Opposites Attract
Disclaimer: Not mine, heck, not even the plot is especially original, nor the title…
Author's Note: Writing this story is so much fun! It seriously is, but I received some really bad news, only two weeks ago or so, and posting a cheery chapter back then seemed rather disrespectful. Sorry for the delay. But, now I'm here to stay again.
Merry Christmas to you all!
Chapter two"Have I told you how much I owe you for bringing all the people to the Wizz? Have I thanked you?" Parvati asked for the third time since they had left the small building and headed to muggle London. They had really nothing better to do than to just walk and window-shopping. They weren't expected back at work for another hour.
"Yes, you have, and it was really no big deal. I mean if I hadn't come up with the idea, you would have. Tipping our co-workers about great food? Trust me, no biggie." Lavender answered patiently.
"Well, yeah, but threaten to flush their make-up down the toilet if anyone sat with Malfoy or left before Ginny? I swear Mark was going to faint!" She opened her mouth like she was shocked at her best friend. Which she wasn't. "You're wicked, girl!"
"I know!" Lavender cheered. "But, well, I hope you'll mention me in the article. Like partner in crime or something. Nothing too big, but a little aknowledgment would be kinda fun."
"But of course!" Parvati was shocked her friend would dare to think so low of her. Like she hadn't already put her as co-writer. "It was your idea, of course you'll get half the honor!"
Lavender only smiled, happy her friend wouldn't let her down. "So, you think we should force our little duo to meet once again today? Oh, that's a cute top!" She pointed at a pink tub top displayed in one of the windows.
"Yeah, totally!" Parvati agreed and pulled her friend inside to try it on her. "Do you really think they're up for it? I mean, it didn't end that well at the Wizz, after all."
"Nonsense! It could not have been better!" Lavender waved dismissivley with her hand. "They'll be in love in no time!"
Parvati on the other hand wasn't so sure…
.: Flashback :.Neither Ginny nor Draco had uttered a single word since her food had got there. That was probably for the better. For everybody's sake. Ginnys foul mood had actually improved. Food had that impact on her. Now, if she only got her coffee…
She lit up as she spotted Susan with a steaming hot cup in her hand. Finally! That cup practicly signified to her she would be out of there in about five minutes. Away from Mr. Arrogant. Imagine no one had left since she'd got there, strange really…
"Thank you, Susan, so much, this is precisely-" She broke of her sentence with a strangled sound. Susan did not just place that coffee cup in front of him, did she?
Draco only nodded in the waitress direction and flashed a smug smirk to Ginnys stunned face.
He took a small sip and made a huge display of sighing with content, all the while wearing that stupid smirk. Together with her hair, Ginny made a pretty good impression of a roaring fire.
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Parvati and Lavender followed the whole incident with delight.
"Aren't they like, so cute together?" The darkhaired girl gushed to her friend and snapped yet another picture.
"Yeah, totally! Must be destiny!" Lavender waved her hand infront of her face, looking touched. "No wait, it's not. It's just us!" She giggled deviously.
"Yay for us!" Parvati filled in, also giggling in an ill-boding way. People around them slowly tried to get as far from the two girls as possible.
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Ginny had tried, she really had tried to be polite and smile. But he was pushing it to the limit.
"What's the matter, Red? Weasel got your tongue again? Darn, those pesky little rats, huh?"
Red? Weasel? Rat!? That was it! She had had enough. With a sugary smile she slowly stood up and went to the counter. Neville greeted her with a rather unsure smile of his own.
"My coffee?" She asked, never losing the smile. "Thank you!" She said overly cheery as he handed her a cup with steaming hot black liquid. Ever so slowly she went back to her seat.
"Malfoy?" She asked in a sing-song voice.
"What?" He sounded slightly annoyed by her tone, not that Ginny cared, but still.
"I don't think I want my coffe anymore." She said matter-of-fact, still with her maniac smile.
"So?" He was clearly annoyed by her tone.
Her face did not alter a bit as she poured the content of the coffee cup in Malfoys lap.
"Whoops." She said with an apologatic smile.
She payed no heed to his stunned and pissed expression; she simply walked out of the restaurante, suddenly feeling so much better. She didn't even mind the rain.
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"Did you see what I saw?" Lavender blinked confused.
"If you saw Ginny pouring coffee down his lap, then yes."
"Oh," Lavender blinked again. "And here I thought I just had eaten too much sugar again."
Parvati gave her friend a sideway glance. "Had it been the sugar, you would have probably seen them snogging like mad."
The two girls sat in silence for a short while. "Yeah, probably."
.: End flashback :.
"You think he's pissed?" Lavender asked from inside the fitting room.
"Noo, why would he be?" Her friend rolled her eyes.
"Tada!" Lavender opened the door to the fitting room and started to twirl around, showing the top from every possible angle. "He shouldn't be you know. One day he'll thank us!"
"Why would he?" Parvati laughed. "Thanks to us his, probably expensive, suit got ruined!"
