Chapter 9: Slipping
Harry sat watching the aloof Ravenclaw that had caught his eye a couple of days ago.
She was completely and utterly calm and uniquely unaffected by the fact she was outcasted by most of the population.
The only person he'd ever seen her properly talking to was Indigo, which was how the girl had gotten his attention.
She was petite and delicate, her features as pale as her blonde hair and she wore the oddest things.
Like at that moment the girl had radishes hanging from her ears, a corked necklace hanging proudly around her neck and no shoes on.
It baffled him that anyone could be so comfortable in been so odd.
"Who are you staring at like that?"
Harry turned to see Neville sit down next to him.
"Her, do you know who she is?" Harry asked pointing at the girl who was heading out of the doors.
"Luna Lovegood, she's a friend of Ginny's and Danielle's," Neville shrugged.
"Really?" Harry asked in surprise. "Then why have I only just noticed her?"
"They study together in the library. You're not usually one to venture into there," Neville chuckled.
Harry nodded accepting the explanation.
"What's so fascinating about her anyway?" Neville asked.
"Have you seen how she's dressed?" Harry snorted with a look of disbelief. "Anyone else would end up getting a heap load of shit chucked at them and yet with her everyone just accepts it, like it's expected of her. You've got to wonder just how weird she is if they accept it just like that,"
"They don't always accept it," Neville stated. "Ginny told me that some of the Ravenclaws in her year steal her stuff and that's why she walks around with no shoes. Apparently Vixen is the only one the girl can talk to in her house,"
Harry felt a strange feeling rise up in him.
No one should be made to feel like an outcaste in their own house just because they were a little different.
Two days later he walked into the library with purpose and when he spotted his two little sisters and the girl who had raised his interest he walked over and sat down without a care in the world.
Ginny and Danielle raised their eyebrows at him.
"Can we help you?" Ginny snorted with a grin.
Neville had warned her about his sudden obsession with Luna.
"It would take more than our help to help him," Danielle smirked.
Harry chuckled and rolled his eyes.
"Who's your friend?"
"Luna, this is Hadrian Malfoy, Hadrian, this is Luna Lovegood, she's a Ravenclaw in our year," Danielle answered.
"And she does not now nor ever want to get involved with you and your pranks," Ginny stated firmly.
Harry held his chest.
"You wound me Red,"
"There's no pain only amusement," Luna said simply. "You can not be wounded,"
Harry blinked and looked at her.
Her voice was as strange as she was.
"Do you regret our friendship, Red? And here's me thinking you loved me," he snorted not removing his eyes from Luna.
"I lost myself to the insanity that is the Deviants years ago, Hadrian, Luna still has a chance," Ginny snorted.
Harry looked at her with an eyebrow raised.
"You and Neville are made for each other. Both so obscene. You do not ever have to be insane to be a friend of the Deviants,"
"Insanity can be fun," Luna supplied.
"See she has the spirit unlike you two," he grinned throwing an arm around Luna.
She stared at him and blinked with a pair of wide glazed blue eyes.
Slowly, unnerved, Harry removed his arm.
She really was weird but she had an endearing quality.
"I need to get a book, help me find it?" Danielle asked looking at Ginny.
Ginny looked at Hadrian and Luna suspiciously for a moment before nodding at her best friend.
"If she's not in one piece when I come back, Hadrian Malfoy, just remember I know where you sleep and I grew up with the twins,"
Harry acted innocent with a grin on his face as she walked on.
"You are struggling,"
Harry startled looking at the Ravenclaw with surprise.
"What?"
"You are struggling with your feelings and needs. You fight off destiny because of love and yet you do not see that your love is written in the stars," Luna stated simply.
"What the hell-"
"Indigo is having the same problem. She keeps playing with her panther. I'm sad to say she feels the need to remove it. Removing it wouldn't be a good idea. If she does then the love will diminish," Luna continued as if he hadn't interrupted.
