Chapter 193
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-February 13 - Luna's Birthday-
"Is this okay?" Terry asked, standing on top of a chair that was on top of a table, holding a light blue banner that said 'Happy Birthday Luna!'
"Move a little more to the left," Susan said, holding up a box with some decorations.
"Like this?"
"Yes, now a little higher. And lower your side a little Justin"
"Now that we're doing this, a question came to my mind" Justin said, arranging the banner as per Susan's instructions, "Why don't we use magic to do this?" he asked.
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"That's a good question," Terry said.
"Because doing it with our own efforts makes it all more symbolic and sentimental," Sue, who passed behind Susan carrying a chair, said.
Justin then looked around the room at all of our friends who were helping to organize and decorate the room.
"More symbolic and sentimental than that?" he asked.
"Keep quiet so we can get this over quick, my arms are already going numb from holding this banner" Terry said, taking out his wand and casting a glue spell to stick the banner to the wall.
When they finished sticking the banner to the wall, they climbed down from the chairs and went to Susan's side, looking at their finished work.
"Phew...perfect" Terry said, greeting Justin with a Hi-Five.
"Hmm, it's a little crooked" Michael, who stopped behind them to look at the banner as well, said.
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"Is this banner strong?" Justin asked.
"Why the question?" Terry asked back.
"Because I'm thinking of using it to hang myself," Justin said, a blank look on his face.
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"We arrived!" Fred said, opening the door to the classroom we were in, carrying some boxes.
"And with an amazing order of sweets from Honeydukes and some Butterbeers from Three Broomsticks" George continued, also carrying some boxes.
"Good, put the Butterbeers on that table, and the sweets you put next to Lily, she's organizing them" I said, using my wand to levitate some crystal globes across the classroom to light up the place.
"Whistle... We've been gone for less than 40 minutes and the room is already amazing" Fred said, just now looking around the classroom.
"Yeah, it even makes me want you to organize my birthday next year," George said jokingly.
"Sorry, but there is a long waiting list to hire the Hogwarts Decorations and Parties service" I said jokingly.
"And who would be on that list?" George asked.
"Currently we have the Bloody Baron's birthday, followed by the Giant Squid's birthday" I replied.
"Damn, those are some really important birthdays," Fred said, finished arranging the Butterbeers on the table.
When he finished arranging the drinks, he pulled out his wand and cast a cooling spell on them.
*Knock! Knock!*
As we continued to tidy up the room, someone knocked on the door.
"Who will be?" Stephen asked, going to open the door.
"It's Neville and Ron," I said, not even looking at the door.
"How do you know that?" Terry asked, but then I looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "You know what? Never mind" he said.
"You guys are late" Stephen said as soon as he opened the door, looking at the two boys in front of him who were a little dirty.
"Maybe we would have arrived just in time if someone hadn't asked us to pick up dry leaves in the woods," Ron said, looking slightly at me.
"Oh, did you manage to find many leaves?" I asked, walking over to them.
"Lucky for you, Nev is really good with plants," Ron grumbled, handing me a bag.
"I still don't know how you managed to mistake wild grass for dry leaves," Nev said, also handing me a bag.
"Sorry, Oh great Herbology genius" Ron rolled his eyes.
"And speaking of great genius, where are Granger and Harry?" I asked.
"If she hears you calling her a genius she'll try to drown you in the black lake" Ron muttered, but then he shook his head, "Harry is serving detention with Lockhart but his detention time is probably almost up, and Hermione... Well, she's looking for a good book to give Luna as a present."
"Unbelievable," I said dryly.
"This is going to be her first time talking to Luna, so she probably wants to get her a nice present" Ron said with a shrug.
'I want to see what she will say when Luna starts talking about the magical creatures she knows' I huffed in my mind.
"Hey, if you guys have time to talk, you guys have time to help too" Ginny yelled from across the room.
"Sometimes I think she forgets I'm her big brother" Ron said, but he still obeyed.
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-A little later-
"Where are you taking me?" Luna asked as I covered her eyes with my hands.
"Haven't you noticed? This is a kidnapping," I said, leading her through the halls.
"Hmm, cool. I've never been kidnapped before," she said, a little too gleefully.
