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Birds and Ghosts

The next morning all of the girls woke up early and went down to the common room, so that they could talk in private without having to worry about the two gossip queens of their year, Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown, over hearing them.

Momoko sat down in one of the chairs in front of the fireplace, with Luna sitting down on her lap. Miyako and Hermione sat in the other two chairs in front of the fireplace, while Kaoru leaned against Miyako's chair.

Hermione was the first to speak up "Who is she, Momoko? I've never seen her before last night."

Luna started to curl up into Momoko's lap thinking that the other girls might not like her.

When she did this Momoko wrapped her arms around her "Her name's Luna Lovegood. I found her alone and crying in an empty classroom. She told me that her housemate's had locked her out last night."

Miyako and Hermione gasped, while Kaoru looked like she wanted to hurt someone.

"Luna, what House do you belong to?" Miyako asked the girl in a soft voice.

"I'm in Ravenclaw" Luna replied in a quite voice.

"Why would anyone in Ravenclaw do anything like that? Aren't they suppose to be the House of intelligence," Kaoru asked with a very confused look on her face.

"I don't know. They've been doing it to me since the first day of classes" Luna sniffed.

"Have you told a Professor about what your housemate's are doing to you?" Hermione asked her.

Luna shook her head "A note was left on my bed after the first night I was locked out. It said that if I told a Professor they would do worse things to me than lock me out."

"Luna, you should have told a Professor anyway. It's the only way to get them to stop doing those things to you" Momoko told her as she gave her a hug.

"I can't. If they find out something bad will happen," Luna said as she turned and started to cry into Momoko's chest.

"You don't have to worry about that. If they try to do anything to you just come to us and we'll protect you," Kaoru said while trying to give the girl a reassuring smile.

"You would do that for me?" Luna asked after she turned to look at them.

"Of course. No one should be bullied" Miyako told her with a gentle smile.

Luna looked at her and then turned her gaze to the other three girls before she started crying again "Thank you. I didn't think anyone would be this kind to me. No one in my house has been this kind to me. They all call me Looney Luna and I don't know why."

"We'll never call you Looney. You'll always be Luna to us, because we're your friends. Will you allow us to take you to a Professor to tell them about what's been happening to you?" Momoko asked her as she gave her another hug.

Luna nodded before they all got up and left the Gryffindor common room.

The group headed to the Charms classroom to try and find Professor Flitwick the Head of House Ravenclaw. When they got there they found the Professor was conjuring some pillows.

"Umm…Professor can we talk to you?" Hermione asked after they entered the classroom.

Professor Flitwick turned around and gave them a smile "You can come and talk to me anytime girls, you know that. So, what did you want to talk about?"

"Well Professor there's someone we think should talk to you" Momoko said as she gave Luna's shoulder a squeeze before she nudged her forward.

The Professor looked at Luna briefly before he smiled "Ah, Luna Lovegood. One of my new first years."

She nodded her head hesitantly. She then took a few deep breaths before she told him what had been happening to her since she started school.

Professor Flitwick looked at her with a very concerned face. "I thank you for bringing this to my attention. If anything like this happens again I want you to come straight to me."

Luna nodded.

"Now, why don't you girls go down to the Great Hall and get some breakfast" the Professor said as a small smile returned to his face.

The girls thanked him before they took his advice and headed down to breakfast. When they got to the Great Hall they saw the boys already there eating breakfast. They headed over to them bringing Luna along with them. The girls took their usual spots at the table with Momoko having Luna sit next to her. The boys all looked at the new addition to their group curiously.

"What's Luna doing with you" Ron asked them with a hint of confusion in his voice.

"How do you know her, Ron?" Kaoru asked him.

"Her family lives near mine. She's been over a few times to hang out with me and Ginny" he replied as he went back to eating breakfast.

"Not to be rude, but why is she with you four and why haven't I seen her in our common room before" Neville asked while looking at the new girl of the group.

"The reason you've never seen her in the common room before is because she is was sorted into Ravenclaw and not Gryffindor. She's with us because Momoko found her crying in an unused classroom last night, because her housemate's locked her out of her house's common room. We don't think that was right. We're going to be her friends and make sure this doesn't happen to her again," Miyako told the boys with a slight harshness to her voice.

"You don't have to look after me. I'm just glad that you want to be my friends" Luna said in a whisper that they could barley hear.

Harry turned and looked at her with a smile "Luna, looking out for each other is something friends do for each other without asking."

Luna looked at him and then at the rest of the group around her. They all were looking at her with kind smiles and nodding. She broke down in tears again as she realized that she had found some true friends.

Momoko put her arm around the girl to try comfort her. "There, there Luna. Just remember that we're here for you if you ever need us. Now we should finish breakfast so we can hurry and get to class."

Luna wiped her eyes and nodded, before she started on her breakfast.

The others went back to eating there's as well.

One Saturday night in October found the companions sitting in the Gryffindor common room doing their homework.

Luna was sitting with them doing her homework. She had been hanging out with the group every chance she got since Momoko had found her. In fact she had been sleeping in Momoko's bed since that night.

After a while Harry returned from Quidditch practice covered in mud and rainwater. He headed upstairs to get cleaned up and about twenty minutes later joined them to complete his homework.

"What took you so long? The rest of the team arrived back forty-five minutes ago" Ron asked him as he worked on his Potions homework.

"Filch caught me in the halls when I stopped to talk to Sir Nick. He took me to his office and started to fill out some parchment work to give me a detention. Sir Nick got me out of it by talking Peeves into destroying some cabinet above Filch's office. I thanked him after that and he invited us to his deathday party on Halloween night" Harry told them as he pulled out some parchment, a quill, an inkbottle, and his Charms book.

