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Chapter 12

Recap:

Making their way up the hall, laughing and joking, Harry's face immediately fell when he heard a cold drawl of, 'Potter,' behind him.

Harry turned around to see his greasy-haired, hooked nosed Potions master glower at him. His cold black eyes had the same haunted look in them and his skin as pale as ever.

'Potter,' he said again, though this time he spat it as though it was like acid in his mouth. 'Having fun? Please remove your arm from Miss Lovegood at once.' Harry glanced at Luna out of the corner of his eye and saw the she was giving Snape a threatening look. Putting his gaze back, fully, on his professor he simply asked, 'And what if I don't?' With that he tightened his grip around Luna's waist, pulling her closer to him.

Snape's dark eyes flashed, always a danger sign. 'Then I'll have to remove it for you,' he lifted his wand to the tip of Harry's nose and said, 'I'll give you one more chance, Potter, remove your hand or it will be removed!' Harry decided now would be a fine time to back answer his professor, what with having a trained Auror and a werewolf on his side. He also knew that if Snape harmed Harry, he would have Dumbledore to answer to.

'Well why should I remove my arm,' he dared. 'What business do you have with Luna?' Harry smirked after saying this because Snape's face looked as though he had had a sniff of Dragon Dung.

'Well, Potter, the business that I have with Miss Lovegood would be no business of yours.'

'Really? Well I think it is!'

'Is that so? And why would that be?'

'Because, I'm-her-boyfriend.'

Silence followed his statement and Snape and Harry were glaring at each other, Luna had disappeared behind Harry and the five others just stood with their mouths open. 'So Miss Lovegood was the pretty blonde girl that stole Harry Potter's heart, both of you were in Diagon Alley together, were you not?' Luna silently nodded behind Harry, but he on the other hand stood his ground.

'And where did you get that line?'

'Oh, you don't know? Apparently an anonymous tipster told the Daily Prophet, Teen Witch Weekly and Witch Weekly that you would be on a date in Diagon Alley yesterday, they got pictures too! All over the front covers,' he sneered. 'The Prophet had a rather interesting interview with your ex-girlfriend,' Harry frowned at this, Cho was the only girl Harry had gone out with prior to Luna and he couldn't believe that she would stoop so low, well actually he could.

'One date doesn't make Cho Chang my girlfriend,' Harry stated.

'Oh, but Potter you're forgetting that you only had one date with Luna so I guess that doesn't make her your girlfriend either,' Snape countered.

'I suppose that would be the case, if it weren't for three things,' said Harry coolly.

'And they are?'

'Number one, our date yesterday lasted more than ten minutes, two, we kissed in public-'

'This was caught on camera!' Harry pressed on ignoring his comment.

'And number thre- wait a minute! Why am I even bothering to tell you? It's not any of your business!'

'Actually Potter it is!'

'How so?'

'She's my responsibility. I'm her uncle and only living relative and I promised her mother I would keep her alive as long as possible, and that means keeping her away from the likes of you,' he spat the last word like venom.

Without hesitation he pushed Harry to the side and grabbed Luna's wrist and started dragging her from the hall. Kicking and screaming insults like; 'Leave me go you greasy git!' or 'Go wash your hair' and 'Leave me to disinfect my arm before your greasiness gets to me!'

After she had screamed herself hoarse she kicked Snape in his left shin and ran back down the hall, passed Harry, who had been expecting her to run to him and all seven of the occupants of the hall flinched as her bedroom door slammed shut.

After several moments of silence Harry looked at Hermione and her look told him everything he needed to know. Starting to walk down the hall he ignored Snape, who was being held back by Remus and Tonks. Coming to a halt t her door, he gently rapped on the wooden frame. A very faint, yet audible, 'Go away,' issued from inside, but Harry being his stubborn self pushed the door in anyway. He was surprised to find no one in the room, but as the sound of water filled his ears he knew Luna was in the shower.

Standing outside the bathroom door he knocked quietly again. Inside the water stopped running and after a minute or so of shuffling the door clicked and swung midway open revealing Luna wrapped in a towel, her sandy hair a shade darker fell wet, half in front half behind.

Looking very startled she slowly closed the door so that her only visible body part was her head.

'What do you want Harry?' she asked, wanting to get back to her warm shower.

'Why did you run off like that?' he said.

'I'm so sick of everyone trying to control my life! Acting like I'm the helpless nine year old he found in the living room six years ago!' she ranted. Just when Harry opened his moth to say something she had, 'And then you started. Of all people Harry I would have expected you to know what it feels like to have your life controlled! You know I can stand up for myself, but you had to let your hatred of him get in the way!'

'But it's alright to shout insults at him when you please, just because you're related?' he argued.

'It's not like I had any choice in the matter! I didn't ask for my mother to get adopted and wind up being his cousin!' she defended. 'And that's another thing you should understand! What it's like to be related to people you hate!' After that she slammed the door in his face, leaving him standing there feeling as if he'd lost the only thing that ever mattered to him.


Now I leave you hanging my loverly readers!

Is there any hope for the lovely couple?

What exactly did Cho say?

And when will I update?

I know the answer to all three, but I'll only give you the answer to one!

I'll Update when I get at least five reviews!