HP: Luna + Neville Dancing

Neville sat quiet and miserable next to his grandmother as he idly watched Lee, the twins, and their girlfriends dancing. Neville was not a good dancer. Truth be told, Neville didn't feel himself very good at anything outside of Botany, and Hermione could easily give him a run for his money there too! He wondered where the Muggle-born lass and her bosom companions had wandered off to with the birthday girl, trying hard not to also wonder why they saw fit to leave him behind.

The fireplace flashed green, but Neville paid it no mind: Weasley relations and acquantainces and members of the Order had been pouring in all evening. So when he felt a tap on his shoulder, he literally fell out of his chair, no "nearly" about it.

"Oh, you didn't have to get up on my account, Neville, though that was very sweet of you!" an upside down head with turnip earrings and a butterbeer-cork necklace told him, then held out a hand to help him up.

"Luna!" he cried, more than a little pleased to see her. "I thought you weren't going to be back until just before the new term started.

"Daddy got bitten by a kekkletweet, so we had to come home early."

"Oh, I'm sorry! Is he all right?" He didn't bother to ask what on earth a kekkletweet was.

"Oh yes, we got him to a mediwizard in time, but he's decided he's had quite enough adventuring for one summer." She smiled, and the whole evening suddenly seemed a whole lot brighter. Well, it did until she asked, "Want to dance?"

"Oh! Er, I ... well, I don't really--"

She didn't let him finish his protest, grabbing his hand and pulling him out on the dance floor. She proceeded to twirl and throw her limbs about as if she were having some sort of fit, obviously dancing to the beat of her own drum -- and the drummer seemed to be high on something. Suddenly finding himself with no excuse not to, he began to move as well, and if he wasn't quite moving with the beat either, no one seemed to notice.

Silly random thought: I know Jo said Neville & Luna would never get together, but if they DID, Luna wouldn't have to get new stuff cause her initials would stay the same! And if she demanded Neville change HIS last name, he wouldn't have to change his either!

Yeah, okay, the pics all sketchy. Y'all wanted the next chapter up, ne? Besides, I thought it kind of fit Luna's wildness to be sketchy. (Yes, I know, excuses, excuses)

Done in Photoshop Elements with a Wacom Graphire 3.

(You do all know that Harry Potter, the Weasleys, Lee Jordan, Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood are all © J K Rowling/Warner Bros, riight?)