See Parvati intrigues me endlessly. Recall if you will the disastrous first flying lesson in PS. When Neville is carried off by Madam Hooch and the Slytherins are taking the piss and the other Gryffs are all hanging around like, "Wow ... Awkward." who is the first to lay the smackdown and stick up for our Neville? Oh yes, it's Parvati. Not our hero Harry, not his sidekick Ron, not Hermione who, while not their friend yet, has been established as the most prominent girl ion the series so far.
"No sooner were they out of earshot than Malfoy burst into laughter.
'Did you see his face, the great lump?' The other Slytherins joined in.
'Shut up, Malfoy,' snapped Parvati Patil.
'Ooh, sticking up for Longbottom?' said Pansy Parkinson, a hard-faced Slytherin girl. 'Never thought you'd like fat little cry-babies, Parvati.'"
So from that we can draw that she had a standing acquaintance with the Slytherins if Pansy thinks she knows her well enough to predict her actions and choices in friends.
Part of my Patil head-canon is that Mama Patil (named Kamala Singh and played by Ayesha Dharkar) was a Slytherin, shared a dorm-room with Bellatrix Black for seven years but was isolated by her housemates because she was a first-generation Sikh immigrant with traces of a West Bengali accent and has to this day a lingering bitterness about not being the right kind of pure-blood in spite of centuries of impressive magical lineage. She kept her head down through her school days, married a Ravenclaw named Rajiv Patil only partly because she loved him; his half-blood status, devout Hinduism and thick Brummie accent are the combined perfect FUCK YOU ALL to her housemates and family alike.
OMG GREAT MINDS BECAUSE I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT! And I also found it interesting that Pansy calls her "Parvati" and not "Patil" because IIRC, she calls Hermione by her last name, so I always felt like she and Pansy had a "history" of some sort. And also can we just talk about how I was so impressed with her re: Harry's tomfoolery during the Yule Ball? All she did was say, "Are you going to ask me to dance at all?" after HOW much time spent watching Harry moon away and then she managed to snag some French fox? Well. Played. Miss. Patil.
Ugh I love your Patil canon.
Also, this is one of the BEST Cho Chang slash Harry/Cho fics I've read ever.
I do dig her ever so. And HBP, where she's all long-suffering and "Lavender, honey, I love you dearly but if I have to spend another second around you and Won-Won, I will rip your hair out" - I HAVE BEEN THERE. That long-suffering cringing friend is me.
Also part of my Patil head-canon? Rajiv and Remus became good friends in fifth year when they were made Prefects for their respective houses and in the years immediately post-War, Remus practically lived at Chez Patil because he was an effing wreck who couldn't be left alone for five seconds without a nervous breakdown and because being around the twins calmed him down because they were about the same age as Harry and he could could close his eyes, cuddle one and pretend his whole world hadn't gone to shit. :(
And Kamala? Is Healer-in-Charge of the Magical Diseases ward at St Mungos. They call her Kali after the Indian goddess of death because she's like belladonna; if her cures don't fix you, they kill you (granted, this is because she specialises in the hopeless cases and occaisionally works miracles but still). Rajiv, btw, is the youngest-ever editor of the Practical Potioneer. Kami is very proud of him.
being around the twins calmed him down because they were about the same age as Harry and he could could close his eyes, cuddle one and pretend his whole world hadn't gone to shit. :( dead inside at this dear god
Whenever Remus Lupin veers douchey in canon, I remember the days after the War ended for him - James and Lily dead. Peter dead. Sirius dead to him as the worst kind of traitor. All his friends who survived shell-shocked and walking wounded.
Harry out there somewhere with Lily's bigoted bitch of a sister when he knows James and Lily would have wanted him to step up but Dumbledore says no and anyway what the fuck can he give a child when he can't keep a roof over his own head and food on his plate without the charity of friends? When no-one will hire a werewolf because they fought on the wrong side and even those who would hire him have their hands tied as the likes of Umbridge push through harsher measures against his kind and now he has to sign his name on a Werewolf Registry so he can be monitored even though he's never done anything but try to be a good man.
And he's so angry all the time, and so tired and so sad.
One day, I will write this fic. Remus Lupin's Year Zero.
UGH I LOVE YOUR HEAD CANON AND THIS ENTIRE COMMENT BECAUSE REMUS. But ugh omg I am so in love with your head canon and like I wish I could do more than just flail about it because now I want to write Parvati and Padma centric fic for the rest of my life using that canon and also my own and also there would be Lavender since I loved her and ughsfhfhfshsfhsf.
You may borrow Kali and Rajiv whenever the urge strikes you, m'love.
Poor Remus. He really got shafted more than anyone I think, overall, and he didn't deserve it. Snape got fucked over too but he was an architect of his own misery, Remus just ... got fucked over for being one of the good guys.
