A/N: Hey! This is my favorite one that I've written so far! I don't know why, but I just love it!
This fairytale is a Luna and George one, but that doesn't come into it until later. It's set during the Order of the Phoenix year (Harry's 5th year) sometime before Fred and George leave school.
Its also very long! I was thinking of making it 2 chapters, but changed my mind. If some of them get too long then I will make them multi-chapter fairytales, but otherwise they will be in one chapter.
Enjoy!
Sleeping Beauty:
One day when I was in the Room of Requirement with Ron, Hermione and Ginny, Luna Lovegood walked in, seemingly in a daze.
"Hi Luna!" Ginny called to her "Come sit with us."
After a minute, she replied "Hello" and sat down on the floor next to us.
"So what's going on?" Ginny asked her "I mean, why are you in here instead of anywhere else?"
"Well, I was remembering some things about my mother and our lives before she died, and I just had this strange urge to be in here." Luna told us "No idea why though."
"What kind of things, Luna?" I asked curiously.
"Well, I remember some things that my mother once told me when I was really young, but not all of the details though." Luna replied "But I don't know if what she told me was a story or not."
"Such as?" Ron asked. He still wasn't quite sure about Luna.
"Well, I believe she said something about a curse and my death. But I don't know if she said that if the two things had anything to do with each other." Luna continued.
"Wait, so your mother told you about your death?" Hermione asked, unbelieving.
"I think so." Luna replied.
"So what was the curse your mother mentioned?" Ginny asked, before Hermione could say something very unsympathetic towards Luna.
"I really don't know." Luna said "I'm not sure if it was a story or not, or really much about it. But I do remember something about sleeping forever unless a kiss is received from one that loves you, and you in return."
"That sounds more like a fairytale!" Hermione said.
"For all I know, it could be." Luna replied calmly "I think I'm getting a bit hungry. I hope there's pudding tonight." And with that, she left the Room of Requirement.
"Sometimes, she's extremely weird." Harry said after Luna had left.
"What, only sometimes?" Ron asked sarcastically.
"So how do you think you went with that last spell?" Hermione asked, her mind always dwelling on lessons.
"I'm not really sure." I replied "I think I…"
I broke off my sentence at the sound of a scream. It sounded like it came from the edge of the Forbidden Forest!
Ron, Hermione and I quickly ran towards the forest, and when we got there we found Ginny standing over the unmoving body of…
"Luna!" Ron, Hermione and I exclaimed at the same time.
"What happened?" Hermione asked.
"I don't know. I just found her like this." Ginny replied.
"What should we do?" Ron asked, panicking.
"I don't know." I replied, my mind a blank.
"I think we should take her to Madam Pomfrey." Hermione said.
"Good idea." I said, so all together, we took Luna's still body up the stairs to the hospital wing.
"Oh, goodness me!" Cried Madam Pomfrey when she saw Luna's body "What happened to the poor girl?"
"We don't know." I replied "Ginny just found her like this."
"Where?" Madam Pomfrey asked.
"Near the Forbidden Forest." Ginny told her "I went down there to escape from Michael Corner, and I saw someone lying on the ground. When I realised that it was Luna I went over to say hi but she didn't answer and she wasn't moving and I just knew that she wasn't sleeping or anything and I screamed and then Harry, Ron and Hermione found us."
"Breathe, Ginny." Hermione told her, realising that the poor girl was about to have a panic attack.
"Ok, it looks like Miss Lovegood will be staying here for awhile." Madam Pomfrey said "Now, do you think that you four could go to Professor McGonagall and get her and some other teacher's to see if they can find out what happened to the poor girl?"
Nodding our heads, the four of us left the motionless form of Luna in the care of Madam Pomfrey.
Later that night when I couldn't sleep, I decided that I might go and sit by Luna for awhile, so I went to the hospital wing. But before I could open the door to the ward, I heard voices coming from inside.
"So there was no clue as to what could have done this to her?" I recognised the voice of Professor Dumbledore say.
"None at all." Professor McGonagall replied "We searched the area where Miss Weasley claims to have found the girl, and even in the Forest itself, but there was no indication of what could have happened to her."
"It's as if she suddenly just… well, stopped moving." Professor Flitwick continued.
"What about on the girls' body?" Professor Sprout asked.
"It's not what's on her body that stumps me." Madam Pomfrey answered "I took a sample of her blood to detect for potions because there was no mark on her body at all, and there was trace amounts of something in her bloodstream."
"Such as?" Professor McGonagall asked.
"I'm not really sure." Madam Pomfrey admitted "If it's a potion then it's an unknown one. I tested it for every potion, yet it was none of them that it this to her. So I gave it to Severus to look at."
"What about you, Severus?" Professor Flitwick asked "Could you identify the potion?"
"No, I couldn't." Professor Snape replied, arrogant and as much of a git as ever "I think I'll have to agree with Poppy. It must be an unknown potion. Perhaps one that someone else made up."
"Has anyone contacted Miss Lovegood's father yet?" Professor Sprout asked.
"Yes, I sent Xenophilius Lovegood an owl as soon as I was told about Miss Lovegood." Professor Flitwick replied.
