Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. I don't even own Stella, only Éostrǽl.

The next morning Éostrǽl walked into the Great Hall to sit with her friends. Luna and Stella usually sat at the Gryffindor table with her and Ginny. She sat down and handed each of them a Galleon. They looked at her questioningly but she just started eating her breakfast. Luna was the first to understand.

"He loves you!", she screamed so loud that everybody in the Great Hall turned and looked at them, including Draco who smiled warmly at Éostrǽl.

"I'm right, aren't I?"

"Yes, you are.", she sighed happily.

Now Luna, Ginny and Stella let out those girlish screams again as they had done with Stella and pulled her into a grouphug. And of course they wanted to know every little detail from the last night. Éostrǽl told them willingly, of course leaving out the part about Draco being a Death-Eater and everything Dumbledore had told them. After she was done Ginny and Stella started talking about how now they'd see Éostrǽl wearing a dress soon and Luna told her how she always knew they'd get together because Wrackspurts were following the two of them all the time. Éostrǽl, Ginny and Stella laughed at this, that what exactly what they loved Luna for.

The next time was rather eventless, Éostrǽl and Draco and Stella and Blaise continued to be happy and Ginny had finally gotten Harry.

Then the night Dumbledore died came. It was a hard for Éostrǽl and Draco. She had to pretend that she was equally sad and mad at him while in secret they wrote each other every day.

At the end of the year the four girls all went to the Burrow and Luna and Stella spent most of the time trying to comfort Éostrǽl and Ginny who had been left by Harry. Then the wedding of Bill and Fleur came and Ginny, Luna and Stella hoped that they might be able to talk Éostrǽl into wearing a dress. Of course she didn't want to but she felt very bad about lying to her best friends so she did them the favour and wore a beautiful blue dress. They had a good time until the Death-Eaters showed up and they had to hide.

When September 1st drew nearer Ginny, Luna and Stella tried to convince Éostrǽl not to go back to Hogwarts since she was considered a muggleborn but she didn't just want to go into hiding and let other people do the fighting, that was not in her nature. She just said, she'd tell everyone who she really was because there was no way they'd kill a princess of Rohan, she was too valuable. So all four of them went back to Hogwarts for their sixth year. Together with Neville they brought the DA back to life and stood up the Carrows as much as they could.

Whenever Éostrǽl met Draco she would throw a loathing stare at him and so did he. But in secret they were meeting all over school and Draco tried to get her and her friends out of as much trouble as possible.

The year went on and eventually neither Luna nor Ginny could come back to Hogwarts. The girls had a really hard time being separated from each other. When Harry, Ron and Hermione arrived at Hogwarts and Ginny and Luna got back too they fell into each others arm. Seeing that scene you wouldn't think there was a war going on. But of course there was. More and more people came and the four girls wanted to leave the Room of Requirements and go fighting but they were stopped by Mrs. Weasley. Ginny was the only one of them who hadn't turned 17 yet and Molly certainly did not want her to fight. She forced Ginny to stay in the Room of Requirements but she hadn't thought of her daughter's three best friends. They helped Ginny get out and together they fought. They were not separated once and they comforted Ginny when they thought Harry was dead. But Ginny wasn't the only one who was sad. Éostrǽl had spotted Draco earlier trying to convince a Death-Eater that he was one of them. She was shocked when she saw that, she watched him the rest of the night as good as she could and saw that he didn't fight at all. She was so hurt, how many times had he told her that she changed him, that he finally was his actual self and that he desperately wanted to fight against Voldemort so they could freely be together again. And now he had betrayed her.

When the battle was finally over and Voldemort was dead most people were celebrating but Éostrǽl wasn't in the mood for that, she had lost the only boy she ever really loved. Ginny wasn't happy either since Fred had died in the battle which actually was another reason for Éostrǽl to be sad. She had really liked the boy, he had never failed to make her laugh. He had been a friend of hers.

While she was sitting there in the Great Hall, tears streaming down her face, she felt a hand come down on her shoulder. She didn't have to turn around to know who it was.

"Leave me alone, Malfoy!", she said as spitefully as she could.

"You don't have to be that way anymore, honey. It's over, we can really be together again."

"No, we can't! You betrayed me, you didn't fight though you promised you would and I saw you with that Death-Eater, trying to convince him that you're one of them."

"But..."

"No but. It's over Malfoy, I never wanna see you again."

He left and her friends looked at her curiously.

"What was that about? I thought you already broke up at the end of our 5th year.", Stella asked and finally Éostrǽl told her friends the truth. It felt really good to be able to talk about it. They sat in the Great Hall together for a long time, only leaving when everybody else left to go home. Éostrǽl went to the Burrow with Ginny, she didn't want to go home to Edoras, she wanted to be around people who felt like she did and who actually understood it. She loved Éomer and Éowyn and she missed them but right now she needed to be with her friends.

The weeks at the Burrow were very tense, everybody was still mourning Fred's death. But time went by rather quickly and September 1st arrived, the start of their last year of school. Everything was normal again, with time they got over the death of Fred and Éostrǽl more or less got over Draco.

When the exams were over and the four girls had finally mastered school Éostrǽl decided to go back to Edoras for a while. She needed a change of scenery because though she hated it a lot she was still in love with Draco and she hoped that being at home away from a world where everything reminded her of him would help her to finally forget him. When she told Ginny, Stella and Luna about her plan they immediately decided to go with her. They had always wanted to get to know Éostrǽls home and they couldn't leave her alone while she was trying to fall out of love. That required the help of your best friends.