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Written using prompts provided by Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges and Assignments)

Chocolate Frog: Bonus – Dominique Weasley – Challenge – Write about Dominique Weasley

Gringotts: Sex and the City: Episode 1 – (Dialogue) "Most men are threatened by successful women."; Sex and the City: Episode 2 - (Action) Pushing food around plate and pouting; Sex and the City: Episode 3 – (Word) Threatened, (Word) Perfect, (Object) Muffin; HP Locations: Wizarding Villages – London; OC Name: Male – Ashton Turner; Said Words – Squealed, Advised, Questioned


Working up the courage

Dominique Weasley was proud to say that she was the youngest ever editor for The Daily Prophet, but try as she might she did not feel completely fulfilled in her life. Her professional life was in her opinion one hundred percent perfect, but her private life was far from it. Unless her friends or family contacted her she wouldn't leave her small flat on the outskirts of London.

Recently she had developed an interest in her colleague Ashton Turner, but whenever she tried to engage him in conversation he would more often than not look straight through her, and the few times that he didn't her mouth went so dry that she couldn't utter a sound. It was this precise predicament that found her coming to her grandmother to seek some advice.

Dominique pouted as she pushed what remained of her food around her plate as she waited for her grandmother to tell her what she should do.

"Dom, what you have to understand is that most men are threatened by successful women," she explained. "I mean look at you. You're not even twenty five and you are already a high flyer, he's probably just intimidated on some level, and since he's a man he's trying to hide it."

"So what should I do grandma?" she asked as she eyed the muffin that sat on the counter.

"Call him and ask him out," she advised. "Now."

Dominique gave her grandmother a bewildered glance before sliding her phone out of her small clutch bag.

She lost count of how many times she turned the phone around in her hands as she worked up the courage to call the man who occupied her thoughts several times a day. Finally after a stern gaze from her grandmother, she hit the dial button and waited with baited breath for him to answer.

The phone barely rang four times before he answered, "This is Ashton."

Her breath caught in the back of her throat, and she found herself, not for the first time, unable to form a coherent sentence.

Molly gave her granddaughter a pointed look, and Dominique cleared her throat, "Hey Ashton, it's Dominique."

"Oh hey Dom, to what do I owe the pleasure of hearing your delightful voice," his voice chimed.

"Um, I was just wondering if you wanted to get drinks after work tomorrow?" she questioned uncertainly.

After a brief silence, he finally replied, "That sounds wonderful."

"Great," she smiled, before hanging up and giving her grandma a brilliant smile.

Molly looked at her granddaughter expectantly and asked, "Well what did he say?"

"He said yes," Dominique squealed.

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