A/N: The shortness of this one makes up for the monstrous length of Refraining From Standing; it's not even 1k.
Disclaimer: After the blatant Slytherin-hate in Deathly Hallows, do you think JK Rowling would make a fanfiction showing them in a different light?
Sweets are for the innocent, the kind, the nice. No one really thinks that a Slytherin would like sweets, because no one can imagine someone mean, cruel, and evil liking sweets. Most can't wrap their minds around Slytherins clamoring to buy something at Honeydukes, or going whenever they can to Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour in Diagon Alley.
The Slytherins all laugh at this, something else others think they are unable to do if they're not laughing at someone who's been hurt or embarrassed or punished. However, they'd also be mortified if someone found out. The Slytherins had an image to uphold.
Blaise Zabini is a sugar quills fanatic. He buys a box every Hogsmeade weekend and at least one person gives him some every Christmas and for his birthday. All Slytherins have become long accustomed to seeing Blaise with two quills by his side in the common room – one for his homework, and one to suck on.
Draco Malfoy has a fancy for ice mice. They're one of the rarer sweets in the wizarding world, and when the Slytherins of his year first saw him squeaking and chattering (the well known side effect for eating ice mice) they all momentarily wondered if Draco had gone crazy. Now they're used to it, and Draco found a way to lessen the noise of it anyway.
Vincent Crabbe delights in buying large chocoballs filled with strawberry mousse and clotted cream from Honeydukes, and for the rest of the Hogsmeade trip he'll slowly pick chocoballs from his hands and chew on them methodically, a satisfied grin on his face. Unlike with other desserts and sweets, Crabbe always manages to save some chocoballs for later.
It's always funny to see bluebell colored bubbles from Drooble's Best Blowing Gum hover around Gregory Goyle for days, as Goyle's jaw keeps moving as he chews the gum. The Slytherins keep track of how big Goyle gets his bubbles; the record was nearly as big as his head.
Theodore Nott has almost been sent to the hospital wing many a time when an onlooker saw him breathing fire and his mouth smoking from eating some of his beloved Pepper Imps. As far as the Slytherins know, he's the only person who can eat one without batting an eye. Blaise tried an Imp once, when Theo offered him one – he actually did have to go the hospital wing.
For Daphne Greengrass the best sweet is a licorice wand; it doesn't matter if the licorice is red or black. Theo almost picked one up once, mistaking it for his wand. He received a black eye for it and hasn't gone near Daphne when she has a licorice wand in hand since.
Sally-Anne Perks's favorite sweet is simpler than any other of the Slytherins' – it's just ice cream. It doesn't matter whether the ice cream's vanilla of chocolate, strawberry or mint chip, rainbow sherbet or cookies'n'cream, or any other flavor. If it's ice cream, she'll eat it. If any of her classmates ever bump into her at Diagon Alley when they're shopping for school supplies, she'll have a bowl in two, spooning ice cream out of it.
Though non-Slytherins might say snidely it fit her perfectly, Pansy Parkinson persisted in loving Peppermint Toads. Draco would also say it fit her perfectly – not because it was shaped like a toad, the reason a non-Slytherin would use, but because she was sharp with a tang, just like peppermint. But Draco would also collapse in hysterics whenever he could tell the Toads were jumping around in her stomach, so maybe he only said it to appease Pansy, she would continue to make him laugh.
There is someone obsessed with chocolate frogs in every house, and Millicent Bulstrode occupied that position in Slytherin. The only chocolate frog cards Millicent had yet to collect were the ones that had yet to be released. She always laughed when the Hufflepuff Ernie MacMillan boasted he had collected the most chocolate frog cards out of all the people at Hogwarts. But unlike many, Millicent also liked the chocolate frogs themselves. "It's just ordinary chocolate, Millicent," someone would say. Millicent didn't care.
Tracey Davis had liked sherbet even before she discovered she was a witch, so Fizzing Whizzbees had tickled her fancy right when she first entered Honeydukes. Theo always pointed out they were just sherbet balls that did what a Wingardium Leviosa could do. Tracey always returned that he just didn't like sherbet anyway, and that the levitation that a Whizzbee gave was much stronger than using the Wingardium Leviosa on a person. After the Slytherins read Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and discovered Billywing stings were a component in Fizzing Whizzbees, they all swore them off forever. Except for Tracey, who smiled and said, "More for me." Theo has since decided that she doesn't have an ounce of common sense.
Sweets have a deeper meaning than everyone thinks.
A/N: All the wizarding sweets mentioned here were mentioned in the actual books; I made none up.
Constructive criticism appreciated.