A/N" I do not own or will never own anything about Harry Potter or by J.K. Rowling. This is my second favorite Harry Potter Paring.
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A Second Chance
Chapter 12
Looking around the room Parvati let the intoxicating scents fill her up, before breathing out again. She learned this breathing exercise from Professor Trelawney almost two years ago, but found it worked best for her. Opening her eyes, she initiated spotted Lavender staring intensely into her own crystal ball. Turning her focus on her own ball, Parvati placed both of her hands on top of the smoke filled crystal, and opened up her inner eye.
The images came fast with blurred shapes, and muffled voices. But as she slowed her breathing down even more she found something in the distant was staring back at her. Pushing forward she noticed the image was starting to become clearer, as if someone was removing a veil from her eyes. Just when she thought she could reach out and grabbed the person, they turned around.
Parvati was suddenly faced with the smiling face of Harry, who gave her small wink. "Well, if I am correct, I believe Miss Patil, did see something," stated Professor Trelawney, as she stopped in front of her and Lavender's table.
Taking a deep breath, she returned her focus back to the living realm. "Most of it was blurry, but I did mange to make out someone."
"Yes, child please continue," replied Trelawney urging her to keep going.
Parvati hesitated a bit. By know of course, everyone was use to the idea that she was dating the famous Harry Potter. But she didn't want to give people like Daphne or even someone like her sisters best friend Anthony, a reason to tease her any more than they already do.
"The image only lasted a couple seconds but it was of...Hermione," she finally blurted out, hoping no one could catch was coming up with a lie, instead of the truth.
Looking up she could Trelawney big eyes staring back down at her."Indeed. That is one of the most important thins you must remember my future seer's. You have to let the inner do its own work. The more you struggle and fight to see what you really want, the more you will see nothing. I want you all to spend the last 15 minutes of the class reading over chapter11, A Seer's instinct."
Once the professor had mad her way over to her table, and began muttering to herself, Lavender leaned in.
"Okay, you may be able to full her, but you can't fool me, Par."
Parvati held her book up to cover her face."I have no idea what you are talking about," she whispered back, with out looking at her best friend.
"Yeah...okay, whatever you say. But we all know who you really saw, the blush are your face told us everything," she said with a wicked grin on her face.
Parvati sank even lower into her cushion. She swore the room's temperature had gone on in the room in the last couple minutes. Flipping the page, she began try to understand why she only spotted Harry just standing and winking at her. The last she had saw her boyfriend in a vision, was during the attack at Three Broomsticks. That was over a month ago, and things have for a moment quieted down. There relationship had grown over the past three weeks, with the only disappointment being there surprise loss to the Hufflepuff team last Sunday. After the match, Harry made a promise that they would not lose again this year, as he felt responsible for the loss.
"Hey Par, do you have your dress picked out for the dance, this Saturday?" Asked Lavender who couldn't hide her excitement at the chance of dressing up.
Saturday would be Halloween. And since the attack at Three Broomsticks, Hogwarts had canceled all further visits to Hogsmeade. Dumbledore new if he didn't give the student's a chance to have some fun, there could be even more problems with morale. So his plan was to give the students a dance, and even had a band called the Green Witch and Wizard, booked for the night.
"Of course Lav."
Lavender looked up with a dream look on her face."Man, your so lucky. You get to open another ball with Harry."
Parvati couldn't help but smile a bit at this. In truth this would be the 3rd time she would have gone to a dance/ball with Harry, although she wasn't about to correct her best friend.
"Go and be at peace my friends, the inner eye does need time to relax," said Trelawney, excusing the class.
Lavender had to run to catch up with Parvati, who had practically sprinted out of the classroom. "What the hell Par, are you that hungry?"
Parvati shook her head."Did you forget? Tonight we have a DA session in 1 hour."
Mean while, Harry had just come out of the Gryffindor common, having forgotten his invisibility cloak, and lesson plan inside his trunk. Going doing two flights of stairs, he reached the second floor landing, when he noticed Professor Snape was busy talking to Filch about something.
