(1)Severus Snape
(1)Luna Lovegood
I will admit complete and utter bias in this case. Luna is a personal favourite of mine, and I will now proceed to quote her a whole bunch.
The girl gave off an aura of distinct dottiness. Perhaps it was the fact that she had her wand stuck behind her left ear for safekeeping, or that she had chosen to wear a necklace of Butterbeer corks, or that she was reading a magazine upside-down.
"You went to the Yule Ball with Padma Patil," said a vague voice.
"She didn't enjoy it very much," Luna informed him. "She doesn't think you treated her very well, because you wouldn't dance with her. I don't think I'd have minded," she added thoughtfully, "I don't like dancing very much."
She retreated behind the Quibbler again. Ron stared at the cover with his mouth hanging open for a few seconds, then looked around at Gunny for some kind of explanation, but Ginny had stuffed her knuckles in her mouth to stop herself from giggling.
Everyone laughed, but nobody laughed harder than Luna Lovegood. She let out a scream of myrth that caused Hedwig to wake up and flap her wings indignantly and Crookshanks to leap up into the luggage rack, hissing. Luna laughed so hard her magazine slipped out of her grasp, slid down her legs and on to the floor.
"That was funny!"
Her prominent eyes swam with tears as she gasped for breath, staring at Ron. Utterly nonplussed, he looked around at the others, who were now laughing at the expression on Ron's face, and at the ludicrously prolonged laughter of Luna Lovegood, who was rocking backwards and forwards, clutching her sides.
"Are you taking the mickey?" said Ron, frowning at her.
"Baboon's...backside!" she chocked, holding her ribs.
"...They've always pulled the carriages. Don't worry, you're just as sane as I am"
Luna did not seem perturbed by Ron's rudeness; on the contrary, she simply watched him for a while as though he were a mildly interesting television programme.
Luna Lovegood emerged, trailing behind the rest of the class, a smudge of earth on her nose, and her hair tied in a knot on the top of her head. When she saw Harry, her prominent eyes seemed to bulge excitedly and she made a beeline straight for him. Many of his classmates turned curiously to watch. Luna took a great breath and then said, without so much as a preliminary hello, "I believe He Who Must Not Be Named is back and I believe you fought him and escaped from him."
"Er, right," Harry said awkwardly. Luna was wearing what looked like a pair of orange radishes for earrings, a fact that Parvati and Lavender seemed to have noticed, as they were both giggling and pointing at her earlobes.
"You can laugh," Luna said, her voice rising, apparently under the impression that Parvati and Lavender were laughing wat what she had said rather than what she was wearing, "but people used to believe that there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack"
"Well they were right, weren't they?" said Hermione impatiently. "There weren't any such things as the Blibbering Hummdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!"
Luna gave her a withering look and flounced away, radishes swinging madly. Parvati and Lavender were not the only ones hooting with laughter now.
Man, I'm already nearing 4k, and I'm like...30 pages after the introduction of Luna. So much good stuff.
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