Hey everyone! I need a new catchphrase... Anyway, this chapter is dedicated to Away-with-the-faries for the new ideas. Thank you, you rock. First chapter of 2011, here we come!

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Luna was happy. Daddy had written to tell her that the Quibbler were going to publish a rare creatures special. It was going to feature heliopaths, nargles and even Crumple-Horned Snorkacks! There was a cloud outside shaped like one. A dark spot flew through it, there must be a Quidditch practice. Luna liked Quidditch, her mother had taught her to play, Luna wasn't terribly good but she could fly. She had met Ginny at her flying lessons.

Ginny was a good flyer. Luna wondered how that was, as Ginny didn't own a broom of her own until her eleventh birthday. A year really didn't give one that much practice. However, Luna had heard that Harry Potter had been put on the Gryffindor Quidditch team by Professor McGonagall after his first flying lesson. So maybe flying was hereditary. Luna had inherited more of her father's looks as opposed to her mother.

Luna looked back though the window. There really was a nice view. She could see the Herbology greenhouses. Luna had an essay in Herbology due. She was going to library, to do it. That was where she was going... Luna walked on to the library, she was sure she'd find it eventually. A bushy haired girl with large front teeth was power-walking in the same direction, with her back to Luna.

"Excuse me, do you know where the library is?" Luna asked.

The girl turned around. In her hands, she was holding a piece of paper and a small hand mirror.

"Yes, it's just down the side passage way in the Defence corridor and down the steps on the right, the steps to the left just keep on going and never stop, like the walls that pretend to have doors but don't," she smiled, "just follow me, I'm Hermione Granger, by the way,".

"Luna... Lovegood," she added as an afterthought.

Luna followed Hermione to the Library, and noticed that she was carrying a heavy book under her arm. It was dark green with silver fastenings and the cursive on the cover said that it was called Dark Creatures. Luna hoped it included heliopaths, they could be very dangerous. In her hand Hermione had a small piece of parchment with writing on it and in her other hand was a palm-sized muggle hand mirror. Maybe she was trying to summon a sserxe strawgoh, they were very pretty.

They were going down the stairs now, the right ones, to the Library. Hermione bid her goodbye at the front desk and handed the book in. As Hermione handed over the book, Luna noticed that the ends of the bottom of the book were slightly crumpled and there looked like the bottoms of, if not whole, pages had been ripped out. Luna looked at the library. It was delightfully massive. There seemed to be whole shelves dedicated to Herbology.

Luna heard a quiet sobbing sound with occasional mumbles and the odd hiss and rasp. It was coming from the next shelf over. The long, flaming red hair gave it away at once, it could only have been Ginny Weasley. She was sitting down on a stool that two low for her with a vacant expression her face. Her eyes were red and puffy and there were tear tracks down her face. Ginny hissed again and another tear ran down her cheek.

"Ginny, Ginny," Luna walked up to her and tried to get her to respond. Luna shook her shoulder gently. Something wasn't right. She grabbed Ginny's hand and persuaded her to stand and follow Luna. She asked a Hufflepuff boy where the Hospital Wing was and he told her. Ginny was very strange, she was just following Luna, who was dragging her by the hand. Her eyes were glassy, and sporadic tears leaked down her face.

As they get to the Hospital Wing, Madam Pomfrey was very irritated, Nearly Headless Nick had floated through the wall. Luna let go of Ginny's hand to get Madam Pomfrey, but when they returned Ginny was nowhere to be found. Luna lost twenty-five points from Ravenclaw. Luna walked back through the corridors, past a crowd of people staring at Harry Potter and proclaiming that he was the heir of Slytherin. It was only later that night that Luna heard the terrible news.

Penelope Clearwater and Hermione Granger had been petrified.

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OK, so Away-with-the-faries, did I do a good job? Originally, Luna was just going to comfort Ginny at the end of the year, after everything had happened, but this came out instead. I'm an awful updater, so (and I know this is ages away) I'll try to have another chapter up by the twentieth.

There is a cameo up for grabs, if someone can give me a new catchphrase. I'm counting on you guys.

Katie