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Ravenclaws and Gryffindors shared Transfiguration class, that was how they met. During their very first year at Hogwarts.
Luna Lovegood, the strange, eccentric and rather odd Ravenclaw girl in her transfiguration class. Ginny liked Luna's hair, the way it curled and waved down her back. She thought her pretty the first time she saw her. A pretty girl amongst many other pretty people. She often looked like she was far away in some kind of dreamland and yet she was most definitely paying attention in class.
She had seen her from afar, made brief eye-contact, but never really talked to her. She had just been admiring Luna's turnip earrings the day they spoke for the first time. Right after a class, while packing their stuff.
"Hey, Loony what's with the turnips in yer ears?" asked a loud Gryffindor boy, with his Ravenclaw friend snickering besides him. Ginny look at them with dismay. Loony? Loony?! A fire danced in her stomach as she continued to look at the scene before her.
"Oh, I think turnips are pretty so I thought I'd make myself some earrings with them. I could make you some if you want me to, it's not difficult." Luna gave the two boys the same relaxed, kind look she seemed to give everyone and answered with a smile.
"Ha! As if!" laughed the Ravenclaw boy "Keep your weirdo earrings to yourself Loo-"
"THAT IS IT!" shouted Ginny, and now everyone was looking at her. Including Luna. Ginny could feel her heart beating painfully with panic, but the anger in the pit of her stomach was more powerful than her fear. Ginny stomped over the boys with loud steps and her ears as red as her hair.
"Her name is Luna, don't you dare call her Loony! And you wish you were as 'weird' as she is you absolute broomheads!" She turned her head to look at the Ravenclaw boy with such force that he jumped. "And I have no idea how you got into Ravenclaw, what with less IQ than a turnip." Then it was the Gryffindor boy's turn to jump as she turned to him. "I am absolutely disgusted that I have to be in the same year, let alone the same house as a bully like you. There is absolutely no chivalry in what you were just doing."
She then turned on her heels and locked her arm with Luna. She looked at the boys again. "Think well through everything you've said to her, boys. And be ashamed of yourself. Both Ravenclaw and Gryffindor should've lost at least 50 points for your cruelty."
Ginny walked away, arms locked with Luna until they were out in the paved courtyard.
"Thank you for stopping them, Ginevra. I don't really like it when they call me Loony. Well, it would be a good nickname but not when it is so mean spirited of course. I guess... If we were friends.. I wouldn't mind if you called me that. Though just Luna is fine too." Luna said in her usual fleeting voice.
Ginny stared at her for a while, then laughed.
"Sure, as long as you call me Ginny. I hate being called Ginevra. I mean, it sounds like an old lady's name! Oh, and if you don't mind, make me a pair of turnip earrings."