Carrying the morning air of the Forbidden Forest with him, Li Wei returned to the Ravenclaw Common Room.
The sound of footsteps woke the sleeping girl in the common room. She rubbed her eyes and sat up, her long golden hair spilling loose in the morning light.
"Good morning, Li Wei. You're back!"
Li Wei froze for a moment at the greeting. Why did this familiar scene give him such an inexplicable feeling?
"Good morning, Luna," Li Wei greeted her in return before asking in confusion, "Why are you sleeping in the common room? Did your roommates give you trouble again?"
He still remembered how, last semester, Luna's belongings had been hidden by her dormmates and classmates, and how she had been bullied.
He had told Penelope Clearwater, the prefect, about it. Those young witches who had bullied Luna had received a harsh reprimand from Penelope. Had they fallen back into their old ways now?
"Last night, I saw Lady Helena standing by the window admiring the moonlight, so I admired it with her. It was so beautiful that I lost track of time and fell asleep in the common room!"
Luna stared at him with her toad-like eyes. Everything the little girl said and did fit her image as a mad girl perfectly.
"She's a ghost, and you're human. Why were you copying her? You really aren't afraid of the cold."
Li Wei did not know whether to laugh or cry. The Scottish Highlands were already rather cold, and Ravenclaw Tower stood high above Hogwarts Castle.
His old knowledge told him that for every hundred meters of elevation, the temperature dropped by 0.6 degrees. At night, it was even colder than during the day.
Luna's pajamas were fairly thick, or else after spending an entire night like that, she