As soon as Harry came into there view,Snape stopped talking to Filch. "Oh don't stop talking on my account, I am just passing through."
Filch merrily grumbled to himself, before walking down the corridor and going left. Shrugging his shoulders, Harry was trying to continue down the corridor himself, when Snape held out his hand stopping him.
"Potter, a word if you would be so kind," he replied, staring back down at him.
"Sure, why not."
Snape frowned a bit, as he took pleasure in causing and seeing Harry in pain, both mental and physical.
"While you might think your occlumency lessons are going well right now... reality tells us a different story. The dark lord is still miles ahead of you, and I am utterly amazed why he hasn't attempted to gain access to your mind already. We can't have you endangering the entire school populace, while your busy trying to play hero. I don't need to remind you of what happen last year," he added with an evil grin across his face.
Harry only stared back at him. He wanted to say some many things back to him, but he knew Snape was goading him, wanting him to snap back. After years of giving in to his jabs, he realized the only way to truly get back at Snape, was to counter with a pleasant compliment.
"True enough, professor. If any one, let alone me, can stand a chance against Voldemort it will take everything we have. Nothing less. Until next time professor," he said giving him a small nod, before walking down the corridor.
About half way to the old classroom they had turned into the DA headquarters, Harry punched the nearby wall.
"Damn it," he said to himself, hoping the physical pain would give him an outlet for his anger.
"You alright, Harry," called out Neville, as he and Luna made through way from southern hallway towards the DA room.
Harry turned towards them."Yeah, just venting some frustration out, come on. If I want any longer with this lesson plan Hermione drew up, I think she will kill me."
With in 15 minutes all 33 members of the Dumbledore's Army were inside, listening to Hermione's detailed plan for the night. They would be practicing attack spells, and there defense against them in real life scenarios.
"Well finally I think it's time to put tonight's lesson into action. Harry, Ron, will you indulge us with your prescience," she said trying to sound like a teacher.
Harry and Ron both stepped on top of the small ledge, that separated them from through fellow students. On the ledge they had rocks, slabs of walls, and other things you could use for cover. Hermione stepped down from the ledge, and quickly addressed them again.
"Aren't they suppose to fallow proper dueling rules?" Asked Colin Creevy, who was watching the duel with great interest.
Harry turned to face him. "You are going to find most people who want to do harm to you, will not be so honorable and announce there intent, my friend.
"Expelliarmus!" Shouted Ron, making Harry's wand fly out of his hand. Ron would have caught Harry's wand if it had not bounced off a tree. Instead his wand landed between them, right in the middle of there battling area.
"Nice try Ronald," said Harry who ducked behind a wooden table, dodging his freezing charm he tried to use, right after disarming Harry.
"Brave words from someone who doesn't even have their wand."
Harry quickly unhooked his cloak, and hung it on the one of table's ends. Rolling to the right, he heard Ron shout," Expulso".
The fiery explosion blew apart the table, causing parts of his cloak to flutter to the ground, burning slowly. Ron looked a bit confused, as Harry edge around a small stone wall that was 4 feet high. Learning around he spotted his wand. Picking up a nearby rock, Harry edge towards the opposite end of the wall, watching Ron slowly walk towards his wand. Throwing the rock, he spotted hit him right in the chest, knocking the wind out of him.
Running while hunched over, Harry dove forward and picked up his wand. "Protego Totalum," he said pointing the shield charm at the rock to his bolted to his left, as a reducto curse missed him and impacted the the ledge's floor, sending up wooden tiles and splinters into the air.
"Come on Harry, throwing rocks like a muggle," teased Ron hoping to get him to make a mistake.
Harry laughed a bit."Hurt didn't though."
Harry was hiding behind the tree, that had deflected his wand in the first place. Closing his eyes, he was listening to the small creaks in the boards, to tell him where Ron was with out exposing himself.