"Well, if that is all, I think that perhaps we should retire for the night and think upon it in the morning." Professor Dumbledore said.
Realising that I would be found if I stayed where I was any longer, I hurried back to the Gryffindor Common Room.
The next morning when we were in the Common Room around the fire, I told Hermione, Ron, Ginny, and the curious twins Fred and George about the things that I'd overheard the previous night.
"So they have no idea how to wake her up then?" George asked.
"From what I heard, no." I replied "But I do know that if they can't do anything for her here, then they'll take her to St Mungo's."
"I really hope it doesn't come to that." Ginny said "Luna is such a nice girl."
"Who do you think could have done this to her?" Fred asked.
"Who hates Luna?" Ron thought "Hmm, well everyone thinks she's a bit odd…"
"No, everyone knows that she's odd." Hermione butted in.
"That's not what I meant." Ron told her.
"I really can't think of anyone who would want to harm Luna." I said "Sure, like Ron and Hermione pointed out, she is different, but like Ginny said, she's a nice girl."
"Great. So we don't know what potion was used on her, how to revive her, or even who might have done this." George said.
The next day when Luna's' father Xenophilius Lovegood arrived at Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall invited Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Fred, George and myself into the hospital wing, where we found Professor Dumbledore, Madam Pomfrey and Luna's father already seated around Luna's bed.
"I knew this would happen one day." Xenophilius said "We knew ever since she was younger."
"I'm sorry. I don't understand." Madam Pomfrey said.
"When Luna was a baby, she was cursed by a death eater, my wife's cousin." He continued "The curse stated that Luna would die when she was fourteen years old by accepting a drink off a woman she had never met. Ever since that moment, my wife and I tried to find a cure for our Luna so that she wouldn't die at fourteen. I researched curses, and my wife experimented with magic. I was unsuccessful in finding a cure for Luna, but eventually my wife was able to reduce the curse to only make her sleep until she received a kiss from the one she loves, that loves her in return."
"Luna was right!" Ginny cried out.
"What do you mean?" Professor McGonagall asked.
"She said that she remembered something like that but wasn't sure if it was a fairytale or if it was a real curse." I explained.
"Well, it is a real curse." Xenophilius said "My wife continued to experiment with magic to try to rid Luna of it completely, but when Luna was nine my wife's spell backfired and it took her life."
"So the only way to break the spell would be to find someone who likes her and get them to kiss her?" Ron asked.
"Well yes, but she also had to feel the same way about them." Xenophilius said "Do you know of anyone who my daughter may have felt this way about?"
"No, I'm sorry." Ginny answered "She never told me anything like that. I'm so sorry."
"Then poor Luna will remain this way forever." Xenophilius said.
In the dead of night while I was sitting under my invisibility cloak next to Luna's bed, the door to the hospital wing opened. I decided to sit very still and hope that whoever it was wouldn't accidentally bump into me.
The shadowy person approached Luna's bed, and I realised that it was George Weasley!
He sat on the edge of her bed and held her hand.
"Luna, I really hope this works. I've really liked you for a long time, but I never thought that it would mean anything to you. I just hope this works." And with that, George leant down to her and kissed her gently.
Leaning back from her, he stared at her intently, hoping that she would open her lifeless eyes.
And it worked! In front of our eyes, the colour slowly returned to her pale skin, and her grey eyes opened.
"Luna!" George cried "You're alright!"
"George?" Luna whispered "Did you just kiss me?"
"Yes." George replied "I hoped that it would break the curse on you, and it worked. Luna, I've liked you for a while now, but I never told you the truth."
"George, I feel the same way." Luna told him.
Realising that I was witnessing something that I shouldn't, I slowly stood up and left the room, trying desperately not to knock anything over.
The next morning, Ginny and the other's decided that they wanted to check up on Luna, so I went with them.
When we opened the door to the hospital wing, we found Madam Pomfrey standing next to Luna's bed with a disapproving look on her face.
As we neared the bed, I realised that George was lying with Luna in his arms, in her bed.
"Oh my god!" Hermione gasped.
"Luna's alright!" Ginny continued.
"What on earth is George doing here?" Ron said, shocked at the sight in front of him.
"He broke the curse on her." I said softly.
"What do you mean?" Madam Pomfrey asked me.
"I saw him break the curse on her last night." I replied, and seeing the uncomprehensive looks on my friends' faces, so I said slowly to explain to Ron "George kissed Luna and broke the spell."
"Oh my god!" Hermione said again.
"George kissed Luna?" Ron asked.
"Wait, if he broke the curse, then he must love her." Ginny said.
"And she in return." I finished for her.
A/N: Hope you liked that Harry-Potter-twisted-version of Sleeping Beauty.
I'm really bad at love scenes, so please don't judge me on that!
I will try to post a new fairytale every week, but sometimes I won't be able to. Term 4 for the Year 11's is gonna be really hectic soon (we only have 6 weeks of school (I've got 4 left, I think), then exams, then Year 12 orintation, so I'll be a bit distracted! Sorry!).
BIG hugs to whoever reviews!
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