two old women, who sit around and gossip all day!" alleged Katie as she wrinkled her nose. "You'd think you would have better things to do with your time."

"But this is big news!" cried Fred. "Especially when you consider who she's marrying."

"Oh no," said Morgan, trying hard not to be sick. "She's not marrying Snape, is she?"

"The one and only," laughed George. Morgan made a face.

"Why would anyone want to marry that nasty git?" she asked, a look of disgust on her face.

"Oh, Morgan!" said Luna. "He's not that bad!"

This made George laugh even harder. Everyone knew that Morgan and Snape didn't get along. Her hatred for him stemmed from his treatment of her during her time at Hogwarts. She had even gone as far as trying to stage a raid on his potion supplies once by saying he was using illegal animals for his potions.

"He is, too," muttered Morgan before taking a swig of Firewhiskey. "Poor Ron! He doesn't know about it yet, does he?"

"That's who we heard it from," explained Fred. "Hermione sent him a post and told him. Poor bloke is really broken up about it. He's coming home tomorrow for a few days because our Mum's making him."

No one uttered a word as they thought about Ron. They knew he loved Hermione more than anything and when the two started dating during their last year at Hogwarts, everyone figured they'd get married and spend the rest of their lives together.

It was a few months after their graduation from Hogwarts when they broke up. No one quite knew what happened since neither of them really told the real story. It didn't take long for Hermione to be offered a teaching job at Hogwarts or for her to start dating Snape.

Ron couldn't handle the fact that Hermione was now dating the one person who'd made their schooling experience less than perfect. He promptly packed his bags and moved to Romania to help his older brother, Charlie, with the dragon refuge he ran.

"We're thinking about sending Hermione and Snape a surprise engagement gift," said George, when the silence became unbearable.

"Make sure it explodes," muttered Morgan before taking another drink from her glass. Fred and George laughed as Luna rolled her eyes.

The group of them continued to talk and drink. It was well into the night when Remus showed up and approached their table.

"Hi," he said, looking at all of them. He stopped on Morgan and smiled. "I need to speak to you for a moment."

"Oh," she said. She nudged Fred out of the way and slid out of the booth.

Remus motioned for her to follow him, which she did. They ended up, outside, in Diagon Alley. He led her to a small black bench, where they sat down.

"It's about the report Susan Bones turned in," said Remus before he turned and looked at her. "William and I were looking over it earlier and we started to wonder about something."

Morgan looked at him and adjusted herself on the bench. She didn't quite know where he was going with this and it made her feel uncomfortable. "W-what were you wondering about?" she finally asked.

"The report is pretty advanced for Susan. She's a smart girl but not that smart," he said. "We started to wonder if, perhaps, someone else had written it."

Morgan took in a deep breath and dropped her eyes to her lap. She rubbed her hands together and closed her eyes as a cool breeze blew through the alley. "I wouldn't know if she did or not," she quietly said.

Remus nodded his head and tore his eyes away from her. "If she's taking credit for something you did, you need to tell me."

Morgan wanted to tell him but she couldn't bring herself to do it. She remembered all those times she'd tell her father something and how he would never believe her. It had always made her feel inferior to him, a feeling she didn't want to have with Remus.

"She isn't," said Morgan, turning her head to look at him. "Honest."

Remus softly sighed and turned his body toward her. "I know you wrote, Morgan. I've seen other reports you've done and I know your style," he said. "Why are you lying? Did she threaten you?"

"No," admitted Morgan. "She just took it."

"Why didn't tell us?" asked Remus. Morgan shrugged.

"I didn't think William and you would believe me," she said.

Remus smiled at how adorable she was when she was being so unsure of herself. He reached over and softly squeezed her hand before saying, "Of course we would. You're our best worker."

Morgan smiled and wrapped her fingers around his hand. She then turned her attention to the sky above them. It was a clear night and she could see almost every star there was. "Beautiful night," she whispered, not letting go of his hand.

"It is," he said, but he wasn't looking at the sky; he was looking at her.

Morgan turned toward him and blushed when she saw his eyes were on her. "I should get back to Luna. I left her with the Weasley twins!" she laughed.

"Stay for a while longer? I'm sure Luna can hold her own with them," said Remus. Truth be told, he didn't want to let her go just yet.

He knew that he liked her. There was a certain charm about her that he found irresistible and he tried hard to ignore the fact that she was younger than him. However, he knew the age argument would never fly, considering how long the life span of most wizards and witches were.

"Tell me something about yourself, Morgan," he said. "I hardly know a thing about you."

Morgan glanced over at him again. "I was your student at one time, Remus. Wouldn't you already know everything about me? Doesn't Hogwarts keep files on all of its students?"

"They do," he nodded. "Yours was a bit thin when I was there though. It only listed your grandmother as a contact. Did you live with her?"

"No," said Morgan as another cool breeze blew against them. "My father is an Ambassador to the United States, plus he's a Muggle. He never accepted the magic world and when it came time for me to go to school, he made sure my mum's or his name weren't listed on the records."

"Oh," said Remus.

"I haven't seen them since my summer holiday between my sixth and seventh year Hogwarts. We don't get along," said Morgan as a shiver ran through her body. "But it doesn't bother me. We never had a close relationship.

Remus saw her shiver and quickly pulled his cloak off. "Here," he said, draping it around her shoulders. "I'm sorry about your parents."

"Thank you. I'm surviving just fine without them," smiled Morgan before she turned her attention back to the sky.


"How's Ginny doing?" asked Luna, looking toward Fred. She would have asked George but he was too busy snogging Katie at the moment.

