A/N: Parvati just wants to be 'Parvati' and not 'Padma & Parvati'. I imagine some twins actually don't like being twins. Fred and George love it, but maybe Parvati didn't and may have been happy to be in a different house from her sister. Not that she didn't love Padma, but she wanted to be her own person. RxR. FxF.
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Ring of Fire/King's Cup Challenge: Parvati Patil
Hogwarts Fair 2014 Challenge/Competition: Niffler Lucky Dig
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
I had been part of a matched set all my life. Twins - aren't they precious, two girls of the same age that look exactly alike. Fun to dress them up and make them do exactly the same thing everywhere and every time? How cute. I couldn't stand it.
We used to fight a lot when we were younger. Since we were twins, we shared everything even when we didn't want to. We were in the same class, we did the same hobbies, we ate the same food. Our parents thought it was cute to dress us alike all the time. Padma may have liked it but I certainly didn't. I saw the sad look she would give every time I ripped those stupid ribbons out of my hair when our parents weren't looking but I didn't care. I just wanted to be my own person and that just couldn't happen if I was part of a set.
Then came the day that we would finally go to Hogwarts. Our parents were happy, Padma was over the moon but I wasn't feeling that great about. Another place where we would constantly be 'Padma & Parvati', never even the other way around.
We stood before the sorting hat and I looked around at all the faces, looked at the scared ones of my classmates, and I wondered just where I'd go. The line before me trickled down until Padma was called up. There were a few tense moments and then the hat shouted "RAVENCLAW!"
Padma walked down to her table as I approached the hat, the second part of 'Padma & Parvati', and knowing that I would be following after her.
"Oh, you wish to be different?" a voice inside my head said but I did not falter. After seeing the persons before me, I really wasn't surprised that something like this could happen. "Wouldn't you like to be like your twin?"
I gasped. Could I really decide my own house and choose to not be in one with Padma? I had never been given something like this in my life. I was always just "Padma & Parvati".
The hat continued as if he had just understood the thoughts that ran through my mind, "Constantly compared and grouped with your twin and you just want to be your own person. You want to forge your own path and make your own decisions. You want to lead and not be led. Interesting."
There was a pause and I wondered what the hat could be thinking. Would he still put me in Ravenclaw with Padma? Maybe that wouldn't be so bad. They're known for being exceptionally bright. But the hat stopped my thoughts, "No, I can't put you in Ravenclaw. You do not fit in there. So let it be GRYFFINDOR!"
There was applause from the table of red and I jumped off the stool with a smile and tried ignore the sad identical face looking at me from the Ravenclaw table.