"Today might actually be a good day" Parvati thought to herself as she pulled open the lavish silk curtains that surrounded her bed. There was only one more day till the start of the new school year. Yawning prettily, she got up, stretched, and walked over to her vanity table. She looked into her reflection and saw her hair not too tangled and her face looking nice after the hours she put in everyday to make it look like that.
Suddenly, Padma walked in the room, with a book clutched in her hand. "Her hair is definitely more tangled than mine." Parvati thought. Instead she said:
"Don't you ever knock?" Padma scowled in reply and proceeded to search the room, obviously looking for something. "Where is it?" she would mutter to herself while Parvati tried to patiently wait for her explanation. None came.
"What do you need, Padma?" she finally asked.
"Aha!" said Padma, fishing something from underneath Parvati's bed. "I found it!" Parvati peered at what seemed like a very ill-cared for quill.
"Why is this in your room?" asked Padma. Parvati shuffled her feet.
"I, um, thought it looked nice as a hair decoration..." Parvati answered lamely. Huffing and puffing, Padma graciously exited the room.
The day found Parvati at Diagon Alley, buying new things.
"You know, last year, Lavender told me that the muggles have these great buildings full of shops with lots of clothes!" She told the disgruntled Padma happily.
"Honestly, Parvati, since when have I cared?" Padma asked her. Getting no reply, she stalked off to Flourish and Blotts where she would buy herself another book.
Parvati cheerfully shrugged off the cold remark and proceeded to Madam Milikin's. She happily gossiped away with the other girls who were there to admire the newest fashion and bought more clothes than necessary. Just then, Lavender walked in and did a weird run in her high fashion shoes.
"Parvati!" she exclaimed. "You'll never guess who I just saw!"
"Who?" said Parvati, thinking it was someone really famous.
"Ron!" Lavender squeaked. Parvati rolled her eyes. Lavender had a crush on Ron since forever, but she never said anything. Luckily Lavender didn't notice and chatted on about how handsome he was looking this year and so on.
Finally, after a long day of shopping, Lavender, Parvati, and Padma all Floo-Powdered to the Patil Mansion, where Padma rushed to her room and buried her nose in a book and Lavender and Parvati admired their new clothes.
"You know, I think that these shoes look great with those dress robes..."
"Yea and this hair clip really goes great with that blouse..."
Finally, Lavender got home and Parvati went back to her room after seeing Lavender off. She flopped on the bed and sighed. These days were really the best. Hogwarts was sometimes so boring compared to what she could be doing. She got up and exited the room and walked down the long hallway. Her hand gracefully held the marble banister as she descended down the steps. She then walked purposefully to the large double doors and opened them to find her family waiting for her to join them for dinner. Padma rolled her eyes as Parvati passed by but quickly turned her gaze to her plate as her mother glared in her direction.
Dinner was a subdued affair. Mr. Patil bored them through the appetizers and half of the main course talking about how well his merchant business in India was doing and Mrs. Patil spent a good amount of time talking about how she bought a particularly expensive sari and bangles to go with them. Dessert was quietly eaten and only as Parvati had excused herself from the table did Mrs. Patil remind her to pack her trunk, for tomorrow she was to catch her train.