Linny - Ginny and Luna's Secret

Chapter 6 - The Room of Requirment

Ginny liked at Luna in surprise.

"The Room of Requirement?"

"Haven't you heard of it?" Luna looked surprised

"No I have of course, i just assumed it was a myth" said Ginny

Ginny and Luna stood there in front of the door that waiting patently for them, Ginny. looked past Luna's blue eyes and into her soul. She could sense the passion in Luna heart and just as Luna was leaning towards Ginny, her eyelids closing they pulled apart.

"God I hope these girls aren't too hard to find, I have better things to be doing" Draco Malfoys obnoxious voice ran through the corridor. Without thinking twice Ginny grabbed Luna by the arm and pulled the two of them through the double door, landing in a heap on the floor just on the other other side. Ginny got up brushed herself off before helping up Luna who had landed underneath Ginny and seemed to have a bruise on her ankle before looking around. They were in a house sort of setup. Ginny couldn't exactly explain it. They were standing in a study covered head to toe in bookshelves with two desks and a fireplace. Luna and Ginny walked out of the study to found themselves standing on a hard wooden floor with a small kitchen to the left and a dining table to the right. There was a small 4 step staircase to a higher point in the room where a double Queen bed sat in the middle with a armchairs in one side and a door presumably to a bathroom on the other.

"Woah" Ginny thought out loud

"I don't ever want to leave and go back to school" Luna spoke with awe looking at the impressive angel and Greek Goddess mural on the roof. Ginny didn't either. She sat down in one of the living chairs and Luna followed suit and sat down beside her.

Ginny looked at Luna, she'd been wanted it also Luna this for so long and she was desperate to know the answer. Well she might as well get to the point.

"How did you come out" she asked Luna

Luna looked at Ginny and, her eyes looking deep into Ginny's soul said.

"Well in all honesty I think most people knew beforehand. I told my dad, he was surprised but welcoming and inclusive and I told a couple people at school and just trusted the word to get out honestly"

Ginny nodded

"I really want to let people know who I am, I'm really not the person so hide much of anything but worry so much about..."

"...What others will think" Luna finished Ginny's sentence for her.
"Yeah I must have spent months laying in bed at night thinking about that but at the end of the day you just need to remember to ignore the rude and judgemental people and be proud to be yourself."

Then without another word Luna got up and made a pot of tea leaving Ginny to her private thoughts. Her mind was spinning. She wanted to tell people about how she felt but maybe it was too soon, what if she lost friends? Eventually Ginny came to the conclusion that maybe she just wasn't quite ready for the world to know her secret.

Eventually Luna came back and sat a pot of boiling tea on the table. Ginny poured herself a cup before leaning back in the armchair and sipping it. Why did heterosexuality have to be 'normal'? Why couldn't it be straight people who had to come out? It just wasn't fair.

Ginny looked over to Luna who was icing her ankle and their eyes met.

"We should probably go back" spoke Luna

"But we only just got here" groaned Ginny

"It's stupid to hide in here, we can sneak back and then go to our dorm rooms we'll just claim we were in our beds or something"

"But what about the room won't it be gone?"

"Not if we ask it to come back"

"Promise?" asked Ginny

"I promise." replied Luna and with that she got promptly out of her chair and walked to the wall.

Ginny followed close behind and once they got close to the walls they transformed back into an large wooden door that swung open. They ducked outside and quickly hide behind one of the large candle holders. Luna's common room was in a different direction from Ginny so they separated and Ginny started to walk back to Gryffindor tower.

She saw no one and eventually got bored of endlessly creeping around as it was a far slower method of walking. Ginny was just starting to walk normally when she rounded a corner to see Mrs Norris, Filtch's cat staring up at her with her bright eyes.

"Shit" Ginny swore our loud and only just found a flower pot to duck behind when Umbridge and Filtch rounded the corner.

Ginny clapped her hand one her mouth to stop herself from making any noise when she lost her balance and fell over, tumbling he's dover heals over the flower pot and landing at Dolores Umbridge's feet. Umbridge looked down and Ginny could almost se who her nostrils. She would have to tell Fred and George that their theory about Umbridge's pink nose hair was sadly incorrect.

"Well well we'll, what do we have here?" Umbridge's sickly sweet voice rang through the air.

Filtch who had only just noticed Ginny laying on the ground in shock pointed a no ply finger and her and shouted

"Students in the corridor, students in the corridor"

Umbridge looked at Filtch and spoke

"I can quite clearly see that for myself Argus"

She then turned her head back to Ginny

"Get up girl! And brush that dirt off your nose"

Ginny hastily got to her feet and rubbed her nose to discover it made her finger quite black.

"Professor I was just"

"Be quiet, I know  exactly what you were doing, you're er won't with that Lovegood girl weren't you?"

Ginny breathes in sharply but tried to hide her surprise.

"No of course not" Ginny lied
"I was just talking a walk around the corridor trying to practice my spells"

Umbridge looked at her in surprise. Ginny knew that she had to make a believable enough story that Luna wouldn't get in trouble too but she knew of the said she did nothing wrong Umbridge's would never believe her.

"The thing is professor we don't do spells in classes anymore and i wanted a chance to practice"

Umbridge's prim voice voice spoke again.

"No spells in the corridors or outside of class, you should know that, detention in my office on Wednesday afternoon"

Inwardly Ginny breathesd a sigh of relief but outwardly managed to keep a straight face. One afternoon detention. What could the woman do to her anyway?