The Elfin Luna

After casting the spell several times over the past few days, Mia could feel a second, faint heartbeat when the tip of her wand touched her chest.

Over the past few days, Draco and Mia's renewed cold war had genuinely shocked everyone. The last time, it had been clear that neither of them really wanted to fall out, but this time, Draco was obviously too proud to back down, while Mia was ignoring him completely.

Draco had secretly sent gifts and written notes, but none of it had done the slightest good.

"What do I do? Mia isn't really going to stop talking to me, is she?" Draco paced irritably, looking at the people on the sofa and hoping they could come up with an idea.

"Just apologize to Mia. Whatever she tells you to do, do it." Daphne blew absentmindedly on her freshly done nails. She didn't know what Mia had been busy with lately, but she was with Granger and Potter every day. Daphne's place was nearly being taken.

"I did apologize, but there's no way I'm apologizing to that Granger!" Draco sank onto the sofa in dejection.

"It's not like you don't know how close Mia and Granger are. And you know how angry that word makes Mia, but you said it anyway." Blaise leafed through love letters from his admirers. At the mention of that word, Pansy's expression stiffened, and she shot Blaise a glare.

"I didn't think she'd actually hear me." Draco hung his head, dejected.

"That won't work, and neither will that. So what are you going to do?" Daphne was getting tired of his questions too. She rolled her eyes at Draco and waved Astoria over. "Be good and stay back, so you don't get caught up in it."

Millicent was roughly petting her cat, which ran off because it hurt. Luna strolled into the common room, looked around at everyone, then walked over to Theodore and lay down beside him. Theodore placed the hand that wasn't holding a book on Luna's back and stroked her gently.

"Luna? What are you doing here? Do you know where Mia is?" Seeing the rarely seen Luna, Daphne eagerly tried to find out where Mia was. Luna was very clever and could find Mia every time.

"Meow~" Luna shook her head, then rubbed against Theodore's hand.

As for Mia, whom they were looking for, she was in the Ravenclaw Common Room.

Mia had noticed the strangely dressed Luna at first glance, isolated from everyone else.

She was like an elf who walked the world alone, misunderstood by everyone. That had been Mia's first impression of Luna.

The first time Mia saw Luna was at the Sorting Ceremony for the new students. With golden hair like moonlight, eyes as blue as the sky, and an air of being apart from the world, Luna had caught Mia's attention at once.

She had been sorted into Ravenclaw, which represented wisdom.

Their second meeting was in the Ravenclaw common room.

Mia had become interested in Ravenclaw because the collection of books in its common room rivaled the library's, and anyone who could answer the question could enter the Ravenclaw dormitories.

The Ravenclaw common room was at the top of a tower. Mia knocked on the door, and the eagle knocker posed a question.

"How can you prove that something truly exists?"

"Use it."

"Please enter."

The Ravenclaw common room was beautiful. A marble statue of Rowena stood in a niche, blue silk curtains hung beside the arched windows, and a dark blue carpet patterned with star charts and an armillary sphere on a table represented boundless wisdom and a free soul.

The little eagles paid no attention to the little snake who had suddenly entered. After looking around the Ravenclaw Common Room, Mia headed for the book collection.

She took out the book she wanted to read and was about to find a quiet place to look through it when she noticed Luna sitting alone on a sofa. Luna wore radish earrings and held an upside-down copy of The Quibbler.

The other Ravenclaw students kept their distance from Luna and whispered among themselves, as though deliberately isolating her. But none of it drew so much as a sliver of Luna's attention. She was immersed in her own world, apart from everyone else.

Mia came to stand in front of Luna, drawing the little eagles' attention again. But someone seemed to recognize her, and when Mia shot them a warning look, they immediately fell silent.

"Your magazine is upside down," Mia said softly. She worried that speaking a little too loudly might disturb the elfin girl.

Luna tilted her head. "No, it isn't."

"What's it about?"

"All sorts of strange things."

"May I take a look?"

"Of course." Luna was a gentle, clever, perceptive little girl whose mind was always full of strange ideas. It had earned her the nickname Loony, but she didn't mind.

"What an interesting story." Mia had taken an interest in the story on the page.

"I'm Mia Potter. What's your name?"

"I'm Luna Lovegood." Luna meant moon, which suited her well.

"It's nice to meet you, Luna."

"Thank you. There are Wrackspurts around you, you know. Your mind is all muddled." As she spoke, she moved to swat the Wrackspurts around Mia dead.

"Wrackspurts?" Mia was curious about the unfamiliar word.

"Wrackspurts... They're invisible. They float into your ears and muddle your brain. I just saw some."

"What remarkable things." Mia marveled at Luna's unique ideas and view of the world.

Mia liked Luna very much, and the two grew closer as Mia came to spend time with her again and again.

So when Mia learned that Luna was being bullied at school, she reported it and warned the students responsible, addressing the problem.

Mia hadn't finished reading Ravenclaw's books, so she often went to the Ravenclaw Common Room. After that, Luna also began spending a lot of time with Mia, and she met Mia's little black cat, who shared her name.

"Luna, has anyone been bullying you lately?"

"No. I don't mind those things."

"Mm, I know, but I mind."

Luna tilted her head, which was topped with a strange hat. She was very cute.

Mia couldn't resist reaching out to pat her. "It's all right."