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.
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, chances are that I don't own it.
A/N: Sorry about the delay. Slight case of writer's block, and school, slowed me down for a while. Hope you like this chapter, it's not action packed, or even very long but it is quite necessary for my plot development. Please R/R
Thanks to:
Puja: You flatter me. lol. Thanks a lot I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as the others, but Im not sure if I can live up to you expectations. Sorry to keep you waiting so long.
free2rhyme (2lazy2signin): Thanks for the encouragment. Sometimes I doubt that people even really like my fics, then I come across a review like yours! Hope you like this long awaited update.
The Slash Faerie: Yeah, I'm so sick of the usual h/g, h/h, h/c type pairings as well. Im glad you like how Im portraying my characters, sometimes I think they are a bit OOC. But then, we only ever see characters from Harry's point of view in the books, so its hard to tell. Sorry for the long time w/o updates.
Just Kidding Rowling: I like Parvati too, in general. But she dosen't play a major role in very many fics, which is too bad. thanks for the review.
Miranda Potter: Yeah, I try to keep people in character, yet make them original as well. good to see you think im doing a good job.
Malfoy Iz Mai Pony: Well, no. It's not gonna be quite like that. Lol...
Leeanna-Marie-Malfoy: Yeah, I understand what you mean. If you see any other little typeos like that just tell me. I miss little things like that when I read over it sometimes. Hope you like this chapter.
chris-warren876: This chapter dosen't deal much with her reaction. However, she probably will regret her advice later in the fic... oops, maybe I shouldn't have said that. Oh well.
EnchantedSpirit: Thank you.
Angel: Glad you understand what I meant. It seems that most fics right now have Harry falling deeply in love in like 6th year, and it really dosen't work like that. And I'll have to give you half credit on your answer, he does have a connection with Malfoy, but that's not the main thing.
Chapter 9: Intrigued
Parvati stayed down by the lake for the rest of the day. She had discovered, back in her 2nd Year, that the lake was possibily the most peaceful place at Hogwarts where one could sit and be alone. The only place that she thought may be more relaxing was the roof of the North Tower, above Trewlaney's classroom. However, the only way to get there was by broomstick, so she usually settled for the lake.
Parvati was slightly surprised that she wasn't more disturbed by Cho's revelation. In fact, she would be surprised if girls like Cho didn't have their eyes on Harry.
"It's not like I could have a shot at him anyway." She said to herself, staring out across the lake and to the distant mountains, where the sun was slowly making its end-of-the-day decent. She sat and watched as the sky's colors changed from blue to yellow, orange, and red as the sun slowly made its way down past the horizion.
She looked on as the last rays of light refected through some distant clouds, until the sky finally morphed into a dark purple, and then blackness. She loved sunsets, something about them facinated her. After several more minutes Parvati began to get cold, so she stood up and turned towards Hogwarts, it's many candles and torches lighting it up like stars in the black sky.
As she made her way up the hill to the castle, towards the main entrance she got an odd prickling feeling in the back of her neck, the feeling she always got when she felt like she was being watched.
Trusting in her instincts, she turned around, expecting to see someone, but she was only met by the darkness of the night.
"That's weird." She thought to herself, and turned back towards the school, disregarding the feeling as a figment of her imagination. Yet just as soon as she had turned back she once again felt the same sensation, this time accompanied by a sound. Footsteps.
She turned back around just in time to see a tall, dark haired man step out of the shadows. He was quite pale, with long dark hair framing his narrow face.
Parvati was confuesed, she had never seen this man before, so what was he doing on the school grounds. Before she could ask the man, who appeared to be in his mid-twenty's, who he was, he spoke in a cold voice.
"I need to see Adrik, where could I find him?"
"You mean Professor Adrik right? Well, he's probably up at the castle."
"He's teaching now. How ironic."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You're telling me you don't know what Adrik is?" The man said in an almost cruel yet amused vocie.
Before Parvati could reply another voice entered the conversation from behind her.
"You aren't bothering my students, are you Nicholas?" It was Professor Adrik, cloaked in his long black trechcoat, which was wrapped tightly around his body.
"Of course not, my dear old friend." The dark haired man replied saracasticly, glaring at the professor.
"Err...Professor." Parvati started, she needed to get back to the castle, it was getting cold and she had left her coat back in her dorm.
"You may go, Ms. Patil."
"Patil? Well isn't that intriguing." The stranger said turning his interest back to Parvati at the mention of her last name. Parvati was definatley confused.