"Confringo!" He shouted wheeling around the tree, blasting apart the second stone wall that Ron was level with.
The exploding curse, caused Ron to dive to his right, using a shield charm. While most of the blast had been deflected, there was two pieces of stone stuck inside his arm.
Harry ran forward and stood behind the rock he enchanted early. "Give up yet Weasley?"
Ron greeted his teeth, and spit some blood on the ground, as he stood up holding his bleeding left arm."Never!"
"Impedimenta," he said shouting the jinx at Harry, before charging at him.
When the spell bounced off the rock and back at him, Ron was forced to duck his head. And that was all the time Harry needed.
"Expelliarmus!" He shouted making Ron's wand come flying out of his hand and into his outstretched hand.
Ron looked at this wand less hand, and tried to retreat back. "Incarcerous," harry replied making ropes bind his legs, and arms together, forcing his body to collapse on the floor.
Harry was breathing hard, when he looked down at the struggling Ron, and finally back to his fellow DA members. They all worn shocked expressions across there faces, even Hermione looked a bit worried. Breathing in and out slowly, he walked over and unleashed his spell on Ron, finally freeing him. Ron rolled onto his back, and cracked a smile."Well played my friend."
Harry held out his hand to help him up, which Ron gladly took. Harry put his arm around his best friend and marched them in front of everyone.
"Hold out your arm Ronald," replied Hermione while she used a couple healing spells on Ron's injured arm, and with a few seconds all the bleeding had stopped.
"Thanks Mione, have I told your a live savor yet," Ron stated still sounding a little woozy.
"Not yet, but thanks none the less."
Harry stepped forward, as he could still see some confusion among his fellow DA members. Glancing around the crowd, he spotted Parvati, who winked up at him. Smiling Harry began to address them.
"I can still see some of you are rather shocked at what me and Ron did. I am going to blunt, this war is not going to pretty, people have and are going to die. You have to realize, in a real fight, anything goes. But what is key, is keeping your head. When you let panic, or anger take control, more times than not your going to end up dead. And everyone of you is important, not just for the war effort, but because you all believe in something, or else you wouldn't be here," Harry said giving them time to digest what he had told them.
"Neville, Luna, get up here."
Neville and Luna both exchanges looks, before marching up top of the stage, standing next to Hermione and Ron at each end.
"I don't know how much of you know the truth, but out of the original DA, only these 6 (not including Ginny) fought along side me during the battle of the department mysterious against the Death Eaters. I will never forget that, and I want you to look at them as officers. Okay, finally... I want you all to break into pairs, and start fighting each other. One of the 6 of us will be there to help supervise, and remember don't kill anyone, this is just a training exercise," Harry finished explaining to everyone.
By the time Harry was done with his speech, Parvati was still amazed at what she had seen. Everyone knew that Harry was special. But very rarely did they have the pleasure of watching his abilities first hand. While there might be someone more powerful, faster, and smarter than him, what really matter was his courage to stand up to facing the greatest evil this world had seen.
"Hello, earth to Parvati?" Asked her twin sister Padma, who was standing with her hands on her hips frustrated.
"Sorry sis, what were you saying?"
Padma rolled her eyes. "Prepare to guard yourself," was all she said before shooting a spell at her twin.
Parvati deflected it with a small shield charm, and spun around. Just when she was about to shoot a counter spell at Padma, she noticed Harry was watching there fight. Loosing her concentration, she dropped her wand.
"Shit," she said bending down to pick it up. Padma wasted no time, and blasted her with a stunner right in her ass.
Parvati could feel the heat in her cheeks began to form, as she realized it was Harry who was on one knee looking down at her.
"You know, that's a rather good look for you," he teased, while performing the counter charm on her.
Getting up, she could see Padma was barely able to hold together her laughter, as Harry put a hand on her shoulder. Giving her a small nod, he left to check on Dean who was battling Seamus.
"It's not that funny," she shout back at her sister.
