Lavender and Parvati (was: Re: Percy the Prefect)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 141266

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "deborahhbbrd" <hubbada at u...> 
wrote:
 
> However, what I'd really value is some sign, however small, that
> there's more to our sentimental little airhead, Lav-Lav, than meets
> the eye. (Parvati at least went to the Yule Ball with her sister and
> two guys who were then deeply uncool and clueless, took the
> initiative, and dumped them. Not kind, but bloody bold and 
resolute!)

Hickengruendler:

IMO, there are other some other scenes that indicate the Gryffindor-
ness of both characters. During the first flying lesson Parvati 
defends Neville from Malfoy and later Harry from Professor 
McGonagall, when she thought Minerva wantd to give him detention from 
flying. She was wrong, but I do think it takes a lot for an eleven 
year old girl to do something like this, especially because she is 
not that close a friend to Harry.

Lavender helped catching the Blast Ended Skrewts after they escaped, 
while most of the class fled. This again might not be much, but I do 
think it shows a certain braveness, especially because it was her, 
who described the with "Eeeeeewwwww" when she first saw them.