LUNA POV
Back at home, Luna was under some stress. She was still feeding her father that lie to explain why she had been late to get home from school. He had believed her easily and without a doubt, which made her feel even worse.
So every day she woke up extra early to make him his breakfast to make herself feel better about the whole ordeal. It had been about 5 weeks since that night. And the other nights following that were sometimes filled with crying after nightmares of Draco Malfoy.
Suddenly, Luna wasn't feeling so well. It was definitely the opposite of perfect condition. The next minute she was running into the bathroom and puking into the toilet. After she was over Luna was sure to clean up everything. But that still didn't clean up the suspicion in her mind. I can't have just had.. I can't be.. Oh my god, is Malfoy really that fertile?
What could she do?
"Luna? Is breakfast ready?" a shout erose from another room. Her father! She never told him the truth about what happened, how would he react when he would find out that she had been lying?
"I'm coming!" Luna lied. She had actually dropped the tray holding the meal. But she just picked up the fruits and silently thanked her father's habit of not drinking anything at breakfast. Otherwise she'd have to clean up a mess. But that would be the least of her troubles anyway.
"Here you go" Luna announced as she placed the tray onto her father's willing hands. He smiled. "Thats my perfect daughter" and kissed her on the cheek. The kiss felt like burns on Luna, as if she was betraying her father. Perfect daughter? She felt a sinking feeling in her stomach.
After her father went to work she immediantly got down to thinking. How could she not have noticed about not getting her period? But.. maybe it wasn't what she thought. Perhaps she wasn't pregnant. She hoped with all of her might that she wouldn't be pregnant. After all, you can't just get knocked up on your first night! And it doesn't help if you were drunk at the time. ..Right?
She would get help. Hermione knew everything (in the common sense, she refused to believe in other real things such as Nargles for some strange reason however) and she could know a spell or potion to find out if she was pregnant. Now, she knew that Hermione was staying at The Burrow. So Ginny could help too.
I'll owl them a letter. I can't put too much in it in case anyone else reads it. Luna suddenly began writing as quickly as she could.
Ginny POV
Back at The Burrow things were going rather.. well not so good for Ginny. Harry was back but they hadn't interacted much. But she had an idea for his birthday, something he would remember her by. Because she had a hunch that he, Hermione, and Ron would be going somewhere and it wouldn't be a quick trip to Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.
Suddenly an owl came, crashing through the window. Her father murmured something that sounded like "Don't see why wizards can't use mail. It's such an interesting concept and they don't make messes" and quickly fixed it with a Oculus Reparo. Ginny looked at the envelope, that had been thrown on the floor. It said "To: Ginny and Hermione".
This looks important. She was looking down at the envelope and walking to the kitchen when she bumped into Harry. "Sorry" they blurted out at the same time while Ginny tried to avoid his piercing beautiful green eyes and he tried to avoid hers (she could only guess and hope as, said before, Ginny had been trying to not look at him). They moved their seperate ways. She tried to not let out a sigh as she reached the kitchen and Hermione.
"Hey, we've got a letter" Ginny announced, wondering if Hermione knew who it was from or what it was about. She showed her the envelope. "Open it" were Hermione's simple logic of the day.
The letter was written on a messy piece of paper, like it had been scribbled on quickly before owling it. It screamed urgent. Ginny read it aloud.
"Hello Ginny and Hermione. I can't say much now but could I come over to The Burrow soon? Tommorow would be excellent. I'll explain when I'm there but I really need to make sure of something that I hope is not true. Hope the Wrackspurts don't make your brain fuzzy, Luna."
After she finished reading Ginny put the letter down and Hermione picked it up. Her eyes scanned through it as if she were looking for errors.
"What could be so important that she couldn't say it through owl?" Ginny found herself thinking out loud. Hermione put took her eyes off of the paper and shrugged. Ginny knew that it was hard for her friend to not know the answer to the question.
"Its certainly very important. She sounds like herself but.. Perhaps its why I never saw her coming on the train back home.. I must have been too busy to notice with apparating the books of hor-" Hermione muttered and broke off suddenly. She turned a bright red and said "Books of.. erm.. hormones. It was for an assignment".
Yeah, right. Really, Hermione was a horrible liar. Ginny just pretended to go along with it.
"I'll answer that tommorow is fine" she said, and wrote a reply to Luna's letter. She used Pigwidgeon and the perky little owl was soon happily flying.
Ok, first of all, I want to say I payed extra attention to using the correct timing so that this part of the fanfic would go along well with the actual last Harry Potter book. School was out on the 3rd week of June, and then I added 5 weeks later. That would be around July 13-19, 1997. Harry's B-day is the 19, and this is supposed to be before that. So this day shall be deemed the 14th of July.
I know that the Ginny POV was about as long as Luna's, but I quite enjoyed doing her and Hermione. Hope you liked it at least half of how much I enjoyed writing it :)
Hermione meant to say horcruxes, and when she apparated books about them after Dumbledore's funeral but since it was a secret she couldn't really tell Ginny (obviously).
