Wow, I'm so glad you all liked my poem. Thanks for the nice comments, those made my day! I forgot this before:
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
This is from the point of view of Mr. Lovegood about his daughter. It's about how the death of her mother was such a crushing loss, and the members of the sextet helped her to relax. It's mostly about friendship, but the last three verses have references to a Harry/Luna romance. This is the first time I've posted ABAB poetry; I usually go for the easier rhyme scheme of ABCB. I hope this turns out all right (I love the was ABAB flows when it's well written).
Luna
Lovegood:
With her own eyes she saw it all
The day her
mother died
There was panic in her desperate call
And how she
screamed and cried
So
since my girl was only nine
I have been her whole life
Now
she's sixteen and claims she's fine
About her mom, my wife
I
made sure to always be there
Cause I was all she had
I thought
no one would ever care
Except for me, her dad
She
was so like her mother
Individual and proud
She was unlike any
other
Girl you would find in her crowd
All
of her housemates were so mean
I think they even hit her
Yet
Luna never ceased to dream
It never turned her bitter
Her
housemates bullied her enough
So she should have been mad
They
called her loony, took her stuff
Yet she was never sad
She
said she wasn't lonely
Though she was always alone
But a
loner's was the only
Life she ever could have known
Her
best friend was my mail
She always wrote right back
Never did
she fail
To be so loyal with that
Luna
was my greatest pride
She depended on me
Despite all else she
could confide
In her loving Daddy
At
a time when our whole world
Was full of sleaze and fear
My
grown-up little girl
Went into her fourth year
I
still remember the letter
I was crying by the end
Things had
gotten so much better
My little girl had friends
Five
Gryffindors were on the train
Just one was in her year
They
never thought she wasn't sane
Enough to sit right near
They'll
never know how much it means
Both to her and to me
That they
let her in on their schemes
Saw beyond the "loony"
We
kept in contact loyally
For the rest of the year
With her new
friends she was happy
Her letters brought me cheer
When
I read her last letter
I'd never been so proud
The Prophet
got much better
Because of her new crowd
I
swear I would have stayed away
If she'd just wanted her
friends
Yet she wrote almost every day
Our strong bond didn't
end
She
escaped the memory
By which she had been haunted
With all her
new friends she was free
And it was all she wanted
So
thank you to Hermione
And Ron and Neville too
The one in her
year was Ginny
They got my Luna through
This
year I got the news that she
Was dating Harry Potter
The letter
sounded so happy
I was proud of my daughter
When
I think of how far she's come
The growth is almost scary
She
fell hard when she lost her mom
But was picked up by Harry
The
of isolation's at an end
She's now part of a team
Some
romance and five new best friends
Is all she could have dreamed.