Life and its Rewards

Life

And it's Rewards

Draco Malfoy

It's yet another day

Of marching around with two round

Rocks

Following me as I parade around like

I'm special.

But I know I'm not.

Everyone else knows I'm not.

So why do I do this?

Am I afraid?

For I don't taste fear

Am I jealous or angry or sad?

For I don't feel any of those.

Instead I feel

Empty

Shallow

Hollow

Everything except special.

So why do I have to continue playing this game?

Parvati Patil

I was there.

I saw her.

But I didn't.

I closed my eyes.

And covered my ears

But I saw her, still.

She was not alone.

So why did she do it?

Hermione Granger

Sometimes

All the studying and practicing and reading and working

Doesn't pay off.

But you have to keep going.

I just hope that maybe

I'll be lucky

And he will see

Me

As

A

GIRL

Is that too much to ask for?

Harry Potter

I walked by Dumbledore's office this morning

And I heard whispering

Something about Lavender Brown

When Professor Dumbledore

Whispers

It doesn't mean things are

Sunshine

It means things are

Bad.

I don't want to hear that name anymore

It doesn't belong to my vocabulary anymore.

I'm not allowing it to run in my veins anymore.

I'm not allowing her to run through me and around me and enchant me.

No.

Ginny Weasely

I grew over my school-girl crush

A long time ago

But

Something didn't seem right

When Lavender and Harry

Were

Well, together

I wasn't jealous

I swear

It's just...

I saw them

Alone

Once

And I never walked near the Boy Who Lived

Ever again

Ron Weasely

I had another dream

This morning

Jesus Christ

This is just a stage, really

I really really don't like the girl

Who's life I saved

From a Mountain troll

In our first year

Damn her

She's perfect

...............

And I'm a redhead.

Minerva McGonnagal

My own sister

Was murdered in front of my

Eyes

But never never never

Have I seen something

Like this happen

Especially at

Hogwarts

Bless Lavender's soul

Albus Dumbledore

I don't think the students

Took the news

Too well

There faces were

Full of shock

And fear

Lavender Brown

I remember that Gryffindor

She was so

Innocent and naïve

So why did she jump?

Pansy Parkinson

A Gryffindor,

Lavender,

She jumped

From the

Tallest

Tower

Of Hogwarts

She took her own life

That's what he said

That's what

Dumbledore

Squeezed in at the

End

Of his sentence

Why did she do it?

Ron Weasely

Life's unfair, Lavender,

Trust me

I know

How it

Feels

To be:

Forgotten

Alone

Invisible

Sometimes, you aren't the

Greatest looking and

Smartest and

Coolest kid

But damn it, Lavender,

You don't check out before

Life has even begun

Harry Potter

NO!

Dumbledore did not just say

Lavender

And if he did

He didn't' mean the

Lavender Brown

The one who I

Love

No

Loved

Until she

Turned into

A beast

Hermione Granger

Lavender Brown

I never knew her that well

So sad, though

Do you think

Voldermort

Is responsible?

I'm off to the Dark Arts

Which I excel at, of course

I do feel terrible for Ms. Brown of course

But I can't just stop

In life, you've got to keep

Plotting

along

Parvati Patil

She wasn't alone

She wasn't alone

She wasn't alone

When she

Died

I'm not going to

Tell

They'd ask me too

Many questions

And if they dig to deep

They can never climb

Out

Draco Malfoy

A bloody Gryffindor

Committed suicide

That doesn't seem

Like a very Gryffindor

Thing to do

Lavender Brown was her name

I recognize it

Wasn't she Potter's little girls

She lasted a little longer than the rest of them

If I'm recalling correctly

Oh yes, I remember

She and Harry were together for quite a while

Then something happened

I can't remember

Ginny Weasely

I saw them only once

I caught them alone

In an abandoned classroom

She was touching his shoulder

And whispering in his ear

He turned around and then

Shoved her

She hit a wall

And let out a little yelp

No wonder she commited

Suicide

Albus Dumbledore

I think it was smart

To cancel all the classes today

I think the students

Need to sit

And taste

Death

Death is one

Of the most important lessons

Of

Life

Hermione Granger

Classes canceled!

What are we supposed to do all

Day

Sit around and

Moan

?

Ron Weasely

No classes!

I'm happy, but Hermione

Looks sad

Damn it!

I've got to stop staring at her.

Dean Thomas

I always thought

Hermione was a little cynical

And

Maybe Parvati and Padma, sometimes,

Could lighten up

But

Never did Lavender ever frown

So I'm wondering

What went wrong?

Why did she stop?

What pushed her over the edge?

Why did she waste a life so quickly?

Harry Potter

I sit in the owlry

This is the place

We used to meet

When we were supposed to be

Sleeping

But I will never see her

Again

Parvati Patil

Albus Dumbledore

Grabbed me

And pulled me aside to his

Office

After

Breakfast

He knows

I saw her

And...

He wants me to answer his question

But I told him I couldn't

Until I was sure

That it was

Him

Ron Weasely

I'm sitting by the lake

Hoping

That maybe

Just maybe

She'll decide to come down from the castle

Skip studying and reading

And take a walk around the lake

And maybe see me here

Sitting her on my rock

In my nice pose

And

It's too much to hope for

Hermione Granger

I can't find him in the castle

And he's definitely not at Hagrid's...

Where is he?

