A/N: I don't own Harry Potter

This is for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Writing Club February

Disney Challenge: 4. Cheshire Cat: Write about someone grinning.

Sophie's Shelf: 13. 'Draggle Rock' - in which the contestants must star in children's TV shows. Prompt: (story type) Kid fic

Elizabeth's Empire: 28. (color) purple

Film Festival: 10 - (action) giving a gift

Word Count: 637

Parvati twisted the string and pulled it into another knot. She had started making this bracelet this morning. She loved the way the strings combined to make one thing.

"What are you doing?" Lavender asked, peeking through the fence. Parvati looked over at her neighbor. Parvati's family had just moved into the house next to Lavender's about a week ago. So far, the girls had done nothing but introduce themselves and throw a ball back and forth over the fence. Parvati liked how Lavender didn't seem to be afraid of anything.

"I'm making friendship bracelets," Parvati answered. Lavender scampered up the tree bordering the fence and backflipped down into Parvati's yard.

"Can I make one?' she asked, watching Parvati tying the strings together. Parvati nodded, her long braid bobbing as she moved her head.

"Sure! Do you know how?" Parvati asked. Lavender shook her head. She'd never tried to do anything crafty before. Usually most of the things she did involved something much more physical, like dancing or gymnastics.

"Nope, can you teach me?" Lavender asked. Parvati smiled and pulled a pile of colored strings from her bag. She placed it on the picnic table in front of her. Lavender's eyes widened at the amount of different colors. It was like Parvati had a whole rainbow of colored strings.

"Okay, first pick your colors."

"How many?"

"Three for a basic one. Once you master that one you can make another with more colors," Lavender said, holding out the mound of colors. Lavender looked at them.

"Okay, let's see, I want purple, and yellow, and," Lavender looked over at Parvati. "What's your favorite color?"

"Red, why?"

"And red!" Lavender announced, causing Parvati to laugh.

"Okay, so you need six strands, two of each other, all the same length," she said, helping Lavender cut the strands to the right length.

"Now what?"

"You tie them like this, so there's a loop at the top, that helps you tie the bracelet to your friend's wrist. Now, you wrap the first color you want, one strand, around the other five, good. Now, this is the fun part, you pull it through here to make a knot."

"Like this?' Lavender asked, following Parvati's instructions.

"Exactly! Now you just keep doing that until you want to change colors. Then you'll take the new color and do the same, just make sure if you repeat a color to change which strand, always take the longest one."

"Right," Lavender agreed. Soon, both her and Parvati were making friendship bracelets in the Patils' backyard. Every so often, Lavender would glance over at Parvati, smile and go back to making her bracelet.

"Finished!" she announced. Parvati looked over.

"Okay, you tie a knot here to keep it from coming undone."

Lavender nodded and quickly knotted the strings.

"Put out your wrist," she said. Parvati blinked, but did so. Lavender quickly wrapped the bracelet around Parvati's wrist and tied it. "There, now everyone will know we're friends," she announced. Parvati giggled.

"Wicked, now you put out your wrist, you can wear the one I just finished. I'm sorry it's not in your favorite colors."

"Any colors you like are my favorites," Lavender stated, letting Parvati put the the bracelet on her.

"Really?"

"Really? Can you put beads on them? Because Papa brought me a whole bag of plastic beads!"

"I've never put beads on them before, but I know how to put beads in hair, I could do yours and then you could do mine!"

"Okay, I'll go get them," Lavender exclaimed, climbing back over the fence laughing. She couldn't wait to put beads in Parvati's hair, it was going to look totally amazing. Her eyes fell on the bracelet and her smile widened. Her and Parvati were going to be best friends forever, she just knew it!