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"It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
"So, Loony? What happened?" Augustine Chambers asked. Luna looked up from her textbook at the circle of students around her.
"Yes, Luna, what happened?" Cho Chang queried, settling into a chair next to her.
Luna smiled softly, deciding to play dumb as usual. "What happened?"
Moran Bradley groaned. "With Potter!" Luna winced slightly at the mention of their adventure in the back halls of the Ministry. Harry's desperate search for Sirius. Their brave defiance of the Death Eaters in when they had the prophecy. Ron's injury and the horrible brains and the rather terrifying experience on the Thestrals, no matter what she had said about it. But the worst of it all, watching Sirius fall through that veil and Harry's expression and the pain when Bellatrix Lestrange hit her a glancing blow with some sort of obscure hex. The shards of glass she had found in her legs and back from the falling prophecies, memories now embedded in her flesh. She, of course, hadn't seen the actual memories, but could practically hear the stories from each little bit as she magicked them into a rubbish bin after she carefully plucked each out.
"Loony!" someone yelled, snapping her back to reality. "Well?"
Luna made a split second decision, bringing her trademark smile to her face, giving herself the unfocused look of a nutter. "Oh, really, it was quite wonderful. I found an extraordinarily rare Crumple-Horned Snorkack skeleton down there! I was quite disappointed I couldn't being it back. It would make a wonderful decoration for the common room, don't you think?" She looked eagerly around at the students as they groaned theatrically and turned away, mumbling about her insanity and nutty ideas and who actually thought a Crumple-Horned Snorkack was even remotely real? But Luna didn't care. Instead, she smiled, finished up a notice for lost article of clothing and posted it on the board before heading to her dormitory. She didn't care that everyone thought she was positively loony. No, she cared that Harry's secret was safe. None of these rumor mongrels deserved to know it and spread it. To them it was just fodder for gossip. But she had been there. It was definitely not gossip. It was real and terrible and the truth and nothing could change that. She wasn't going to try. Luna Lovegood had made her choice once, to fight for honor and chivalry and everything the Gryffindors stood for, despite her placement in Ravenclaw. Because she might be brilliant, but her Housemates used their brilliance for the wrong things half the time, for hurting and harming, intentionally or not. She chose the honorable side of intelligence.