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Dear Luna,

I have never met anyone like you in my entire life. I mean that as a compliment and it is the first thing I want you to realize when you read this letter. Many people think you're different in a negative way, but I think you're different in an amazing way. You're unique. You aren't like most people and being different doesn't scare you. In fact, I'm not sure that anything scares you. If it does, you don't show it.

Before my fifth year, I had only passed you in the halls and seen you during meals. I had heard about you, of course, but I didn't really know you at all until the year Dumbledore's Army was started. I first officially met you on the carriages up to the school. You said that you could see thestrals. I could too, but I didn't say anything just yet. The knowledge that other people could see them, even if it was just two others, made me feel slightly better.

To be honest, I wasn't sure what you were talking about when you mentioned Nargles on the ride up to the school. I had heard a few whispers about what people called you, so I wasn't sure what to believe. You were very friendly, though and you could see the thestrals. I decided I didn't care what other people thought or said. I liked you.

As we got to know each other more, and I was so glad we did, I realized that it was so easy to talk to you. Sometimes you said things that didn't always make sense, but usually you made me smile with your words.

It was perfect timing that I got to know you right as things started to get incredibly dark. I needed a little light in all of the dark depression that was coming over the wizarding world. You gave that to me. You could make me laugh and smile even when everything else was going wrong. You always know what to say at exactly the right time and you always look at things in a different way than most people. You always look on the bright side and can find the good in anyone.

One of the qualities that I admire the most in you is that you don't care what anyone thinks and you just love being you. I've always been the kind of person who felt insecure and not good enough, especially in Potions class. Your attitude made me want to change those feelings. In addition, you always had a kind word to say and you honestly helped me to believe in myself and that I was capable of more than I gave myself credit for.

Besides all of that, you're incredibly talented, smart, witty, and an overall beautiful person. The people who don't see these qualities or don't take the time to see them, well, they don't know what they're missing. I don't think I need to tell you not to listen to them. You already do that and I'm glad you never listened or changed for anyone. It's not worth it. If I've learned anything it's that as long as you're happy with who you are, everyone else should be as well and if they aren't then it's their problem. I, for one, am so glad that I took the time to get to know you. I'm thankful for the DA, not just because it helped me to improve with spells, but it brought me closer to you.

Every one of the qualities that I just described is why I fell for you. It happened over time and by the time Christmas of my seventh year arrived, I knew I had it bad. But then you didn't come back to school. I was angry and worried that they had gotten you. I was afraid they were going to kill you. A part of me knew that if they were at least holding you captive, you would hold out fine. You would manage to see even a sliver of good in the situation; a sliver that most people wouldn't see at all.

You came back in time for the battle and before it began, I never got the chance to tell you what I had wanted to tell you for the longest time. I don't know if it was adrenaline or that supposed Gryffindor courage, or maybe even both, that made me want to find you in the middle of the battle and tell you. All I knew was that if I died, I wanted you to know I loved you. Everything else was put on hold as I searched through the rapidly crumbling castle for the one thing I knew would make everything okay: you. I finally found what I was looking for and, well, you know what happened next.

I thought I had made a fool of myself at first since you didn't answer right away, but when you smiled and kissed my cheek, I felt like I was on top of the world. I felt like I could take on Voldemort and every Death Eater single handedly.

To be honest, you've changed my life, Luna Lovegood, and I hope you know how much I appreciate the fact that you accept and love me for who I am, something that you do so well with yourself and others. It makes me glad that you're so comfortable in your own skin, because I don't want you to ever change. You give a different perspective on life and can brighten up anyone's day in a matter of seconds. I've come to realize over the past few years that sometimes those things are exactly what people need.

Love, Neville