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It was a quiet afternoon at the Rook; Xenophilius was in London attending a meeting regarding the latest issue of The Quibbler and Luna was playing quietly in her room. Pandora had just figured out the perfect way to enhance her Wrackspurt-Repelling Charm. She was heading for her lab when she reached into her pocket and discovered her wand was missing.

That's strange, she thought. I could have sworn I put it there. She looked on the coffee table, on the chairs, next to her husband's printing press, and even under the sofa cushions. No wand. She then proceeded to the kitchen, figuring perhaps she had accidentally left it there earlier during lunch. Still it was nowhere to be seen.

As Pandora went back upstairs, she could hear a soft tapping sound coming from Luna's room. She immediately went to investigate, and sure enough there was Luna tapping the carpet with a thin wooden stick that was letting off multicolored sparks - Pandora's wand!

"Luna," Pandora told the little girl gently yet firmly, "that's Mummy's wand."

"Mummy's wand," Luna repeated.

"Yes," her mother said, gently prying the wand from the two-year-old's tiny fingers. "You do not touch this; you could hurt yourself with it and you could break it. Mummy needs this wand to do very important things. Understand?" Luna nodded. "Good. Now go play." The toddler went over to her toy box and got out some toy animals as Pandora once again made her way down to her lab to work on her Wrackspurt-Repelling Charm.

Luna knew that her mummy had told her not to touch her wand again, but that did not stop her curiosity from getting the better of her. She was too young to watch Pandora working on her magical experiments in the lab, but she had seen her use her wand for various other things like cooking meals, making things float, and turning objects different colors. The toddler wanted so badly to be able to do magic just like her mummy.

So the next day while her parents were discussing Pandora's latest experiment, the little girl once again slipped her mother's wand out of her pocket and ran up to her room, where she repeatedly tapped her bedspread in an attempt to turn it from blue to orange, saying over and over, "Owange! Owange! Owange!" Nothing happened except a few sparks erupting from the wand.

"Luna!" The toddler turned around to find her mother standing in the doorway with a very stern expression on her face. "What did I tell you yesterday?"

Luna gazed up at Pandora with her wide, silvery eyes. "No touch Mummy's wand."

"Exactly. I asked you not to touch it, and you did it anyway." Pandora placed a tiny chair into a corner of the room and gestured toward it. "I'm afraid I have to give you a time-out."

At this, Luna's eyes started welling up with tears and she began to sniffle. All she wanted was to be a witch like her mummy! She hadn't meant to make her angry!

Pandora's expression softened a bit as she placed a gentle hand on her daughter's shoulder. "Listen, sweetie. You'll get your own wand when you're older, but Mummy needs to use hers and she doesn't want anything bad to happen to it. Now you stay there until I say you can come out."

When Pandora came back downstairs, Xenophilius looked up and said, "I hope you weren't too hard on her."

I'm sure I wasn't," she replied. She shook her head sadly. "I can't believe I was so foolish as to leave my wand in my pocket where Luna could get it. I mean, you and I both know what an intelligent and curious little girl she is. I'll just have to find a better place to put it." After about five minutes she called, "Luna! You can come down now."

The small girl ran down the stairs and hugged her mother's leg, eyes red-rimmed from crying. "I sowwy, Mummy."

"It's all right, sweetheart," Pandora replied, picking Luna up and carrying her out of the sitting room. "Now let's go and get ready for dinner."

"Oh no, not again!" Pandora grumbled the very next day. "Where could my wand have disappeared to this time?! Xeno, you don't think Luna could have gotten hold of it again, do you?"

"She can't have. You disciplined her the last time she did it, didn't you? I'm sure she wouldn't take your wand again after that."

"Still, it can't have just vanished into thin air!" Pandora cried. Luna, who had been sitting on the rug drawing pictures, looked up curiously.

"Mummy's wand?"

"Yes, Luna, we're looking for Mummy's wand," said Xenophilius. "Do you know where it is?" Immediately the toddler jumped up and ran at top speed toward the cupboard where Pandora kept her potions ingredients. The cupboard was too high for Luna to reach, but she began jumping up and down while pointing to the cupboard door. Pandora walked over and opened the door to peek inside - and there was her wand, safe and sound.

"Oh there it is! Thank you, Lu-Lu!" she said happily, picking the two-year-old up and hugging her. She turned to Xeno. "I think I know what happened. I've gotten so used to keeping my wand in my pocket that I reached in there for it out of habit only to find it was missing, and I guess in my panic I completely forgot that last night I had placed it in the potions cupboard so Luna couldn't get it. She must've figured out that because I keep my potions ingredients out of her reach, I would do the same with my wand. Luna, you clever little girl!"

Luna simply smiled.

A/N: They certainly don't call it the "Terrible Twos" for nothing. At least Luna made amends for playing with her mother's wand by helping her find it in the end. Also, even the smartest of individuals like Pandora can be a bit absentminded from time to time.

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