SHIP: Harry/Parvati

[Dan Feeney]

No: HPFGUIDX 75350

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ptrpanik" <latw7 at h...> wrote:
> This is my first time so bear with me. I always thought there was a
> connection between the fact that Harry ended up going to the Yule 
Ball
> with Parvati Patil who had not be asked despite the fact that she 
and
> her sister or supposedly the prettist girls in their year. And when
> Harry was taking his History of Magic OWL's before the Sirus 
incident
> he was staring at Parvati's long black hair seeing lights in it in
> sort of a dayze. I just don't know if anyone has ever thought of her
> as match for Harry, she has been there under his nose the whole 
time.
> 
> Judy

We are a very very tiny group, Judy, we Harry/Parvati shippers, 
probably just a handfull of us; and you have, to all intents and 
purposes, in your short post, given most of the canon evidence for 
the ship. Nevertheless, the passage you mention, about the little 
lights, struck me too. So did the little mention of the power of 
Parvati's reducto in Dumbledore's Army - reduced a table to dust, it 
says. Now, I surely hope Rowling isn't setting up Parvati to be evil. 
I have placed Parvati at the centre of all of my dismal attempts at 
fan fiction - but Rowling's plan for her, if there is much of one, is 
illusive. Facility with a destructive spell, adoration of Trewlawney, 
a measure of vanity regarding her appearance, and a straightforward 
practicality when it comes to grades - witness her direct comments to 
Umbridge regarding theory and practise in the DADA OWL. Not much 
evidence for us. Is there a thematic route, then, we could take?

Perhaps Parvati isn't, or won't be, so much a seer as a rememberer. 
Any ideas?

dan