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44. Lavender Brown

Sitting quietly at a desk in the Hogwarts Library was a very normal girl. She had normal friends, did normal things, and went about everything in a normal way. She looked normal, thought normally and seemed very, very normal.

"Lavender. Lav-en-deeeeeeerrrrrrrrr. Lavvy-lav-lav-ender."

She sighed miserably to herself.

"Brrrrrrrrrrrrrown. B-row-n. Brown."

She sighed again. Her parents had named her with two colours. She didn't mind that fact, particularly. The thing that upset her most was that neither of the colours happened to be in the rainbow – the one thing that Lavender loved more than hot chocolate and teenage boys (not together, of course).

She hated her name. Absolutely loathed it. It was just so...normal. She didn't really like normal. She was sick of it, to be frank. She was sick of her normal life, her normal friends, her normal attitude, even her normal appearance. She wanted to be different. Unusual. Not normal.

"I need a change," she said to herself and stood up. She collected her books, ink and quill and walked out of the Library and off to her dorm room. She peeked her head into the dorm and double checked nobody else was around. She didn't really need an audience.

She gently placed her book bag on her bed and evened out a crease in her sheets. She gracefully pulled her freshly-cleaned wand out of her pocket and walked to the shared bathroom. She looked into the mirror.

She sighed again. "Here goes..."

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She'd been receiving looks all afternoon. And she could truthfully say she enjoyed every single one of them. But her friends weren't as pleased with the newly found attention.

"Look, Lav. We know it's your choice and we fully appreciate your decisions and opinions, but don't you think you went a little too far with this?" Pavarti asked, looking to her other friends for support.

Lavender shook her head. "Guys, I know you may be against it, but I needed a change."

"But dying your hair rainbow?" Ashley King screeched. "What kind of change is that?"

Lavender shrugged. "Don't you like it?" she asked, hurt.

Ashley looked bewildered. "Like it? Like it? I HATE it with a passion!"

Lavender frowned and stormed off, tears threatening to pour down her face. She ran back to the dorm room and into the bathroom. She whipped out her wand and immediately changed her hair back.

She actually felt better.

Rainbows, she decided, were too normal.

By RabbitohsGirl