BY RIKKU
A/N: Let's get this straight before I begin- I actually 'ship' Ginny/Harry nowadays, but before book 6, I thought Harry would be cute with either Ginny or Luna. So I 100 support the canon, but this isn't canon, now, is it?
CHAPTER 1
Luna Lovegood sighed in exasperation. She knew that Harry still didn't understand that she still had feelings for him. He was being rather friendlier than usual to her lately, but it was only because they were rapidly becoming what one might call 'friends'. She smiled slightly at the thought-- she, 'Loony Lovegood' was becoming friends with the famous Harry Potter.
She was sitting in the Ravenclaw common room attempting to finish her Potions assignment. It wasn't coming along very well- her thoughts were elsewhere. The Ravenclaw common room was slightly quieter than all the others; not necessarily because the Ravenclaws enjoyed studying more than the other houses, but because, on the whole, they enjoyed quiet, intellectual endeavors more than the others. Luna rather enjoyed reading and pondering life, but at the moment she was feeling a bit restless.
So without another thought, she dropped her books into her bag and set off toward the portrait hole. She decided that she was in the mood to sit by the lake, and so began to walk to the grounds. When she finally exited the great oak doors, she looked out toward the lake and noticed that not many people were out. It was, in fact, a bit of a cloudy, colder day. She was wearing several layers and a scarf, so she was quite toasty, but it appeared that many others had not thought it worth the trouble. However, one group sitting under a large tree caught her attention.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione were apparently trying to work on some assignment. Hermione was furiously scribbling away, but Ron and Harry both seemed to be lost in thought. Harry was actually thinking about Luna Lovegood herself, though she did not know it. He couldn't quite place what it was about her, but her presence made him calm and at peace with the world. Nobody else could do that for him. He hadn't even realized that his thoughts were drifting toward her until Hermione broke him out of his reverie.
"Harry! Ron! Are you two working?"
Ron looked taken aback. "Obviously, Hermione! What do you think we're doing with these quills in our hands?"
Hermione glared at him briefly. "I'm not going to be able to look over your work tonight, you know. I have my own work to catch up on."
"That's out of character. Usually you've done your work the day it's assigned!" Harry said, surprised by Hermione's unusual unattentiveness to her homework.
Hermione shrugged, "I've been busy," she said, glancing at Ron, who was smiling down at his paper. Hermione and Ron were unofficially going out.
Harry recieved a pang of jealousy. Since Cho Chang, he had not found anyone who he was interested in romantically. Well... unless you counted Luna... but...
His heart jolted. What was he thinking? That he liked Luna Lovegood? He supposed it was a possibility, but the thought had not quite occured to him yet. And anyway, he thought, she was in her own little world and was unlikely to be interested.
Luna, who had placed herself under a nearby tree, was having similar thoughts about Harry: about how he couldn't possibly interested in her as more than a friend, and how she had a feeling he was interested in Padma Patil anyway. There was, of course, no evidence behind this assumption, but there is Luna Lovegood for you.
'That's the thing that's great about her', thought Harry, 'she's not afraid of what people think of her and her weird theories'. He smiled and glanced out across the grounds. He felt another skip in his heart as he saw Luna sitting under a tree not far from where he was. He blushed a bit as he realized that she too was looking at him. They waved shyly at each other before turning back to their own thoughts.
A/N: So I guess just a bit of an introduction tonight, but it's getting pretty late so I thought I'd stop. Anyway, tell me what you think so far :). If you guys like it, I'll continue. If not, I won't be bothered and might start a different one, lol.
