Chapter one: Silent Pasts

The night air outside was cold and the snow swirled up against the windows, but Cassandra Lovegood didn't notice. In fact, she wasn't even focusing on the potion that she was brewing, because the only thing on her minds was her husband that night. He was so handsome. He had dreamy blue eyes, adorable red checks that were always red with merriment, and had dark, mystical hair. All of this, she was distracted by and she accidentally knocked over a vial full of Mudungus Draught.

As she went to clean up the mess, she didn't notice that the mist rose up above the bushes and shrubs. As she continued humming and working on her potion, the wind grew stronger outside. Somewhere down the road for her, a tall light pole was pushed into a slanted position, eventually collided with another and shattered glass everywhere. Closer to the Lovegood home, the wind had uprooted a small tree and fall on top of a parked car.

Even after all of this Cassandra hadn't noticed because she was still daydreaming about her husband.

She could not get over the fact that she, Cassandra Freminik, had got married to the one and only David Lovegood, which made her Cassandra Lovegood. She still could not believe that after all that, she had a wonderful nine-year-old child, Luna.

She was startled back to reality because of a sudden jolt of pain, before leaving reality forever.

Several hours later, her daughter, Luna, walked down the basement stairs wanting to ask her mother a question about ageing mandrake juice. When she found her mother on the floor, her face blank and emotionless, Luna immediately rushed over to her mother's side screaming.
"MUM!

What was wrong

…Please don't die... There is so much we haven't done...you can't leave me
now…

MUM!

I love you don't go away…

Why wont she wakeup

"MUM!"

Luna sat there on the cold, hard ground, crying into her hands, imagining life
without her mother.

Her father, David, had heard all the commotion, and rushed down the basement
stairs to see why his daughter was screaming. As soon as he reached the
bottom of the stairs, he dropped to his knees and just sat there, not saying a word but just looking at the body of his wife.

As Mr. Lovegood and his daughter sat there, crying together, the threatening force
outside died down to a gentle breeze. This day was one of the saddest
days of all the Lovegoods' history. Mr. Lovegood and his daughter sat there
and cried for the rest of the day.

Cassandra Lovegood's funeral was on Wednesday, the 11th of October. Luna placed a single white rose upon her mother's coffin, before silently crying, as her father held her close. The two barely seemed to notice as others arrived and left.

Throughout the next four months, Luna rarely spoke to her father, not even looking him in the eyes. Each day she would sit in her room grieving for the loss of her mother, until she suddenly changed. One calm afternoon, she stopped being sorrowful and was actually cheerful. From that day on, one ever saw a frown on Luna Lovegood's face. Not even on her worst days when things went horribly wrong. She would somehow manage to smile a happy smile.

"Hello," Luna enthusiastically greeted her father as she sat down to eat her breakfast.

"Hello, pumpkin," her father replied, not even bothering to look up, instead immediately focusing his attention back on The Quibbler.

"It's three weeks until the start of school. I am so happy that it's finally
my sixth year," Luna said happily.

I'm so looking forward to it, I wish Mum was here". She thought to herself

When he didn't respond, Luna shook off that line of thought, but instead said, "I think we should go get my books, Dad."

"We have three weeks. Don't worry about it," her father said.

Secretly, Luna didn't really care about getting her books. All she really
wanted to do was see Ron, and she had thought that she might catch him at
his brothers' joke shop.

What she didn't know was that Ron Weasley wasn't going back to Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at all. He, Harry, and Hermione planned to set
to find the remaining horcruxes, with the eventual goal of defeating Lord Voldemort.

"Ronald Weasley, get out of this bed now …come on, get up or you will be
late for your meeting with the headmistress," Molly Weasley yelled at the
top of her lungs. Her efforts to wake her son up were met with an annoyed grunt. "Get up! You don't want to be late for the meeting with your new headmistress".
"Ok, ok," Ron sighed. "I'll be up in a minute. Is Harry up?"

"As a matter of a fact, I haven't got him up yet because I've been stuck
trying to get you up," Molly said in a fierce tone, and with that she
scurried out of the room.

Fifteen minutes later, Ron walked down to the kitchen in number 12 Grimmauld
place.

"About time that you showed up," Molly said to Ron.

"Mum, don't worry. We can just apparate to Hogwarts. I don't get why you
worry so much," Ron replied.

"Oh, no you can't. You didn't pass your apparation test." Ron jerked his head
away from his mum at the mention of him failing the apparation test.

"But Mum, I failed by half an eyebrow! Please just let me apparate there,"
Ron pleaded with his mother.

"It is not my decision to say yes," Molly replied sternly. "Now hurry up and eat
because we have to be there in twenty minutes, and we are going by floo
powder," Molly said.

"Mum, I still don't understand why we are going to talk to the headmistress
anyway," Ron said.

"Because we both want to discuss your future at Hogwarts with you," Molly
said brightly.

"Mum," Ron groaned. "How many times have we told you we aren't going back to
Hogwarts? We're going to find the last horcruxes."

"All of you will come with me to Hogwarts, and that's final," Molly stated
in a voice that no one dared to argue with. "I can't stand the thought of you three going out to do what ever quest you want to do and being killed by what ever strange things are where you are visiting or all three of you being captured by You-Know-Who".

"Hogwarts!" Ron shouted as he threw the floo powder into the fire. One by
one Harry, Ron, Hermione and Mrs. Weasley came out of the fireplace and then
walked towards the headmistress's office. They came to an abrupt halt when
Mrs. Weasley said, "Er…does anyone know the password?"

Luckily enough for them, Harry had remembered the password from last year,
and he supposed Professor McGonagall didn't have enough time to change it.
He walked up close to the gargoyle and said, "Limepie."

They gargoyle spun out of the way, and a staircase appeared. They walked up
the steps to a large oak door and gently knocked on it before hearing a voice
inside say, "Enter."

Yay, first chapter is Done! I have chapter five finished and chapter six is half done. Please read on. This chapter wasn't very exciting but the next few are, trust me, especially chapter 4 ;).

Please read on, I have 210 reads for chapter 1 and then 100 read for chapter 2, half of you ditched me Tear.

I have the plot for chapter 10 finshed so yippie. I will have chapter six to you real soon )

16/1/06