who ? Padma Patil and Harry Potter. when ? Saturday 10th June, evening. where ? The Three Broomsticks. what ? Random encounter. warnings/rating ? SFW. status ? Complete.
It wasn't every week that Padma had a Saturday evening off, and she was determined to enjoy herself. She'd headed to the Three Broomsticks, in the hope it might be a little less rammed than the Leaky Cauldron, and she'd been right. The crowd was mostly older, the kind of people who wanted a quiet night, but there were a few groups of younger people at some of the tables, so Padma didn't feel out of place. Not, she thought, that she could ever really feel out of place in the Three Broomsticks. She'd spent so many afternoons there during school that it would always be a familiar place to come to. Madame Rosmerta was even still there, pouring a pint to hand to the young man at the bar.
As she approached, Padma realised it wasn't just any young man. "Harry," she said, smiling. "Here by yourself?" Looking more closely at the groups of young people, Padma didn't recognise any of them, and she assumed that she knew most of Harry's friends. "Me too. Shall we have a drink together? Catch up?" Padma read the news, so she had some idea what had been going on in Harry's life, but that didn't mean there weren't other things that the papers hadn't reported on.