Luna walked along the corridor, humming to herself. She swayed from side to side, drifting along, her blonde hair trailing behind her. I wonder where everyone is, she thought to herself, spinning around.

She wandered around the castle, only seeing a few people here and there. She enjoyed Christmas. It was a good time to find faeries to talk to. But the faeries, too, seemed to be somewhere else at the moment.

"I wonder where everyone is," she said to herself as she passed the Great Hall. She stopped, and looked back, peeking in the doors.

"Hey! Go away!"

Luna stepped back, surprised. Lavender Brown, a girl in the year above Luna's, glared at her from between a gap in the Great Hall's doors.

"Shouldn't you be getting ready?" Lavender said in an annoyed voice.

"Ready?"

"Yes. For the Ball." Lavender looked at her like she was crazy. A lot of people thought she was crazy.

"Oh. That would be where everyone is. Getting ready. I thought they got attacke-"

"I don't care what you think," Lavender said, with a wave of her hand. "Just leave. We're still decorating the Great Hall."

Luna watched Lavender turn around and go back into the Great Hall. She peeked through the gap and saw bright colours and streamers and – faeries!

Faeries do love dancing, Luna thought, and walked away, wandering back through the castle.

While daydreaming along a random corridor, she bumped into someone, a someone with bright, red hair.

"Oh! Hello Ron," Luna said. "A Wrackspurt must be flying around. I didn't notice where I was going."

Ron looked at her strangely, his face going rather red.

"Are you okay, Ron? Your face is beginning to match your hair. How do you do that?"
Ron looked slightly annoyed, and opened his mouth to say something, but no words came out.
"If you're going to the Great Hall, you won't be able to get in. Lavender said you can't."
Luna watched Ron, her head tilted slightly to the side. After a moment, he managed to say, "I was actually trying to find you."

"Oh, really?" She looked happy. No one usually tries to find her.
"Yes. I - Wouldueliktoogothballwitmi?" After a pause, he said, "Oh. I said that too fast, didn't I? Well-"

"Of course."
"Would – wait, what?"

"I'd be happy to go to the Ball with you. It'd be fun!" A look of pure happiness crossed her face. "I've never been to a Ball with anyone before."

"You... understood what I said?"

"Yes. Didn't you? You asked-"

"Its okay, Luna. I knew what I said." Ron smiled. It was a small, unsure smile, but a smile all the same. Luna smiled back, a large happy smile.

"I'll meet you at the Great Hall doors?" He asked.
"If you want," She replied, and then, after a moment, said, "Now I have to go." She began to walk off.
"Right, we have to get ready."
She looked back at him. "Oh, yes, that too." She continued walking, and waved back at him, before turning the corner.

He called out something else to her, but she was already too far away to hear what he said.