I'm Not Perfect | Seamus Finnigan

Lavender Brown

Seamus' P.O.V.

"You sure Emma?" I asked.

"Yeah, I'll be fine. Get to class. Oh, and could you remind Hermione to take those notes for me?" She said.

"Yeah. I won't rest until I find out who gave that violence potion to Crabbe and Goyle. They could've killed you."

"Seamus. You've said this about four times in the past two hours."

"I know. I'm just... what if you did?"

"I didn't."

"Alright." I got up out of the chair and left the hospital wing.

I was hurrying down the corridor with my school books in my arms, when I heard someone talking.

"Did you hear about Emma? I hope she's alright." I heard a girl say.

"Yeah..." Another girl said nervously.

"Lavender, did you have anything to do with this?" The first girl asked.

"What, NO! Ok, maybe... but please don't tell anyone! I heard that Ron liked her... and I-"

I turned into the corridor where they were.

Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil.

Lavender went wide-eyed., "I-"

"What?" I asked, pretending I didn't hear her, "Why are you staring at me? I'm late for class. I was visiting Emma in the hospital wing. You don't know how miserable she is. It hurts to see her like that."

"I'm sorry, I hope she gets better."

"Why should you be sorry? You didn't do it... Oh wait... You did."

I walked off to go find Dumbledore. Completely forgetting about classes.

"WAIT! No! I could get expelled!"

Lavender raised her wand at me in panic.

"Lavender! No! Don't make it any worse than it is!" Parvati said, grabbing her arm.

I started to run. I made it to the gargoyles that gaurd Dumbldore's office.

"I need to get in! I need to talk to Dumbledore!"

The gargoyles didn't move.

McGongall walked past.

"Proffesor McGonagall! I know who used the violence potion!"

"Mr.Finnigan? How did you figure it out? We've been after them for weeks!"

"I got lucky. Heard them talking about it in the corridor."

"Well, please, come in. You can explain it to Dumbledore."

"Thank you."

She turned to the Gargoyle and said, "Cockroach Cluster"

The Gargoyle spun to reveal a stair case. McGonagall and I went up and found ourselves at a door. She opened it easily and we stepped inside. Dumbledore was pacing around his office. 

"Ah, Mr.Finnigan, and what are you here for?"

"I know who used the violence potion."

I was looking around his office in awe. There were so many wonderful and odd things in there. I was mostly amazed, though, by his pet pheonix. I reached a hand up and it put it's head on my hand.

"Fawkes must like you. She's very picky about who she lets touch her feathers. She must find you worthy."

What am I doing? I'm here to tell him who hurt Emma, not look at a pheonix. No matter how fascinating it may be.

I turned around quickly. "It was Lavender Brown. I heard her and Parvati Patil talking about it in the corridors. Something about her thinking Ron had a crush on her... Apparently she thought almost killing her was going to solve that problem." I said bitterly.

"Well, that certainly is a... Well..." He stopped, "Well, this does prove that she had some knowledge of what it was capable of. I'm sure... things will be dealt with."

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Seamus' P.O.V.

"Lavender Brown?" Emma asked, when I had made she made it down to the great hall later that day, when she was cleared by Madam Pomfrey.

"Apparently she thought Ron had a crush on you." I said, looking at Ron with one eyebrow raised.

Ron almost choked on the pumpkin juice he was drinking. Harry had to slap him on the back so he could breathe.

"I do NOT!" Ron yelled, "She's more of a sister to me than anything."

I smirked at him, "That's a good Ron."

We all laughed.

"So, what's going to happen to her?"

"Well, she'll be expelled. But only for the rest of this year."

We all nodded.

"Even though I think she deserves worse," I said angrily, before relaxing, "At least you're okay."