"This is sad, almost all children have to be kidnapped at least once in their life before age 11," I said sarcastically.
"Serious?" Luna asked in surprise, and I rolled my eyes amused at her innocence.
We then continued walking, with Luna asking me questions about my day, and about different types of kidnappings. With me leading Luna, we arrived in front of the classroom where our friends were waiting to surprise her.
"Well, here we are," I said, opening the door while Luna stood with her eyes closed.
Guiding Luna into the classroom, I closed the door and with my night vision I saw my friends hiding.
"You can open your eyes Luna" I said.
"Hmm, it's a little dark here" Luna said as soon as she opened her eyes, looking around curiously.
"""SURPRISE!!"""
My friends, without further waiting, came out of their hiding places as they lit the crystal globes.
"!!" Luna, who wasn't expecting this, was surprised, looking at everyone in shock.
"What?" she muttered.
"Happy birthday Luna" I said behind her.
"How? Why?" she asked without turning to me, still looking at our friends and the decorated classroom in shock.
"I just had to ask Professor Flitwick when his birthday would be, and as for why…well, it's because you're our friend," I said, and with a nod to George he raised his wand high, starting a small show of lights and fireworks.
Seeing that Luna was still surprised, I gave her a light push.
Coming out of her shock, Luna started to approach the center table, where there was a large 2-tier cake with a moon-shaped candle and edible animal decorations.
"Happy birthday Luna" Lily said, being the first to approach Luna, hugging her.
"Thank you" Luna said with a big smile on her face, hugging Lily back.
After Lily, the rest of our friends started heading over to Luna to congratulate her, and from her emotions I knew she was still surprised, but very happy.
After everyone congratulated her, only Granger was left, looking at Luna with a small package in hand.
"Err... Hi, I'm Hermione Granger, second year of Gryffindor. I'm friends with Harry and Ron, and they invited me to your party, and I know today is the first time we've met, and..."
"Wow, calm down Hermione... This isn't an exam or an interrogation. You don't have to be so nervous" Ron said, and Granger who heard him took a deep breath.
"Sorry, I just didn't know if you'd like to have someone who isn't your friend at your party," Granger said, looking down at the floor.
"Well, it's easy to solve this" Luna said, and Granger looked at her curiously, "Do you want to be my friend?" Luna asked.
"Err... Yes?" Granger replied confused.
"Well, problem solved. Now you don't have to worry about being at my party without being a friend of mine, since you are now my friend" Luna said, and Granger looked at her with her mouth open in confusion.
Ron then snapped his fingers in front of Granger's face, and she winked and shook her head before turning back to look at Luna.
"Heh, I think this really solves the problem" she said with an amused smile on her face, "Oh and before I forget, this is a present I prepared for you" she said handing the wrapped package to Luna.
"Thank you" Luna said with a smile on her face.
"It's a book about building Diagon Alley. I didn't know what kind of book you like, and to be honest, I didn't even know if you liked reading," Granger said nervously.
"I love to read, and I don't have a book about Diagon Alley," Luna said, unwrapping the book and looking at it with interest.
"Well, enough talking about books," George said, clapping his hands to get everyone's attention.
"Don't forget that Luna still has to blow out the candle and make a wish" Fred continued.
"And after that she has to do three somersaults"
"And do 5 push-ups"
"I don't remember that part being in the birthday person's handbook," Megan said, with a raised eyebrow.
"It's because they only released volume 2 yesterday" Fred explained.
"Yes, and—Ow!"
"Ouch!"
"Shut up you two" Ginny said after hitting her two brothers on the head. She then turned to Luna with a smile, "Come on Luna, you still have to blow out the candle and open the other presents" she said pointing to a pile of presents that was in the other corner of the room, making Luna's eyes widen slightly.
"Oh" was the only thing she said, but still with a big smile on her face.
End.
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(End AN: I would like to ask you something...
I clearly know my story isn't great, and maybe it's mediocre, but this is something I can improve over time.
What I would like to know is if my story grammar has improved since the first chapters or is it still terrible?
As you may already know, I don't know English and I use Google Translate to translate the story into English, so my story probably has a lot of grammatical errors.)