Vaughn descended from the sky on his broomstick. After glancing at the mistletoe a few times, he heard a dreamy girl's voice from nearby. "Would you like to pick a few sprigs?"
Turning around, Vaughn saw a girl about Ginny's age, wearing a flower crown, coming around from behind the black tower-like house.
Vaughn waved at her. "Hi, Luna."
Luna Lovegood—the future Ravenclaw student known as the "mad girl"—had known Vaughn since he was six.
Of course, they were not actually that close. Ginny, on the other hand, often played with her.
Vaughn had not come here to see her this time, either.
Vaughn looked past Luna at the exquisite orchard behind the black tower and asked, "Is your mother here?"
Luna stared blankly at Vaughn, seeming lost in thought. After a long while, she murmured hazily, "...There are so many strange bugs on you... not Wrackspurts... I think you should pick a sprig of mistletoe and use the grubs living inside it to drive them away."
Vaughn: "..."
In fact, every wizarding family in Ottery St Catchpole knew that the Lovegood family's younger daughter was an oddball—even among wizards, where freaks were everywhere, she was particularly strange.
No one knew when it had begun, but she had started being able to "see" strange hallucinations: Wrackspurts, Crumple-Horned Snorkacks... At first, the other children around her had believed her and eagerly searched for them for a while.
But when no one found anything, and there was no sign that the so-called Wrackspurts and Crumple-Horned Snorkacks actually existed, she was isolated. Yet, as Vaughn remembered it, the little girl herself did not seem to care.
She firmly believed those "magical creatures" truly existed. When others refuted her, she never argued, but she continued doing as she pleased the next time.
Thus, Luna