Clear As Crystal

by The Babel Fish

What the future should have been like, and what it turned out to be. What she would have done and the attempts of her best friend to do it. Sister piece to 'Good Indian Girls'.

Disclaimer: I own nothing, so be happy.

Note: Companion piece to 'Good Indian Girls'.

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Lavender names her children for the dead.

She never plans anything, just looks into her baby's eyes and murmurs the name that pops into her head.

Lisa. Morag. Demelza. Anthony. Terry.

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Or she would have. She's dead now, so Parvati does it for her.

Padma always meant to name her first girl Parvati, and Parvati always meant to name her first girl Padma.

But the first baby is a Lavender, clear as the crystal balls of an age ago.

Mr. and Mrs. Patil disapprove loudly, in an exasperated mix of Hindi and broken, accented English.

Padma cracks a smile for the first time since the Battle of Hogwarts.

Parvati refuses them with Gryffindor wells of courage she thought were long dry, and thanks one Lavender Brown for meeting her in an empty compartment of the Hogwarts Express.