Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, J K Rowling does, that lucky blonde mom. Maybe if I dye my hair and have a few kids, things a write on napkins will make me one of the top ten richest people in the world too.
Title: Window Shopping
Genre: General
Chapter 9: Parchment
"The usual then?" Asked a slightly harried voice.
Luna Lovegood , Raven claw 4th year soon to be a 5th year stood in Pandora's Fine Parchment Shop . To her left was her usual personal stationary. One Hundred pages of silvery blue with a moon changing through it's monthly phases across the top and bottom.
Not available in bulk.
She didn't look up, worrying her bottom lip between her teeth , she shook her head.
The standard, yellowed parchment for school work was in a large bundle at her feet.
" I'll come back when you're ready," said the short, dark hared woman, Pandora. Who had been standing behind Luna at the counter.
She didn't use much stationary during the summer. It was mostly for corresponding with her cousins while she was away with her father.
But…this summer was different. She looked over at a piece with a rendering of a heart shattering over and over again, and moved, realizing she was looking in the " Unloved notes" section.
There were few things Luna found honestly unnerving and a whole row of parchment with breaking hearts moving across them, emitting mournful sobs wrought by unrequited love, was one of them.
She glanced around the front of the shop, before heading toward the back where all the bulk parchment was.
It was in light colors like pastel green, Baby blue, Fog Grey…not up to par with her usual favorites for stationary, with natural scenes on them.
She was prodded from her inspection of an off white color by a loud popping noise.
It sounded like disapparation but she couldn't see anyone, after a few jittery moments of holding her wand at the ready she went back to looking . then the pop came again.
She found the source to be coming from the top of the huge shelf containing the parchment.
She looked around the other shelves that lined the small hallway to the main part of the shop but nobody was there, stepping over a few loose sheets of ' Sun bleached brown' and used the shelf like a ladder and found the popping parchment when it emitted another loud ' POP!'.
Little marks remained after the pops, like charred ground after a very large sort of firework exploded there and took off.
She was startled by another noise, and on another part of the page the mark appeared, while disappearing from the other spot.
" Hello?" the shop assistant said, looking into the ver stuffed room, Luna turned slightly and looked down at the black hared Witch.
" I've decided now, how much of this can I buy?" Luna asked, waving a sheet, and wobbling a bit.
" Good Merlin ! Get down from there!" she said, taking out her wand.
" Oh, I'm sorry, I want this sort –oh!" Luna exclaimed as most of the popping parchment slid off the shelf along with her.
The shop-witch uttered a curse and tranfigured some goose stationary into a goose feather mattress.
Actually it was almost a mattress.
There was a honking sound and Luna found herself sitting on a flat, rectangular, goose.
It was not very long after that she found herself like wise sitting on the curb outside the shop with two large bundles, the larger of which was taller than her sitting down. It was all of their, not at all popular, ' Endearing Explosions' series, which she got at half price. All of it.
Of course she was also asked not to come back, but Luna isn't the sort to look at the cauldron half-empty.
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a/n: Yes , the sequel to " Ink". Hya ha…I really like Luna. I'm kinda like her…well a mix of her and Ron and Hagrid…I sound like oodles of fun huh:P
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