Title: Calendar Boys
Pairing: Harry/Ron, but it is mostly the story of the people in the committee at first.
Author: Ann Leony
Summary: The Slytherin Choose
A/N: This was inspired by a picture of Draco Malfoy leaning on a stone wall during Care of Magical Creatures. The list, I tried to make it all man, but I have to include girls because I don't know that many characters, and you could only use original character that much. Have to do more homework and Cedric is not Dead cause he's too beautiful to die.
By the way, if they are any mistakes in name or spelling of something's, I apologizes beforehand. I'm at college and I don't have any of the books for reference. I'm living of other fictions.
Chapter Three
During the heated debate for the list in the Gryffindor common room, three students in the Slytherin common room was having a similar discussion. Pansy Parkinson, Blaise Zabini and Jubilee Abbington, all in their pajama and nightdresses, starts to get a chill from the coldness of the dungeon and moved closer to the fire place. Jubilee was chewing, what Pansy could see as tiny multi-colored bears, with a somewhat ecstatic expression on her face. She didn't really know the girl, not really, not even a little.
She was known as the only half blood in fifty years. The last one, not that the Slytherins know, turn out to be a Dark Lord. It's just not good Ton to mingle with the likes of her. But she had heard rumors. Oh yes, she had. The explosions pinned on the most unlikely suspects and she actually got away with it, and even Snape couldn't intimidate her. She is not necessarily evil, but she has the reputation to maimed if she was pissed of, though nothing permanent ever recorded. There were, however, disappearances .
So its not actually surprising that both Pansy and Blaise regard Jubilee with a little suspicion and a good dash of fear stirred in the mixture. Blaise actually started to sweat, and nothing had even happened yet. Pansy just muttered 'Bloody queen' and cleared her throat.
" I won't kill you, you know. I just think I know why McGonnagall chose me." She just looked lazily at the fourth years.
Pansy just recovered her insulting mask, put it on and ask, sniffing a bit, "And why is that?"
"I used to work freelance for my sister's company. I'm a makeup artist. I bet she thought that might be useful." She doesn't even seemed to be bothered that Pansy was talking in that insulting tone. Like she only talk to her out of necessity and Pansy was definitely not worth bothering about.
"What's a makeup artist?" all the snide tone in her voice was replace by wonder, even Blaise leaned over a little, listening in.
Jubilee smiled and answered," How do you think Celestina Warbeck looked so good in all her posters and portraits ? De-ageing potion?" she looked as if it was the most incredulous thing in the world, but it is an open secret that Celestina did use De-ageing potion for her youthful looks. A woman can't look that young at forty without a little help from the cauldron.
She continued her explanation," It's make-up people, yes they are mostly muggle, you can't believe what the color of eye shadow they can create, even though they rot your face faster than wolfs bane, and that's saying something. They got this thing called mascara, that do wonders even Dumbledore can't attempt to your limp lashes, I tell you. You took no eyelashes to the best of the Italian eyes."
" I think make-up will be a good idea for the calendar. I'll propose it to Granger. Anyway, after all that, we still need to have three candidates to represent Slytherin. Who do you think should make the list?" Pansy handling all this in a decidedly officious fashion.
Blaise turn pink and spoke his first sentence since the meeting start, " Severus Snape." And clamped his mouth again.
Jubilee looked startled, but Pansy actually grinned. "Why Blaise?" she asked. " Apart from you having a crush on him, of course."
That make him looked sheepish and a little more embarrassed, which is hard for a boy with an Italian coloring. " Well," he started quite slowly, gaining his confidence. He had jumped out of the 'closet' only recently, not his fault really, it was a long story involving a Ravenclaw 7th year boy, whom name shall not be repeated in the halls of the Slytherin common room, another boy, a closet (the actual closet, not the other 'closet') right by the Great Hall door, and Blaise screaming his head off, saying someone, whose name shall never be repeated in the halls of the Slytherin common room, was betraying him and his love, to the hearing of everybody that was at breakfast that morning. He was still uncomfortable talking about somebody he likes out loud.
"How can you not want him in," with getting a little bit more warm-up, his speech is more animated." I mean, I know we don't have that much beautiful people in our house, but still, he is actually really hot."
"I really don't see it." Pansy argued, still thinks that Blaise might have hit his head too hard when he fainted after the closet incident, " I mean, sure he's not ugly, but to say he's hot is a bit of colds wallop really. The beady eyes, greasy hair and of course the fact that he could be nearing forty."
Blaise however didn't seem to think that was any kind of a setback at all. " Well, his beady eyes as you say it, you just try having them trained solely into your eyes. Oh, he did it to intimidate of course, but the effect that makes students continued to purposely make blunders in potions is still there. The greasy hair, it's really because of the potions. He's really brewing them all the time, in fact, there is a week in second year where he was forbidden by Madam Pomfrey to brew any potion because of a sinus problem, and his hair was silky and soft all week. And that nearly forty thing, he is exactly thirty eight in February, but that just means experience."
Pansy actually smirked at the length of Blaise dissection of how hot Snape is and remember why Blaise purposely put in the wrong ingredients in the Wart Potion last week, (Bloody queen) . From what he's saying, Blaise might just be proposing marriage to Snape for a wedding in June.' Gods, she has grown sentimental.'
Jubilee, however, after the initial shock, was actually rather interested in Blaise's view of Snape. Sure, Snape's an arse, but so is Potter and he was still hot." I think it shall be acceptable, but let just say that I'm still 50-50 on Snape. Who's else is going in?
" Who would you nominate," Pansy asked, quite politely this time.
" I would, of course, nominate Blaise." She actually smiling nicely and that is somewhat frightening on a face of a Slytherin rather than the usual maniacal grin.
"What!" Blaise was actually very surprised," but I can't be in, I'm not that... you know.. and I'm on the editorial."
Pansy, who seemed to like Blaise a lot, but not 'that' way, her brain couldn't scream 'EEEWWWW...!' loud enough, but she had always regarded him as a brother. " I agree with Jubilee, I think Blaise would be great as a summer, not that I'm saying you're getting soft that is." Both Blaise and Jubilee laugh at that.
"Pansy, it's your turn. who would you want to be in the calendar ?" Jubilee asked, perusing the jotted name and add Blaise's after it.
"Well, I know that it might be a little obvious, but you have to admit he is the best looking guy in the whole house." And she blushed. It looked quite endearing with her dark eyes and black hair, she silently thank Merlin and Morgana she didn't have the Weasley's horrid red hair, that would make blushing look like a Quidditch Cup score board.
Blaise and Jubilee looked at each other and said in a rather exasperated tone, " Draco" and Pansy almost squealed out loud, and the other two just nodded their heads and jotted his name down.
Draco Malfoy, the prince of Slytherin, had gone out of the skinny, greasy haired look and have become comfortable with letting his shoulder length hair floating in the wind. He never looked more like Lucius Malfoy, but the Malfoy silver eyes was replaced by the Blacks (courtesy of his mother, of course) more ethereal blue eyes that can be as cold as chipped ice on one time and as inviting as a bubbling brook at another. Sure, the silver was still there when he was pissed of or having a tantrum, but mostly, if you could look closely enough, it's really the most beautiful blue. No wonder Pansy almost swoon, and there is really no trouble at getting him to agree. He was a Malfoy, after all.
TBC
A/N: I know maybe some of you asked why I put Draco last. Save the best for last, just like the song, I'd say. Snape should really be born on a cold day, shouldn't he?