Hello my dear Harry Potter fans.
As said in summary, this is a story with the secondary characters of Harry Potter and only mentions the main ones. it will be a collection of four snippets, one for each house. It takes place during Half-Blood Prince. It's mostly dialogue with no plot, so know what to expect. I am not really doing something here, I just got this idea stuck in my head and decided to write it down. Parvati and Lavender are described as gossip girls in the books, hence the conversation.
Both Fay Dunbar and Kellah are canon characters, my only OCs in this chapter is Emily and Kellah's last name.
Disclaimer: I own my OCs. Nothing more.
1. You might belong in Gryffindor where dwell the brave at heart; their daring, nerve and chivalry set Gryffindors apart.
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement than something else is more important than fear."
-Ambrose Redmoon
"Can someone please tell me why this coffee tastes like apples?" Fay Dunbar asked, scrunching up her face as she tasted the coffee in her hand. Coffee was usually something not seen in the Hogwart's tables, but the student's body had soon realized that it was desired. As a result, some of the most daring Hufflepuffs had made a business of delivering coffee's from the kitchens to anyone who wanted them.
Kellah Jones, one of the few black girls in Hogwars and Fay's best friend, proceeded to snatch the cup. "Apple coffee?" She suggested with a shrug after tasting it.
"It can't possibly taste like apples, let me see." Parvati Patil made to get the coffee, but Fay snatched it away before she could.
"Hey! This one is mine, I won't have the whole Gryffindor table drink from it! Get your own." She hugged it defensively close to her, as if to prove her point. Parvati raised her hands in surrender.
"Fine, fine. I'll get my own. Lav could you pass me- Lav!" Parvati shook her the other girl who was oblivious to the conversation.
Lavender Brown, Parvati's other half, was busy starring at Ron Weasly a few students down the table from them. "What?" Lavender asked, quickly schooling her features to a neutral expression.
"Ron Weasly? Really Lavender? You can do better than that." Fay said as she tried to fix her red and gold tie. Lavender's cheeks flushed.
"It's none of your business." She said quickly and put some eggs in her plate.
"We're your friends." Kellah clarified. "That makes it every bit our business."
"Anyway, Lav pass me the cereal." Parvati said. "Now," she started after pouring them in the bowl, "Ron." She looked pointedly at Lavender, who blushed even harder.
"Well, I... I don't know. He's just so charming and brave and-" Lavender sighed.
"Ron." Kellah was looking at the blond girl like she had grown a second head. "We are still talking about Ron Weasly right?"
Lavender was too absorbed in a daydream to take notice of what Kellah said, but Parvati sent her a glare in Lavender's place. Next to Kellah, Fay shrugged.
"She likes who she likes, leave her be. Anyway, was it just me, or did any of you noticed how Harry Potter managed to get in trouble even before the year started?" She quickly changed the subject in case an argument arose.
"You mean because he came late in the Great Hall at the Welcoming Feast with blood on his face?" Lavender asked, breaking out of her reverie to contribute to the conversation. "Won-Won was so concerned about him, did you see what a great friend he is?" She sighed and started staring at him again.
Kellah let her head fall in the table in front of her with a bang that was bound to hurt. "This is going to be such a long year."
"It's rude to stare." Fay snapped her fingers in front of Lavender's face to get her attention, and Parvati seized the opportunity and handed her a fork.
"Padma said that every year after the whole thing with the Chamber of Secrets, Ravenclaws make bets on what sort of thing is Harry going to get himself into." Parvati said as Lavender finally paid attention to her breakfast. "Last year she made a few galleons off the fact that Loony Lovegood got mixed up in it."
"Don't let Ginny hear you call her that." Fay said without any real concern. "She jinxed Zachariah Smith the other time and it did not end up pretty."
"Do you know if they take bets from Gryffindors?" Kellah asked Parvati. "Because I could totally make some money out of that."
"There's not much to guess." Fay said with a hand wave. "Ever since our first year here, he and his friends get caught in the weirdest things. It's as if trouble follows them."
"Too bad for us we graduate the same year as they do." Kellah said. "We won't be able to have a peaceful year."
"Did you get the schedule?" Fay asked in an effort to change the subject. "Kellah and I have DADA with Snape, and I sure am not excited about it."
"Lavender and I too." Parvati sighed. "Why did Dumbledore give him the position anyway? Hasn't he been refusing it to him for the last decade or something?"
