A/N: I'm not sure wheter this counts as a one-shot or a drabble, so I'm going to go with a short one-shot. This is my first attempt at writing Draco/Luna but, well, a challenge is a challenge (in this case EveveyShiningStar's Non-Canon pairings challenge on the HPFC). I think Draco is a little OOC but I think it's hard to write a pairing like Draco/Luna without going a little OOC. Please review
Disclaimer: No, I do not own Harry Potter.
There was something strangely... appealing about that crazy Lovegood girl, Draco couldn't help but notice.
Not that he would ever tell anyone. Luna Lovegood was not the sort of person that a Slytherin- or anyone really but particularly a Slytherin- was supposed to associate with, what with her radish earrings and her constant mentions of imaginary creatures called Nargles and her humming.
Because she was always humming: sitting at the Ravenclaw dining table eating cereal and humming; sitting in Charms class staring dreamily into space and humming; skipping up down the corridors humming; humming, humming, humming. She never seemed to be humming anything in particular just peculiar tunes of her own invention. Most people found it unbearably annoying and classed Luna has most definitely, without a doubt insane but Draco Malfoy, well he kind of secretly liked it.
Like now, there she was sitting under a nearby tree, her legs stretched out in front of her, reading a book and humming a dreamy tune to herself.
No, 'tune' wasn't the right word. It was something different: something longer and more magical. It was... a symphony. Draco wasn't quite sure how you defined a symphony but he felt like Luna's humming would have been a good example of one.
But what was he thinking? He was Draco Malfoy, for crying out loud. He could get any girl he wanted- well, any girl who was in Slytherin and they were all that mattered- and here he was thinking intensely about Luna Lovegood- Loony Lovegood- and her stupid humming.
And now, and now, she was coming towards him.
"Hello, Draco," Luna said in her annoying but alarmingly nice sing-song-y voice. "Why were you looking at me in that strange way?"
Draco managed to contort his face into a sneer. After all, people were watching and he had a reputation to uphold. "Of course, I wasn't, Loony."
"Yes, you were. Did you like my humming? It's a symphony I'm composing in honour of the Nargles."
"The Nargles?" Draco couldn't help but interject more curiosity than scorn into his voice.
"Yes, they are a very misunderstood race, you see, and I don't think anyone has ever composed a symphony for them before so I thought I would be the first."
"Oh, really?" Draco wasn't sure why but there was something about this whole situation that he found strangely interesting and, well... enjoyable. "It was a symphony?"
"Yes," Luna smiled at him, "it's the Symphony of the Nargles."
Draco longed to stay and talk to Luna more but Pansy and Blaise and the others were beginning to give him strange looks and he just couldn't be seen being friendly to Looney Luna Lovegood so he had to get up and walk away, forcing himself to look scornful so they wouldn't suspect anything.
But he had a strange urge to turn back and hear more of the Symphony of the Nargles.