"Well, yes." She pouted for half a second. "But it will make the article so much more interesting!" She giggled. "This fits rather well, doesn't it?"
"It's like, made for you, Lav! And you're so right, this little incident will definitley spice up the story." The fell into a high-pitched giggle fit.
"But I still say we wait until tomorrow." Paravti said completely serious.
"Fine!" Lavender rolled her eyes, contridicting her own agreement. "You'll need to write down everything that has happened today, anyway."
"Yeah," Parvati said, suddenly less enthusiastic. "I had forgotten about that part." Something haunted entered her eyes.
"Relax, you're in issue number seven. It doesn't come out for another four weeks.
"Right." Parvati breathed out realived. "A month for them to fall madly in love."
"I thought you said you were going to make it into a serial? That would give you as many weeks as you like."
"Well, yes." Parvati sighed. "But how are we going to stop them from reading the first article?"
"Oh, right. Too bad." She sighed too. "Well, on the bright side, at least I found a cute top!" She cheered.
Parvati sighed again. " I think I need a top, too."
DGThe next day at work the two perky friends chatted happily about absolutley nothing, when a furious raven-haired man entered the building.
"Is that Harry Potter?" Parvati asked mildly curious.
"I think so, yeah." Lavender answered and put some more nail polish on her index finger. "Wonder why he's in such a rage?"
"Probably some misfit thing." Parvati added a little more mascara with the help of the reflection on her computer screen. "Remember fifth year?"
"Well, duh! I may be older than you, but not by more than a few months." Huffed Lavender.
"Sorry, didn't mean to insult your memory!" Parvati tried to roll her eyes as she added even more mascara. "Hm, is it just me, or is he heading our way?"
Lavender didn't have time to answer before a very enraged Harry slamed down three different newspapers on the desk they sat by.
"What the hell is this?"
"It's newspapers." Parvati answered kindly.
The girls watched with interest as their former classmates face turned a slightly pink. "I knew that." He mumbled annoyed.
"Then what do you want?" Lavender talked very slow, like she was afraid he wouldn't understand otherwise. Parvati nodded encouraging.
"Read the headlines." He commanded.
"'Harry Potter's finally find some Good Love'. Oh, look it's you and Lovegood!" Parvati gushed as she pointed to the photo underneth. It was Harry and Luna laughing as they ate ice cream. "Good Love – Lovegood, that's a good one!" She giggled. She didn't bother to tell him she had made up the headline herself. Tipping reporters about scoops were her specialty. Making up funny headlines the reporters could use, a hobby.
"'National Hero in Love?'" Lavender read from one of the other. "Aww, you and Luna look so sweet together! Who took the picture?" She turned her gaze downwards. "Aha, so that's how you found us!"
Under the photo you could clearly read; 'text by Hannah Abbot, Picture taken by Parvati Patil'.
"Yes, that's how I found you." Harry said through gritted teeth.
Parvati giggled amused without listening to the other two. "Hear this last one! 'Has Harry Potter found Loony Love?'. I guess her old nickname has kinda stuck with her."
"Don't call her that!" defended Harry.
Lavender and Parvati looked at eachother with stars in their eyes.
"So cute!" Lavender's voice was suddenly three octavs higher than usual.
"Yeah, totally!" And so was Parvati's.
"He's so protective!"
"I know!"
"True love!"
"It's so adorable!"
If Harry wasn't in such a rage, he would have given up right then and there and just left.
"Just tell the reporters to mind their own buisness, alright? Tell them to stop bugging her!"
"So protective!" Lavender sighed dreamily.
"You want us to tell everybody to stop bothering you?" Parvati raised one perfectly manicured eyebrow. "About what?"
"Just tell them to stop printing lies!"
Parvati was shocked. "It's not lies! It's speculations! That's a huge difference."
"Did you know people actually asked us if we had any plans for a wedding?"
"Do you?" Lavender found paper and pencil from out of nowhere.
"We're not even dating!"
"Riiight." The two girls said like one.
"We're not!"
"Of course you're not." Lavender said kindly. Parvati nodded encouraging again.
"Whatever!" Harry growled and turned to leave, whilst muttering to himself about stupid girls and stupid magazines. He slammed the door loudly as he left.
"Well," Parvati chirped. "I think he took that rather well!"
"Looks like there's hope for him too!"
Lavender picked up the nail polish again. "Oh, look," She said and pointed at the desk. "He left the newspapers. That's an awsume picture, by the way. They look so close!"
Parvati inhaled sharply. "That's it! That what we're going to do!"
"Er… I'm not really following…" Lavender confessed with her eyebrow raised. She pointed her wand at the drying nail polish to speed up the process.
"A photo shoot." Parvati practicly beamed. "Ginny and Draco are going to do a photo shoot. Today, afternoon today."
Author's Note: I just want to give thank you to all of you who reviewed. Thank you so much! And a special thank you-hug to my beta momo and zuko make me happy, I can now finally re-read my chapters without weeping at all the grammar mistakes and mis-spellings.
Several hugs until next time!