Time skip chapter, nothing of major importance happens second year so we're just running through it really quick. Almost a filler chapter even though it was short. Also, while it is short it was annoying to write because I really want to get Dany Harry and Mia to fifth year where the fun will really start. Also this is an insomnia chapter so not up to my normal standards, I'm sure I'll have corrections in the reviews soon enough to iron it out. Regardless, please enjoy!

Dancia's second year at Hogwarts was honestly one of the most mundane things she had ever had to endure in either of her lives, there only being two memorable moments to break up the monotony coming to mind.

One, Dany facing off against someone she had saved from an ignoble death on a whim years ago and nearly forgotten about it, and two, dealing with a moronic sex offender.

Dancia entered platform 9 3/4's with her family a bit earlier then planned and slowly moved towards the Hogwarts Express while she and the others did their social duty to interact with their peers.

It was...tedious to say the least.

Still, when she stood alone for a brief few seconds and suddenly felt a presence beside her Dany couldn't help but jump and let out a quiet squeak of surprise as Luna Lovegood of all people stared at her in awe.

"You are the Twice Lived!" The dreamy eyed girl stated, thoroughly freaking Dancia out in the process.

"Err...What?" Points for eloquence not gained, where the hell were Harry and Hermione!? Looking about she saw them and Hermione's parents laughing with Sirius and Amelia, meaning she was now on her own.

Grabbing Dany by the arm Luna began dragging the snow haired witch along only to stop before a tall regal looking woman in a pantsuit, her glacial blue eyes glancing up from the papers she was reading to meet Dany's matching gaze.

Dancia felt...something... pass between her and the woman as she eventually grinned down at the small girl and let out a startled laugh.

"I knew you were real, Twice Lived, but I had no idea you would be so adorable."

Why the hell did everyone think she was adorable? It was maddening! Also twice lived? Not...anything she wanted to currently focus on. Still, with Luna gripping her arm and her friends preoccupied Dany simply let out a huff and shook her head slowly.

"I am as myself as I can be, is there something I can help you with ma'am?"

With a smirk she handed Dany a worn bit of parchment that had been handled and folded many times, and the sight of the text scrawled across it had her already pale visage go bloodlessly white.

'Greetings friend,

You have no reason to believe me, and I would not blame you in the slightest for discarding this letter, yet regardless I feel compelled to send you a warning.

To put it simply, I am a time traveler, and I wish to fix as many things as I possibly can.

Your daughter Luna is a close friend of mine, in fact when my significant other died far too young she was the first person there to console me, and stop me from doing something rather idiotic.

I love Luna, she is family to me, and being family she confided to me the deeply traumatic moment in her youth that caused her years of unending pain.

I do not know when it happened, only that it happened before she went to Hogwarts, but she witnessed you dying. You were blown up by your own experiment and she was there to witness it, covered in your blood, losing herself to her grief.

I ask only one thing, don't hurt my little sister a second time by being complacent.

-Sincerely, A Friend

Dany just stared at the letter for a time, turned to the grinning Luna, then back to said girl's mother, and felt like throwing up.

"I wrote this when I was five, how did you know I..."

Pandora Lovegood leaned down and kissed her brow before taking a step back giving the girl a soft smile, "And you had no reason to write it at all. Just know that if you ever need to talk to an adult that is willing to understand your situation, the Lovegoods are here for you."

With that she repeated the gesture with Luna, gave a teary farewell, then walked away leaving the two girls standing on their own.

Eventually Dany turned to Luna and shook her head slowly, "I...I don't... I don't understand."

Luna just grinned at that, "It's the wrackspurts, don't worry, they will go away in time."

At that, Dany just broke out into quiet hysterical laughter.

Her fucking life.

Harry's reaction to Luna after Dany introduced the small blonde to her friends was honestly rather hilarious. He had simply stared at her a moment after she had gone on a tear about Wanamingos, whatever the hell those were, and stated "Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter."

Luna's reply was an excited, "Yay, do you truly wish to subscribe to the Quibbler? Daddy knows ever so much about things people refuse to talk about!" She was hopping on her tip toes and clapping as she said this, and of course it endeared her to everyone because she was freaking adorable.

It was decided quite quickly between Harry, Dancia, and Hermione, that the small girl with strange ideas was going to be their friend, and they'd do everything they could to keep her happy.

Luna was sorted into Ravenclaw and was of course accepted with roaring applause from most of Harry's year group, she moved towards one of the empty benches but Hermione hopped up and grabbed her arm placing her firmly between herself and Dancia. Harry, Padma, and Su grinned from across the table nodding to her and she could only smile in return.

