Hey so this is one of my first attempts at writing have a gander see what you think.

The story will be Harry/Luna, Luna might seem a little out of character here but as this is 11 year old Luna in her first year at Hogwart's I don't think she would have as thick skin as she does when she originally meets Harry in her 4th year hence why she is more emotional.

Harry will be more interested in magic than he is in the books and not treat Hogwart's like a muggle school because if you discovered you had magic it would be awesome and you wouldn't be like oh no not an essay on how to use magic to turn an object into a bird or make a potion that can regrow bones! The potential is huge!

Besides that Harry will learn and progress he won't just become as powerful as Dumbledore and Voldemort overnight.

Disclaimer I don't own any of this it all belongs to J.K. Rowling.

Harry was wandering around unused wings of the second floor of Hogwarts as he remembered the stress of the past week.

Fighting a basilisk with nothing more than a sword even if it did belong to Godric Gryffindor, it was still the first time he held one and whilst comfortable in his hand he still did not have much clue on how to use it.

"Idiot." Harry muttered to himself. 'Note to self, never let go of wand in dangerous places even when friends are in danger.' He would not be letting another Tom come along and use his wand against him like that.

'Still I survived with the help of Fawkes.' Harry thought turning a corner and continuing his wandering alone.

Dumbledore once again would not tell him why Tom was after him and he could only conclude that seeing as he is the sole survivor of one of his attack's he is a stain on his image.

'Why had no one ever told me?' Was all Harry could ask himself as he stormed down a corridor angrily.

Voldemort went after his parent's for an unknown reason and now that he thought about it he remembered dreams he used to have of a woman screaming and pleading with a man as he laughed cruelly before the flash of green light woke him. Did this mean Voldemort was after him specifically and not his parents? Did he just want to kill all the Potter's to be rid of the family working against him?

The philosopher's stone was another question Harry asked himself over the absurd notion of keeping such a priceless artefact of immortal life in a school with other kids. 'Honestly if anything the whole idea behind the Mirror of Erised meant that Voldemort could never get the stone without possibly breaking the mirror so was it a trap designed to lure Voldemort back out into the open? If this was the case then Dumbledore deliberately encouraged one of the Darkest Lords in history to infiltrate his school. Harry scoffed. 'It's a wonder no one died or got personal instruction from him.'

'Well that's not exactly true, McGonagall sent Hermione, Neville, Malfoy and me into the Forbidden Forest last year at night for being out a night.'

'Hermione was right last year when she said wizard's haven't got an ounce of logic and if we were looking for something that could kill unicorns why send four first year students armed with levitating and unlocking charms in the middle of the night? Would it not be easier to find evidence when it was still daylight?'

Harry's thoughts progressively got darker as he wondered why no one in the Wizarding world took his side or explained things to him when as the main person involved he had a right to know.

The past year had been horrible for Harry as he was constantly questioning whether or not he was a bad person with his ability to speak Parseltongue. The whole school had been calling him the Heir of Slytherin until Hermione had been attacked making him really paranoid he might have a relation to the most bigoted believer of blood supremacy to exist.

A quiet sobbing interrupted Harry's thoughts as he looked around searching for the source of the sound.

"Hello? Is someone there?" Harry asked as he searched for the source of the noise.

The sobbing ceased immediately and Harry was once again plunged back into silence.

Looking around he spotted some doors nearby. A quick search of the first two led to some unused classrooms full of old dusty furniture. It was on the third door that Harry discovered the door was locked.

"Hello? Is someone in here? Are you ok?"

A soft sniffle followed before a girl's voice replied. "Who…who is it?"

Harry breathed a sigh of relief knowing he had found the person who was crying before. "My name is Harry. Did you want to come out of there?"

"I can't." The girl said. "It's locked"

Harry frowned. "Not to worry I'll have you out of there in a sec."

"Alohomora." Harry tugged on the door again but was shocked to find it was still locked.

"What the?" "Alohomora." He tried again and it was still locked.

The sobbing resumed. "I…I've already tried that, but it wouldn't work." "Please, I…I've been in here for so long. I…I don't want to be left alone…"

A fire blazed in Harry's emerald eyes as he glared at the door blocking him from the sobbing girl locked behind it.

