A/N I'm not 100% sure whose idea this was, mine or RM's, I think it was hers but She could convince me otherwise. Anyway, This chapter may be a bit confusing, it's rather ambiguous, but I've done it on purpose, suspense and all. If you think you can guess what it is, be my guest, I won't tell you if you're right! :) We don't own HP, enjoy!

Mama Bear and Little Bird

November 14th, 1992

Fourth Year

Five days after little Colin Creevey was attacked Luna sat down across from the girls at a table in the Great Hall. "Hello Mama Bear, Hello Little Bird," She said.

"Hey, Bunny," Jo said, not looking up from the page she was scribbling on.

"What's up, Luna?"

"I thought you might be interested in these," she said pulling several scrolls from her bag and laying them on the table. "I was in the restricted section for a question I had about Defense against the Dark Arts and I found these, I wasn't allowed to check any of them out so I copied what I thought you might like."

This wasn't exactly unusual, amid her usual oddness about blubbering humdingers and crumple horned snorkaks-animals which the girls were fairly certain didn't exist but didn't want to pop her bubble of belief-Luna was one of the cleverest people the girls had ever met. She had guessed after only two weeks what the girls were up to-protecting Harry-and instead of going to a teacher with the information, she simply pointed out flaws in their plans and came up with the occasional clever idea.

"Thanks Luna, let's see what all you found for us," Leili said, picking up a scroll the Luna had specifically nudged in her direction. Luna watched as Leili's eyes zipped over the scroll before flicking up to her, "Are you sure?" Luna smiled and pushed the other scrolls towards her older Hufflepuff friends. Leili handed Jo the scroll she'd been reading and pulled another from the pile. "We'll have to register, there's no reason for us not to," she said as she scanned the page.

"Luna, you are a genius," Jo said before turning to Leili. "I told you keeping her around would come in handy." Leili rolled her eyes at Jo with a smile.

"Did you say you needed help with Defense Against?" Leili asked while Jo read.

"Not anymore, I found my answer."

"Ok, now I really want to try this." Jo said after reaching the end of the carefully copied out scroll.

"We can at least start planning, though we probably won't be able to do anything for a while. It's complicated and it's gonna take a while."

"Complicated is my middle name!"

"And Cautious is mine. We've got to be careful with this, can't have it go wrong. …I think Luna should be with us when we start trying it, that way if something does go wrong she can get help."

"Agreed. Bunny, what say you?" Jo asked turning to look at Luna.

"Whenever you're ready!" she agreed with a grin.

It would take a month of sheer planning and then months of trial and error in between classes, they were coming up on their O.W.L's in a year and their teachers were swamping them in homework. They even considered going to Professor McGonagall for help but they were unsure that she would help them.

Once summer came, the girls would continue their attempts, though practicing only at Leili's house with her dad standing watch in case of incident. It was really the only place they could practice safely without getting notices of illegal magic use.

Aloiki wouldn't like what the girls were attempting, working at St. Mungo's had given him an up close account of what happened when spells like this went wrong. He could forbid them from doing it and he knew that they might stop for the summer but they'd just start right up again at school and he wouldn't know. Still, he would reason, at least with them under his supervision he couldn't complain that they were being smart about it; he would be ready in case of any accidents with a lecture and a reversal spell, just in case.