Seemingly Simple
A HariPo freeverse piece
by mew-tsubaki
Note: The Harry Potter characters belong to J.K. Rowling, not to me. This pairing is a Mew and Mor's Weird Pairing, which you may find in the M&MWP forum (see my profile for details). Check out and join the forum FUN! Read, review, and enjoy!
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The oldest feud is
Gryffindorvs.Slytherin
everyone else is all…
amicable
but even ambivalent friends eventually take sides
And eagles were never meant to strike
badgers
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Okay, so maybe there was only one side in those days
("Potter Stinks," remember)
And Ravenclaws didn't have much to be happy about then
(the Gryffs had their champion,
the Huffs had their hero,
and the Slyths had a delightful spectacle to watch)
So what did the geniuses have?
A quiet library, for once
(except for those goddamngigglygirls
tailing Krum like a horde of
P_u_f_f_s_k_e_i_n_s)
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Actually, it was all a slow
b-l-u-r
One day there are dragons,
the next there are menacing Merpeople
(really?)
But as strange as the already otherworldly
Wizarding world
was,
the "relations" Hogwartians had to endure with the newcomers
just seemed infuriating for most
(after all, the Ravenclaw girls looked excellent in blue—
must the Beauxbatons bitches sit at their table?)
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As the excitement built up, maybe…
(just maybe)
the lines of loyalty
b-l-u-r-r-e-d
too
and all anyone wanted to see was a
h_a_r_m_l_e_s_s
victory
But, as the years had proved
(and, seriously, had only a few Ravenclaws wondered about the castle's curse?)
Victory does not come without a
PRICE
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It—
It happened all at once
*shock*
What was supposed
to be a mindless (mind-numbing) wait&celebrate
turned into
H!O!R!R!O!R
There…
was a body…
a boy…
A hero…
& someone who shouldn't have
returned
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r~E~w~I~n~D
Wasn't it just days ago?
That he and Hannah had been talking with such an awed tremor?
About how their House
would finally get their due recognition?
But…
But this wasn't
supposed
to happen!
Cedric…
"dead"?
What is that word?
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When all is said and done,
Confusion still reigns as king
& heads hurt as much as
h;e;a;r;t;s
So he didn't notice
when those bronze&blue-sleeved arms
wrapped around him
He just knew that he was the reason they were damp
& that she didn't care one bit that he hid his face
as he cried
(for lost victory,
for lost fame,
for a lost brother, really)
The only question he had left was—
Why had he wasted so much time on Hannah,
when Padma had just as much compassion
and
she had brains to understand him?
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One day, when it stops hurting,
Ernie'll try to find out why.
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Awww… Who knew that Padma and Ernie could ever possibly work? :D I'm just extremely happy, as I already love Zachvati, and now Padma has her Huff, too! :3 And I like this FV a lot…even though I should've been doing a history paper instead. :P Bad, mew, bad! XD …or maybe not?
Thanks for reading, and please review!
-mew-tsubaki :)
2017 note: …I wrote fics when I should've been doing school papers more and more often towards the end of high school, *lol*. ;P But, tho I like this piece, I prefer some of my other works featuring Padma and Ernie on their own, or with others. (Zachvati, tho, is a forever ship for me. :3c)