the fabian and lunar eclipse.

chapter 5: dementor snog

all of the 3rd to 7th year students were gathered at the courtyard, walking by filch for him to check their slips,

"harry its really not that big of a deal, its just a stupid village i can stay with you" luna insisted

"but i don't want you to do that-" harry said

"mate, seriously its not an issue" ron reassured harry

"and-" ginny randomly chimed in, startling the trio,

"- ill be right here to annoy the life out of harry" she said with a smile

"kind of miss the time when u couldn't talk to me without stuttering" harry teased her.

"enough chit chat, let's go lunz gotta show you zonko's, its our temple" george said while walking up to the group with xavier and fred in tow

"xavier and i, may or may not have come up the best prank ever and for that we need to restock on our dungbombs" fred explained,

often the 2 sets of twins would join hands to execute certain plans, although xavier wasn't as close to fred and george as luna was but he was still quite close to them.

"okay then let's get going, filch is getting moody" hermoine said whilst warily looking at the caretaker who was grumbling at a student for holding his slip 'suspiciously'.
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"you had to see the look on mcgonagall's face when she saw that malfoy had  beaks instead of lips in 2nd year when angelina 'accidentally' tripped and jinxed him after the whole incident of him calling you that slur" luna said while wiping a stray tear from her face
"oh god my stomach's hurting, stop stop i can feel my lungs about to pop from laughing so much" hermoine said while uncontrollably laughing

they had spent most of their time with the boys until they parted with them to visit tomes and scrolls and indulged themselves into butterbeers waiting on the boys to get back at the three broomsticks

"i wonder why they aren't able to get a hold on sirius black yet? aren't magical people supposed to be of greater advantages in these aspects like catching criminals?" hermoine asked

"i don't understand either, how could they even just let this guy just willy about whilst the dementors come to snog harry everytime he's in their peripheral" luna sighed, while taking a sip of her butterbeer

"isn't it a little sad that the only snog harry can get is from the dementors?" hermoine asked

"yes, but that seems to be on theme with harry's life so i guess its not all that bad" 

"-why are we slandering harry and his poor love life?" george asked while plopping down next to luna 

"yeah im sure harry can get plenty of snogs, don't you guys remember how moaning myrtle was obsessed with him all of last year" ron commented while sitting next to hermoine, and taking her butterbeer which earned him a smack on the arm

"harry's first love!" luna said, while putting her hands over her chest and making obnoxious kiss noises, which was soon joined by the entire group somehow turning into a chant which they continued throughout the way back to the castle and up until they came across harry.

needless to say harry was extremely confused by the weird circumstance of his friends just making kissy noises and giving him all that they had bought for him from hogsmeade which included a mount of candies, a few zonko's products and some new parchment along with a quill and ink bottle; but he weirdly enough wasn't surprised as being peculiar was something that was overnormalised within his friends.

"so to sum it up lupin knew your parents and he's going to teach you how to deal with the dementors?" ron asked, whilst copying off hermoine's essay as the quartet was sat at the common room harry sharing the events after their departure to hogsmeade and rest doing their school work that harry had already done, which when he told them he was met with a big hug from hermoine and ron mouthing and asking if he was joking or not.

"yes, he said- you have your mother's eyes and despite hearing this so many times it felt weirdly more reassuring than all the other times; like he genuinely knew her eyes well as a result of knowing her properly" harry said with a small smile.

hermoine, ron and luna looked up from their work to see his face and smiled amongst themselves to see their friend happy

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"can we make harry sleep in between us? i doubt black would be able to cross ron's snore tunes" luna joked while fixing up her sleeping bag.

the entire gryffindor house was at the great hall, any other time everyone would be beyond excited to have such a sleepover but given the gruesome circumstances of sirius black attacking the painting outside the gryffindor common room, no one felt their best.

harry was significantly shaken up, hence his friends were trying to improve his mood.

"george take up the space next to luna before dean does, the way he's eyeing up that space i suggest u make a move" fred whispered to george while looking at dean from the other side of the room

"WHAT?" and as soon as george said this he rushed next to luna-

"hi" he said, while breathing fast

"-oh, hi georgette. you're joining the harry defense group too?" luna asked 

"sure, what is it?" george said while fixing up his own space

"we snore so loud that black gets intimidated and isnt able to step a toe towards harry" 

"ah then we need a strong frontier, LEE FRED ANGIE YA'LL ARE NEEDED HERE" george shouted across the room

"what?" angelina asked while coming towards the group

"ah yes this is our group leader, you put a sleeping angie and a whale next to each other and listen in, no one would be able to tell the difference" george said with a laugh to which lee and fred feverently nodded their heads but stopped once they saw angelina's piercing glare.

soon the prefects and teachers sushed the students and asked everyone to get to bed. 

no matter how much she tried, luna couldn't let herself to go to sleep due to the uncomfortable fear looming at her stomach. she had her back to george, when she turned towards his side to try and get comfortable she saw george's eyes open

"can't sleep luna?" he whispered,

"nope, can i tell you something?" she whispered back

"ofcourse, love" before luna could answer she had to take a moment to herself to gather her thoughts, she didnt expect the word to roll off his lips so naturally and was caught off guard and made a mental note to properly swoon over it with hermoine later on

"im scared, im scared for harry. im scared for us, something happens every single year. it only feels like its leading onto something bigger and far worse" luna told him while looking at his eyes intently, opening up about her emotions was not something she was very fond of and would do it very rarely to little to no one.

george stretched out his long arm to put a comforting hand over her blanketed arm-

"we are all here, with you. all of us together. we have always overcome whatever has come our way so far. i am terrified luna, but i know for a fact we will be okay as long as we stick together. because that's how it has been for as long as i can remember, and even before what i can't, its what ive been told" 

luna felt her face turn into a smile, she sluggishly shifted her bag towards george,

"you know since you said, to stick together." she said with a smile

george felt his heart flutter and almost got up to do his 'happy dance', but contained himself and stretched out both his arms to give way for luna to snuggle in and so she did. soon they fell asleep, feeling the safest they have ever felt.