None of them would ever realize that this one act of solidarity put the small girl firmly in the 'Off Limits' zone of the bullies that plagued the school, and especially from their own house.

No one wanted to earn the ire of the Boy-Who-Lived, the niece of Andromeda Tonks, and the purported brightest witch of their generation after all.

Even if the girl was odd, it just wasn't worth it.

Ravenclaws were smart after all, and that included having survival instincts.

Life went on, boring beyond words until some time before Beltane when Dancia walked into the girls showers to see Cho Chang still fully clothed, sobbing under the running water of one of the faucets muttering to herself.

This kicked in decades of police experience and Dany did her best to appear nonthreatening to the older witch as she took a knee next to her.

"Cho? Cho!" She finally met Dany's gaze as she gave her a friendly smile, "Hey, what's wrong?"

Then Cho lost her shit, began wailing, threw her soaked through arms around Dany and began letting out crying sobs.

Bloody hell that didn't amount to anything good.

Rubbing her hands down the Asian witches back her crying eventually shifted to hiccuping sobs. Soaked through from the still running shower, and having a relatively decent idea what the young witch was freaking out about, Dany released the now somewhat calmed girl and tried to meet her gaze through the curtain of her rather sodden hair.

"Cho, what happened?"

The girl stared at the far wall for a time before she finally managed to whisper out a reply.

"I had Care of Magical Creatures today, Professor Kettleburn brought out unicorn foals for us to play with..."

O...k...

"What happened then?" Dancia asked being far more polite then she was honestly feeling at the moment, primarily blaming the cold water and her cramps.

Once again, fuck you puberty.

Cho looked shell shocked as she whispered out, "They wouldn't come anywhere near me, every time I tried to pet them they turned away. Unicorns only let virgins touch them you know! I am a virgin! I'm not a slut like the other girls are calling me! But...but...the unicorns wouldn't come near me... Which means... so that means..."

And she broke out crying again.

Dancia for one brief moment was Draco, seeing the stockades of muggle-born witches being kept tethered in their cages as playthings for Riddle's Death Eaters, and had to fight back the bile that roiled in the back of her throat. To fight back the shame that he had not helped them, that he had not at the very least ended their suffering...

Then an old theory popped into her mind as she met Cho's gaze evenly, "Cho, I need you to focus. Have you had any detentions recently? Any at all?"

The bright witch looked at her in confusion a moment before nodding slowly, "Two weeks ago, yes."

"What was it for?" Dancia asked dreading the answer yet fully anticipating it.

"I...questioned Professor Lockhart's spells, I've never heard of them before and none of them work when I tried to cast them. He got angry with me and gave me a nights detention for questioning a professor's methods..."

Dancia let out a tired sigh at that, "Do you remember what you did during your detention with him?"

Cho looked lost a moment before shaking her head slowly, "No I don't I..." Her face went milk white as her lower lip began to tremble, "OH CIRCE!"

Draco had always wondered why the hell a wealthy, successful, highly manipulative author would apply for a purportedly cursed teaching position in a school in the middle of no where Scotland for what amounted to a solid year.

He had his theories, and the worst one was now confirmed.

Cho was now freaking out and it took all of Dany's admittedly limited strength to keep her from hurting herself before she could get her to the hospital wing for an examination.

After that Dany wasted no time contacting the DMLE, and Gilderoy Lockhart was soon dragged out of Hogwarts by her Aunt and Uncle, on the charges of rape, use of unforgivables, fraud, illegal use of oblivations, and two pages worth of other infractions that had nothing to do with the school.

He was given The Kiss in the end, Dancia thought it was better than he deserved, she despised rapists more than anything after all.

Outside of that, her second year ended without any fanfare, she'd convinced Harry and Hermione to only bother taking Arithmancy, Runes, and Care of Magical Creatures with her next year, and kept Luna from being ostracized along with destroying Lockhart's life and reputation.

The only thing that really bothered her was after the ride on the Hogwarts Express at the end of the year, Cho had cornered her in the now empty car she and her friends had occupied and pulled her into a tight hug which was, while not unpleasant, very unexpected.

"Thank you, Dany," she muttered before releasing her, then leaned forward and kissed her full on the lips.

Breaking off the kiss she smiled at the shell shocked girl and walked away, leaving Dany to just stare at the wall a few moments before managing to mutter what she felt would eventually be her epitaph.

"Why do I have the strangest feeling things are about to get incredibly, irrevocably, stupid?"

Second year blitzed through, Pandora is alive and well, Lockhart is a creep, and Dany is soon going to be dealing with the "joys" of adolescence along with having a fangirl.

Mwhahahaha!

Side note third year won't be bypassed this harshly, just letting it be known, please review!