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#23 - candy
Like Kids in a Candystore
- in which we learn about yet another evil plot gone wrong -
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It was all Draco's fault, of course. He was the one that once again hatched a plot that failed spectacularly to lock in a wandless Harry Potter into the Shrieking Shack. Instead he somehow managed to lock in a wandless Pansy Parkinson and an equally wandless Ron Weasley into Honeydukes. Of course, him being Draco Malfoy, he still believed that it all had gone according to plan, and that Harry Potter would indeed be spending the night between Saturday and Sunday of that Hogsmeade weekend among a bunch of ghosts, and didn't find out anything had gone wrong until a very angry Pansy Parkinson pounced him on Sunday morning.
"I will never look at chocolate the same way again, and it's all your fault," she declared angrily. "Well, yours and Weasley's. He was the one that suggested we eat some of it so that we wouldn't starve."
"Well, Weasley is an idiot, but that actually made some sense." Draco rushed to defend himself.
"You know that Honeydukes chocolate. It's way too addictive."
"You're overreacting, Pansy," Draco tried, grasping at straws.
Pansy, however, swore then and there that she would stay away from chocolate for the rest of her life. Really, what else than a sugar high could explain the fact that she had just spent the night snogging a Weasley?
Back in Gryffindor Tower, said Weasley was making promises of the same kind.
They kept them until, a few weeks later, they were locked into the liquor store a few streets down from Honeydukes and were forced to spend a night there as well.