A/N: Second character/prompt: Mafalda Hopkirk / "Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?". This is also written for the Musical Chairs Competition, with the prompt "someone is phobic of cupcakes".
"Take them away!"
"Are you sure you don't want one? They're delicious."
"No, I hate cupcakes. They are gooey and moist and dangerous. And these look particularly dangerous."
Mafalda looked at Dolores Umbridge in confusion. For a moment, she thought she had misunderstood. "They're just cupcakes..."
"Take. Them. Away," Dolores repeated in a shrill voice, backing away as far as possible, a look of utter terror on her face. If she backs any further away, she won't be standing in this office anymore, Mafalfda thought. She had never seen her boss like this before.
"Surely you're not going to tell me that Dolores Umbridge, Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic and Head of the Muggleborn Registration Commission is afraid of a few cupcakes?" she asked bemused, but moved the tray with the cupcakes nonetheless.
"Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?" Dolores asked suspiciously, looking a bit more secure now that the tray was further away, but she still didn't take her eyes of it.
"No ofcourse not. I wouldn't dare," Mafalda hasted herself to say. The last thing she needed right now, was getting fired a week after she'd bought a house.
She exited Dolores' office, taking the tray with her. "I'm sorry, I meant no harm."
"I don't know what her problem is," she muttered, but she made sure she was well out of hearing range when she said it. You never knew what Dolores was going to do, after all.
"I only wanted to do something nice," she complained to her co-worker later that same day. "You know I love baking, but do you think I could have done the frosting better? That's generally not my forte, but I actually thought I managed alright this time. Do you think I should have made it more lifelike?"
"Nah, these are pretty lifelike already," her coworker said after critical examination. "I think you've done the frosting very well. Take this one for example." She held out one of the cupcakes. "It's easily recognisable as a centaur."