As the days wore on, everyone became increasingly curious about Rox.

"Do you think he might be mute or deaf or something?" Ron asked as he, Harry, and Hermione sat at the Gryffindor table eating their lunch.

"How can he be deaf? He heard us talking," Hermione said shrewdly.

"I'm more worried about his back. No one should be able to be slammed into a wall that many times and walk off like it's nothing," Harry said remembering back to their last practice.

"Alright fine, maybe he's not deaf, and he has strong bones, but what has me even more curious and somewhat worried is how Loony can have a full conversation with him. I mean- look!" Ron exclaimed quietly.

"It's Luna" Hermione scowled before the three of them looked over at Rox and sure enough, Luna was sitting across from him, talking and occasionally giggling. Rox was looking directly at her; his lips were not moving.

"What's even weirder is that she's talking and acting like a normal person and not like…Loony- ow! You think she might just be making up answers in head? Like how little girls sometime talks to their dolls?" Ron asked thoughtfully earning glares from Harry and Hermione.

Breaking from his glare, Harry nodded slowly, "Even you have to admit that Luna is acting strange, even for her, Hermione" Harry said.

"Yes that is true. Maybe she has some way to speak to him, like reading his thoughts or something?"

"Let's see…Oi Ginny!" Ron called and waved Ginny over.

Ginny, who had just entered, walked over and sat down with them, "What's up?"

"Does Luna know any Legilimency?" Ron asked.

"I don't think so…why?" Ginny asked curiously.

"Because if you would look over there," Harry said as he pointed over to Luna and Rox, "I can't hear him and I don't see his lips moving, but apparently Luna can hear and understand him perfectly," Harry finished.

"And on a further note, Luna is acting…different. She's talking like a normal person!" Ron exclaimed.

"You said her actual name! And she IS a normal person!" Hermione hissed before receiving looks from her three friend, "Okay maybe not really normal, but still,"

"I have been noticing that too," Ginny said breaking the brief moment of silence, "The thing is, you can see Rox's facial expressions change while he's "answering" Luna's questions so he has to be communicating with her somehow. Watch,"

On the far end of the table, Luna was trying to get to know Rox a little more and apparently she was learning a lot despite his silence.

"So where did you go before coming to Hogwarts?"

Rox looked at her but said nothing.

"Ooh! I never heard of that place before. Is it in Europe?"

Silence.

"Wow, that's very interesting. I never thought there would be places like that out there. How do you like Hogwarts?"

A small smile appeared on Rox's face.

"Yes most people here are very kind, even though they tend to steal my stuff a lot,"

Rox's face darkened.

Luna quickly held up her hands as she said, "Oh don't worry! I always find them in the end! No harm done! So did you have any friends back there?"

Rox's smile disappeared as he nodded.

"Tell me about them!"

Rox stopped looking at her and down at his plate as Luna's smile slowly began to fade and tears began welling in her eyes.

"Oh…I'm sorry…That's horrible…" Luna said quietly looking down as tears began to build.

Rox looked up in surprise and quickly snatched as clean towel and wiped the tears off.

Luna looked at him and he smiled and she smiled as well.

Harry and his friends had been watching the whole exchange from their spot.

"Okay what was that all about?" Ron asked.

"It doesn't matter. Now we know that he is communicating with her somehow," Ginny replied.

"Of course it matters! I have never seen Luna cry before! What did he say that drove Luna to tears?" Hermione asked frantically.

"It has something to do with his friends I think," Harry said slowly, "It was when Luna mentioned his friends, is when this happened. What do you think Ron?"

"I think….Luna has the hots for Rox," Ron said confidently earning a groan from everyone.

"We're talking about Rox right now and all you can think about is how they have a budding romance? Who are you? Romilda Vane?" Hermione said incredulously.

"Oi! I'm not very intuitive about this stuff so I see this as an accomplishment," Ron replied with equal confidence.

"So you consider becoming a girl an accomplishment…" Ginny suggested slowly as Hermione began to laugh. Even Harry chuckled a little bit.

Ron scoffed as Harry said, "We can always ask Luna a bit later and there's also practice coming up so we can find out more about him then,"

"If he doesn't break his back first; his magic is horrible! It even worse than me with that broken wand I had awhile ago," Ron said.

"I think his wand might be the problem. It might not be the right wand for him," Hermione said thoughtfully.

"Or maybe it his confidence that's the issue; all kinds of magic needs confidence to perform correctly," Ginny said adding in her own idea.

All of a sudden, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny heard a laugh that they had never heard before. They looked over to see Luna covering her mouth and shaking all over as Rox was grinning at her.

Harry and the gang all looked back at each other with their mouths hung open.

After a long moment of silence, both Ginny and Hermione stood up and began walking over to Luna and Rox.

"Oh boy…" Harry sighed as He and Ron got up to follow the two girls.

As they were about to approach the two, a horn sounded signaling the end of lunch. Hermione and Ginny stopped walking as Harry and Ron kept walking toward Rox and Luna who were beginning to get up. Ginny hand shot up and caught the collar of Ron's sweater and Hermione's hand did the same to Harry and, with disappointed and tired faces, dragged both of them out of the Great Hall.

Later that day, Harry caught Luna in the halls and decided that it was a good of time as ever to ask her about Rox.

"Hey Luna," Harry said, walking in pace with her.