Oh, totally. Like, Snape I do kind of feel sorry for, but it was his own goddamn fault that he hung out with prejudiced kids even though his BFF/the girl he was in love with was one of the people they were prejudiced against. Like, sorry you let a racial slur slip, dude, but I can't blame Lily for calling him on it and then not taking him back at all.
And ugh thank you so much, love, I am totally borrowing them for my Patil sister fic <333
Here's another thing that deff happened in my Patil-verse - their garden is full of things that are all kinds of fucking deadly (he's a scatter-brained academic, she's a Healer with a fixation on dangerous shit and they got married and procreated when they were young and real-life!dumb, go figure) and Parvati went into cardiac arrest when she was five because she ate a handful of Doll's Eyes (white baneberry) from the garden on a dare.
That's Padma's Boggart, btw. The other half of her, prone and shaking and foaming at the mouth, eyes rolling into the back of her head.
That's Padma's Boggart, btw. The other half of her, prone and shaking and foaming at the mouth, eyes rolling into the back of her head. omg :'(
My head canon of them is yours except Kali was friends with Mrs Parkinson and so Parvati and Padma were childhood playmates (not necessarily friends) of Pansy, Draco, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott and the rest of the Slytherin gang (the boys by proxy because I can just see big play dates between Pansy, Draco and the Slytherin "elite") when they were children, hence Pansy saying, "Never thought you'd like crybabies, Parvati" during their first flying lesson. Pansy always secretly liked the Patils because they were both so spunky and clever and brave, traits she'd always desperately wanted for herself, but she treated them with passive aggression because she was jealous, but whenever Draco or Theodore talked shit about them behind their backs, she was the first to defend them and it always leaves Draco baffled.
She still feels a bit betrayed because they chose Potter's side over hers, even though she never gave them a reason to stay.
Parvati goes on to be an Auror and she turns out to be a damn fine Seer. She doesn't really use tea leaves, instead favoring trances and tarot. She sometimes gives fellow Auror Harry Potter relationship advice and once takes him out for drinks when he hits a snag with Ginny, but she got tired of his moping after forty-five minutes and left him with the bill and a hangover the next morning. She will go on to date Dean Thomas, who always harbored a bit of a crush on her (and he would often draw her pictures and sneak them to her at meals a few times a week during meals and class during school, and she really, really missed those in her 7th year when Dean was gone and the world had gone to shit) and also they fought together at the Battle of Hogwarts and you can't fight a Battle with someone without becoming closer friends, so after Dean almost dies on a mission and has to go to the hospital and when she visits him, he looks kind of scared and sad and lost, so she offers to take him out for coffee when he heals and it's not an ideal first date (Dean's arm is still in a sling and there's some scarring on his face and Parvati's nails are bitten down to the quick and she'd been on a stakeout for five days prior, so she looks like hell) but they make it work.
Padma returns to school for her 8th year where she becomes casual friends with Hermione Granger. She immediately gets a position at The Prophet and later goes on to become head editor, revamping it entirely and valiantly attempting to keep it as fair and biased as one can keep a newspaper. She remains close to her sister and Cho Chang (who will later go on to teach Charms at Hogwarts and be the Ravenclaw Head of House) and has a friendly rivalry with the editor of The Quibbler, Luna Lovegood.
LOL I'M WRITING THAT RIGHT NOW COS IT DIDN'T FLOW WELL WITH THE REST OF THE FIC I JUST POSTED and omg why is Harry in distress so much fun to write I don't even know.
Because he's Harry. Because he's good and darling and snarky and sometimes he really pisses us off but we GET why he does the dumb things he does because he's had more shit in his life than any kid deserves, especially not one so thoroughly decent. He's frustrating like a dumb big brother is so we like to see his feathers ruffled but only if he's not actually hurt for reals.
See Parvati intrigues me endlessly. Recall if you will the disastrous first flying lesson in PS. When Neville is carried off by Madam Hooch and the Slytherins are taking the piss and the other Gryffs are all hanging around like, "Wow ... Awkward." who is the first to lay the smackdown and stick up for our Neville? Oh yes, it's Parvati. Not our hero Harry, not his sidekick Ron, not Hermione who, while not their friend yet, has been established as the most prominent girl ion the series so far.
"No sooner were they out of earshot than Malfoy burst into laughter.
'Did you see his face, the great lump?' The other Slytherins joined in.
'Shut up, Malfoy,' snapped Parvati Patil.
'Ooh, sticking up for Longbottom?' said Pansy Parkinson, a hard-faced Slytherin girl. 'Never thought you'd like fat little cry-babies, Parvati.'"
So from that we can draw that she had a standing acquaintance with the Slytherins if Pansy thinks she knows her well enough to predict her actions and choices in friends.