"She's doing good," said Fred. "She's getting pretty serious with Oliver Wood. They just moved in together a few weeks ago and she travels with him when he has Quidditch games. Our mum isn't too keen on them living together before marriage but I'm sure she'll get over it."

"I'm sure she will. After all, Ginny is her only daughter so she has to be overprotective," said Luna as Katie started to laugh about something. "I'm surprised one of you didn't say anything about it to him."

"Oh," said George, pulling away from Katie. "We sent them a house-warming gift!"

Fred nodded his head and howled with laughter. All of them were too busy laughing to notice that Harry was standing by their table.

"Oy! Harry!" cried George when he saw him. "What are you doing here mate?"

"I heard everyone was here. Plus, it was a bit boring at the Three Broomsticks," he said, looking over at Luna. "May I sit by you?"

Luna felt her face go warm with a blush as she nodded. Harry smiled at her and slid into her side of the booth.

"I saw Morgan and Remus outside," he said after he ordered himself a drink. "They looked cosy."

"Really?" asked Fred, a mischievous smile crossing his face.

"Leave them alone," warned Luna as she gave him a nasty look.

"I will!" cried Fred as he held his hands up. "Anyhow, I need to go and get back to the shop."

"Good idea," said George, standing from his chair. "Thank you for the company Luna and nice to see you again Harry!"

Luna felt a wave of panic come over her. She really didn't want to be left alone with Harry. It wasn't that she didn't like him; she just didn't know what to say to him.

"See you lot tomorrow," said Harry, shaking Fred's hand. "I should be out to the house by noon or so."

"All right," said George before Katie, Fred and him took their leave.

After they were gone, Harry turned to Luna and smiled at her. He could tell she was trying hard not to look at him and he began to wonder why she was acting so oddly.

"Something wrong?" he finally asked.

Luna shook her head, her long blonde hair whipping around. "I'm fine. So, nothing exciting happened at the party tonight?" she asked.

"Nah," said Harry, taking a drink of his ale. "Tonks ended up leaving with Kingsley and Seamus was too busy hitting on some girl. Very boring. If I'd known you were coming here tonight, I would have come here instead."

"Oh," mouthed Luna as she stared into his eyes. She never noticed before how green they really were.

"Excited about your last week as a trainee?" asked Harry when silence engulfed them.

"I am!" said Luna, nodding her head. "I can't wait to go on my first raid. I hope I get placed a good team."

Harry smiled at that and then whispered, "I know which team you're going to be on but you can't say that I told you."

"Fine," said Luna, leaning closer to him. She didn't know if it was their closeness or the alcohol that was making her feel giddy. "What team am I going to be on?"

Harry licked his lips and looked at her. He was very aware of the fact that they were merely inches apart. "You're going to be on my team," he smiled.

Luna grinned back before she threw her arms around him. "That's great news!" she said, pulling away from him. She then blushed since she didn't know what had possessed her to hug him.

"I think so too," he quietly said as he looked at her. "I think we'll make a great team."

"Me too," whispered Luna, her arms still around his neck.


"I think I better go check on Luna and get home," said Morgan as she looked over at Remus.

"Good idea," he said. "I have an early meeting with William tomorrow."

"Working on a Saturday?" asked Morgan, raising an eyebrow.

"Someone has to," laughed Remus.

Morgan looked down and noticed that their hands were still linked together. She carefully pulled her hand away and stood from the bench. "Thank you for the conversation and company," she said before returning his cloak to him.

"You're welcome," said Remus as he stood also. "Need me to walk you back?"

Morgan turned and looked over at the Leaky Cauldron. "I can manage," she smiled.

"All right. I guess I'll see you on Monday then," said Remus before he pulled his wand out.

Morgan looked at him and didn't know what to do. She quickly gave him a tight hug. And when she pulled away from the hug, he was looking down at her.

"Bye," she quietly said.

"Bye," he said as he placed a small kiss on her forehead.

Morgan stumbled a bit and looked at him. She raised her hand and softly touched the place where he'd left the kiss. She gave him one last smile before running to the Leaky Cauldron.

When she got inside, Morgan went to the corner and saw Harry sitting at the table. She noticed that Luna and he were sitting awfully close so she decided to just watch, for she didn't want to interrupt them.

She walked around some tables to get a better view, of what she figured was their first kiss. She wanted to clap but fought off the urge. And when she thought it was safe, she approached.

"Hey guys," she said.

"Hi, Morgan," smiled Harry. "Have a nice chat with Remus?"

"Why, yes I did!" she grinned. "I just came back to get my cloak. I'm going to head home."

"I should head home too," said Harry. "I have to have dinner with the Weasleys tomorrow." He slid from the booth and quickly stood up. "I'll probably be there the whole weekend. Ron is really broken up about this Hermione stuff."

"I would be too," said Morgan, shaking her head. "I hate Snape even more now!"

"Don't we all," muttered Harry. He then looked over at Luna and smiled. "I guess I'll see you at the office on Monday?"

"Of course," smiled Luna.

Harry nodded at the both of them before he walking out.

"Nice kiss!" laughed Morgan.

"You saw that?" asked a surprised Luna.

"I see all," smirked Morgan before they walked over to the Leaky Cauldron's fireplace. "It was cute."

Luna blushed and thought it was completely unfair that Morgan had seen their kiss. "So, what did you and Remus do?"

"Nothing," said Morgan before she stepped into the fireplace. "We sure didn't snog!"

Luna let out a loud laugh before she joined Morgan in the fireplace. This was a good night, she thought to herself as the two disappeared within a green flame, a very good night indeed.