Chapter 1
December 30, 2023 at 12:56 PM
A girl with long silver hair fluttering in the cold wind, closing her eyes and putting her face under the falling snowflakes, sat on the roof of a high tower.
A black school uniform with a raven badge on the chest with a woolen raincoat thrown over it and boots insulated with fur could not protect against the chilly Scottish winter. However, the Hogwarts student buried in the snow was magically still warm.
From time to time, the girl opened her eyes and peered carefully into the clear starry sky, as if expecting something unusual. They say that on Christmas night any wishes come true and dreams come true. And the Luna believed in this, even though her dream was much closer than the distant stars.
Some time later, when Luna began to forcefully open her eyes, fighting the onset of drowsiness, a small door dusted with snow fluff creaked behind her. An involuntary smile appeared on the girl’s lips.
Looking around and throwing up her shiny hair around her, she laughed quietly but loudly. Wincing from the snow falling on his nose that fell from the open door, a young man with the same unusual hair color climbed up the ladder.
It seemed that these two were similar like brother and sister, but at the same time they remained very different. Everything about them was similar, from the color of their eyes to their barely noticeable facial features. But still, something was subtly different.
“Sorry, I’m late,” Draco said, sitting down next to the girl who was waiting for him. Having embraced her and thrown on part of the wide black cloak, Draco turned his gaze to the sky.
“It’s okay, it hasn’t started yet,” Luna answered and threw her head back on the young man’s chest.
For several minutes, they sat in silence, hugging each other and looking at the starry sky. Almost no one knew about the exit to the roof of the Ravenclaw tower. Luna showed this secret hole just a year ago and since then, they see Draco almost every day in this very place.
Although it is not the tallest of the school towers, its peaked roof obscures the view and no one except Hagrid with binoculars will notice the two figures among the snowdrift.
“There is a legend that on Christmas night dragons fly over our world,” Lovegood said quietly.
“Is this a Muggle legend?” also quietly, but so that the girl could hear him, he asked.
“Why?”
“Dragons are not such legendary beasts. Just a big and beautiful lizard breathing out fire,” Malfoy shrugged and smiled.
“Yes, you showed them,” Luna nodded and went deeper into her memories. In the summer, Draco suggested visiting a dragon sanctuary in Romania and they spent several weeks among these beautiful creatures. “But this is a legend about other dragons.”
“Will you tell me?”
Luna sighed, collecting her thoughts. In my memory, as now, there was a picture of how, as a little Luna, her mother read fairy tales and told stories before bed. She always saved this one for Christmas Eve, which is probably why she remembered the legend so well.
“Once upon a time, when there were no people in this world, it was inhabited by Great Dragons. These were magnificent intelligent beings, the very first magicians. Their magic was different, not like ours, strong and violent. And only they could use it. Years passed, and the Great Dragons created an ideal world, populated it with plants and animals, gave them a piece of magic and created changes that came with time. For everyone around them, their lives flowed on endlessly, and the Dragons themselves saw everything that happened around them as short and bright flashes.”
“Years and centuries passed and more and more intelligent creatures appeared in the world. Until one day, one of the Dragons created a man and endowed him with a mind comparable to his own. But that Dragon made a mistake, forgetting that he himself possessed the wisdom of thousands and thousands of years lived. The man grew up, looked at the world and saw injustice. He was burdened by loneliness, he was locked in a golden cage.”
“Then the man came up with a plan to escape. He turned to each of the Great Ones and asked for a favor. One gave him knowledge, another gave him strength, the third created a magical artifact. By combining all three, man created a twin in his own image. From his flesh, blood and bone, a girl was born whose strength was enough to open the gates of the dragon city of Eden and escape.”
“At first they lived as brother and sister or as husband and wife, until man saw how one of the Great Ones created a new being. Having endowed an ordinary horse with magic, in front of the eyes of the first people, the Dragon created one who can distinguish a lie from the truth, no matter how you hide it. That day the first unicorn walked on earth.”
“And then the man got scared. The knowledge and power of the creators instilled trembling horror in his heart, and for the first time the man deceived his beloved sister. He forced her to raise the sea, using the power inherited from the Dragons, to create a wave capable of washing away Eden along with all its inhabitants.”
“But stupidity ruined man, and with the wrong hands he almost destroyed all living things.” The Great Dragons that day decided to sacrifice themselves in order to save the beautiful world created by long and painstaking work. Gathering all the forces under their control, the Dragons stopped the flood and locked up the waters in the seas and oceans, and turned the first people into dust and sent them to the winds.”
“Where specks of dust fell into the ground, peoples and countries arose, and the Dragons themselves fly in every year to look at their creation from heaven. They can no longer interfere, but they can do what makes them different from us, simply observe.”
When the Luna finished her story, a new star lit up in the sky. Following her, a second appeared, and then a third. Gradually, there were more and more stars. They formed into constellations, flashed, went out, changed color and flickered.
Following them, small fireflies appeared, flying between new constellations and leaving behind a dim, gradually fading light.
And when the clock above the main gates of Hogwarts struck exactly midnight, the entire sky flashed with bright colors. Like a pattern of lightning, thin lines cut through the sky from horizon to horizon, gradually beginning to flow down.
The northern lights covered the entire sky, shimmering with bright, saturated colors. And after him, breaking through the stripes of paint descending from the heavens, a starfall began.
The snow on the sloping roof shone, reflecting the colors of the night. The same colors spread to the disheveled silver of the eyes and hair of the couple sitting in it. Delight and sincere joy froze on the faces mesmerized by the spectacle.
Without a word, Draco and Luna turned to each other at the same time and shared a tender kiss. The dream that the Luna believed would come true came true, and in the sky, circling around his brothers, one of the creators of the universe grinned.