by Luna_Puella » Tuesday 8 October 2002 1:14:33am
"Hey, don't play without me!"
Luna sprinted out onto the Quidditch Field, her silver Super Moonbeam 8000 glinting in her hand. As she went to kick off from the dewy morning grass, something large and tan collided with the back of her head. It plopped to the ground beside her, and she recognized the bundle as her Barn owl, Puck.
"Puck!! Oww...that was my head!"
Luna picked him up gently, and he clawed onto her hand, ruffling his feathers. Onto his leg was tied a note in a parchment envelope--with writing in green ink. It must have been written by someone at Hogwarts, in that case.
Luna swept out her arm and Puck flew off towards the Owl's Nesting. She held her silver broomstick loosely in her hand, watching the players, Stacey and the rest, swooping and doing dive-bombs over her head. Then back down at the letter.
'Luna Anderson, girl's-dormitory, Gryffindor common-room, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry" it read. The handwriting was unfamiliar, a type of twisting, intricate scrawl. Her green eyes frowned at it.
Her hand reached for the opening.
"Hey, Luna!" Adrian's and Heather's voices, along with a few others, rang over her head. She squinted up.
"C'mon--we need someone to keep for us. Unless we're going to keep doing perfect Wronski Feint's to snatch it off the ground!" Adrian's loud and cheerful laugh rang over the field, and Luna smiled. She remembered how much they'd competed against eachother to do a perfect Wronski the years before--without success.
Luna stuffed the letter back into her robes, and, mounting her broom, shot off into the air.
"It can wait till later..." She thought nonchalantly, swiping the soccer ball as it flew past her nose (an almost perfect hit from Adrian's club) and flew to the goal posts, ready for a mock game and nice practice with some opponents.