"Sure... whatever you say Miss Patil. Come on, we here to practice," replied Padma raising her wand one more time.
The rest of the session was filled with some intense fighting, with everyone having turns on the center stage learning how to fight in real life situations. Finally around 9, with one hour before curfew, Harry called the session over. Letting them go there separate ways, Parvati stayed after and helped Harry, Hermione and Ron clean up a bit. After kissing him goodbye, she was rather shocked to see her twin, still waiting for her.
"Padma, what are you still doing here?" She asked sounding slightly confused.
Padma shrugged her shoulders. "Their is something I wanted to talk to you about. Come on, I walk with you to the gryffindor tower."
Parvati was still confused, but she knew Padma did not like to mince her words, so she started walking beside her.
After a few moments of silence, Parvati started to feel anxious. "So... what's this all about?"
Padma waited for the stairwell to stop changing, before she started going up it. "You and Harry have been dating for almost 3 months now right."
"Yeah, whats your point."
Parvati could see, she was trying to come up with the best words for this situation. "Okay, let me ask you what do you feel whenever you look at him?"
"When I look at Harry, I feel all warm inside. I feel a little sick to my stomach, but whenever I feel his touch, I instantly relax. It's like nothing matters but him and me. I know that's kinda weird, but you did ask me how I felt about him."
Padma's eyes went big, as if she suddenly understood something. "I thought as much."
Parvati grabbed her sister's shoulder and spun her around so she could face her. "What do you know?"
"That's easy sis, you've fallen for him, or your in love with him."
Parvati was floored by her sister's claims. How could she be love with someone after only dating them for barely 3 months, let alone she was only 16, what did she know of love. But the more she thought about it, the more she finally came to the same realization that her sister did.
"I'll see you tomorrow Par," replied her sister going left and back down the flight of stairs heading towards the Ravenclaw common room.
Parvati took a couple moments to collect herself."I can't believe it."
"Believe what?"Asked Harry who had put his hands on her shoulders.
"Nothing, just talking to myself," was all she could say before taking Harry's hand and entering common room.
The following day, everyone was getting ready for the dance they were going to have in the dinning hall. It was not as formal like a ball, so they were encourage to where whatever they felt comfortable in. Parvati borrowed a knee high red skirt from lavender, to go with a matching red top. Even Hermione was wearing the a pair of tight fitting jeans, with a black dress shirt.
Lavender of course was dressed in an expensive black dress, that showed a lot of her cleavage. "Well, Hermione who are going with tonight?" Asked Lavender applying some eye liner.
"Ron, but... we just going as friends," she spurted out quickly, while Parvati and Lavender exchanged looks.
"Come on, if we wait any longer I think our dates are going to leave with out us," replied Hermione, rushing down the stairwell.
Parvati quickly followed Hermione, with Lavender bringing up the rear. As soon they came into the view of there dates, she could see Ron, Seamus, and Harry's reaction. They looked stunned, but more importantly she saw the broad smile upon Harry's face, and that was all she carried about. He had on some khaki pants, with a black long sleeve t-shirt, with a smaller white t-shirt under neither it.
"You look beautiful," he told her as she took his arm.
"Not bad yourself Potter," she said beaming back up at him.
"You... look, nice Mione," they heard Ron struggle to say, before they made there approach out of the common.
Well heading there, they spotted Ginny who was holding the hand of Cormac. Ginny who finally noticed them, swung her long red hair to her other shoulder, before giving Harry an wide grin. Parvati looked up and could see Harry shaking his head, before he tighten his grip on her hand.
"Okay, students through the main entrance, Prefects, Head boy and girl, fallow me," replied Mcgonagall wearing a bright orange witches robes.
Saying goodbye to Lavender and Seamus, Harry,Parvati, Hermione, and Ron quickly followed behind Cho, and her date William Anders (head boy). Looking directly behind them, Parvati spotted the ugly face of Pansy Parkinson, and her boyfriend Draco Malfoy.
