Parvati Patil (india_ink) wrote in reduxpitch, @ 2016-01-12 22:23:00 |
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Entry tags: | !bingo, !challenge, !thread, character: parvati patil, retired character: neville longbottom |
WHO: Parvati Patil and Neville Longbottom
WHEN: October 1995
WHERE: The Hogwarts greenhouses
WHAT: Partners in crime!
CHALLENGE: Backstory (Tree), Bingo (Five minutes late)
Parvati didn't mean to be running late to Herbology on this cool but pleasant October day early in fifth year. It was just that she'd gotten distracted talking to a boy at lunch, okay? Thus she had realised too late that she'd forgotten the textbook they needed, and had been forced to run all the way up to Gryffindor Tower to fetch it. Naturally, being Parvati, she had to stop running the minute she hit the outside steps so that by the time she reached the greenhouse, she was five minutes late but had no more than a pretty pinkness to her cheeks, without any overt sign of exertion.
Unfortunately, five minutes was long enough that partners had already been assigned, and in her absence, Parvati had been offered to Neville Longbottom, because he was more than good enough at this class to compensate for her tardiness.
Parvati liked Neville, he was friendly and sweet and getting cuter by the year, but she worked with Lavender whenever possible, so she shot a wistful look over at her best friend before dropping her bag next to her new partner. "Hallo, Neville," she said, and gave him a bright smile. Looking up at the large tree they were now standing in front of, and then down at the shears the professor had handed to her, she said doubtfully, "This does not look like fun. Hold these a moment, I need to get my gloves out."