Sway
By: Demoness Mark
Chapter 5
It should have been dark and gloomy. There should have been thunder booming and rain coming down in sheets. Instead it was sunny, with the occasional cloud passing overhead. Birds sang and bees buzzed from flower to flower pollinating the flowers that scattered the hill on which Pavarti's house sat. It was so picturesque.
Parvarti hated it.
For the first time in a long while she had time to herself. She hated that too.
After Hogwarts she and Lavender Brown had gone on to become internationally famous models, both in the muggle and magical worlds. Her delicate features and distinctive red-blonde hair had graced the covers of all the top magazines of the world. She had done photo shoots almost everywhere, from the Great Wall of China to the wilds of deepest Africa, from the pyramids of Giza to Paris' hottest spots, from Hollywood to a backwater Canadian town. Everywhere and anywhere that was away from England.
Anywhere that was away from them. She loved her sister, honest she did, but there was still that red-hot jealousy. She had loved Neville first, darn it. Didn't that mean she had first claim? She had loved him ever since she was four, when her family had gone to his Grandmother's birthday party. She had wandered away from the party, desperate to get away from the noise, and had gotten lost. He had notices her slip out, and had followed her. Since neither of them had any desire to go back to the party, they had stayed in the kitchen, drinking fruit punch (Martin's Magical Marble Punch, a different fruity flavor with every sip), eating chocolate frogs, and trading stories until her parents and his uncle came to collect them.
She had thought that Padma had known how she felt about Neville. It had been a rude awakening to find out that the two had started dating. She couldn't ruin their happiness, so she swallowed her resentment, believing that they wouldn't last long as a couple. But she had been wrong. They had gotten married right out of Hogwarts. She had been forced to be a bridesmaid in the wedding of her love to her twin sister. And her sister never would have married a guy her sister loved, just for sisterly rivalry.
She wasn't the only who had been disappointed in when the handsome war hero had married the bookish ex-Ravenclaw. Yet again she had bit her tongue and defended her sister against the nasty rumors.
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Hannah thought carefully about the plan Draco and Blaise had just told her. Finally she said, "It just might work. If I can get the rest of the gang to go along with it. I'll get back to you in a few days."
After she had walked out the door, Draco turned to Blaise and asked, "Do you think she can rally the army?"
"If she can't, I'd love to see who can," Blaise replied.
