A/N: Harry Potter is not mine. No legal action, please. I was looking through the Harry Potter Lexicon yesterday. (It goes into some very obsessive but interesting detail.) I realized that I'm going to have to reread actual paper copies of the books (which I have at home, rather than here in my dorm), as most of the free e-books have major flaws such as several missing pages. But anyhow… I wanted to do something with relatively minor characters.
The Nature of a Girl, in which Seamus Finnigan discusses Lavender Brown
We tried dating once, in our fourth and fifth years. It didn't go well. We were good mates before, you know. Just friends. She's a good mate. But when she's your girlfriend, she gets so serious and clingy. Ron knows what I'm talking about, eh? She starts wanting to talk about 'the relationship,' wanting to know how serious you are, where you think it's going. It gets really old after a while.
Don't get me wrong, though. She's a nice girl. Bloody loyal, so long as it's to a friend rather than whatever complicated boyfriend thing she gets you involved in. Brave, too; she's in Gryffindor for a reason. Helped Hagrid out with those damned firey bastard skrewts. Even went to the DA meetings without me—she's strong-willed, if nothing else. She's great to have as a friend, like I said. Maybe a little giggly, a little flakey at times, but a good girl.
But damn if she's not the most annoying girl I've ever dated. Yeah, I haven't gone out with that many, so it doesn't mean much. But you get yourself caught up at first. She's a real looker, and she seems nice enough. Good kisser, too. Damn good kisser…
But then all of a sudden she's a step away from making marriage plans. Giving you dumb little pet names and taking up all your time. I barely saw Dean at all when she was around. It's like when you're kissing her, she's sucking your life out—don't tell her I said that, I don't mean it as mean as it sounds, really. But it's true. When you're with her, she takes up everything, so really, you don't have a life. You're just sucking on each other's faces.
I probably should've been more annoyed when she and Ron were snogging all over the common room all the damn time, but really, I was just shaking my head. A pitying smile, you know? Poor bastard. I was a bit irked when he was dancing around the issue of dumping her, though. Should've been honest from the get-go, instead of letting it all blow up, though I must admit that screaming match was a real show. And it did Ron some good, since we all know he's been pining after Hermione Granger something fierce.
We're still friends, though, she and I. Just not so close anymore, and it's a bit odd if she gets too close. All that aside, though, I'm glad she's here.
