This is written for The Golden Snitch!
Diwali 2017- Day two: Nakuras Chaturdasi-(Spell) Incendio, (Word) Destruction, (Dialogue) "Everything I planned...ruined. Just ruined."
The Great School Bake-Off-Black Forest Jubilee:(Pairing) ChoMarietta, (Emotion) Nervous, (Restriction) No mentioning any Hogwarts houses, (Word) Reckless.
Ollivanders Wand Shop: Willow-Write about a popular character's insecurity.
I'm in Hogwarts, Slytherin!
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Cho Chang wanted to surprise her best friend, Marrietta Edgecombe. What a lot of people didn't know about Marie, was that she was Hindu. She wasn't as pronounced as Padma and Parvati was about it, but she still believed in Hinduism. But, Cho had a problem, she may have been popular with her fellow students, but her biggest insecurity was losing Marietta. She didn't want to ignore anything about her, she wanted Marie around forever. So, she decided to learn everything about Marie's religion, and see when the next holiday was.
It was when she was reading about the religion, that she came upon an upcoming celebration called Diwali. She researched as much as she could about it, learning all there was to know in the library at Hogwarts. She brought in the help of some of her other friends, preparing their common room for the event.
She had also set it up to surprise Padma and Parvati, since your fellow housemates are your family, she didn't want either of them left out. She also saw it as an opportunity to bring Marie and the twins together.
Once they had their room's almost finished, she was standing back watching a seventh-year, Mikhail, work on the clay diyas. He was now lighting the wicks in each one, with the spell, 'Incendio.'
All was going well, until a clumsy first-year was reckless, and stumbled down the steps and fell on top of Mikhail, in the middle of his spell. The tumble cause Mikhail's wand to slash across the room and ceiling, burning all of the Rangoli decorations around the Entrance ways, along with some of their other wall decorations.
"Everything I planned...ruined. Just ruined," Cho cried. She was devastated that her plans of celebrating for her friends were destroyed. Marietta was due to return any moment now from her study session at the library, and the twins were still wandering around outside, she had learned from her sources.
She looked around at the destruction, thinking of ways to quickly fix the wall hangings, when their common room door opened, allowing Marietta and the twins entrance.
Cho stood there, nervous at what they would think, when Marie walked over to her. "Is this what I think it is? All for us? I think you need to learn not to burn things, Cho, but other than that, it's perfect!"
Relieved, Cho answered, "Thanks Marie, it was perfect until a spell went awry. I wanted it to be perfect for you, you always do so much for me, and i just wanted to return the favor. I'm sorry."
"Don't worry about it. Seriously, we can help fix the decorations, we'll do it as a family. Come on," replied Marietta.
Grabbing her hand, they went and retrieved all of the destroyed decorations, and sat and fixed them. It didn't take long, until they were hung back in their proper place, and everything was perfect again. They soon had a house-elf deliver food, and while they enjoyed the Indian cuisine, Cho locked her eyes with Marietta.
All would be fine her their little world, no matter what they had to do, she would always make sure she could see the happiness shine in those eyes. All because of her.
