When Hermione got a letter from Ron the next day she simply sighed over it, it told her the same thing that all the rest of his letters had. He was enjoying himself, he was safe and he would write again later. Though the story of what he had accomplished was different what she wanted to read still wasn't there. There was no 'I miss you' and he didn't ask her about how she'd been or anything like that. She grumbled into her breakfast.

"Good Morning Hermione, Ginny." Luna said in a sing-song voice. Ginny nodded because her mouth was full and Hermione smiled.

"Good Morning Luna." Hermione said pleasantly taking her attention away from the letter in front of her. "Care to sit down?" she said making room between herself and Ginny.

"That would be lovely." She said taking a seat.

Hermione looked at the letter again then put it out of her mind and turned to a conversation with Luna about the existence of Moon Frogs. Even with Luna's explanation she didn't believe in their existence but she didn't feel like arguing with the younger girl about it.

Luna could see the disbelief in Hermione's eyes but she didn't mind too much because even if she didn't believe she was listening, which, was not something Hermione had always been good at when it came to her ideas. Hermione rarely believed things she could not see or read about.

Luna faced Ginny with a smile. "You have a match tomorrow?"

"Yeah against Hufflepuff, We'll do fine I'm not too worried about it." Ginny said with a nod. "Are you going to be commentating?"

"I'm afraid not." Luna took a sip of water. "It seems the professors don't like my commentating."

"That's a shame." Ginny snickered. "Well I ought to be going we have the field for a practice this morning." She stood, "not that we need it" she add almost as an afterthought. After Ginny left Luna turned her attention back to Hermione who once again was staring off into space.

"Did you get any letters this morning?" Luna asked casually even though she already knew the answer.

"Yeah Ron sent me a letter." Hermione sighed. "What about you? Any letters?" she asked turning the subject to Luna instead.

"Katie Bell sent me a lovely letter." Luna smiled as she recalled the letter.

Hermione looked at Luna in surprise. "I never knew you and Katie were close."

"We were quite close." Luna nodded not saying anything more about it. "So what did Ronald say to you in his letter?"

"The same things he always writes. Can we please talk about something else?"

"What would you like to talk about?"

Hermione shrugged so they sat in silence for the remainder of breakfast. She felt Luna watching her but chose to ignore it. The younger girl had such odd mannerisms in Hermione's opinion.

Luna almost skipped up the stairs smiling as she headed to her classes while Hermione drug her feet silently wishing for her potions class to be cancelled. It didn't matter though, no matter how much she willed it her class still happened as did all of her other morning classes.

She almost didn't feel like going to lunch when it was time. In fact the only reason she went was because Luna sought her out and asked her to.

Hermione held her tongue but she wanted to ask the younger girl why she'd taken such a sudden interest in her. It didn't seem to matter that Hermione hadn't asked because Luna answered the question as they walked to the Great Hall.

"I enjoy being with you Hermione. It's like being with a very good friend."

"Luna you are a very good friend." Hermione insisted unsure of how else to respond.

"That's nice" her voice was soft and dreamy as normal but at the same time there seemed to be something off about it. "Would you care to join me at the lake later?"

Hermione thought about it for a moment then nodded slowly. "Sounds like fun." She knew she needed to think of something other than Ron and Luna had a way of capturing her full attention and helping her forget. "When?"

"Just before supper."

Hermione nodded again as they sat down where Ginny was already sitting.