"Run along, Ms. Patil." Professor Adrik ordered, not even turning to look at the teenage girl, instead he focused a glare on the strange man. Parvati needed not be told to leave again. She was getting the feeling that these two needed to be alone for a while so they could try to kill eachother, judging by the death glares they were shooting towards eachother.
As soon as she was out of their eyesight she took off at a run towards Gryffindor Tower. The more she thought of the strange, pale man whom she had just encounterd, the more she became creeped out by him. That night, as she lay in her bed running the strange encounter with the stranger through her mind, she realized something. He, just like Professor Adrik, seemed oddly familiar. *****
By the next morning Parvati had pushed her weird run in with the dark haired man and Professor Adrik to the back of her mind. In fact, over the next few days she had almost forgotten about the event. Almost.
This may have been because nearly all her time was spent sudying and gossiping with Lavender. She was also taking up quite a bit of her free time to watch Cho and Harry. Ever since her conversation with Cho on Saturday, she had noticed that Cho was popping up almost everywhere the Gryffindor sixth years were.
She would show up as they made their way to the Gryffindor table for lunch, smile and wave at Harry, and then run off. She would show up as the left a NEWT Charms class and make small talk with the Gryffindors in general, yet mysteriously always being qutie close to where Harry was standing. She would show up... well, just about wherever Harry happened to be.
As Parvati sat in the library pouring over her Transfiguration book she thought about this. She decided that it didn't bug her as much as one might think it could. She knew that she didn't have a chance with Harry, in all actuality (which she constantly reminded herself). He was just some stupid heart throb for her. But then again, ever since last year he had really been a heart throb for half the female population at Hogwarts. Rumor even had it that there were a few Slytherins who fancied him.
Parvati shuddered at this thought. She couldn't picture any of the Slytherins fancing anyone. They were all just so stupid and ugly. Except for Malfoy, of course, she thought, thinking of the blonde haired pureblood, but he's an asshole, so he dosen't really count.
Parvati attempted to turn her thoughts back to the Transfiguration text, she had a quiz in there on Thursday and she still didn't understand the theory. It wasn't long before her thoughts drifted back to the raven haired savior of the wizarding world.I need to get over him. It's not like he's the only cute, cool guy in Hogwarts.
She thought, shaking her head and trying to focus on her textbook, but it only became more confusing the more she read it.
"Do you understand that stuff?" Parvati jumped slightly and looked up. And speak of the devil, there stood Harry bloody Potter, looking like he had not a care in the world, even though said world all but rested on his shoulders. He reached up and tossled his already unkempt, blue streaked hair, before taking a seat across from Parvati.
He layed his dark dragonhide jacket, which had been slung over his shoulders, onto the table and leaned over to look at Parvati's book. She noticed he smelled like fresh air, but quickly pushed the thought out of her head.
"Not really." She answered him. "I can do the transfigurations and everything, but the theory really dosen't make any sense to me."
"That's how I've always been to. Especially now that were doing non-living objects to living, and you have to factor in energy displacement. It kills me."
"Me too."
"Anyway, I came over here to talk to you about something other than transfiguration."
"Yeah?" Parvati responded, not knowing what Harry had to talk to her about. As long as it's not girl advice, I'm fine. She decided.
"Well, you know how Seamus, Terry and me have a band or whatever."
"I know about the band, but not the whatever part." Parvati smiled at her own joke. Harry just shook his head and smiled briefly. Damn, his smile is sexy...wait! Don't think like that, bad Parvati! She was quickly jerked out of her thoughts as Harry went on.
"I was wondering if you could help us out a little?"
Parvati was intrigued, how could she help a band? She asked him.
"On Halloween weekend we've managed to get a gig at a local pub in Hogsmeade. Since that's a Hogsmeade weekend and everything, we were hoping to see a good turnout from the students. Only thing is, we need to spread the word, and I figured since you have connections..."
"So you want me to get it going on the Hogwarts grapevine?"
"Pretty much."
"No problem."
"Cool. Thanks a lot, see you around."
"See ya." Parvati let her eyes drift after Harry as he left, before gathering up her books and heading off to find Lavender. That would be the easiest way to spread the news, she decided. Tell Lavender anything and half of Hogwarts was sure to know about it in the morning, no matter what it was. Now, finally, she could use that to her advantage.
AN: Once again, Im sorry about the long delay. I had a slight case of writer's block, but I think Im pretty much over it. The next chapter should be longer and better than this one, but while you're waiting go check out my other fic, If Things Were Different: The Sorcerer's Stone. It starts out like your typical Slyth-Harry fic, but with each chapter Im drifting farther away from just rewriting J.K.R.'s books. Check it out, you might like it. Thanks. R/R