Pathos | A Pansy Parkinson Fanfiction

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"Woah." Maeve gaped in awe at the now-completely-unrecognisable Great Hall. "I can't believe this is Hogwarts." she laughed, twirling around she looked around the enormous room. "The professors did a wonderful job." She was a little disheartened she had missed the Champions' dance but compared to her anxiety earlier that evening, it was nothing.

"I agree," Theodore noted, admiring the Christmas decorations as well. "I don't even want to know how they brought those three Fir Trees in here though. They're enormous."

"By the way, Susan sort of told everybody we're each other's 'date' date." Maeve bit her lower lip nervously. "I told her I was going with you and she freaked out before I could tell her we were going as friends and... well she went all Susan on me."

"That's fine. I mean, it won't be the worst thing to go with you." Theodore winked. 

"I'm surprised no girl asked you. You're quite the looker." Maeve laughed at his compliment.

"I did get asked - more often than I was comfortable with. But most of those girls - well they expect me to be some stereotypical Slytherin. It gets awkward." he shrugged.

Maeve nodded in response. If it weren't for Pansy or their study sessions, she would never have known that the guy who looked like an intimidating bad guy was actually an adorable goofball. 

"Look! There's the others." the boy grabbed her hand and pulled her to the 'others'. 

To say the least, most of the 'others' were not people Maeve was comfortable with. 

For starters, there was Draco, along with Goyle and Crabbe, with Millicent Bulstrode and Tracey Davis as their dates. No surprise there. Instead of focusing on the negatives, Maeve chose to look at the people she had been excited to spend the night with - Pansy, Daphne and Blaise. 

She had decided to let Cedric and Cho spend the night together. After all, it wasn't every day Cedric was so confident as to ask out his crush. 

"You're both late." Blaise quirked a brow. "The first dance just finished."

"We would have come here on time if Maeve had found her locket sooner. She almost cried." Theodore snickered, earning a slight shove from Maeve. 

"What matters is you're both here," Pansy said calmly - quite unlike herself really. Maeve had a feeling it had something to do with her knowing it was her mother's necklace. She had almost broken down in her dorm after ten minutes of not finding it. "And you both look great." Pansy continued.

"I must say. I never thought you'd be wearing black, May." Daphne looked her up and down. "It weirdly suits you."

"Thank you." the Hufflepuff beamed. "Megan and Hannah dragged me to Gladrags a few days ago and practically bullied me into buying it." 

"Well, then Megan and Hannah have great taste." murmured the exquisitely dressed blonde in a silk emerald green dress, still analyzing Maeve's outfit. 

"I like your hair. You look amazing." Theodore told Daphne at which Pansy groaned. 

"Oh, don't remind me. I spent almost all of last night braiding it into one hundred and three individual, skinny plaits, just so that she could impress Zabini." 

Daphne blushed, looked over at the snack table a few yards away where the boy was getting punch for the both of them.

"That's... specific." Maeve giggled. 

"I would have done the same for you." Daphne protested.

"Like hell you would. I don't even have braid-able hair." the Slytherin rolled her eyes.