The Lonely Life of Luna Lovegood

Chapter Three

Luna awoke with a startle. For a moment she stared at the ceiling, listening intently. And then she turned to see Ralph tapping the window with a wand. He seemed to be hovering in mid-air outside.

She rushed to window and opened it.

'Ralph. Come in.' As he did so, Luna saw that he was on a broomstick.

'Where did you get the broom? And the wand?'

'There my Dad's,' he said proudly. 'Coming for a ride?' For a second Luna bit her lip deciding if it was too dangerous, but then without a second thought she mounted the broom and prepared to fly out into the night.

'Are you a good flyer?'

'I'm the next Krum.' Luna giggled. Ralph kicked hard from the floor and zoomed towards the window. He paused momentarily. 'Hold tight.' She grabbed his waist, 'to the stars!'

In a second, they had escaped into the night sky where the stars twinkled above them, appearing one by one.

'Down there!' Ralph pointed at a house surrounded in fields of corn.

'That's where the Weasley's live. They're one of the only pure blood family's left!'

'Want to see a trick?' He raised the wand.

'Bet it doesn't beat my Orchideous spell,' laughed Luna.

Ralph whipped the wand forwards and a jet of red flight erupted from the end. For a moment it seemed to die, fading into blackness but then it exploded into an amazing firework that's sound echoed through the dark.. Luna's mouth opened slightly.

'Beauxbatons will be impressed,' she said.

'So will Hogwarts,' he replied, 'they'll never have seen eyes- I mean flowers like yours.'

Luna blushed slightly, 'should we go back now?'

'No,' just a little further. They sped on moonwards, gaining more and more speed.

'Hold on tight!' he said and then pushed downwards on the broom causing it to perform a somersault through the curtain of the night sky. But at the last moment, his hands slipped.

Luna had once last chance to look into the shining eyes of the person she adored most of all before they got smaller and smaller and smaller...