Title: Not who I thought

Rating: T

Pairing: Luna Lovegood x Graham Montague

Characters: Graham Montague, Marcus Flint and Luna Lovegood

Summary: Graham thinks he is talking to his best friend but he ends up telling the girl of his dreams that he loves her.

Beta love to my beta who shall remain anonymous until after the reveals

This is a part of an anonymous contest and will remain so until after the contest has been voted on and reveals are finished.

We would like to acknowledge that all of the writers know that the Harry Potter characters, locations and any plot lines used are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.

Sixth year had been a tough one; the war had been well situated when they begun, so they had all came back to Hogwarts to redo whatever year they were in when the war really heightened. Graham had decided to do something more with his life and he needed potions to do that. He sat in the classroom with Professor Slughorn and watched Luna Lovegood smile dreamily into the cauldron she was using.


Today's potion was whatever they chose to make as their final project; he had no idea what she was creating, but knew that it would be spectacular. It always was. Looking down at his own cauldron, witnessed it go from black to lilac, and then go clear, and knew he had completed it perfectly.

Professor Slughorn slapped him on the back proudly, "That's my boy. Well done! Bottle it up and then you can go."

Graham bottled six samples up for the Professor and one for himself to keep as a reminder of his progress, the rest. He felt a weird burning sensation at his neck. Looking up and around the room, he locked eyes with Luna and she beamed at him.

Confidence and euphoria flooded him, her smile said she was proud. They had been friends since their third year watching the Triwizard Tournament and the return of Voldemort together. They would have secret meetings and never stopped worrying how things would end.

Waving across the room at her, Graham walked out of the classroom with a slight bounce in his step. He was one step closer to being an Unspeakable with this potion; he had to show he was proficient in each field. His animagus form showed his proficiency in Transfiguration.

He would get there, and it was all because of Luna.

oOo

Luna walked down into the dungeons, no one looked at her twice. Looking down at her hands she smirked. Marcus Flint was the perfect disguise to be able to finally see how Graham felt and see if he wanted to take it any further.

Following one of the other Slytherins right down into the common room, Luna made her way over to Graham and slumped down into the chair across from him like she had seen Marcus do so often.

"What's up, Montague?" She asked loving how deep her voice sounded.

"Luna was staring at me again today. With that wild look in her eyes and the smirk that says she's plotting something but I don't know what it would be." Graham said, shocking Luna that she wouldn't even have to push the subject onto him.

"And that's a problem?" She said prompting him to go on.

"You know what she does to me. And I know she doesn't see me that way but she gives me so much peace." Graham said.

"Why don't you tell her?" Luna asked, genuinely curious on why he would keep something secret like this.

"You know why. If she put me down I don't think I'd be able to take the rejection from her." This shocked Luna to the core. She had suspected he felt the same way but to have it confirmed brought it to the forefront and she knew she would have to confront her own feelings.

"I would say something if I was you. You know how I was before." Luna knew that Marcus had struggled telling Oliver Wood how he felt and almost ruined everything by keeping quiet. That was the only time that Graham had broken his friends confidence.

"Yeah I guess. I'll think about it." Graham said.

Luna went to stand and walk out but something in Graham's eyes rooted her to the spot. He was looking over her shoulder and then back at her. Pulling his wand he jumped out of his chair, "Who are you?"

"Marcus, mate," Luna said.

"Then who's that?" Graham asked gesturing to the real Marcus who had woken up from the spell too soon.

"An imposter?" Luna said ending the statement as a question.

"I don't think so. I thought something was different about you. Let's take a seat shall we? And see what's really going on."

Luna's eyes widened, "Ah, maybe we should go to the headmaster?"

"No. I don't think we will." The real Marcus said coming closer. "Who are you? And why are you pretending to be me?"

"You don't really want to know," Luna stated, shifting toward the door she hoped she could get out of there before the potion started to wear off.

"Luna?" Graham said suddenly. Feeling the tell tale feeling of the potion wearing off she nodded.

"Yes it's me." She said.

"Why did you pretend to be Marcus?" Graham asked.

"To find out once and for all what you felt," Luna stated.

"What do you mean?" Graham asked. Out of the corner of her vision she saw the real Marcus start to back away and knew he had figured out what she meant.

"On how you felt. I've been trying to find out for a while and you've been too thick to realise why I always pushed you to talk." Luna said, instantly regretting she had let that burst out.

"What? Why?" Graham said confused.

"I love you, Graham and have for a while but you've not realised and kept your feelings to yourself." Luna said, a bubble of courage brewing within her.

"You mean you used this potion to get me to admit my feelings?" Graham asked.

"Yes?" She said hoping he wouldn't hate her.

"Very Slytherin of you." He said smirking, walking closer to her; his smirk disappeared and he asked, "Are you sure?"

Luna all of a sudden becoming speechless, nodded in affirmative.

"Good. Because I'm glad you used the potion and were found out. It means I don't have to worry about how to tell you." He said smiling, the smile that he only ever used with her. The one that said she was the only one that was in his view. The only one that mattered.

Luna wondered how she hadn't seen the truth earlier, he had always given her that smile and never once turned her away.

"You are?" She questioned him.

"Mhmm. Luna?"

"Yes Graham?" she asked quietly.

"I'm going to kiss you now. Is that okay?" He asked.

Nodding, knowing that she wouldn't be able to speak she gave him permission and then felt the wind knocked out of her as his lips connected with hers.

It was as if every nerve ending in her lips was on fire and he was the fuel. He didn't calm the kiss for a bit and as she relaxed into his arms he pulled back slowly.

"I love you Luna, my star." Graham whispered barely taking his lips away from hers.

"I love you Graham." Luna said and then connected their lips again.

A simple potion was all it took for the sun and the stars to meet.


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