"Why does Dumbledore do anything?" Fay raised a point the other girls could not disagree with. Suddenly she snapped her fingers in front of Lavender's face again. The other girl was staring at the ginger prefect again. "Earth to Lavender. Stop staring or you'll start drooling and that's not something I want to see."
Bright honey eyes glared at her. "I do not drool. Especially over a boy. No matter how cute and dreamy he is."
"Yes, a prince." Kellah said with no small degree of sarcasm and Fay choked on her orange juice. Parvati scowled the black girl who was trying to hide her smile and her friend, who was laughing between coughs.
"Don't make fun of her. Let me remind you Fay, that you were dating Lee Jordan." Parvati recalled with a tease.
"I am dating Lee Jordan." Fay said when she regained her ability to breathe properly, smiling smugly when both Parvati and Lavender's eyes sparkled suddenly in interest.
"No way, you guys broke up last May." Lavender said, forgetting all about Ron and going into full gossip mode.
"We did." Fay confirmed. Putting her elbows on the table she leaned forward, and so did her three friends. "Do you guys know that Fred and George opened a joke shop in Diagon Alley -'Weasly's Wizard Wheezes'- it has a stupid sign outside of it that says somethi-"
"Jordan, Fay." Parvati interrupted the black-haired girl's rambling.
"Jordan. Right." Fay blinked. "Well anyway, my little sister Emily and I decide to go in when we were doing our shopping for school stuff-"
"We don't care!" Lavender interrupted. "Tell us about Jordan."
"I am getting there!" Fay cried, annoyed with the interruptions. "Interrupt me again and I won't tell you." Lavender had never shut her mouth so fast. "Anyhow, where was I- oh yes! So, Emily and I went inside the store, and guess who comes up to help us? Lee freaking Jordan who apparently works there."
"And then what happened?" Kellah asked, no less interested than Lavender and Parvati.
"We talked, he flirted with me, and then, when we were leaving he asked me out on a date." She made a dramatic pause, and when Parvati was ready to interrupt, Fay started speaking again. "At first I seriously considered refusing, just to show him I was not waiting in the corner for him to come back, but he seemed honest enough so I said yes." Lavender and Parvati squealed.
"What happened on your date, where did he take you?" Parvati pressed for more details. A small smile made its way in Fay's face as she recounted what happened.
"It was great, we took the Knight's Bus and he took me to a small magic cafe in Wales, it was so picturesque!"
"And your dad didn't freak?" Kellah asked, knowing Fay's father was a little overprotective.
"Are you entirely bonkers?" Fay asked with a tone of incredulity. "I didn't tell him he took me to Wales!"
"So you lied to him?" Lavender asked. Her friend was not very big on lying, unless it was to keep a secret; like a friend's crush.
"I didn't lie to him." Fay argued. "Ι told him I went on a date with Lee in a cafe, I just didn't mention where. It was not a lie, I just withheld a tiny piece of information." She defended.
"Yeah, but how was it?" Parvati demanded, finally losing patience.
"Well..." Fay started, making a long pause with the sole purpose of annoying Parvati, "he was really sweet and a gentleman, pulling me a chair to sit like on our first date; and it was like he had made a bet about much he could make me laugh. He told me about Fred and George's store and how he went to work there, and that he was planning on being a commentator on Quidditch matches."
"Yeah, but-" Fay glared at Parvati and she stopped herself mid-sentence.
"Anyway, he said how it was really stupid of him to break up with me and how he wanted to get back together; and then he asked -actually asked- to kiss me." Fay was fighting back a grin.
"Please tell me you said yes." Kellah said.
"Don't be stupid, of course I said yes!" Fay exclaimed. "So now we're dating again." She concluded, her lips breaking into a wide grin.
"This is great!" Parvati cried. "I'm so happy for you; I remember how much you liked him." She reached over the table to give Fay a hug.
"Um... I hate to break this to you," Kellah said as she picked her bag and stood up, "but we have to move if we don't want to be late for Defense."
Lavender groaned. "I hate Snape." She stated as the four girls made their way to the Great Hall's entrance.
"Who doesn't?" Fay asked as Parvati draped her arm over Lavender's shoulder.
"Do you think Ron will try out for Quidditch this year?" The brunette asked. Lavender's face lit up.
"I could go watch his try-outs!"
Aaaand...cut! That was the first chapter with the Gryffindor girls. What do you guys think?