Now knowing he was uncomfortable discussing it, Daphne dropped it. Instead, she asked, "Assignments?"
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Over in Ravenclaw, Luna's Hogwarts life had definitely changed for the better in the past week and a half she'd been back at the school. Her confrontation with Fawcett had quickly been spread through the girls' dorms and almost as quickly through the boys' dorms.
It was only the day after the initial confrontation, plus after classes, that the new Seventh Year Girls' Prefect had walked into the room, just on curfew, and said, "Listen up!"
When she had the attention of all five she glanced at Luna, clearly considering something, before continuing. "Just before the School Board gave us the option of going home for the extended break, you learned Professor Flitwick had lost his position as our Head of House. You also learned it was, in part, because he failed to act to protect Miss Lovegood from harm from her fellow Housemates. That would be you.
"Professor Sinistra has made sure all new Prefects she installed after Professor Flitwick fired all the previous ones were made aware she will not be losing her Head of House status for Ravenclaw because she failed to act in a similar situation. Therefore, all Ravenclaw Prefects... us new ones... have as one of our primary responsibilities the command from her to ensure no student, especially Miss Lovegood, is treated anything but with respect by all for their entire time at Hogwarts.
"I now like being a Prefect. I intend to be a Prefect right through to graduation. Therefore, I will be very determined to ensure Professor Sinistra does not look upon me with disfavour.
"As such, if I even hear a rumour someone has decided to once again target Miss Lovegood, I will be coming for you with the full weight of both my authority and magical power. By the time I am finished with you, you will be begging to be expelled just to get away from me.
"Have I made myself perfectly clear to you all?"
There were a couple of uncomfortable shifts but only Luna replied, "Perfectly."
The Prefect gave her an almost negligent nod of acknowledgement to Luna before her expression towards the other four and darkened.
She barked, "I asked you lot a bloody question and you will answer me!"
All other four instantly blurted back, "Yes!" Some added the girl's name, Maxine. They all looked back in fear.
She glared around the room for a long moment before her eyes softened as they turned back to Luna. "I want your promise, Miss Lovegood; that, if anyone gives you a hard time in future, you will immediately come to me or one of the other Prefects and directly inform me or us."
"I will," Luna firmly replied.
The Prefect gave a slight nod back and said, "Thank you, Miss Lovegood."
Then she again glared at the other four before she turned about and walked out the door.
Looking to the four, who now stared at her a little afraid, she smirked and held up both hands, palm out. Nodding to her left, she gave it a jiggle and said, "Your ability and chance to remain in Hogwarts." Then looked to her right and gave it a jiggle. "The palm of my hand." Then gestured as if to dump the imaginary contents of her left hand into her right, before looking back at them as she closed the fingers of that hand and made a fist. "Understood?"
All four fearfully nodded back.
With a nod of satisfaction to them, she turned and made herself ready for bed.
Now a week and a half later, she had been aware of attempts by a couple of housemates to treat her as if she didn't even exist. They attempted to outright shun her.
However, within hours, those individuals had been almost rudely dragged from the common room by seniors; especially Prefects. When they returned, those first dragged away were shaking and casting furtive looks of fear towards Luna.
The third to have been done so was also the last. The message had finally been imparted and learned.
Knowing she was now the most protected student in Ravenclaw, if not for 'Lord Potter' the most protected student in the school, meant Luna did not have to act as if expecting some form of attack at any moment. Her Hogwarts experience was now turning into the pleasurable experience her late mother told her it could be.
She had a lot to tell her new mind-healer friend when she next spoke with her on Saturday morning in the office next to her new Head of House's office.
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In Gryffindor tower Ginevra 'Ginny' Weasley was talking and chatting with her dorm-mates in the Gryffindor girls' dorms. A great change had come over her since she started talking with the mind-Healer that still unknown rich pureblood witch had allowed her.
Her father had tried to find out who it was, but the mind-Healer was under oath not to divulge what she knew.
"Besides," the Healer had said, "I don't know who it is, either."
Since she had begun talking to the lady, Ginny learned her attraction to 'Harry Potter' was only that of infatuation with a myth. The 'Harry Potter' she thought she knew all about didn't exist. The healer had stepped her through how he was definitely not the 'Harry Potter' who, until recently, she thought to be the close friend of her brother, Ron.
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