Chapter One: Getting ready
Parvati and Lavender were ready for their sixth year at Hogwarts. They had dashed around Diagon Alley, window shopping and buying new gear for the new school year. Each bought new dress robes; Lavender's were a pale blue, and Parvati's were lacy and white.
"Ooooh! Those are beautiful! You should definitely get them!" exclaimed Lavender when she saw Parvati's robes.
"I agree! You know what?" Parvati said, handing over two galleons and six knuts, "These are on me."
Arm in arm, they bounded out of the shop. Their arms were loaded with various shopping bags filled with quills, paper, robes and numerous other items.
"We're getting ice cream! On me this time." decided Lavender.
Parvati shrugged happily, and then quickly ordered the MEGAfudge sundae with twelve different toppings; easily the most expensive item on the menu.
"HEY! No fair!" cried Lavender, but she paid up anyways.
As they sat eating their ice creams, they discussed the upcoming year. The conversation soon veered towards their objectives.
"I want to meet boys." contemplated Lavender.
"That too, but I also want to be really fashionable." added Parvati.
"Well… OOO! I have an idea! We need makeup! "
"What's that?"
"My mum is muggle born, so she grew up with it. But it's a muggle thing that makes you prettier." Lavender explained.
"Can't we use spells for that?"
"We probably could, but we aren't allowed to use magic out of school, and we would have to learn the spells. If we want to make a good first impression, we should put on makeup for the first couple of days."
After some thought, Parvati complied, and they decided on traveling by floo. They went into the nearest shop, grabbed some floo powder from their bags and shouted "London!"
Soon they arrived in the fireplace of a dusty, muggy room filled with ancient furniture and delicate, spindly objects. Parvati beckoned for Lavender to come out the door and soon they were in the warm streets of muggle London. Lavender spotted a department store, and she recognized it as one her mother had described.
They wandered around the store, looking with awe at all of the contraptions the muggles had. At last they made it to the makeup department, where they grabbed an armful of makeup each and lugged it over to the checkout counter. That was when they got confused.
"That will be eight pounds" drawled the cashier.
"Uh. Oh." said Parvati. "Um never mind we'll put all this back" and she hurried to put everything back. Lavender followed suit.
They anxiously discussed the matter and decided to put most of it back, and nick the most important ones. Pocketing two eyeliners, two mascaras, lip gloss, blush, and foundation, they lazily sauntered out the door. Outside they sprinted back to the store, shouted "Diagon Alley" into the fireplace, and safely scurried back into their room at the inn.
Two days later, it was time to return to Hogwarts and ride the Hogwarts express. Parvati and Lavender waited anxiously at platform 9 ¾ flattening their skirts and checking their hair. Parvati wore her hair down so that her long, dark brown hair falling gently onto her back. She wore a knee-length, billowy white skirt, with thong sandals and a tight brown tank top that hugged her chest tightly. Lavender, on the other hand, was scantily clad. She wore a strapless pink tube top, even tighter than Parvati's, which bared her tanned midriff, a micro mini skirt that showed off her long legs, and three layers of the makeup she had stolen. As Ron walked, by, she happily noticed, he stopped walking mid-step and his mouth hung slightly ajar.
As they boarded the train they searched for an empty compartment Lavender decided to tell Parvati that she liked Ron.
"What?" Parvati hissed. "Are you sure? Uuggghh! Yucchhh!" she made a gagging noise. "Oh well, if you really like him" she shrugged; then sighed.
They simultaneously sat down in the nearby compartment and immediately began to talk, thus beginning their trip to Hogwarts.
a/n: this is the first chapter of my first fanfic, so PLEASE read and review . I don't like this one very much and I don't know what to do with it. I wan t the story to be more sophisticated than giggling girls, so I think if I veer off and take one of their POVs it will work. I don't know which one though, it's hard, tell me what you think! PLEASE: I need advice, praise (hopefully), and critique (maybe not too much)! The more reviews I receive the faster I will update I won't start the second chapter until I get at least 3 reviews or unless somebody gives me an ide of whose POV to take.
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