Who: Hermione Granger and Lavender Brown. What: Random run-in. Where: Diagon Alley. When: Friday the 27th Feb. Status: Incomplete.
Hermione was supposed to only be making a quick trip to Gringotts; after all, she was on work time. But somehow she managed to distract herself at the window of the Magical Menagerie, then Flourish and Blotts, and now she was currently occupied with the fascinating bits and pieces in the window of the Apothecary. If she was honest with herself, Hermione may have somewhere along the line admitted that she was stalling. Her job wasn't exactly all that she hoped it to be, each day growing steadily more tedious than the last. And having been given a short reprieve from the monotony of her office, she wasn't really in any great hurry to get back.
Wrinkling her nose as a dark-haired witch dumped a bunch of something that looked suspiciously like birds feet in the shop window, Hermione turned to continue her way down the street, eyes widening in surprise as a familiar face appeared from the doorway in front of her. "Lavender?"