"Hello, bunny!" Wide red eyes stared off into space. The little creature did not acknowledge Luna's presence except to flick one ear in her direction. Luna held out her hand to the rabbit, offering what was left of the berries she had picked. Its nose twitched again and it hopped closer to her outstretched hand hopefully. "That's right, bunny!" She poured the berries onto the ground and waited for the rabbit to hop closer. It sniffed the food suspiciously but eventually ate. "May I ask you a question?" Luna asked the oblivious creature. "You haven't seen a Crumple-Horned Snorkack around the forest have you?" The rabbit lifted its head and looked straight at her. Luna stared into its bulbous red eyes silently and waited. As she stared at the bunny, it stared at her. As it stared at her, she stared at it. Suddenly the rabbit launched itself into the air and hopped away, taking long quick jumps to flee faster. Luna stood up and smiled after her little friend. ~*~*~*~ "Great, Malfoy! Look what you've done! Just because my sister riles you up all the time! Where the hell are we going to find a bear? How the hell are we going to hunt one without wands?" Ron yelled as soon as they had walked far enough into the forest that the girls couldn't hear them. Harry shook his head at the impossible situation Draco had gotten them into, while the blond man simply paced furiously back and forth, ignoring both of them. Ron was still ranting. "You can't let her get to you like that, you know! You just have to ignore her, or you'll be doing stupid stuff all the time. Believe me, I know! I lived with her for twenty years! She's too much like Fred and George." "Like who?" Draco asked, never pausing his pacing. Ron stared at him incredulously. "My brothers? The twins? Ring any bells in that dumb head of yours?" "Oh, them," Malfoy said and then returned his total attention back to his stride. Ron gaped disbelievingly at Harry who was trying unsuccessfully to stifle his laughter. "Hey, Ron, don't worry about it," Harry said through his hand. "Maybe Malfoy has a plan that we don't know about." Looking hopeful and ecstatic at the same time, the red-haired man said, "Yeah! You got a plan, Malfoy?" Harry and Ron's eyes followed him as he passed them for the tenth time. "Nope. Do you?" Ron exploded, his face reddening alarmingly. Harry feared his head might actually burst with anger. "What do you mean, 'Do you'? I'm not the one who told Ginny we would bring back a bear!" Draco stopped pacing and stared at Ron like he had no brain and had just proved it. "That's stupid! Where are we going to find a bear? And how would we catch it? Or kill it for that matter? We don't even have wands! We need to get back at them. They can't make fools out of us!" Ron stared back at Malfoy with the exact same expression on his face. "Brilliant," he muttered in an incredulous monotone. "How do you plan on doing that?" "I don't know, Weasley! I'm still thinking!" He continued on his former path, back and forward in front of Harry and Ron. They rolled their eyes at each other, waiting impatiently for something to occur to him. "Why would you agree to hunt a bear anyway?" Harry asked Draco. He sighed in exasperation and threw his arms out at his sides. "I don't know! When she starts talking, I just want to… I don't know, prove her wrong or something! She acts likes she's better than me, and she's not! She isn't better than anyone, but especially not me! So I wanted to show her that I could catch a bear and I wanted her to come to me if she wanted something. Just so I could turn her down and put her in her place!" Harry looked at Ron who wasn't paying much attention because he was seemingly deep in thought. It sounded to him like Malfoy had agreed to find a bear so that he could impress Ginny, who was nonplussed by everything he did. But he kept this thought to himself, thinking that the blond man would not appreciate his theory.
