Sapphic September 2019 - Harry Potter Femslash Oneshot Collection

Day 7 - Healing What's Left - Parkgrass

Prompt: Cold
Pairing: Daphne Greengrass x Pansy Parkinson
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 2,066
Summary: Pansy was swept up by the Aurors following the Battle of Hogwarts. Two months later, they're finally releasing her, and Daphne is there waiting.

Tags: EWE, Post-Hogwarts, Established Relationship, Release from Azkaban and associated trauma, Mistreatment of teenagers by justice system, Angst, Ambiguous/Open Ending

Healing What's Left

Daphne was ready to storm Azkaban by the time they finally let Pansy go. When she heard, woken by the owl tapping at the window, passed out at her desk again after working late researching legal precedents, she rushed to the Ministry in yesterday's clothes.

It was thoroughly undignified. Her hair was a rat's nest. Her breath was probably sour. Her clothes were rumpled and she probably smelled like she hadn't showered in a couple of days. If she stopped and thought too hard about it, she'd probably find she hadn't showered in a couple of days.

But none of that mattered.

The Aurors had rounded Pansy up with the Death Eaters at Hogwarts solely because some little twit had told them she tried to give Harry over. There was no evidence she was involved with the Death Eaters, Daphne knew that better than anyone, and yet, they hadn't let her go. They'd kept responding to her enquiries with 'an investigation is pending' and ignored her requests to visit Pansy.

It was beyond disgraceful.

The justice system may have been overworked and run down trying to get the Death Eater trials over with as soon as possible so everyone could move on, but that was no excuse to leave a seventeen year old girl in Azkaban. They still had a handful of Dementors there. It was utterly unacceptable, and Daphne would make sure they suffered for it one day.

But not right now.

All that mattered now was collecting Pansy when they released her from a trial Daphne hadn't even been informed was happening until it was over.

Merlin knows her parents wouldn't have been there. Once she tracked them down she'd give them a piece of her mind too.

When she walked into the Ministry Atrium, the guards moved towards her like they thought she was going to cause trouble again. Before she could even begin to vent her frustration on them, a harassed looking wizard came scurrying out of nowhere.

"Miss Greengrass?" he asked, ducking around the guards.

She didn't know how he recognised her when she'd never seen him before, but she wouldn't put it past the guards to have passed around a picture of her. She had certainly been harassing the Department of Law Enforcement enough to warrant it.

"Where is she?" she asked without preamble.

"If you'll just submit your wand for registering, I'll take you to her," he said, gesturing over to the security desk near the doors leading to the rest of the Ministry.

Daphne grit her teeth. The last time they'd welcomed her in they'd put her in a room and ignored her for several hours instead of listening to her valid complaints about not only Pansy's treatment but many other innocent Slytherin students who had been rounded up as well.

Pansy was her main focus, but she was still fighting for the rest of them too. Most of them had been let out already, none of them had publicly acted out against Harry Potter the way she had, after all. She'd work on getting the rest of them out after she had Pansy somewhere safe.

"I'd rather you brought her out to me, if it's all the same," she said in a tight voice.

Even with all the anger bubbling below the surface, she was so close to getting Pansy out that she wasn't about to start something by being aggressive. They could easily draw out the process for hours if they wanted to, maybe even days.