Huna leading to Drinny
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:date: 2024-05-14T23:32:57
:category: literature
:tags: storyPrompt, harryPotter, plotBunny, fromReddit

Originally published as “`Ginny-centered Huna and what next …`_”
on Reddit.

.. _`Ginny-centered Huna and what next …`:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/o40sus/ginnycentered_huna_and_what_next/

Imagine a classical Huna story (Harry takes Luna to the
Slughorn’s party and they hit it off), but seen from the eyes of
Ginny. She has to finally fight the final loss of her hope that
she would get together with Harry ever. She doesn’t get crazily
jealous, because who could blame Luna for anything, and besides
Luna is her friend and friends don’t steal boyfriends from other
friends, but it is hard and she is moping around the castle
in not very good mental state. While going through the second
floor she finds Draco in the Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom breaking
down because he just cannot carry on in his attempt to deliver
poisoned mead to Dumbledore. They manage to talk and she gets
through to him and persuades him to go to Snape and Dumbledore
for help. While working on his double-agent story, they get
together.

There is an alternative to this pre-Christmas Drinny, with them
getting together only after Ron’s poisoning (Ginny spends a month
or so moping around). How to make it possible for Ginny to get
involved with possible murderer of her brother? That wouldn’t
work, so how to do it?

One thing about those first two attacks (the cursed necklace and
Katie Bell, and the poisoned mead and Ron) is that they can be
fully orchestrated from outside Hogwarts. Actually, they feel
weird exactly because they are too complicated for somebody who
is inside the castle. That’s right, the true perpetrator of these
two crimes was not Draco, but Narcissa Malfoy, who was still
trying to save him by making him succeed, because she suspects
Draco was not able to accomplish the intended assassination of
Dumbledore.

And when Draco sees somebody actually fighting for his life (more
Ron than Katie who was unconveniently shipped to St. Mango),
he might finally realized what does it actually mean to kill
somebody.

So, it could be possible to have both of my hoped-for pairings
Draco/Ginny and Ron/Lavender (this time meant seriously after his
near-death experience). Harry is free to go anywhere or even for
Harmony or Huna for all I know.