* * * Starring * * *
Emma Watson
"Hermione Granger"
Evanna Lynch
"Luna Lovegood"
Can't Fight the Moonlight
"Discussions of the Party" Copyright © 2008
Episode Sixteen
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters appearing in the series of 'Harry Potter' films, created by author J.K. Rowling. Original characters are copyrighted to the original author (Rupert). This series is posted to Girls Loving Girls with full permission of the author. No copyright infringement is intended or implied.
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Summary: None
Original Airdate: April 7th, 2009 @ 9:00 p.m.
(following an ALL NEW 'Life as a (horny!) Teenage "Lesbian"')
Story Codes: no sex
It was the evening of Hermione’s and Luna’s big party to celebrate the fact that they were now moving in together. The apartment was filled with all their closest friends. The apartment had been temporarily enlarged for this special occasion, preventing it from feeling crowded. The heavenly walls glittered with stars and moonlight. In addition to the real stars Luna had added a lot more stars to give more light and provide some decoration. She had added them in the shapes of various animals and objects. Some of the new formations were easy to distinguish, but a few of were open to interpretation.
“I think it’s a cat cleaning itself.” Harry said as he looked at one of them.
“Rubbish, it’s sea shell.” Ron answered.
“If you say so.” Harry conceded.
Harry was being extra careful not to anger Ron. He was very well aware of how sensitive the situation was. Early in the week ha had spoken to Hermione on several occasions. They had discussed if she should invite Ron to the party or not. Hermione had a hard time making up her mind and Harry too had wondered if it was a good idea. In the end they had decided that he really should be invited. His absence would only have created talk about why he wasn’t there and no doubt made him very disgruntled.
Once the invitation was made Harry had several conversations with Ron on whether he should show up or not. Now that Harry had made up his made he had tried to convince Ron to do so, but Ron had gone on and on about his pride. Only after much coaxing from Harry, Ginny and George had Ron accepted. He was in a sulky mood though. Harry had an idea though. He knew what would get Ron in a better mood.
“Hey, check her out.” Harry whispered and nudged Ron’s elbow.
“Blimey, she’s hot. Who is she?” Ron said as he turned around.
“I don’t know, never seen her before.”
The girl in question was quite short, but she made up for it confidence. She had dark blonde hair, a very cute nose and a dress that was quite revealing.
“You should go talk to her.” Harry said to Ron who was busy staring.
“Yeah, that would show’em. Me hooking up with a girl at their party.”
“Come on. Don’t be a fucking git. You shouldn’t do it to spite Hermione. Just go and have some fun for your own sake.” Harry said irritably.
“Fine.” Ron answered and downed the last of his beer.
Ron was just about to go over to the girl when a black haired girl walked over to the blonde and kissed her. From the intensity of the kiss it was very obvious that this was no friendly kiss. Ron stared in anger and disbelief. Fortunately Harry reacted quickly and put a silencing charm on Ron before he had the chance to voice his feelings.
“I still can’t believe it. My two best friends hooking up with each other.” Ginny said.
“I do hope that you’re not angry any more.” Luna said.
“No don’t worry, I was a bit miffed about the whole break-up. I mean, it’s kinda my duty as a sister to be angry at Hermione. Keep this a secret, ok? Ron was really down after it happened. I don’t think he showed it to Hermione, but he came over to me and Harry and was completely devastated. I mean we fight all the time, but he is my brother and I hated seeing him like that. I guess I blamed Hermione for it, but then I started to accept. I mean I can’t be angry at her for choosing to be happy.”
“Very good. I was a bit worried that we had lost you as a friend.”
“Never.” Ginny answered and reassured Luna by giving her a hug.
“I am so glad to hear it.”
“There’s one thing though. How come you never told me?”
“Told you what?”
“You, know about being into girls. I mean you did manage to sneak away with Orla without me noticing.”
“It had to be secret. It would have been very dangerous if anyone knew.”
“What do you mean?”
“It was a war going on. It is very important to keep things secret when there is war.” Luna said in a solemn voice.
“I guess you’re right. They’d probably kick the both of you out of school if they found out. Or worse.”
“Yes, I am sorry I didn’t tell you, but they could have read your mind.”
“True. But what about after that? You did sneak away together in our last year as well didn’t you?”
“Yes, but we didn’t speak much at the time.”
Ginny felt a pang of guilt. With Harry deciding to spend another year at Hogwarts and being in the same class as Hermione they had been practically inseparable.
“I’m sorry about that. I was kinda obsessed with Harry.”
“That’s OK. I wasn’t lonely any more. I did have Orla and for some reason a lot of other people wanted to be friends with me.”
“Well, you are a hero.”
“Yes, I think I am.” Luna mused.
“One other thing though. Did you ever you know….think about me?”
At first Luna looked very surprised. Then she suddenly burst out in laughter.
“Hey! I’m hot.” Ginny said, slightly offended.
“You do look very good, but you wouldn’t be interested.”
“Ok, but you didn’t know that.”
“It wasn’t too hard to see you know. The only way to get you would have been if I polyjuiced myself into Harry.”
“Honestly, that would probably have worked.” Ginny giggled.
“Yes, it does work. I do know from a good source that Draco has Pansy polyjuice herself into Harry when they do it.” Luna said with a straight face.
Ginny immediately burst out laughing.
“Yeah right.”
“Ok, maybe I lied, but who knows. He is very obsessed with Harry.” Luna said with a light smirk.
“So, they are both champions from different schools and now they are girlfriends?” Viktor asked.
“Yes. From what I heard Orla was flirting with Vanessa, the Beauxbatons champion, in order to make her loose concentration. Well, somehow it backfired I guess and Vanessa liked it. So they became girlfriends.” Neville explained.