"Move as far away from the door as you can, ok?"

"Ok."

Harry heard a few steps being taken away from the door. 'So it's a small room I better be careful with how I do this.'

Pointing his wand at the door handle he yelled. "Incendio!"

A large torrent of flames shot out of his wand. Larger than he had ever made before.

Not paying attention to this Harry focused on the door, keeping the torrent of fire on the door handle until there was a large crack and the door swung inwards slamming against the wall.

Harry immediately stopped powering his spell as soon as he heard the crack.

Looking inside, Harry noticed the door led to a broom cupboard and inside huddled against the far while with wide teary eyes which shone a pale silver reminding Harry of little moons was a young girl with pale blonde hair in Ravenclaw colours.

Lowering his wand Harry smiled and asked "There you are. What happened?"

The girl looked at Harry cautiously whilst stepping out of the room looking side to side down the corridor.

Harry kept smiling at the girl before being caught off guard as she lunged at him wrapping her arms around his waist as she sobbed into his shirt.

Harry awkwardly pat her back trying to sooth her as he said instead. "It's alright now. Can you tell me your name?"

The girl continued to sob before replying with a shaky voice. "Luna…Luna Lovegood."

"Well it's very nice to meet you Luna." Harry said as he rubbed her back.

"Can you tell me how you ended up in there?"

Luna clutched onto Harry tighter before saying. "Some girls from my house. They said I was looney and that I was better off all alone where no one had to put up with me just because they can't see what I can!" She was sobbing again by the end of her speech.

Harry wrapped both arms around Luna pulling her into one of his rare hugs telling her it would be alright now.

Harry however was seething on the inside. He knew what it was like to be different from his peers, he was bullied his whole life at home and at school before he came to Hogwarts because he was different to the other 'normal' Dursleys and even then this year he was isolated as the Heir of Slytherin even though there was no proof he had anything to do with the attacks.

The sobbing had quieted down to the occasional sniffle as Harry pulled back and looked at the girl who was reluctant to release him.

Glancing down Harry noticed Luna wasn't wearing any shoes.

"Hey Luna, where are your shoes?" He asked dreading the answer. A favourite past time of Dudley's was to take anything Harry had just to make his life even more miserable.

Luna looked down as she mumbled. "The girl's like to steal my stuff from me too."

Looking up she was entranced as Harry's eyes glowed with an emerald fire as he said with a smile. "Not to worry Luna." "Dobby?"

A crack resounded in the corridor as they both looked at the source as a little house elf quickly yelled out "Harry Potter calls for Dobby what an honour this is! Harry Potter is too kind."

Harry smiled at his friend's antics as he said. "Dobby can you get me a pair of socks and shoes for my friend Luna here?"

Luna swung her head around from looking at Dobby to stare at Harry in astonishment. She knew who Harry was of course. He was Harry Potter the Grizzly Dawn Biter always awake at the earliest point of dawn recovering from nightmares that have plagued him since she guessed his parents died, oh and also the Boy-Who-Lived. She didn't have any friends, besides Ginny, but she hasn't been talking to her much this year and had a rather dark presence around her so she wondered if Ginny too thought she was looney like her house mates and decided to cut ties with her. But here was Harry Potter who just called her his friend. Her heart swelled as she finally found someone at Hogwarts who called her a friend.

Snapping out of her musing Luna looked back as there was another crack as Dobby reappeared. 'When did he leave?' But she had no time to ask this as Dobby was almost buried under a collection of her missing clothes, shoes, homework assignments and an old bracelet made out of silver of her mothers with fairies engraved onto it surrounding an hourglass of sapphire.

Tears poured down Luna's face as she lunged for the bracelet, slipping it back onto her left arm, she thought it was lost forever with the rest of her belongings.

Harry scratched the back of his head. "Uh thanks Dobby. Where did all this come from?"