"Keep your head turned, blood traitor," she quickly whispered so that Mcgonagall or Slughorn couldn't hear her.
Parvati should have kept her cool, but she was not going to have some one insult her, let alone it being Pansy think she could get away with it.
"Sorry, I was just having a hard time, avoiding your ugly mug. You do know, I know a muggle who can take care of that for you, " she said turning around to meet her face to face.
At this Pansy took out her wand. Parvati wand in hand, had hers pointed at her throat. Just when Draco went to grab Parvati's arm, Harry reached out and grabbed a hold of his wrist.
"You better fucking let go of me right now, or I'll make you" he snapped back, not even trying to keep his voice.
"Try it, and it will the last thing you will ever do," he said tightening the grip on his wrist.
"Gentleman, Ladies, do we have a problem here?" Asked Slughorn who was now standing beside them, with his arms crossed.
"No professor sir," Harry replied letting go of Draco's wrist, while Parvati slowly put her wand back up her sleeve.
Slughorn laughed a bit."Well alright then. Potter, you and your date up front behind William and what was her name again...".
"You mean head girl Rachel bones," said Neville who was standing a few feet ahead of Hermione and Ron.
"Yes, that's it. Sorry never really good with names, well expect those who are in my club. Speaking of which, next Thursday, there will be a dinner for those select few. You are allowed to bring one date, and please dress formal," said Slughorn while he finally made his way to the front and took Mcgonagall arm.
Entering the hall, they walked along side the of the tables before making there way up on the stage. The musicians equipment was in the center, so they all gathered around the right side, right next to the teachers table.
"Having fun Harry?" Asked Dumbledore with a bright smile on his face.
"Loads."
Dumbledore quickly walked past them and up to the podium. "Tonight we celebrate Halloween. While there may be a war going on, one must always remember, you can't lose yourself in despair. Hope... hope can come from the smallest of places, but it's meaning is what is most important."
The crowd clapped with a small applause after his speech, while Mcgonagall and Slughorn led them they down in the middle of the room. Dumbledore walked back to the teacher's table taking his seat next to a rather annoyed Snape, who did his best to try and looks happy.
"Awe cheer up there Snape, I do remember there was that one time, I think I spotted you smiling. Although, that could have been because a cheering charm accidentally hit you," replied the female lead singer, causing everyone to laugh.
A man with a guitar stepped forward. "Easy there sis, I am sure Snape was a happy child in life. Besides were hear for entertainment, not telling life stories."
"Here's something slow for that special someone you have. Hopefully you are with them tonight, and if not, there's always tomorrow."
Parvati beamed up at Harry, as he pulled her close to him. Parvati gently lad her head on his chest, while they rocked a bit back forth. After what seem like a minute the rest of the school joined into the dance. Shortly there after, the soft song stopped, and they quickly switched to a more faster tempo song.
"Harry have I mention, your not the best dancer in the world," she replied watching him trying to dance the song.
"Yep, but it looks like everyone else is too busy, having a good time to care," he shouted back at her, because of how loud the music was.
Parvati chuckled a bit, when Harry stepped forward and pressed himself against her. She could feel those lustful feelings filled her up again. Giving her a quick kiss, Harry led them through the crowds of people, finally reaching the nearby benches.
"You thirsty, Par?"
"Yes," was all she said before he was off going to get them something to drink.
In truth she was also tired, for she had not gotten a lot of sleep yesterday. It's not every night you realize your in love with someone. She could feel this tingling feeling all over her, and despite her initial concerns, she started welcoming this feeling. Taking the drink Harry had brought them, she leaned her head on his shoulder.
"You okay?" He asked sounding concerned.
Parvati closed her eyes, as she finally felt comfortable. She knew she would have to tell him how she felt, sooner and than later. But right now she more than happy to keep that little fact between her and her twin, for right now.
"Never better,"she said, while he put his arm around her shoulder and kissed the side of her head.
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