'It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.'
-Catcher in the Rye
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They often talk outside near the pond, well, it isn't really a pond anymore it's more like a large lake. It's outside of Hogwarts, and everyone knows it, but few go…it's like taboo, unspoken.
But she likes thinking of it as a pond, it's quaint. They take off their cumbersome shoes that their Mummy and Daddy's bought them and soak their pale feet in cool water. She takes off her stockings and he takes off his wool navy blue socks.
"We shouldn't be out here," he says for he has a conscious. "We should be in Charms, we skipped class..."
"Now's a novel idea to think of that," she adds caustically, "plus, Charms can wait. Don't you like being with me?"
"We should've brought Dean."
"What do you mean?" She asks, almost angry.
"We shouldn't...be alone together...it's, it's...what would Dumbledore say? During school hours? Me and you? Shoes off?"
She almost laughs. She almost cries. She almost shouts.
…it's almost just slapped her in the face.
"We're in love, aren't we Seamus?" She asks, with a short perky laugh.
She's being sarcastic, of course he knows this, but the way she says it...like it's true.
"No," he shakes his head, "I don't much think so, silly."
"We could be," she says as her caramel colour eyes dance into the sparkles of the water.
He looks at her and smiles weakly. "Yeah, Parvati, I guess we could be."
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