"A deathday party? I bet there aren't many living people who can say they've been to one of those – it'll be fascinating!" Hermione said with a little bit of excitement in her voice.

"Why would anyone want to celebrate the day they died?" Miyako asked as a small shiver that ran down her back.

"It's probably the same reason we celebrate our birthday. Our birthday is the day we came into the world. The same could be said for ghosts and the day they died" Luna replied as she looked up from her History of Magic essay she had been writing.

The others stared at her with slightly surprised looks on their faces.

"Luna has a point and so does Hermione. I say we go to Sir Nick's party and enjoy ourselves," Momoko said as she smiled at Luna.

Takaaki rolled his eyes "We all know why you want to go to the party Momoko and it's not to see what a deathday party is like."

Momoko blushed as everyone else started laughing.

"Okay, so I want to get some cake is that a crime?" Momoko asked as they stopped laughing.

"It is if you do like that one time back home" Kaoru replied with a smile.

Momoko crossed her arm "You get a little carried away once and they never let you live it down."

That started everyone laughing again.

When Halloween arrived Harry started to have second thoughts about going to Sir Nick's deathday party.

The girls on the other hand were quite excited about it and reminded him that he had promised Sir Nick he would be there.

At seven the group walked past the Great Hall and towards the dungeons. When they got to the passageway that lead the Sir Nick's party, they found it lined with tall black candles that burned blue. As they walked down the passageway the temperature dropped and they started to hear what sounded like hundreds of fingernails scrapping on a chalkboard.

"What's that sound?" Neville asked as he grabbed Kaoru's hand.

"I'm not sure but it's really creepy" Momoko said as they continued down the corridor.

When they reached the end of the corridor and turned the corner they saw Sir Nick standing next to a doorway hung with black velvet drapes.

As they approached him he bowed. "Welcome, welcome… so pleased you could come" he told them as he led them inside.

It was an incredible sight. The dungeon was full of hundreds of pearly-white, translucent people, waltzing to the dreadful quavering sound of thirty musical saws. A chandelier overhead blazed midnight blue with a thousand more black candles. Their breath rose in a mist before them; it was like stepping into a freezer.

"Shall we have a look around?" Harry asked the others.

They nodded while Miyako added, "Watch out for the ghosts and try not to walk through anyone."

As they walked around the room they saw many different ghosts; gloomy nuns, a ragged man wearing chains, the Fat Friar, a knight with an arrow through his forehead, and the Bloody Baron.

Hermione stopped them abruptly "Oh, no."

"What's wrong?" Takaaki asked her.

"It's Moaning Myrtle" Kaoru grumbled.

"Who?" asked Ron as they began to back up the way they came.

"She's a ghost who haunts one of the toilets in the girls bathroom on the second floor. We've tried to befriend her, but she's rebuffed us every time. For some reason she thinks we're trying to befriend her so we can make fun of her" Miyako said with a sad smile.

At that moment Ron and Momoko noticed a long table covered in food. The two of them rushed towards it followed closely by the others.

All of them stopped short when they were overpowered by an extremely powerful stench. They looked closer at the table and saw that all of the food on it was rotten and decaying. In the center of the table was an enormous gray cake in the shape of a tombstone, with tar-like icing forming the words 'Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, Died 31st October, 1492'.

They watched as a portly ghost approached the table, crouched low, and walked through it with his mouth open, passing through a rotting fish.

Luna walked up to the ghost after he was done "Can you taste it if you walk through it?"

"Almost" the ghost told her before he drifted away.

"Can we move? I think I'm going to be sick," Momoko told them with a very pale face.

When they turned around they saw Peeves the Poltergeist tormenting Myrtle. They were about to try and stop him but at that moment Sir Nick appeared next to them.

"Enjoying yourselves?" he asked with a smile.

They all nodded with slight smiles on their faces.

"Not a bad turn out" said Sir Nick proudly. "The Wailing Widow came all the way up from Kent…It's nearly time for my speech, I better go and warn the orchestra…"

As he floated away the orchestra fell silent as a hunting horn sounded. They watched as a dozen ghostly horses burst trough the wall, each ridden by headless horsemen. The assembled crowd started to clap as they rode around the room before they stopped on the dance floor.

The largest of the riders got off his horse and put his bearded head onto his body. He then approached Sir Nick and started to talk to him. As the two talked to each other Harry and the others left the room, having decided that it was finally time to head back upstairs to the Great Hall.

When they reached the entrance hall Harry stopped and started to look around like he was in a panic.

"What's wrong Harry?" Hermione asked with a bit of concern in her voice.

"It's that voice again" he told them. Harry then ran up the main stairs to the first floor.

"Where are you going?" Ron asked as they all followed him.

He continued onto the second floor shouting, "It's going to kill someone!" He ran down the halls of the second floor until he came around a corner onto a deserted corridor.

Kaoru grabbed his arm to stop him "What are you doing? Who's going to kill someone?" she asked him with concern in her voice.

"Yeah, none of us heard anyone but you" Neville said.

Before Harry could say anything Miyako gasped and pointed at the wall "Look!"

On the wall shining in bright red letters was the words 'THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.'

"What's that?" asked Luna pointing at something hanging from underneath the message.

They looked at it closer they saw that it was Mrs. Norris, the caretaker's cat. She was stiff as a board, her eyes wide and staring.

As they stood there staring at the wall they noticed a huge puddle of water in front of it. At the same time they heard the chattering of voices. Before they could leave there fellow students surrounded them on both sides. All of them standing and staring in silence at the seen before them.

Then one voice spoke up "Enemies of the heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods!"

Everyone knew it was Draco. He sounded like this was the greatest thing to happen in his life as he stood in front of the crowd with a grin on his face.

A/N: Here's the latest chapter. I hope everyone enjoys it.

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