"Oh Master Harry Potter sir. Dobby is sorry sir but he was getting some little shoes and wonderful socks for Master Harry's Moon here when Dobby felt Master Harry's Moon's belongings spread all around the Tower of birds sir and so Dobby thought he would collect it all and bring it here for Master Harry's Moon to choose from sir. Dobby hasn't upset Master Harry again sir?" Dobby frowned thinking hard. "Dobby does not think this is saving Master Harry Potter's life again sir which Master Harry Potter asked Dobby to never do again."

Harry laughed "No Dobby this is fine. Great in fact. Luna lost a lot of her things by the looks of it so I am indebted to you for bringing them back. Thankyou Dobby."

Dobby blushed. "Ah it was nothing Great Master Harry Potter sir, you freed poor Dobby from bad masters there is no task too great that Dobby can perform that will ever repay him." Dobby bowed to Harry as he spoke.

Harry frowned at Dobby. "It's ok really Dobby friends help each other without expecting something back, it's how friendship is." He shrugged. "And Dobby, please just call me Harry."

Dobby chuckled nervously. "Dobby will try Harry Master Potter sir."

Harry groaned and rolled his eyes as Luna giggled nearby having stopped crying since finding her bracelet and being amused at Harry's antics with his friend, a house elf.

Harry looked at Luna giggling liking making her happy now that she was so sad before.

Voices echoed down the corridor as Harry and Luna swung round looking behind them.

"I bet Looney Lovegood has been bawling her eyes out down here all on her own"

Laughter met the two as they then heard "Yeah she's probably crying for her mommy too bad her looney mother blew herself up."

More laughter followed this as Harry felt blood rush to his head as his fists clenched and he took a step towards the corner eyes glowing molten emerald as a large pulse radiated from shattering the window at the end of the corrider.

Luna grabbed his hand and tugged him away from the voices and around the other corner as the voices screamed in fright.

"Please Harry…I don't want to see them right now." She started to sniffle again.

Harry looked at Luna holding his hand and felt some of his anger leave him as he then pulled Luna after him in a run. "Ok Luna if that is what you want right now. Then come with me."

They ran down corridors, ducking through shortcuts behind tapestries and even took a shortcut through a portrait of kittens by Harry scratching them between their ears as they purred.

Luna was astonished with how well Harry knew his way through Hogwart's secret passage ways, she of course had found some herself and noticed others going through some but Harry barely even used the corridors, he made his own path to wherever he was taking them.

A bookshelf slide back into place as Harry and Luna came out in the same corridor as Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.

"Quick in here Luna. I want to show you a place where you can hide from those bullies."

Ducking into the bathroom, Harry approached one of the sinks as Luna looked on puzzled.

Luna gasped as Harry started hissing at one of the sinks and looked on in amazement as the sink sunk into the floor revealing a hole in between all the sinks.

"Come on Luna." Harry laughed holding out his hand turning around and saying "Down" In Parseltongue.

Luna took Harry's hand again as a platforms came out from underneath all the sinks and created one big platform which Harry stepped onto pulling Luna after him.

"Go" Harry hissed again before they descended at a rapid pace feeling his shoes stuck to the platform so they didn't fly off. He reasoned Salazar Slytherin and Tom Riddle would have been much too proud to enter their Secret Chamber on a slide and covered in slime, so deduced there was some sort of stairway in effect.

Luna clutched onto Harry tightly as the tunnel flew past her before abruptly coming to a stop and feeling her shoes become unstuck from the platform again and being pulled off by Harry.

"Wingardium leviosa."

Luna saw Harry with his wand out levitating large piles of rat bones? To one side.

"Uh Harry where are we?" She questioned her new friend nervously.

"Nothing to fear Luna we are in the Chamber of Secrets. It just needs a little Spring cleaning is all."

Luna blinked at Harry before laughing. Her day had been so weird she would not have been able to believe it had someone told her it would happen. She was still finding it hard to believe that Harry Potter had rescued her from being locked in a broom cupboard that her housemates had locked her in, to Harry's house elf friend finding all her possessions including her mother's bracelet and now after traversing a secret route of hidden passageways she was in the chamber of secrets, the very secret lair of Salazar Slytherin's monster and all Harry did was say there was nothing to worry about it just hadn't been cleaned in a long time!