"Oh hello Harry. How are you today?" Luna said; her voice aloof and soft as ever.

"I'm doing fine," Harry responded not wanting to get to the point just yet, "And you?"

"I'm doing well….I saw a pair of Blibbering Humdingers this morning. Very odd of them to come so close to school grounds…" Luna answered.

Deciding to ignore the Humdingers, harry said, "I saw you talking to Rox this morning,"

"Yes I know; your entire group was staring at us for the entire time." Luna said serenely.

Harry winced at this; he had forgotten how perceptive Luna can be, "Did he say anything to you?"

"Oh yes! He said lots. You should really talk to him. I think you two have a lot in common…"

"But he never talks, I haven't seen him even open his mouth," Harry exclaimed.

Luna responded to this by giving Harry a puzzled look before saying, "I would have assumed that you would hear him loudest of all. The next time you talk to him, you should listen to what he has to say. He's been through more pain than you have, you know,"

This left Harry stunned as she kept on walking down the hall and away from him. At first Harry was just curious because he wanted to get to know all of the DA, but now his curiosity truly peaked.

Does anyone ever have those moments where something that has always been there when one doesn't have a need or much interest in it, but somehow disappears when the need for it finally arises? Well Harry was having one of those moments; this time however, it was with Rox. Harry couldn't find Rox anywhere. He and his friends scoured every classroom and hall, but Rox was nowhere to be seen. Even Luna, who has keeping a look out, did not see him.

"He's not allowed to leave the school is he?" Ron said annoyingly.

"He shouldn't be able to…maybe the Room of Requirement?" Hermione suggested.

"Not there either," Ginny said tersely as she walked up to them, "I just came from there; no sign of him,"

"Where could he be?" Harry asked himself aloud.

"Look, we have DA tonight and he is bound to be there. You can talk to him then," Hermione said.

"Yeah mate, don't worry about it," Ron reassured.

"Yeah…you're right. Speaking of which, DA is going to start in two hours so might as well head there now," Harry sighed.

They all began to walk towards the Room of Requirement, when Ginny noticed that Luna was staying behind.

"You all go on ahead, I have one last place I want to look around," Luna said before walking the opposite direction.

With a shrug, Ginny turned around and ran down the hall to catch up with the others.

Somewhere that feels like home…Luna thought while she was walking.

Rox was sitting outside on top one of the bell towers overlooking the courtyard as well as the fields outside of Hogwarts. The evening sun fell upon him as twilight dawned upon Hogwarts.

"Does this remind you of home?"

Rox gave a start only to slowly relax again when he realized who it was.

"Your home must be beautiful if it looked like this," Luna said as she stepped up beside him.

Rox looked up to the orange sky and smiled. He took out his wand and pointed towards his dorm. Immediately, two bars of ice cream flew up to him. He handed one to Luna.

Luna unwrapped it and took a bite. It was salty, yet sweet at the same time.

"This is delicious! What flavor is this?" Luna asked happily, savoring the ice cream.

Rox grinned at her before taking a bite out of his own ice cream.

"Sea salt? I never thought ice cream could be made with salt," Luna said still eating her ice cream.

Rox gave a little shrug before continuing his dessert.

"I always knew you could use magic just fine!" Luna said as she realized that Rox just used a spell with no problem whatsoever.

Rox only gave her a wink in response causing her to laugh.

After a long moment of eating their ice cream in silence Luna slowly asked, "Please tell me. What was your home called?"

Rox looked at Luna and gave a soft smile before turning back towards the sunset.

Harry and his three friends watched as the Room of Requirement slowly began to fill with people. Harry kept looking at the door waiting to see if Rox would show or not. Sure enough Rox and Luna entered the room. Luna walked over to her Ravenclaw classmates as Rox took his place against the pillar.

After taking count, Harry said, "Alright everyone, you all knows what you need to do. Get to it," the crowd began bustling to work on the places that needed improvement.

Rox promptly began working on his offensive, resulting in multiple explosions. Harry quickly ran over to check on him.

"Rox! You okay?" Harry asked worriedly as Rox slowly got up from the ground. This time Harry put his full focus onto Rox as he strained not only his ears, but his heart in an effort to somehow feel the pain that Rox has apparently been through.

On the outside, it looked like Rox didn't say anything, but Harry heard him clear as a small bell. -Still needs a lot of work.-

Harry was shocked to finally "hear" his voice. Harry could instantly tell that his voice could sound very kind as well as horribly angry when needed be, "What does?" Harry asked.

Rox looked up at him surprised that he could hear him. You can hear me?

"Yeah, as clear as day. I'm surprised that I couldn't hear you before. Now what are you working on?" Harry asked inquisitively.

Rox quickly cleaned off his surprised look gave Harry a serious look.

Harry, who had been listening, widened his eyes, "That's very advanced! I'm not sure if even Hermione can do that!"

Rox gave Harry a frustrated look as he stood up and kept on perfecting his spell.

"Well be sure to show the DA and I if you complete it," Harry said before going to check on everyone's progress. He felt extremely satisfied with the fact that he can now here and talk with Rox. As he walked past everyone, Ron and Hermione jogged up to him.

"You can hear him now?" Hermione asked curiously.

Harry nodded quickly grinning at them.

"Well don't keep us in the dark mate! How?" Ron asked.

Harry looked at him and said, "Just listen,"