The next morning...
Louise woke up to a blinding ray of sunlight in her eyes. She gave a startled cry and rolled over. Unfortunately, she rolled over a bit too far, rolling out of her bed and landing on the floor with a thud, which woke Daphne and Pansy.
Her friends sat up, sleepily rubbing their eyes, looking at her with bewildered expressions.
"I fell" she offered offered in response to their looks.
Pansy and Daphne sniggered, but then Pansy noticed the time.
"Oh no! We've overslept!" she shrieked.
Louise looked puzzled. "Erm...Pansy, it's only 6am" she pointed out.
Pansy didn't answer, she had jumped out of bed and was bent over her trunk, throwing clothes over her shoulder as she searched for a towel.
"We usually get up at 5:30am at the latest" Daphne eexplained.
Louise looked horrified. "Why?" she asked. "We didn't get up until 7am in Gryffindor!"
Daphne gave an extremely unladylike snort. "And the Gryffindor girls wonder why we Slytherin girls get more male attention..." she laughed. "If you want to look good, you need to be prepared to get up early, the boys at Hogwarts aren't interested if you don't look picture-perfect!"
Louise looked outraged. "Well that's ridiculous!" she exclaimed. "Is looks all that is important to them?"
Daphne shrugged. "That's just how it is" she replied.
"Well it shouldn't be!" Louise fumed.
"Hey, I'm on your side in this honey, you think I like the fact that unless my skirt is so short my underwear is practically on show and my face is plastered in make-up, I get treated like some kind of disease?" Daphne demanded.
"Surely not all the boys at Hogwarts are like that..." Louise thought back to Oliver Wood and all the times when he'd told her how pretty she was and said that she didn't need make-up.
Daphne sighed unhappily. "If you know of any, please give me their names!"
Pansy returned from the bathroom, showered and wearing an oversized t-shirt and a pair of leggings, her hair washed and wrapped in a towel.
"Well what about Draco, Blaise and Theodore?" Louise wanted to know.
Daphne shrugged. "They're not as bad as most, they are genuinely friends with us, we've all known each other in some way long before Hogwarts, but you never know when a pretty girl's going to walk by and turn their heads" she replied, still looking unhappy.
Pansy spoke up then. "You'll get used to it Lou, I know it's wrong and it shouldn't be how it is, but there's not a lot we can do, so we just have to act like we're not bothered, it gets easier" she advised.
Louise sighed. "I guess you're right" she sounded defeated.
Pansy smiled reassuringly. "Head up girl, and don't let any boy ever take advantage" she warned. "They might only want us for our looks, but we sure won't take any of their nonsense!"
Daphne perked up a bit. "You know Pans, that's really good advice" she smiled.
Louise's scowl had also softened into a smile.
"Hey ladies, we're not going to let any man take us for granted, we deserve the same respect that they do!" Pansy told her friends.
Louise and Daphne nodded. "Agreed" they said in unison.