A Soul Bond - HP fanfic (Completed)

Chapter 26. It's getting worse.

After Harry's and Evelyn's snogging session, they've been doing more and more of that lately and each time it has always been Evelyn who has stopped it. It kills her everytime but she has to.

If she wants to protect Harry, this is the only way.

Harry was okay with it, since he just thought that she wasn't ready for something so serious and it's alright.

However, he has been feeling stressed. Hermione and Ron had been very nosy since they've found out that professor Umbridge has been torturing him in detention.

One day, he snapped and said that they just didn't understand him. With that thought being said, he left them and went outside for some air.

He came across Luna, looking at the things that he saw at the beginning that were pulling the carriges.

"Hello Harry Potter." She said, Harry also noticed that she was barefoot.

"Hi Luna, um aren't your feet cold?"

"A little... unfortunately all my shoes has mysteriusly disappeared. I suspect the Nargles are behind it."

Harry had no idea what nargles are, but he didn't ask about it. "What are they?" He asked instead, pointing to the weird creatures that only him and her could see.

"They're called Thestrals. They're quite gentle really, but people avoid them because they're a bit..."

"Different." Harry finished for her and she nodded. "But why can't the others see them?"

"They can only be seen by people who've seen death."

"So you've known someone who's died then?"

"My mum. She was quite an extraordinary witch but she did like to experiment and one day her one of her spells went badly wrong, I was nine."

"I'm sorry." He just now noticed why Luna was the way she was. She has gone through so much and people don't even know.

He hated how everyone treated her but since she didn't seem to mind, he didn't try to help. He hoped that Steph -Eve's best friend- was being good to her and would give her all the love she deserves.

"Yes, it was rather horrible. I do feel very sad about it sometimes. But I've got dad." Harry nodded understanding, and he wished he could hug her, it felt right but at the same time, he knew Luna was not the touchable kind of person, which he also understood.

"We both believe you by the way. That he-who-must-not-be-named is back and you fought him, and the ministry and the "prophet" are conspiring against you and Dumbledore."

"Thanks. It seems you're about the only ones that do."

"I don't think that's true. But I suppose that's how he wants you to feel."

Harry was taken aback, not exactly getting her point. "What do you mean?"

"Well, if I were you-know-who I'd want you to feel cut off from everyone else because if it's just you alone... you're not as much of a threat."

Harry smiled at her now understanding where she was coming from and where his friends where coming from. Of course all they wanna do is listen to him and help him.

Why would he ever thought that they didn't mean to make him mad?

This adolescent phase is killing him, he hated being 15.

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After everything was resolved with Hermione and Ron, he was feeling better but that wasn't the case for the situation at Hogwarts.