Anger washed through, Harry.
Indigo had better not remove his necklace.
A image flashed through his head of his brother and Luna together and he gaped.
Draco and Luna?
That was utter madness but then as he thought about it, it seemed completely sane as well.
He looked at her as she continued to ramble.
"Luna what do you think about Draco?" he asked her bluntly.
She looked at him, the glaze in her eyes seemed to wane for a moment.
"The dragon will be my saviour,"
Harry blinked he hadn't expected that.
"Do you have many friends?" he asked deciding not to try understand anything she'd said until he could properly think about it.
"Friends are not something I come by easily. Many believe me to be weird," she said simply. "I have a few though, Ginny, Danielle, Indigo, you,"
"The rest of the Deviants," he added.
She looked at him and blinked again.
"Our destinies were supposed to entwine, did you know that Harry?"
Harry blinked at her as she called him by the name only his mother and Godfather did.
"Your destiny would have been another had your father's actions not differed,"
He knew there and then that too much time spent around Luna would make him go around the bend.
She spoke in riddles and it was frustrating.
She smiled at him.
"I see I've confused you. I do that a lot. That's why many do not talk to me a lot,"
"Would you like to eat dinner with us tomorrow night?" he asked.
"I will check with the nargles but I should be able to," she smiled. "Your friends are looking for you,"
Blinking and nodding he rose.
"See you later Dizzy," he smirked.
She beamed at him and nodded.
Harry left feeling his temples booming.
Dizzy was the perfect nickname for her.
Nargles? What the hell were they?
He didn't even dare think about anything else she'd said.
Except one thing.
There was no way he would allow Indigo to remove his necklace.
No way in hell.
Not thinking twice he pulled out the map.
"I swear chaos will reign,"
He spotted her in the courtyard on her own.
"Chaos caused,"
Skillfuly he avoided his friends as they hunted for him and made his way down to the girl who was about to go against what he'd told her.
She was sat looking delicate and yet so strong, on the wall of the courtyard.
Her hands were behind her neck and he acted before he could think about it.
He captured her wrists removing them from the clasp and pulling them away.
She blinked looking up at her.
"You will not remove that necklace," he said firmly.
"What right do you have?" she spat.
He ran a finger down her face.
"More right than you know,"
"I was just a quick conquest to you Malfoy, it shouldn't matter what I do," she snarled.
He glared at her.
"You was and always will be more than a conquest. The Dark Lord is back, Indigo, my family is knee deep in his shit and any whisper about me loving a blood traitor would mean drastic happenings. He wants to control me and through you he'd be able to do that," he hissed.
"The summer-"
"I simply went along with your words. You would have never let me go if I hadn't. You couldn't have had much hope in the two of us if you believed it as easy as you did," he said simply.
"You can not blame this on me!" she nearly screeched.
"I wasn't," he hissed pulling her out of sight as he heard voices. "Hell! What I told you before you jumped to conclusions, that was the truth! Why is it so hard to believe that?"
"Because you're Hadrian Malfoy, no one ever knows what you're really thinking," she spat.
"I'm a Malfoy and it is required for us to have a mask but when I'm with you I have no mask. You're my weakness, Indigo and that is why we can not be together," he snapped.
She looked at him, her deep blue eyes filled with pain.
"It hurts to be away from you. If we can not be together why can you not just let me go?" she demanded.
"Because I'm a bastard, Indigo and I can never let you go," he whispered before kissing her.
AN: Sorry for the wait guys. I got caught up in writing book 6! Hope you liked the chapter and my introduction of Luna :)
cocobyrd87 - If the story has you interested then its doing it's job properly :D Thanks for the review! :D
Dragons-Twilight1992 - A bit late but more is here! :)
NCIS FTW - There is no doubt about it that Harry is a deviant Mastermind but i won't induldge you of his plans just get :) where would the fun in that be :) Glad you liked it! :)