A/N: I'm sorry I keep posting meaningless author's notes but this time I felt it was necessary. I haven't updated in who- knows- how long and for some reason, I got two reviews, from people who managed to find my story out of the hundreds of thousands of millions of Harry Potter stories out there. I thank them because I finally felt inspired again to dig out the story and get this chapter out. More to come hopefully.
Breakfast was, as usual, noisy. Hermione sat with Parvati and Lavender that morning, with Harry and Ron sitting across from them. Ron lost no time in starting to talk with Harry about the newest in Quidditch and Parvati and Lavender started chatting immediately about fashion. Today's topic was muggle fashion.
"Oh, I love those pretty dresses they come up with!" Parvati said, lapsing back to when she had gone to a muggle clothing store.
"…Much better than the traditional Wizarding clothing." Lavender agreed.
"Hermione!" Parvati exclaimed suddenly, "You wouldn't happen to know any of the new fashions in the muggle world, would you?" Hermione shook her head, completely engrossed in the Daily Prophet. Parvati shook her head hopelessly and consciously poured herself a glass of orange juice. Lavender gave her a side-long glance but said nothing.
After breakfast, Parvati and Lavender got up, happy that their first class was Divination. They went up to the class five minutes early to find Professor Trelawney taking out tea cups and setting up tea pots over the fireplace.
"Erm…" Lavender ventured, "Professor, didn't we do tea leaves already?"
"Yes, well, I noticed that some people were highly incapable and I decided to revisit the subject, for the O.W.L.s." She snapped. Looking up though, she found Parvati and Lavender with expressions of happiness that they were doing tea leaves and sadness that their favorite teacher was so snappy. At least, that was how she read their expressions. She smiled and allowed them to help her set up until class began.
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Approximately seven minutes later (Lavender counted), Ron and Harry stumped into the class looking somewhat annoyed that they even had to come. They sat on the poufs towards the back, Ron occasionally slipping off of his. The class started with Professor Trelawney emerging from the shadows of her chair. She began to talk but today Parvati couldn't focus. The Professor kept on droning on and on, and Parvati couldn't make out a word. What was going on?
Professor Trelawney began to pass out the cups and take the pots out of the fire, pouring the steaming water onto the tea leaves. Getting up to help her, Parvati felt faint and dizzy. Stumbling, she crashed into one of the pots fresh out of the fire, spilling water over herself and breaking some china cups along the way.
Looking up, Professor Trelawney hurried to Parvati, casting a short, mournful look at her cups, before helping her up.
"Oh dear, are you alright?" She asked, with Lavender over her shoulder, looking extremely concerned.
"Perhaps I should take her to the Hospital Wing?" Lavender suggested. Professor Trelawney nodded emphatically and helped Parvati to the ladder leading down the tower.
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"Will she be ok, Madam Pomfrey?" Parvati heard Lavender ask as she was helped into one of the beds in the Hospital Wing.
"Of course," said Madam Pomfrey "Tell me, what happened?"
"Well," Lavender began, "We were in Divination and we got up to help Professor Trelawney and I dunno…Parvati stumbled. I'm not exactly sure what happened but anyway, she fell and we were doing tea leaves so she spilled the hot water all over herself. I'm afraid she might be burned." Madam Pomfrey nodded.
"Thank you, Ms. Brown. I would suggest you go back to class but the bell is about to ring. You may wait here until it does. Parvati won't be able to go to the next class but I think she'll be ok by lunch." Lavender nodded fervently and took a seat next to Parvati's bed, casting her a worried look.
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Five minutes after the bell had rung and Lavender left for her next class, Madam Pomfrey walked up to her with a medicine bottle in hand. She sat down next to Parvati's bed and sighed.
"Do you want to tell me what happened, Parvati?" she asked. Parvati hesitated.
"I must have stumbled on a stray cup, Madam." She lied. Madam Pomfrey got up, taking a cup from her bedside and pouring some of the contents of the bottle into the cup.
"A tea cup happened to be in the middle of a classroom floor?" she inquired, handing Parvati the cup. Parvati remained silent.
"Very well, Miss Patil," she said in a slightly stern voice. "This will help you get some much needed rest I think."
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Parvati awoke with the ring of the lunch bell, her eyes opening suddenly. Her body felt stiff and she had a throbbing headache.
"Hey, she's awake!" Lavender whispered to some other indistinguishable people. Parvati got up groggily and rubbed eyes until the figures came in view. Surprisingly, she found Harry, Hermione and Ron all looking concerned.
"They insisted on seeing you after they heard what happened." Lavender explained, looking somewhat pleased; most likely because of the fact that Ron was there. Parvati forced a smile and pulled her legs out of the bed; attempting to stand up. She walked shakily to a nearby chair and settled down, casting her onlookers another sheepish smile. Hermione, looking unamused, got up walking over to a nearby table.
"I'm rather disappointed in you, Parvati." She said "Skipping meals is not beneficial to your health. Madam Pomfrey suspected as much. You are to eat all your meals regularly. Madam Pomfrey's orders." She added. Parvati nodded weakly and accepted the tray of food that Hermione was now offering to her. For the rest of the lunch period, Lavender brought her up to speed on the gossip she missed while Hermione gave her the missed homework from History of Magic. Meanwhile Harry and Ron amused the unexpected group with various jokes.