Authors Notes: The first in my collection of drabbles…thank you Stardeatheaterobsessive for giving me the characters to work with, and Lily McDermott for the title and beta-read.
Journey of the Mind
Professor McGonagall gave Luna a stern look. "You really must apply yourself, Miss Lovegood! This work just isn't good enough!" She brandished a messy piece of parchment in the air. It was covered in doodles and drawings, with a group of squiggles which appeared to form sentences, squashed into the middle. The supposed 'essay'.
Luna stared out of the window dreamily. She wondered what it would be like to be a mer-person...they ate, didn't they? And she would like to sing like them; they had beautiful voices under water.
"Miss Lovegood!" McGonagall bellowed, calling for attention.
Luna looked up, surprised at this sudden burst of voice. "Oh, I am sorry, Professor. I was just wondering –"
"That is your problem! You think too much, you have got to get your head out of the clouds and down to earth, Miss Lovegood. You are barely receiving an Acceptable in any of your classes lately, and you always turn up with messy hair and dark circles under your eyes."
"I'm sorry, Professor," Luna replied. Her voice was full of innocent and anxiety.
McGonagall frowned slightly. "Miss Lovegood, is there something bothering you?"
"Oh no, I'm quite fine, really," Luna said, with a small smile. "I have lots of homework due, I'd better go now…"
"Let me know if there's anything wrong, Luna," McGonagall said quietly.
Luna left the office. Professor McGonagall would never understand that she learnt the lessons, just got carried away dreaming. She would never understand that her dorm-mates hid her hair-brush and collapsed her bed, leaving no-where for her to sleep.
No, she would never understand. But it didn't matter, because Luna was content with it. She'd just have to do her homework in the toilets, in future.
Authors Notes: Hope you liked it and feel obliged to leave ma a review. :P Next up is surprisingly, from me, a Harry/Ginny drabble.