It was a normal bracelet… Well not normal in a sense that it didn't look normal. But normal in that it was a muggle made bracelet. She was fascinated by it. The uniqueness, how different it was to her jewellery, how beautiful it was, yet sort of tacky at the same time.
It was made of a clear sort of stretchy wire, with black, clear and silvery-pearl beads threaded on the wire. That wasn't what made it different. The fact that between the beads there were little oval picture frames hanging down made it so different. In these picture frames were black and white pictures of people (possibly old-fashioned muggle actors from the look of it). Because the pictures weren't moving – it was the first obvious clue that the bracelet was muggle made. The second clue was that when you looked carefully at the pattern of beads and miniature frames, there was a bead missing from the sequence. Any wizard jeweller would have placed a 'hold-together' spell to keep from any beads falling off.
Pansy wondered how a muggle made bracelet had gotten here. Just lying in the grass next to her favourite spot to sit and think. Perhaps somebody had dropped? If then – then who owned the bracelet?
The girl sat down, and held the bracelet in her hands, running her fingers over the differently shaped beads, eyes upon the different frames and faces inside them. She tried to remember if she had seen anybody wearing it, or heard anybody talking about it…
"Look what she gave me guys?" squealed the frizzy-haired Hermione-goody-Granger. She was waving around her wrist, and shoving it under her housemates' noses. "Isn't it just beautiful?" Everybody just smiled and nodded. Pansy looked over the noise to wrinkle her nose in disgust at Granger and the thing hanging off her wrist…
Realisation dawned upon the girl. It was Granger's bracelet. And she had been given it by… a girl. Pansy wondered if there was something more than friendship between Granger and the girl who had given it to her. "Ha! As if. I bet Granger has never had any thoughts but straight ones in her head. It's probably just a friendship bracelet." She fiddled with the bracelet some more. It was cool upon her fingers. "But then, why was she so excited. It was how Draco acts when he gets something from his mysterious person – deliriously happy. Like she was… In love."
Pansy shook her head again, not wholly believing it…
It was the typical beginning of term, and all of the students were upon the Hogwarts Express. Pansy was having great difficulty in finding a quiet compartment in which she could sit down and read. She walked past a compartment with the door slightly open. Slowly – in case there was somebody within – she slipped in. To her great surprise there sat Hermione Granger with her forehead lent up against the glass, looking outside. Pansy watched the girl sit there, not making a noise. She looked at Granger's face and how it seemed pale, how her hair looked unkempt. At the earrings in her ears, that had miniature frames dangling from them, with black and white pictures inside. She looked at the crumpled piece of paper that lay near her feet, with the words 'It is over. ~C' written on it.
A crashed came from outside the compartment door, and both Pansy and Hermione turned to look. Pansy watched as Hermione's puffy eyes turned to her with a questioning look. Not wanting to explain herself – Pansy slipped quietly out of the compartment…
Pansy turned over the bracelet again. "Perhaps I should just leave in here in case she comes back…
There was the sound of crunching grass behind her. Pansy sweep round hurryingly, only to see the object of her thoughts – Hermione Granger – standing there, her hair sweeping around her face from the wind and once again a questioning look in her eyes.
Yes, Pansy thought, just perhaps she does have other than straight thoughts…