Part of my Patil head-canon is that Mama Patil (named Kamala Singh and played by Ayesha Dharkar) was a Slytherin, shared a dorm-room with Bellatrix Black for seven years but was isolated by her housemates because she was a first-generation Sikh immigrant with traces of a West Bengali accent and has to this day a lingering bitterness about not being the right kind of pure-blood in spite of centuries of impressive magical lineage. She kept her head down through her school days, married a Ravenclaw named Rajiv Patil only partly because she loved him; his half-blood status, devout Hinduism and thick Brummie accent are the combined perfect FUCK YOU ALL to her housemates and family alike.
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Ugh I love your Patil canon.
Also, this is one of the BEST Cho Chang slash Harry/Cho fics I've read ever.
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Also part of my Patil head-canon? Rajiv and Remus became good friends in fifth year when they were made Prefects for their respective houses and in the years immediately post-War, Remus practically lived at Chez Patil because he was an effing wreck who couldn't be left alone for five seconds without a nervous breakdown and because being around the twins calmed him down because they were about the same age as Harry and he could could close his eyes, cuddle one and pretend his whole world hadn't gone to shit. :(
And Kamala? Is Healer-in-Charge of the Magical Diseases ward at St Mungos. They call her Kali after the Indian goddess of death because she's like belladonna; if her cures don't fix you, they kill you (granted, this is because she specialises in the hopeless cases and occaisionally works miracles but still). Rajiv, btw, is the youngest-ever editor of the Practical Potioneer. Kami is very proud of him.
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Harry out there somewhere with Lily's bigoted bitch of a sister when he knows James and Lily would have wanted him to step up but Dumbledore says no and anyway what the fuck can he give a child when he can't keep a roof over his own head and food on his plate without the charity of friends? When no-one will hire a werewolf because they fought on the wrong side and even those who would hire him have their hands tied as the likes of Umbridge push through harsher measures against his kind and now he has to sign his name on a Werewolf Registry so he can be monitored even though he's never done anything but try to be a good man.
And he's so angry all the time, and so tired and so sad.
One day, I will write this fic. Remus Lupin's Year Zero.
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Poor Remus. He really got shafted more than anyone I think, overall, and he didn't deserve it. Snape got fucked over too but he was an architect of his own misery, Remus just ... got fucked over for being one of the good guys.
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And ugh thank you so much, love, I am totally borrowing them for my Patil sister fic <333
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That's Padma's Boggart, btw. The other half of her, prone and shaking and foaming at the mouth, eyes rolling into the back of her head.
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omg :'(
My head canon of them is yours except Kali was friends with Mrs Parkinson and so Parvati and Padma were childhood playmates (not necessarily friends) of Pansy, Draco, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott and the rest of the Slytherin gang (the boys by proxy because I can just see big play dates between Pansy, Draco and the Slytherin "elite") when they were children, hence Pansy saying, "Never thought you'd like crybabies, Parvati" during their first flying lesson. Pansy always secretly liked the Patils because they were both so spunky and clever and brave, traits she'd always desperately wanted for herself, but she treated them with passive aggression because she was jealous, but whenever Draco or Theodore talked shit about them behind their backs, she was the first to defend them and it always leaves Draco baffled.
She still feels a bit betrayed because they chose Potter's side over hers, even though she never gave them a reason to stay.
Parvati goes on to be an Auror and she turns out to be a damn fine Seer. She doesn't really use tea leaves, instead favoring trances and tarot. She sometimes gives fellow Auror Harry Potter relationship advice and once takes him out for drinks when he hits a snag with Ginny, but she got tired of his moping after forty-five minutes and left him with the bill and a hangover the next morning. She will go on to date Dean Thomas, who always harbored a bit of a crush on her (and he would often draw her pictures and sneak them to her at meals a few times a week during meals and class during school, and she really, really missed those in her 7th year when Dean was gone and the world had gone to shit) and also they fought together at the Battle of Hogwarts and you can't fight a Battle with someone without becoming closer friends, so after Dean almost dies on a mission and has to go to the hospital and when she visits him, he looks kind of scared and sad and lost, so she offers to take him out for coffee when he heals and it's not an ideal first date (Dean's arm is still in a sling and there's some scarring on his face and Parvati's nails are bitten down to the quick and she'd been on a stakeout for five days prior, so she looks like hell) but they make it work.
Padma returns to school for her 8th year where she becomes casual friends with Hermione Granger. She immediately gets a position at The Prophet and later goes on to become head editor, revamping it entirely and valiantly attempting to keep it as fair and biased as one can keep a newspaper. She remains close to her sister and Cho Chang (who will later go on to teach Charms at Hogwarts and be the Ravenclaw Head of House) and has a friendly rivalry with the editor of The Quibbler, Luna Lovegood.
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*pets the Moron who Lived fondly*
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