HSWW: Fairytales: Task - Write about a minor character who has no more than 3,000 stories written about them. I chose Lavender Brown. Prompts: (colour) blue, (animal) cat
Chocolate Frog Card: Herbert Beery (Bronze): Alternate Challenge: Write about someone who could perceived as dramatic.
Word Count: 311
"Lavender, are you okay?" Parvati asked tentatively, watching her best friend wail on her bed, cradling a blue cushion close to her chest. "Has something bad happened?" This only served to increase her wails. She exchanged a wide eyed glance with Hermione, her other roommate who carried on grooming her cat, though she kept the pained look on her face. Parvati couldn't blame her; she was sure that even the Slytherins could hear these sobs in their common room.
"Something bad?" she cried. "Something bad?" Parvati nodded but Lavender didn't see her. "It was something terrible!" Parvati gasped with worry, sitting down on the end of the bed and rubbing Lavender's leg for comfort. "Won-won said that I looked nice today. Nice! What kind of compliment is that? He doesn't care about me anymore, I know it." Behind her, Parvati heard Hermione groan with annoyance and the swish of the curtains, indicating that she was shutting them out for some peace. Parvati really wished she could do the same right now.
"Maybe you're just overreacting," Parvati tried. "He's a boy, he doesn't understand these sort of things," she offered helpfully but it didn't stop Lavender's tears.
"I've had many boyfriends and never have I been told that I looked nice." Lavender sniffled, her tears stopping but her whole persona dripping of dejection.
"Ron has the emotional range of a teaspoon," Parvati told her. "Well, that's what Hermione says basically everyday. As his best friend, I think she'd know that he's not the best with girls and compliments."
"So, you think he does still like me and he's just struggling?" Lavender asked quietly, pulling on a loose thread on her cushion.
"Of course I do," Parvati agreed, internally sighing. She loved her best friend, truly, she did, but Lavender had a habit of seeing stuff that wasn't there and overly dramatising it.