Hello once again fellow HP aficionados!
There are a lot of things I wanted to clear up with you guys since I feel I have been blatently having fun with you people since the last 2-3 chapters.
First of all I have wanted to do this for a really long time: muahahahahahha.
Now since thats over with lets go over a few 'red herrings' I placed here and there for you to figure out (hey i don't pretend to be as great as JKR, but one can surely try - can't they?).
Luna was never Neville's girl!
A lot of you fell for it hook, line and sinker....
Check out the herrings first:
"Half hour later, the door to the compartment slid open and Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood walked inside hand in hand."
-(chpt 8)
"blah... blah... blah... I am closing the door For you never knocked"
- Harry Potter, The Ride To Hogwarts (chpt 9)
"He briefly looked up at Luna only to find her giving him an extremely scrutinizing look that turned into a questioning look and finally gave way to a curious mix of sadness and apology. "
- (chpt 9)
"It seems I made the right decision, for only someone absolutely pure of heart could have received such a wonderful gift from this creature. Now I have nothing to worry about. You must go and solve that which earlier troubled you so greatly."
- (chpt 10)
I never put enough, no scratch that, I never put complete conclusive evidence that the two (N & L) were ever going out.
Remember at the end of GOF, when Mione kissed HP on the cheek It was enough to start of hailstorm of H/Hr ships. Well, I guess it's all open to interpretation.
In AAI, i.e. my fic, I made Harry fall victim to his ownself.
Luna giving him that scrunitizing look implied that she figured out HP cares a lot for her, but was not ready to go into a relationship so soon. She may have her own reasons for that.
Of course, I expect a lot of you to flame me that she could have responded with doe like eyes and gone all hubby-dubby on him. But hey, where's the fun in that? Simply put, he was expecting everything would go his own way, because of his recent spate of success and I wanted to bring down his self-esteem just one teenie-weenie bit.
Neville is one awesome dude, and he has yet to do one thing that would point to him being a SOB. He was just there to provide a distraction. Please don't hate me for that!
He, and for that matter the rest of the gang don't know about the shit Luna has to take from her house mates when it cames to things other than just simple name calling (Loony etc.).
Remember in OOTP, despite spending the entire year together, only Harry found out and that too at the end how she was being mistreated?
So that should hopefully cover the bases when it comes to why the gang from OOTP didnt come to her rescue - they don't know! They never bothered to find out. And she hides the pain beneath her loony exterior too well. Ok?
As for the hand in hand thing - it was a simple gesture of frienship.
Call it what you will. Neville may have been helping her carry her luggage. Or defended her against people teasing her. etc. etc. Use you imagination!!!
Harry does not have the powers of god with him. Pl-lll-ee-ase try to understand that. He is very powerful yes, but nope he cant wish someone into existence or for that matter out of. The fic would be over in a chapter then.
BTW, did you guys figure out how he's gonna get rid of Riddle (in this fic)? I left some clues for you in chpt 11....
Thanks for keeping on my toes UTEN!!!
Gimme ideas, suggestions, comments. Nething. I love reading your thoughts on AAI. Thanks! Next chapter coming soon...