Sending her roses
"If the rose's petals are yellow with a red tip that represents falling in love," his older sister, Leanne had told him when he quizzed her about sending girls roses.
The colour of his rose was incorrect really, since Seamus wasn't falling in love with Lavender; he had fallen in love with her years ago, probably back in the first year when she had smiled at him from across the Gyffindor table and Seamus had found himself staring at her huge brown eyes and soft curly hair (he didn't know for sure that it was soft, of course, but he could guess).
Leanne had assured him, however, that a red-tipped yellow rose was the right thing to give a girl when you began to court her and she had read enough Muggle romance novels to know her stuff. Seamus wasn't exactly courting Lavender but he wanted to ask her to the Yule Ball and it was sort of the same thing.
Seamus absentmindedly stroked the feather of the owl in front of him. (He knew it was silly sending something to a girl by post when you saw her everyday and would probably be sitting near her at breakfast when it arrived but an owl seemed more romantic- and a lot less embarrassing- then just walking up to Lavender and asking her.) In its talons the owl clutched, of course, a yellow rose with red tipped petals. Wrapped around its stalk was Seamus's note which read simply:
Go to the Yule ball with me? S.F.
Poetry or something would have been more romantic, of course, but Seamus wasn't exactly a poetry sort of person and he felt that a rose was romantic enough.
Anyway, he could only hope she said yes.