A/N: Last Chapter... I'll post S&L 4 in a sec.

The exact word count excluding the A/N's is 29,893 so i'm happy with that,

I wasn't completely sure how to end it, but I thought that a visit to Luna would suffice,

Enjoy ;-)

Chapter 40 – Visiting Luna

Larissa had been at the Burrow for a few days, and had told no one of her encounter with Draco, and she didn't intend to. Harry and Hermione had told her about how Umbridge had been carried off by a group of Centaurs, also that Dumbledore was back, and Umbridge was gone. That had made Larissa laugh, and cheered her up some what, although she was rather quiet, which for Larissa was rare. No one mentioned Voldemort, or the Death Eaters, or anything that could be related to Bella (or at least not in front of her anyway). The subject was sometimes hard to avoid though, since it was now all over the Daily Prophet that Voldemort was back.

The Burrow wasn't quite the same without Fred and George, but they were busy with their newly purchased shop in Diagon Alley, so they had only visited a handful of times. The atmosphere was slightly different now that it was out in the open that Voldemort was back, and the news paper articles didn't help a lot.

They were almost half way through the holidays, and it was a hot day, and Harry, Ron, and Ginny were playing Quidditch, while Larissa and Hermione were cheering them on from the side, they weren't particularly fond of flying, and one of Larissa's first experiences had been when she had fallen off of her broom and gotten quite badly hurt, she carefully avoided talking about it when Harry asked her why she didn't want to play, as he still blamed himself.

After they had finished, Harry, Ron, and Hermione went up to Ron's room, so Ginny and Larissa decided to go and visit Luna for a while, so they made their way up and down a few hills, before they came to an oddly shaped and decorated house, that Larissa thought was the exact kind of house that Luna would have lived in. They walked up to the front door, and knocked on it.

Xenophilius Lovegood opened the door and greeted them,

'Is Luna in?' Ginny asked

Xenophilius nodded, and walked inside, beckoning them in. They went into what must have been the living room, and sat down. Xenophilius went up the stairs, and Luna soon came down them,

'Hello Ginny and Larissa,' she said dreamily,

'Hello Luna,' they replied

'Do you want to come up to my bedroom?' she asked

'Yes please,' Ginny said, Luna lead them up to her room, it was lilac and had what looked like paintings of Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Neville, and Larissa, all linked by the same word, painted in golden, linking the pictures together like chains 'friends'.

They stayed with Luna for a while, talking about nothing in particular. Luna told them about how her father had taken her to the mountains to see if they could find any Crumple-Horned Snorkacks, or whatever they were. It had been vaguely interesting at first, but Larissa had taken to observing Luna's bedroom, the wardrobe was slightly open and Larissa could see a few brightly coloured clothes hung up in it. On her chest of drawers, was a jewellery stand, from it hung her radish earrings, and her bottle cork necklace, and a few other things. Next to them, was some kind of muggle bead kit, so Larissa assumed that Luna must have made them herself.

Luna's blonde hair was in a messy bun on the top of her head, with a few pieces of it hanging . down in her face, she had a pale pink top on, and jeans – she looked surprisingly normal. Luna was wearing a pair of earrings that looked suspiciously like rabbits though,. Larissa saw a set of robes flung onto a chair, which had probably been put on their in haste this morning or the night before.

On the wall beside Luna's bed, was a large piece of paper, stuck there with moving illustrations of things that Larissa had never seen before. Underneath one that was an illustration of lots of tiny illuminated silver balls, were the words 'The Wrackspurts'.

It was soon time for them to go, and they walked back to The Burrow just in time for dinner, they went to bed soon after that. Larissa found that her dreams were full of Nargles and things that she didn't quite understand, she must have spent too long looking at the poster of the creatures.

To Be Continued...

A/N: So, that is all of Secrets & Lies Three, I should have posted Four by now, but if not then it should be there momentarily.

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-Livvy xxx