“It is very unprofessional.”
“Well, you were interested in Hermione when you competed and she was best friends with Harry. Isn’t that the same thing?”
“No, she was not the opposition. Harry was.” Viktor grumbled.
“Good thing you weren’t interested in Harry then.” Neville joked.
Viktor responded with a disapproving grunt.
“So, who do you think will win this year? Neville asked, deciding not to push his luck with angering Viktor.
“It will be our champion of course.”
“I suppose I have to say our champion, but who knows? Anything can happen.”
Just then George showed up and threw himself into the discussion.
“Of course it’ll be Orla. I played her in Quidditch once. She’s one sneaky girl. She did this one move where she flew right in front of Katie Bell when I was hitting a bludger in her direction. Orla dodged it and it hit Katie. I was pissed of course, but that was one hell of a move.”
“Our champion is also a quidditch player. He…” Viktor started.
From this the discussion went over to the subject of who was best at quidditch rather than who would win the TriWizard. Neville didn’t really feel like he had anything to contribute since he was not a player and he really didn’t want to debate who was best. Instead he went over to Hermione who was in the process of cleaning up some cheese doodles which had fallen out of their bowl.
“Oh, hi Neville. How are you? I do hope you have a good time?”
“I will if you sit down and talk to me, instead of fussing about. A few misplaced cheese doodles have never ruined a party you know.”
“Oh, Ok I guess. I do need to relax a bit don’t I?”
“You do, good thing that you realize that.” Neville said as he sat down in a couch.
“I do. Luna has tried to teach me that.”
“Does she get through?”
“She’s starting to yes.” Hermione said with the kind of smile only love can bring.”
“I must say the two of you do make a very good couple.”
“Thank you. People are starting to realize that I think.”
“Ohh, I never doubted it. I thought you were a perfect match the second I heard it.”
“Really? Most people were completely shocked.”
“Well, I guess I can admit it now, but I had a bit of a crush on you many years back. And you do know that I asked Luna out. So seeing two girls I have once been interested getting interested in each other isn’t too much of shock.”
“You had a crush on me?” Hermione asked in complete surprise.
“Yeah, didn’t you catch that? I thought you girls were able to pick up on those things?”
“Well, I guess I was kind of self involved. I didn’t notice anyone being interested in me until Viktor. And I only realized Ron was interested in me because of his jealousy about Viktor.”
“Well, I guess the thing about love is that you only need to get it right once, isn’t it? And you obviously got it right now.”
“That I do.” Hermione answered with a dreamy smile.
“Ave you noticed zat a lot of people are looking at us?” Vanessa asked her girlfriend.
“Yeah, it’s like they never seen two hot girls make out before.” Orla answered and gave Vanessa about the hundredth kiss of the evening.
“I zhink zhat it is zhat we are both champions of our schools, yes?”
“You’re probably right. Guess we’re famous. Imagine what the papers would make of this. In the last competition they wrote all kinds of things about Harry Potter’s love life.”
“Luna is journalist, isn’t she?”
“She is, but they don’t do celebrity gossip. It’s a pretty serious paper. There are some pretty out there things they write, but they don’t go for sleaze.”
“Zhat is good to hear.”
“So, what would they say if this got out in the French papers?”
“Zhey would understand. We French are very passionate and love is never wrong.” Vanessa said theatrically.
“That’s why you always lose at sports.” Orla retorted with a smirk.
“I seem to recall zhat we are better in football, ne ces’t pas?”
Orla couldn’t come up with a good answer to that, the French were world champions after all, so instead she initiated another session of making out.
“You know, this could be a good time to let people know.” Hannah whispered to her friend.
“What? No, no, no. Look at all the people here.” Justin said with a frightened look on his face.
“Exactly, pretty much all our friends are here and look at how accepting they are. This is a party hosted by a gay couple. What better time can there be?”
“I don’t know. “
“Look, you don’t want to show yourself in public with your boyfriend for fear of being talked about. How about you make one big announcement and then no one will be surprised.”
“But, he’s a muggle you know.”
“Now you’re just making excuses.”
“Stop it alright. I should never have told you.” Justin snapped.
“I’m sorry. I just want you to be happy you know? I promised you I would never tell anyone and I will keep that promise. I just want you to be happy and to be proud of who you are.”
“I know. I didn’t mean it. You really think they’ll be ok with it?”
“I know they will.” Hannah said confidently.
“Ok, then. I’ll do it.” Justin said and took a deep breath.
Hannah made a magic clinking sound with her wand to get everybody’s attention.
“Hey, everyone. Justin has something he wants to tell you.” She said when once she had the attention of the room.
“Ok, I just wanted to say that I have a boyfriend. I too am gay.” Justin said with just a hint of nervousness in his voice.
“Schisch wasch a good day.” Hermione said.
“Yes, you moved in with me, we had a party and Justin finally came out. It was about time all of those things happened.” Luna summarized.
Hermione was now done with her tooth brushing, allowing her to speak normally.
“Yes, gotta agree there. About time.” She said as she joined Luna in bed.
“It really is sad that Justin didn’t dare to say anything earlier.”
“Yes, Guess we gave him the courage to do so.”
“Yes, it is most pleasing to see that our love has a good effect on the world.” Luna mused.
“And it has only just started.” Hermione said and pulled her t-shirt over her head.
Written by
Rupert
Tuesday Night on... "Taboo Tv" (SPRING 2009)
* * 8:00 * *
Life as a (horny!)
Teenage "Lesbian"
* * 9:00 * *
Can't Fight the Moonlight
* * 9:30 * *
The Blackmail Diaries
(Book One)