"Uh Luna are you ok?" Harry asked her scratching the back of his head having finished moving all the rat bones.

"Yes Harry, I'm better than alright." She laughed. "It's just my first friend at Hogwart's is taking me into the Chamber of Secrets and saying it needs some Spring cleaning." Luna wiped at tear out of her eye from laughing so hard.

Harry grinned at Luna. "Well Milady." He bowed. "The esteemed Chambers of Salazar Slytherin himself await." He spoke in mock pomp.

Luna giggled, the dull lighting and gloominess of the caves all of a sudden much brighter at Harry's teasing.

"Lead on my noble knight, for I am weary and wish to retire." Luna replied drawing herself up and sticking her nose in the air.

Harry laughed as Luna maintained the pose before she too cracked a smile and laughed as well.

Their journey came to a halt as they came to the cave in caused by Lockhart.

"Here Luna." Harry said bending down and giving Luna a boost up through the hole Ron had dug through the cave in.

Luna climbed down the rockslide on the other side looking on in awe at the large door surrounded by serpents with two large serpent statues with eyes made from emerald on either side.

"Here we are Luna." Harry said in excitement as approached the door.

"Open." He hissed out and there was a large clunk as the doors slid away to reveal the chamber within.

"Light." Harry hissed again and Luna gasped as she saw a long path surrounded by serpents in a long row with large torches that lit up with green fire as they travelled down the path towards the giant head statue at the end.

Luna screamed and Harry pulled his wand out of his robe in a flash looking around in all directions alert for danger in an instant. Not seeing anything to be worried about he glanced at Luna and followed her horrified gaze and saw the basilisk's head upside down with it's body half in the water surrounding the giant head statue.

"Oh yes sorry Luna I should have warned you about the basilisk down here." Harry chuckled rubbing the back of his head again as he grinned at Luna.

Luna looked between Harry and the basilisk horrified before she squeaked in a small voice. "You…you…YOU FOUGHT THAT?" She was screamed by the end.

Harry winced all of a sudden reminded of when Hermione got upset with him for going off and doing reckless things on his hand.

"Uh yeah but it's ok I had a sword so it didn't matter that I lost my wand."

"YOU WHAT?" Luna screamed again.

Harry winced 'I really should not have mentioned that.'

"Now now Luna everything is ok this all happened a week ago. I'm fine now see." He said gesturing to himself.

Luna hugged Harry tightly before pulling back and asking nervous about scaring off her new friend. "Can you tell me what happened?"

Harry blinked at Luna before shrugging and proceeding to tell her about the adventures of the past year. From meeting Dobby to meeting Aragog in the Forbidden Forest to Lockhart causing the cave in and finally battling the basilisk and the shade of Tom Riddle but left out who he was possessing.

Luna was paler than she normally looked after hearing about Harry's tale and sat thinking whilst Harry looked on nervously.

"Luna you don't you know…think I'm a…freak after hearing this right?"

Looking up shocked, mouth hanging open Luna was quick to say. "What? No why would I think that? No it's just…it was Ginny wasn't it?" She began to tear up again as Harry looked at her with wide eyes confirming that Ginny was indeed the student possessed by Voldemort.

"Ginny has been my friend growing up as we live nearby, I just thought she wasn't speaking to me because she thought I was loony too."

Harry growled. "Luna you are not loony you are an amazing person who just because we are different other people think we are freaks."

Luna looked at Harry as he said this. 'Who is it who thinks he is a freak? I can't believe we both have been treated the same way.' She thought sad that her new friend had to go through what she did.

"Come on Luna you are the only person I've brought in here with me and this is called the Chamber of Secrets for a reason. I doubt old Salazar made a whole chamber just to keep his pet basilisk in so lets see what we can find." He smiled at Luna getting up and taking her hand again pulling her over towards the head statue.

Luna looked at Harry holding onto her hand as he walked in front of her. 'I've finally made a friend. Maybe Hogwart's won't be so bad anymore.' She thought with a large smile as she followed after Harry eager to explore the mysteries of the chamber with him.