The New Friend

The Questions

This means normal talking or actions
This means thoughts or emphasis on words.

Luna's pov
Here she was.... laying and sleeping in the same bed as someone else. Someone with who she wasn't familiar and who wasn't familiar with her either. But yet, she was so kind towards her and didn't pass judgment, none of them did.

Perhaps, this is friendship. If so, I've made many friends today.

Luna closed her eyes and dozed off to sleep, with a smile hanging on her lips.

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Andromeda's pov

"WAKE UP, YOU LAZY BUMS!".
Clank!
Clank!

Bellatrix banged two pans together, skipping around the room. Andromeda shot up out of bed with a mix of tiredness and shock. Luna stayed in bed, sleeping with her legs tangled with Andromeda's.

"Bella! Shut up!" Andromeda angrily shouted, throwing a pillow her way. Bellatrix dodged it and snickered.

"Never!" Bella shouted, and gave one last loud bang.

"But seriously, Tom wants Luna in the common room right now," Bella said and disappeared behind the door.

Andromeda grumbled at the mention of the boy's name and flopped back down on the bed.

The thing about Tom is that he always found himself as the leader of their little group. He was a perfectionist, and he seemed almost like a robot. He tried to not show too much emotion, not wanting to let people see him weak. And the perfectionist part of him was always intense. Anything not normal or perfect ticked him off.

But even if these parts of his personality weren't perfect, he wasn't a bad person.

After all, he was the reason their future was going to change.

It started during 3rd year when Tom Marvolo Riddle decided he would end the abuse of pure-bloods, yet, instead of it being a silly dream. The wizard stuck to this and had made progress. Destructive and deadly progress.

Andromeda turned her head towards Luna, and couldn't help but let out a fond chuckle. Luna was sleeping with her hands crossed over her chest, looking peacefully dead.

She looks like an extraordinary veela. An enticing imperfect veela.
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No one's pov

"We're here!" Luna exclaimed from the side of the common room, holding Andromeda's hand.

"About time," Lucius mumbled as they walked to the fireplace. He, for one, was not pleased with waking up so early for this meeting. He'd be more than willing enough to bite someone's arm off to go back to bed.

"I'm so happy to see all of you again, especially in good health!" Luna happily told the group as she went around hugging each of them. But for Tom, she just held his hand.

It was such a surprising experience for all the Slytherins, and a strange one at that. They all ended tensing up in the Ravenclaw's arms. Or hand in Tom's case.

"Please, take a seat, Luna," Tom said to her. She plopped herself in the seat across from him.

"Now, can you answer some questions for me?" Tom gave Luna his signature smile, hoping to lure her in with his charm, to make her feel at ease, so he would be able to do anything. But if Luna fell for it, she didn't show it.

"What would you like to know?"

"First off, has pure-blood abuse ended?"

"No." Luna bluntly responded, shocking the Slytherins with her response. Luna began to fiddle with her corkscrew necklace. Looking around the common room, admiring it once more.

Tom let out a sigh, anger and frustration in his eyes. Trying not to lose sight of why he was doing this in the first place.

"Are you certain?"

"Oh quite certainly. Certain as the bad energy around you." Luna giggled at her own joke. A look of confusion morphed onto Tom's face.

"I..." Tom looked to Lucius, who just gave a shrug.

"Just laugh along." He whispered into his ear. It took everything in Tom not to kiss Lucius right there and then, and it took everything in Narcissia's power not to step in front of Tom and hex him. Wishing it could've been her instead of him.

"What is the world like? How is the world like for us Slytherins in the future?" Regulus asked, knowing what that Narcissia was likely already planning 10 different ways in her head to kill Tom. Of course he couldn't have her do that, especially in front of their guest.

"Well... how do people treat you currently?" Luna's question left a burning sensation in the slytherins chests.

"Not very well if you want the honest truth..." Bella vocalized, finally speaking up since running into the dorm. She stood in front of Luna with her hands on her arms crossed and continued.

"They treat us like shit for trying to be the best, because we're manipulative, because we're supposed spoiled brats, and because we hate gryffindors!"

"But news flash, doesn't everyone try to be the best? Yes we can be manipulative, but we don't use it to harm. And yes, we are rich, but so are many others in Hogwarts, and we have shitty parents who've scarred us for life! And we hate some gryffindors because they're so snobby and are constantly being coddled by the headmaster! But what about that makes us evil! We're just regular wizards and witches living our life like any other! What's wrong with that!"

Her feelings poured itself into her words. Everything bottled up, finally broke out of its glass that's been locked up for so long. Leaving Bella panting with a face full of bitterness, frustration, and resentment. Towards everything all around her, to all the pain her and her friends had endured for their school years because of who they were. From where they came.

It wasn't fair.

Not fair at all.

Luna finally looked up and locked eyes with Bellatrix. Avoiding her eyesight as she had spoken to her.

Luna looked up at her with a daze and fondness in her eyes, slowly she got up from her chair. And wrapped her arms around Bellatrix once more, sobbing as she did so, "Nothing, nothing is wrong with that at all...". Luna whispered softly into her ear.

Slowly bringing her down to the ground, whispering once more, "I'll cry for you and more if you cannot for yourself."

Bellatrix did the only thing she could do in that moment......

Author's note
Yellow everyone! Hope you've all been doing well for yourselves. I'm terribly sorry about the chapter being an entire month late, I tried my best to work on it as much as I could. But I have school now and it's not very easy. Especially now that I have other extracurricular activities to attend to too as well. I hope you all take good care of yourselves and have a marvelous day or night you beautiful people :) 💛