Parvati Patil: The Soul Within
Summary: Parvati Patil is just that Gryffindor prep and member of the Hogwarts gossip circle. She's just Lavender Brown's sidekick and fan of Professor Trelawney. Right?. Maybe not, after all, people change. 6th year fic.
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A/N: Here's a very short little chapter. Thanks to several reviews (you know who you are) from my readers I have become motivated enough to continue this fic. Another update should come soon.
Chapter 6: Back to Hogwarts
The compartment was nearly empty, its only occupent being Neville Longbotton, who sat nervously chewing the head off a choclate frog. The four fifth years hurried inside and stuffed their luggage up into the rack.
"Hey Nev, where's everyone?" Dean asked curiously as he took a seat next to the window.
Neville waited until he had finished chewing before he replied. "Ron and Hermione are in the Prefects compartment, haven't see Harry though." He then looked around, as if hoping Harry would suddenly appear in the compartment.
"Hmm...I didn't see the bloke outside." Seamus mumbled thoughtfully.
"Hope he wasn't caught by...well....you know." Dean stated in a desperate voice, as if hoping that someone would reasure him otherwise. His statment was then followed by a long, uncomfortable silence.
"Ewww. Maybe he's on one of his adventures! Can't you just picture him Parvati, being all brave and sweating!" Everyone turned and glared at the blonde haired Lavender.
"What?" She asked, flipping her hair.
"Shut up!" Lavender looked scandalized.
"Why the somber mood?" An earily calm and cold voice cut through the air.
"Harry!" Neville exclaimed. For indeed Harry Potter was standing in the doorway, his trunk in front of him and a black, dragon hide jacket slung over his shoulder. The darkly clad wizard shook his head in an attempt to get his raven black hair, which now had several dark blue streaks in it, out of his eyes.
"Am I just going to stand out in the hallway or are you guys going to let me in?" He asked in a joking voice. Parvait blushed a deep shade of red and stepped aside as Seamus sat down. They both had been standing up and had been blocking the entrance.
Dean stood back up and helped Harry lug his trunk in and then they both sat down, Harry taking the window seat across from Seamus.
"Why were you late?" Dean questioned, the train had already started off when Harry had came in.
"Yeah we were starting to worry." Neville piped up.
"It wasn't anything really. You know how Pettigrew was spotted?" He paused as everyone in the compartment nodded. "Well, the ministry came over to my house last night after he had been spotted... to check up on me, you know. Anyways, some aurors kept me up all the damn night asking questions about Pettigrew. Then the bloody press shows up this morning, so I never really had time to finish packing. That's about it, really."
"I was really worried." Lavender cooed, flashing Harry a smile and puffing out her chest to show off her POTTER shirt (and probably trying to show off what was under the shirt as well).
Harry pointedley ignored her.
"Yeah, try not to get killed this year Harry. It might ruin our band before we make it big." Seamus joked.
"Oh my God, your in his band!" Lavender shrieked.
"Yeah, I play drums, Harry does vocals and guitar, and Terry Boot plays bass."
"Terry's plays with you guys? Wow, I bet my sister wasn't happy about that." Parvati thought out loud. She could just see her sister yelling at Terry, telling him there were much better ways to spend your time, like getting a job. Parvati smiled to herself at the mental picture.
"Yeah, Padma threatend to break up with him. She won't of course, but it did give Terry quite a scare."
The rest of the train ride passed in much the same. The boys Dean and Seamus pulled out a game of exploding snap, talked quidditch, and exchanged dirty jokes. Harry would join them at times, but spent most of the time gazing out the window, twirling his wand between his fingers.
Lavender continued to make fleeting attempts to flirt with Harry, who was obviously used to this type of behavior and always seemed to know how to throw the attempts back in her face.
Parvati, on the otherhand, became lost in her own thoughts and was quite surprised, several hours later, that the train was already pulling into the Hogsemeade station.
The September evening air was a little chilly and Parvati was glad that they didn't have to take the trip across the ice cold lake with Hagrid. Parvati trudged up to the apparently horseless carriages which, she had learned in her Care of Magical Creatures class, were actually pulled by thestrals. For this reason she was only mildly surpreised when she saw Harry and Luna Lovegood petting thin air.
Parvati joined Lavender in a carriage and they made their way up to the castle. When Parvati enterd the great hall she noticed that Platform 9 3/4 wasn't the only place that security had been raised. Two men in auror robes were standing watch on either side of the doors leading into the great hall, looking closely at every student entering the school.
"They're really making a big deal about this security thing, aren't they." Lavender whisperd as they passed the aurors.
"Yeah, you better watch out Lav, next thing you know they'll be monitoring the broom closets. Looks like your snogging locations might start to diminish." Parvati joked.
"You don't think they really will, do you?" Lavender asked in a very worried tone. Parvati rolled her eyes and mader her way towards the Gryffindor table and sat down, followed quickly by Lavender, Dean, and Seamus.
She was soon caugt up in a converation about what everyone had done over the summer and was quite surprised when she realized that McGonagall was taking the stool and hat away and that the sorting was already over. Albus Dumbledore stood up and soon had everyone's attention.
"Ahh... Welcome back everyone, to a new year at Hogwarts. Sadly, I must ask that we start the year off with a short moment of silence, in remberance of those who died this morning in Diagon Alley...
"This is a tragic reminder that Lord Voldemort has returned," Several first years gasped in shock and fear, "But let us not let him pull us apart, as he wishes do. On a similar note, many of may have noticed the increased security, it is to be noted that aurors will be posted here, at least for the rest of the term, I will address this more after your stomachs are full... So, twiddle, diddlie, pudding, tweak. Let the feast begin." With that the old wizard sat down and began heaping his plate with the assorted foods which had just appeared on the gold platters.
Parvati looked down and also began heaping her plate with some of the delicous Hogwarts food.
"He's mad." Parvati said as she began cutting up her large, juicy steak. "Brilliant...but mad."
"Common combination." Seamus replied, not looking up from his food.
"Yeah, he reminds me of..." But what Dumbledore reminded Dean with was never found out.
Just then with a loud BANG! the doors to the great hall burst open and everyone looked up in surprise. There, in the doorway stood...
Hope everyone enjoyed this short little chapter, at least now you can see that I am continuing this fic.... ahh, the power of reviews. if you R/R then a nother update might be up shortly. oh, by the way, everyone should go check out my other story after you've R/R this, its named If Things Were Different: The Sorcerer's Stone and its a AU Harry in Slytherin type fic... check it out. Thanks