The Library Girl | Hermione Granger

3. Luna's Honesty

Hermione didn't have much free time to spend outside the school due that she was a prefect, and Ron too, and he hated it at the beginning but a few days after he liked the idea of bothering the younger years. Hermione liked to have another important responsibility, she was always so neat and responsible, and Felicity was amazed by her ability to be multitasking. 

That wasn't the only thing to do inside the school because, after many days of talking about it, Harry acceded to be part of Dumbledore's  Army as a professor. Every session was in the evening of Thursdays and there was a lot of work to do. The group was getting ready for something beyond the current events, even if they were so young, nothing was stopping them from reaching their objective: defeating Voldemort and the death eaters. Not even the constant and annoying presence of Umbridge and her ridiculous Inquisitorial Squad compound by Slytherins was able to find the DA's hideaway or stop any of their members. At least not yet. 

The school wasn't having good energy the last few days after seeing so many bloody laws hanging on the Great Hall's wall, obviously established by the famous toad. Everyone was always being watched and interrogated in the wake of the new group of students slipping away late at night. Hogwarts wasn't feeling like home this time, even to Felicity, that she always felt how the school was like a second home for her. That place was somewhere where she felt full of joy. 

Felicity was walking around the halls searching for something inside her bag and her mind couldn't stop thinking about the O.W.Ls and all the homework she hasn't done yet. And after a few steps, an average height with long blonde hair appeared next to her, with the recognizable earrings of dirigible plums hanging on her ears. 

- Hello Fel -. Luna Lovegood saluted her, with her sweet and kind particular voice. She had her wand put behind her left ear.- You seem lost in your thoughts -.

Felicity turned to her right and saw the most humble and dreamy girl she ever met. Her hair was tied in a messy impeller and her light blue eyes were just as opened as always, with a look out off this planet. Luna was a year younger than Felicity but they got along very well after she got into Hogwarts. Luna was someone you could talk about things you couldn't with the rest of the school, and her advice and compliments were different compared to Felicity's friends. She had another kind of energy, something really calming and exorbitant. 

- Hi Luna -. Felicity saluted back, she gave up searching inside her bag due to the fact that she got distracted.

- You want me to leave you alone? You seemed deeply sunken in your mind and I don't want to interrupt it -. Luna said, looking directly at Felicity with a curious stare. 

- No, it's okay. It's good to have company, my mind won't stop thinking either but at least I won't get so sunk in it -. Felicity answered, settling down her bag again behind her back.

- Oh, alright -. Luna said, still watching her.- Have you received the time of our next reunion? -.

She was certainly talking about the witched coin Hermione gave to every member, that was able to show them when they were going to have a meeting. Surprisingly, no one expected that something like that was possible, it was a really advanced spell for them. But, obviously, Hermione was more advanced than the rest of them, even the rest of the students in Hogwarts.  

Hermione had the ability to do everything correctly and neatly and so she even had time to study the rest of the years until she left Hogwarts. She was special. And Felicity always felt lucky to meet someone like her, outside her obsession for all the study and smarty, she was still someone nice.

- I think I saw it, but we better not talk about this here. Although we hide the obviousness, Umbridge has still eyes everywhere, Luna -. Felicity said to her, in a kind voice to not sound harsh. 

- You're right, I was just asking -. Luna responded, she didn't change her dreamy expression and came back to curiously stare at Felicity.- Where's Hermione? You're always together around here, it's rare -.

- She's attending the prefect's reunion. Why? -. Felicity asked, frowning at Luna's words.

- Oh, I see -. Luna said, taking a look at the garden near the corridor they were walking through.- I just asked, you seem close. Aren't you dating? -.

Felicity couldn't hide her surprising expression and turned her head so brutally at Luna that her neck hurt.

- Um, no. We are friends... -. Felicity responded. After so much time, friends sounded different in her voice and thoughts.- We have been since the first year, why did you ask? -.

- It's nothing, but sometimes I see how you look at her and act next to her. You seem more relaxed and happy -.

- Because we get along well, and I like hanging out with her. That's why we are friends -. Felicity couldn't ignore the fact that something inside her wanted to say something different, but why?.

- I see, I was just asking. Sometimes I see you acting a little more lovely, especially these past months -. Luna looked back at her, and she smiled vaguely showing a kind expression.- I better go to class, bye Fel -.

- Bye -. Felicity said back, still feeling a bit weird. She saw how Luna was happily lapping to the opposite direction of her.

Sometimes Luna was able to see something else than the current reality, she usually saw things no one else did. Her honesty and skills for admiring the beauty of everything always hunted Felicity. And sometimes, even if everyone thought Luna was a lunatic, she was right at the end about her surroundings.