Insane Asylum escapees!

The Girl Who Believes In Everything

Harry was sitting at the Ravenclaw table, chatting happily with a blonde girl, with a subdued Hermione, and an amused Blaise sitting not far from them.

"It's impossible," Hermione whispered. It wasn't that Harry was talking to someone outside his house (he had proven he'd do that with her), but that he was talking with Luna Lovegood, and nodding in agreement at whatever it was she was saying.

"Obviously not," Blaise said.

"But he's the Boy-Who-Doesn't-Believe-In-Magic," Hermione hissed frightfully. That was his new title since Rita Skeeter got wind of him not believing in magic. "And," Hermione continued, "she's the Girl-Who-Believes-In-Everything!" That would be Luna's title if Rita Skeeter ever met her.

"And they shouldn't even get along," Blaise said, "but there they are."

"Of all the people in Ravenclaw, he thinks she's sane? How did this even start?"

"Well, you know how Potter's into all that conspiracy crap?"

"Yeah."

"Apparently, so is she."

Flashback

"Heliopaths," the blonde girl said. Harry looked at her strangely.

"Whatio-paths?"

"Heliopaths. They're what the Ministry are planning to use to destroy all the goblins in Gringotts for. They spit fireballs."

Now, while to any other person this would have sounded like an insane bit of rubbish, somehow Harry's brain translated it into this:

The Ministry plans to do in the Oompa Loompa Wannabe's with those freaky genetic experiments gone wrong that Hagrid had called firecrabs. Hagrid had a lot of those genetic experiments as it turned out – he must have had a connection to the scientists or something.

"So it is a conspiracy!" Harry exclaimed.

End Flashback

"Okay, but still, there's no way just conspiracy theories would keep him from thinking she's insane."

"Apparently, they have a friend in common."

"Who?"

"Bob."

"Bob? Who's Bob?"

"I don't know. They described him as having brown hair and wearing a hardhat, whatever that is, and they talked to thin air while addressing him, so I assume he is their imaginary friend."

"Only Harry Potter and Luna Lovegood would have Bob the Builder as an imaginary friend."