Draco found Luna again, by following the breeze. Oh, he knew quite well that it wasn't really the breeze, but that was how it felt, and the Ravenclaw acted like she walked on air anyway.
"Do you care, Did you care, when they took your shoes?" Draco asked bluntly.
"Yes, and no. Caring would give them power, so I hid it deep and practiced looking vacant and spacey." Luna said. "You'd be surprised what delightful secrets you learn that way."
"Care to share?" Draco Malfoy asked, as glad to not be talking about You Know Who as paying rapt attention to the actual conversation.
"No, we have bigger priorities." Adroitly changing the subject, Luna continued, "Here's the chart I've made of Hermione's whereabouts." It was a complete chart, including highlighted in red where Hermione had been two places when she shouldn't have been.
Draco leaned forward, pointing out two places where Hermione had been seen... where she really shouldn't.
"She's really in both places at once?" Draco asked, "No illusion?"
"Well, to test that, you'd have to - oh, say, knock her books over."
Draco smiled a wicked smile, "That would be a pleasure, I'm sure." Draco's smile turned into a frown, "But we also need to know whether she remembers..."
"I can get that," Luna said in her air-whispy voice. "Just need a few questions from your potions class."
"Better not to use potions, you might accidentally get labeled a genius." Draco said wryly.
"If, I get labeled a genius, I assure you it will be on my own terms." Luna said stiffly.
Draco ploughed on, "Transfiguration then!"
Luna said with a sigh, "I was thinking Herbology. Everyone knows how much I love flowers."
[a/n: second chappie today. still missing poem.
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