Teaching Luna Lovegood

"I mean, why are you not in your room right now Luna?" he asked kindly and the girl frowned a bit before looking up at him and replied "I lost my way to the Ravenclaw tower and I cannot find the entrance to the common room."

He raised an eyebrow at her answer and asked "Why didn't you ask any professor or any Prefect patrolling the hallways?"

"I didn't found any." She replied with an innocent expression and he nodded.

Despite the few students attending the school, Hogwarts was a large place and it was totally possible for her to not meet any professors or Prefects if she continued to move around and was down on her luck.

"I see. Do you want to go back to your room?" he asked and she shook her head almost immediately.

"No. I want to talk with you some more. I like you." Then she paused for a moment and asked "You won't mind, would you Harry Potter?"

"Call me Harry." He said "And no. I won't mind your company. Why would think that?"

Luna's face saddened for a moment before she shook off that expression and gave him a bright smile before replying "The other girls in the house don't like me. But it's alright. I don't mind" she finished in a small whisper and he knew for sure that she did mind.

Who would like to ignored or disliked by her own roommates. And from what he could recall from the movie, the other students called her Loony Lovegood as well.

He wondered how someone who was so bullied by everyone around them still have such a kind and gentle heart.

She was too good for the sheep of this school.

He held her hand and when she looked up at him innocently he said "Come. I know what gift to give you."

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* He took Luna to his room and started teaching her Will & Intent Magic.

"You have a lot of gifts Harry." Luna exclaimed as soon as she entered the room, making him smile at her innocent expression.

"That I do." He replied before closing the door behind him.

It felt a bit weird to bring a 11 year old girl in his private room but he knew that he had no wrong intentions toward her so he didn't thought much about it.

Though he would need to teach Luna about basic self preservation tactics so that some other bloke won't take advantage of her innocence.

"Do you want to open them?" he asked.

To him, opening so many gifts might seem like a chore but a curious girl like her might find such a thing rather exciting.

Plus, if she opened his gifts for him, then she would be solving a headache for him as he didn't want to go through so many gifts himself.

"You can also keep anything that you like." He said and Selena hissed at him from his shoulders.

"Except for any cupcakes you might find." He added sheepishly "Selena likes eating cupcakes so leave them for her okay."

"Okay." She replied happily and jumped at the various gifts with a giggle.

Her innocence was rather refreshing to him and he spent the next few minutes watching her before he went back to working on the Training Golem.

After about an hour or so, Luna finally came toward him with a large bunny doll in her hands and he grimaced at the sight of the gift.

The bunny doll was the size of a human and he didn't even want to think about who would gift him a bunny doll.

Unlike him however, Luna seemed to have gotten very attached to the gift as she was clutching onto it rather tightly.

"Can I keep this Harry?" she asked with a dreamy look "Can I? Please…"

And how could he possibly say no to that sincere and innocent expression.

"Of course." He said with a nod and the girl squeal in joy before hugging him all of a sudden and kissing him on the cheeks.

"Thank you Harry. No one has given me such a nice gift ever since my mom died." The girl said without showing any outward sign of sadness before she let go of the hug.

"Thank you." She smiled before she turned around and took something out from behind her "And here are some cupcakes for Selena." She said and opened a cupcake before passing it on the Selena who was looking at the treat with a hungry gaze.

"You're not afraid of her?" he asked as Selena took the cupcake and started gulping it down. Usually, anyone who sees Selena for the first time fears her so it was rather surprising to meet someone who did not.

But then again, Luna was a girl filled with surprises so it was not that unexpected.

"She is rather beautiful." She said and stroked Selena's hand very gently. "Why would anyone be afraid of her?" she asked curiously and he almost blurted out the obvious 'because snakes are venomous' or 'because snake have a bad reputation' but he doubted that she would care about such frivolous things.

"Because they're dangerous." He said simply and cupped her cheeks just like he did with Hermione "Can you promise me something Luna?"

"Promise?" she asked curiously.

"Yes. The next time you meet a snake. Don't pet them like you did with Selena. They might bite you." He told her and she cocked her head to the side curiously.

"But I pet the snakes in my garden all the time. They have never bitten me before." She said with a confused expression and he looked at her with a little surprise before he chalked it up as one of the weird things about Luna.

She probably had an affinity with animals.

Maybe they can sense how pure and innocent she was?

He shook his head and decided to not talk anymore about this topic.

If the snakes didn't bite her then he had no reason to tell her to stay away from them.

Maybe he should take her to meet Basella. He could ask the 1000 year old girl if she saw something in Luna or not.

Then he looked back at Luna who was already feeding a second cupcake to Selena.

He sighed at the glutton but decided to let her eat her fill this time.

"You can keep the Bunny doll Luna." He said and she gave him a beaming smile before he added "But that was not the gift I was talking about when I brought you here."

"No?" she asked curiously.

"No." He nodded "The gift I have in mind is something much more interesting and much more useful than a Bunny Doll."

"What is it?" she asked dreamily and he smiled.

"Will & Intent Magic."

"Is it interesting?" she asked.

"Very. It is one of the most interesting things in this world if you ask me" he said with a smile.

"Then teach me." She replied with enthusiasm.