Strange Encounters

Chapter 4

Luna Lovegood was not one to get mail very often, sure she got the Quibbler every morning, but rarely did a letter fly her way. This said it was not a surprise that everyone one at her table stared at the big barn owl as it dropped its letter on to her plate, landing in the mashed potatoes.

Luna blinked her eyes and picked the innocent looking letter out of her dinner. She absently patted the barn owl as she wiped the food off of the letter. Glancing at it she recognized the handwriting. It was Fred Weasley's, after tracing her name, she carefully placed it in her pocket and silently left the table, ignoring the looks that her peers gave her.

Smiling to herself, she walked up to the library. She moved to the very back of the large room into a corner that nobody else ever used. The more she thought about it she couldn't deny the crush she had on Fred. He was one of the few people to look past her peculiarities to see the person within, and he had believed her story even before there was proof of it.

She curled up in a large chair in the corner and carefully extracted the letter. She read it with a smile on her lips. Fred had found out what the creature was, she had never heard of the winged knibble, but he listed the book that he found it in. She headed over to the section that it was in and carefully pulled out the large volume. She headed over to and checked it out.

Her roommates were not surprised that when she came back that evening with a large book, they were in Ravenclaw after all. Luna ignored their comments and questions about the letter and with a single-minded determination she headed to her room and closed the bright blue drapes around her bed and set out too read.