"Where is Hermione when you need her?" asked Ron out loud he was a little stuck on his paper and could use her advice.  Harry didn't respond so Ron nudged him and asked again, "Where's Hermione when you need her?"

            "Harry didn't respond in fact Harry wasn't moving.  "Harry come on snap out of it!" beckoned Ron as loudly as he dared to in the library, "Harry!"

            By this time Madame Prince eyed Ron and Harry who had just come too.

            "Let me guess.  I blanked out again?"

            "Yeah, only this time it was worse than normal.  I thought there for a second that you weren't going to come too."

            "Well I came too.  So what did I miss?"

            "Nothing much, I was just going to ask you where Hermione is when you need her?"

            "Out shopping," answered Harry.

            "I know," grimaced Ron looking at his less than half done paper, "That's not where I need her to be."

            "Defense Against the Dark Arts?" asked a dreamy voice from off to the side.

            "Yeah," answered Ron seeing it was Luna.

            "I might be able to help," offered Luna looking at the topic of the paper from over Ron's shoulder.

            "But you're a fourth year," objected Ron.

            "Professor McGonagall thought it would be good for us to learn it early," shrugged Luna not giving it a second thought.

            "Um, Ron who's this?" asked Harry slightly mystified by the blond haired girl wearing a butter beer cap necklace, with a wand tucked behind her ear for safe keeping.

            Luna turned to Harry as if she just noticed him, while Ron answered, "This is Luna Lovegood, I ran into here just before Charms earlier this week."

            "You're Harry Potter," stated Luna.

            "Yeah, I know," answered Harry still a bit mystified by Luna.

            "About this paper," started Ron continuing his conversation with Luna, "You say you can help?"

            Luna nodded as she sat down at the table with Ron and Harry.  It wasn't until dinner did the two finish their papers.

            "Thanks for the help," smiled Ron as he rolled up his three pieces of parchment.

            "It was no problem," airily answered Luna as she got up to leave.

            When Hermione got back from Hogsmeade she joined Harry and Ron at dinner.

            "Hi," sighed Hermione as she sat down across from Harry and Ron.

            "How was your day?" asked Harry as Hermione loaded her plate.

            "Long," answered Hermione, "How did the paper writing go?"
            "Great," answered Ron with a half full mouth, "Luna Lovegood helped us out."

            "Who?" asked Hermione swallowing her food.

            "Luna, she's a fourth year, in Ravenclaw."

            "Let me check your papers after dinner just to be sure," answered Hermione slightly put out because they weren't needing her help as usual.

            "All right," shrugged Ron.

            After dinner Hermione checked the papers while Ron and Harry played Wizards Chess.

            "I don't believe it!" cried Hermione in shock.

            "What?" asked Ron as his queen checkmated Harry's king.

            "You two have something in your papers that I completely missed putting in mine!"

            "Great," grinned Ron knowing that he wouldn't have to re-write his paper.

            "No this is a disaster! I'm going to have to re-write my whole paper!"