a golden era fanfiction,
george weasley x oc
luna, a claimed 'muggleborn', best friends with the golden trio and the sunshine of the school somehow ends up falling for the 1/2 of the brains behind every possible chaos at hogwarts.
read to find out...
"that is harry's cookie you-" luna huffed at fred but stopped herself from finishing the entire sentence since she realised how the great hall was practically empty except her friends and the professors who could pretty much hear and witness every interaction happening,
"-you beautiful beast of cuteness" luna finished while looking at professor mcgonagall with an innocent smile noticing the way she narrowed her eyes at her, daring her to finish what she had almost said.
"aw luna, what a sweetie you are!" fred responded while pretending to wipe away fake tears and keeping a hand over his heart, which was met by a smack to his head from luna and his cookie getting snatched and landing to harry's plate who immediatly licked the entire cookie in order to deduce the possibility of getting it stolen from him again.
fred simply made hand motions to harry and luna expressing his disapproval at their joint actions, to which he was met with identical smiles from each of them with their heads touching one another except harry's smile was more cookie filled than luna's.
from the teacher's table professor lupin who had been looking out at the group of friends for a while now, couldn't help but chuckle at the interaction amidst them. the looming feeling of guilt that he felt leaving his best friend, james' son alone with his extended family that he had heard didn't treat him well at all, lifted off just a little bit seeing harry laugh among his group of friends who seemed to consider him family.
although his mind could not help but drift to notice how similar luna and harry's friendship seemed, something he saw everyday during his time at hogwarts as a student.
"i needed to ask you something, minnie" lupin turned towards his once professor, now colleague still not being able to lose the habit of calling her 'minnie' from his time at hogwarts with the marauders.
"what is it, dear?" mcgonagall asked while shaking her head at the group of gryffindors
"is there any chance that, si- uh- i meant, cecelia's children survived?" he asked with a sense of hesitance
"remus.."
"its just- its uncanny. i know you hate talking about this, much more than i do. but look at them! how could i not have doubts?" remus asked while lightly taking a hold of the older professor's hand in an act to show comfort
"i- no remus. that night, all 5 of them were killed. there was nothing that could've been done. dumbledore said so himself. i understand this is hard for you- merlin, i miss them so much as well ,more so, during christmas. do you remember the red pullover cece would make all of you wear every christmas eve?" mcgonagall asked with a soft smile on her face
"oh ofcourse, and the little knitted hats she made. oh james was so embarassed to wear a beanie with knitted stag ears, in front of lily" remus added on with a light chuckle thinking back at the pleasent memory
"but he wore it anyway, because his 'pretend sister' had made it after all" mcgonagall said
"they might as well be siblings, only thing was that they weren't blood related. she was basically female prongs in all honesty" remus said with a laugh,
as the two professors indulged into the feeling of nostalgia talking about the prior years, remus's doubts' long gone from his mind but mcgonagall for some reason couldn't help but think back at his cause of uncertainty.
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the group had gotten themselves into a snowball fight as soon as ginny had launched herself upon lee in order to avenge luna's snowman that had been ruined by lee moments prior. they had somehow all divided into unspoken teams:- it was hermoine, angelina, ron and fred in one whilst luna, harry, george and ginny were their oponents.
"IM GONNA GET YOU HERMY" luna screamed while pelting hermoine with snowballs and somehow not missing even one despite hermoine screaming and running about the entire snow-filled yard with intense speed.
"how in the world are you so good?" george asked from beside luna taking guard behind a boulder
"i don't know, i guess im just awesome" luna said looking at him momentarily and winking, george only gulped and could nod with wide eyes before trying to get himself to calm down, all he wondered was why something as simple as a wink from the girl had made his heartbeat in a concerning velocity.
"LUNZ IF I DONT SEE YOU TRYING OUT FOR CHASER NEXT QUIDDITCH TERM, IM THROWING A TANTRUM" angelina shouted from the other side of the yard.
"meh, we'll see" luna responded with a shrug "we'll see? WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE'LL SEE?! you so are-" as angelina was busy bellowing at luna, she had unconsciously gotten up from her shelter and accidentally gotten pelted by luna herself. angelina just stood there with her eyes narrowed at luna and muttered a small "git" before moving towards the side where ginny and fred were standing.
luna looked over to see her 3 best friends laughing amongst themselves, little to her knowledge about how george turned red by luna winking and immediately proceeding to chuck snowballs at people. she felt herself immediately smile and ran to her bag that she had stored her camera safely in to take a picture to add to her album that george had gifted her.
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my best friends, christmas 1993
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"minnie minnie MINNIE" luna ran after the transfiguration professor. when she finally turned towards the girl, she said amidst pants, "here, happy christmas ,my favourite cranky old lady" luna handed over a medium sized package wrapped with tiny kittens drawn all over.
"very tasteful wrapping paper, luna" the teacher replied while taking the gift in her hands whilst looking at the girl in amusement.
" now, im not allowed to give gifts to students. it goes against the code, but consider this a treat hence i did NOT give you a gift. is that clear, miss adam? " the older professor asked
"yes ma'am" the girl responded with a salute and excitedly accepted the bag handed over to her by the professor.
luna had a very friendly relation with most of her teachers, excluding snape; it seemed that they were absolute 2 ends of the pole and snape expressed his clear displeasure towards the girl much more blatantly than he did with most of the other students who weren't in slytherin. the girl and professor mcgonagall seemed to share a strong bond, some may call it friends others may refer to it as luna just being the sunshine she is and maybe a little because of her aptitude towards transfiguration. the professor despite not acting on it, definitely favoured the girl and somehow could not decipher out why she felt so protective over just that particular gryffindor. the two often shared tea over just about everything-school, family, gossip, advice, in the professor's office. both enjoyed each other's company just as much as the other.
"BYE, love you minnie. also xavier said he would cut off my tongue if I didn't mention that, that gift is from both of us-" she continued in a hushed voice, " but me and you both know that boy cannot tell one end of a donkey from the other hence who's believing his lie, really" luna said while trying to hurry back to her dorm clearly excited to receive the gift and to see what's inside.
"send my love and regards to xavier, as for you, be an angel and try not to glue my office upside down and call it a 'christmas miracle' like last year, will you?" she called out
"no promises, min-min" to which the professor simply chuckled and headed towards her own office to take a look at the gift and maybe reminisce a bit more about what could've been if things hadn't gone so wrong, much like what she usually does especially during special holidays like such.
