"What's going on Hermione?" Harry looked at her worriedly. Hermione didn't answer him as they reached a croweded area. "All of you calm down!" Snape spat at them.

The crowd of students almost immediately quieted. "Now as some of you know, your magic has been stripped for the time being for an unknown reason!" he said menacingly. "What!" Harry said aloud with everyone else.

"Potter" he smirked "You don't know then, how delightful" he smiled. Hermione looked over at Harry "Try a spell, Harry..go on" she said bossily.

"Lumos!" he said simply, but the tip of his wand did not illuminate light. "Bloody hell" he cursed. "What's happened?" "That is what we are trying to figure out! Out of my way Potter!" McGonagal came storming down the hallway.

"I've reached the minister of magic, he has told me that it's only temporary and what has happened only happens once every 10,000 years." "Not to worry I want everyone back in there common rooms at once!" she yelled. Hermione walked towards the common room quickly "I've read about this...but it's not possible unless a dark force is behind it..."Voldermort" Harry said angrily.

"He's doing something to strip all the witches and wizards their power." "Harry we can't be sure...it could be just as McGonagal said" she sighed. "I really need to go do research in the library." "What does this all mean?" Ron spoke up from his silence.

"Until we get our magic back, we're all in danger" Hermione sighed walking towards the library. Ron stared after her as Harry walked into the common room luckily Ginny and Luna had went elsewhere.

He sighed throwing his now useless wand to the side. "Well I suppose now wouldn't be a good time to talk about last night now would it?"

Luna spoke up, making Harry jump out of his chair. "Luna!" he said catching his breath "You scared me...have you heard?" he asked his tone of voice changing. "Yes...Ginny and I went down there...it's completely strange don't you think of course Tufflies are to blame."

"Tufflies?" Harry said confused. "Yeah they have wings... "Luna listen...I'm sorry about the dance, and Ron and everything your going through right now" he sighed. "If there's anything I can do tell me". "Oh Harry don't you get it, you can do nothing" she sighed.

"Ron wants Hermione and I have to accept that" she said abit of bitterness in her dreamy voice. "Ginny wants you...and I also have to accept that" she sighed. "But I don't want Ginny" he thought, wishing he could say that aloud.

He sighed "Ginny and I are over...because of you" he added just above a whisper. "No..she still wants to be with you Harry, you have a chance" she sat down beside him. "I can't believe we're here discussing this when our magic's just been stripped away from us." she sighed.

"Well I'm slowly learning that magic just isn't in the wand Luna" he said aloud blushing. She sighed "Well...I'm afraid...without magic we are just defenseless.."Muggles" Harry finished smiling. She laughed extremely loud" That's hilarious Harry!" she said with tears in her eyes.

Others would find her outburst of laughter strange, he found it adorable. "Yeah well it's true...funny being a muggle actually seems simplier...at least you don't have to worry about people cursing you behind your back" he smiled.

Luna then turned to him "You and Ginny are going to ok, in fact I'm going to assure that you both are, while I remain alone, it's ok though because I'm so used to it" she smiled lightly. "But your the famous, brilliant Harry Potter you deserve someone...someone like Ginny" she sighed blushing slightly.

Suddenly they heard a loud click from the painting, Luna gasped. "What was that? she said getting up. "I don't know, maybe you should stay back from the door" he said cautiously his mind immediately fearing the worst.

He then walked over to the painting slowly discovering it was locked shut. "Great...were locked in here, I think the whole castle's on lockdown." he sighed. Luna sighed. "Well maybe it's just for our safety. "Right" she looked at him. "Let's hope so" he said grabbing Luna's arm lightly pulling her to the sofa.