I need to talk to him

I need to tell him the truth

But the goddamn immature asshole that I

Love

Is never around when I need him

Ginny Weasely

I think Harry

Has something to do

With Lavender's

Death

No, I'm not saying

He pushed her out that

Window

But

Maybe

Things like that happen

Looks can be deceiving

Padma Patil

My sister

Isn't looking so

Swell

Could you blame her, though

Her best friend

Just jumped out a window

But something else is bothering her

It's in her eyes

The eyes I share with her

Along with everything

else

Albus Dumbledore

This is not the doing

Of Voldermort

Even though

I do sense dark arts

Parvati knows

A lot

If only she would open up

Before it's too late

Cho Chang

Cedric

And now Lavender

What's happening?

How come so many people

Are dead

Before

They can even live

Harry Potter

It wasn't an accident

I can just sense it

Somebody wanted her dead

More than I did

Much more than me

Somebody felt hate

I only felt unrequited love

Hermione Granger

I've lost the courage to tell him

I love him so much

His eyes

His hair

Everything about him

Ron Weasely

Instead of Hermione walking up

Parvati comes

And she stares at me

Then brings her hands to my lips

And tells me not to speak

That justice will be done

What the hell is that girl talking about?

Is she going to set Hermione and me up?

Parvati Patil

I know the killer

I have touched the lips

Of the murderer

Minerva McGonnagal

I saw Parvati by the lake

With that Weasely boy

I can sense

Just by looking at her

That she's trying to show

Someone

That he's the killer

She's trying to warn someone

I'm the witness

I'm the someone

Albus Dumbledore

I still can't believe it's the Weasely boy

Even if that is the boy

That she brought her fingers to his lips

The deatheaters have swarmed the yard

Closing in on the boy

I only hope that

Parvati was right

Fred Weasely

My brother's been annoying

Whiny

Pesty

Ignorant

And so forth

I looked out the library window, George at my side

Sweat drops drip down my head

Madam Pince made me sit down and be quiet, though

My brother's not exactly a favorite of mine and he bugs me a lot and gets on my nerves

But a murderer?

Would some one of my blood really take the life of some one else

Especially some one like

Lavender

Harry Potter

There are deatheaters everywhere

And they're headed towards Ron

Everybody is too afraid to go down

And ask what's going on

He's standing there

Not doing anything

He looks stunned

Did he kill Lavender?

Did he kill the only girl I loved?

Hermione Granger

I ran out onto the front grounds of Hogwarts

My heart skipping a few beats and making up a new rhythm

As deatheaters swarmed around Ron Weasely.

I ran up behind him

I cried his name

He turned around

His blue eyes lit up when he saw me

I ran up behind him

Parvati Patil

What is the Granger girl doing?

Is she going to set him free?

She couldn't do so.

I saw him - as clear as day last night

He threw Lavender through the window.

Lavender had been so excited when she got her secret admirer's letter

She thought it was a secret note from Harry

A cute *giggle* way of saying he wanted to start

Dating again

Well, we went up to the Astronomy tower

And she made me hide in the corner, out of sight -

She wanted a witness for this wonderful event

Harry Potter didn't come through the door

A dazed Ron Weasely clumsily stumbled into the room and took one look at Lavender

He walked towards her, in a weird, half-asleep way

Like he was drunk or something

She backed up and up until she right up against the window.

And he picked her up, by the neck,

Her choking noises still

Echo in my brain,

And crashed her through the glass of the window and dropped her

Like a little floppy doll

Minerva McGonnagal

I stood up

And saw from the window

The Granger girl

Holding Ron's hand

As the deatheaters closed in on the redhead

I was startled

And ready to run

For the door

But Dumbledore beckoned me to my seat

He told me it would be alright

I, for once, truly believed him

Ron Weasely

The girl I have loved

For so long

Grasped my hand

And I pulled her into my arms

Ignoring the soul-sucking demons around me

I kissed her

Like I had wished to for so long

And she didn't reject me

Or refuse me

Or rebel

She wrapped her arms around my neck

And I felt warm, though,

I knew I was going to meet my death

But I didn't care

I had lived

And I felt like

I had aged 70 years

Of wisdom

In one moment

When we broke apart

She whispered:

"Why did you do it, Ron?"

I shrugged and told her the truth;

"I didn't. I don't remember doing it, at least. But it doesn't matter -"

"But they're about to take you away, Ron. Aren't you a little worried? You're being falsely accused!"

She cried

Being her little business-like self

"I know, hush." I quieted her with a finger to her lips. "They're going to have to give me a fair trial. And I'll tell the truth. Will you be there, Hermione? Will you help me with evidence and such?"

She nodded silently.

I felt the deatheaters dangerously close.

They wrenched me away from her.

She stepped back solemnly, letting cold tears down her cheeks. I watched her and watched her until I felt immense pain rattle my thin body.

Then everything went black.

Hermione Granger

That was ridiculously easy

Boys are so easy to toy with

They'll never figure it out

I sighed as I watched them pull away Ron

I never loved Ron, though, I knew he had loved me

Since

Forever

My heart belonged to Harry

And I had to make sure Lavender was out of the way

Or she might have stolen Harry from me

It was so easy to set up Ron

I'm excellent in the Dark Arts and hypnotizing him was a piece of cake

I made him do the following;

He simply sent a secret admirers note to Lavender by owl (a school one)

It said to meet him in the bell-tower

He went and I commanded him through his mind

To throw Lavender through the window

Parvati Patil I guess had been hiding somewhere

And she saw Ron do it

And she ratted on him

Yeah, sure, Ron, I'll go to your trial

And laugh my head off when you get your death sentence

I tickle myself blue

I smiled to myself

And decided...

Life does have its rewards

Now where's Harry?