Prompt: Quaff
Finnigan, Seamus
Seamus stumbled along the dark hallway, ignoring the complaining portraits as he held up his wand for more light. He wasn't quite sure where he was, but he was even less sure of how he'd managed to obtain a bottle of firewhiskey. The drink burned, but he was trying to forget what he'd seen. He firmly locked the memory in the back of his mind and tried to focus on how much trouble he was going to be in. If he was found wandering Hogwarts at night, intoxicated, he was certain that he would have detention for the rest of the year.
Up ahead he saw a figure sitting on a windowsill, reading a book by the light of the moon. The person was definitely a girl and Seamus recognized her immediately. It was Parvati. Hopefully she could take him back to the common room. He walked up to her confidently and went to tap on her shoulder.
"Wait, you're not Parvati."
The girl closed her book irritably and glared at the drunken Gryffindor. "Astute observation, Finnigan. Now go quaff that vile liquid somewhere else." Seamus gave her a blank look. He didn't understand what she had said. The girl sighed.
"Quaff: verb. To drink heartily, especially if the drink is intoxicating."
Seamus squinted his eyes, tilted his head and tried to figure out who he was talking to, ignoring the attempted vocabulary lesson. "You're Padma! Parvati's twin! You're a Ravenclaw."
She stood and glared at him. "And you're Seamus Finnigan, the Irish idiot who is completely besotted with Lavender Brown, or so I've been told." At the sound of the blonde's name, Seamus looked like he had been slapped. He began to mumble.
"Lavender… Ron… snogging… I didn't-"
Padma looked at the devastated boy and took pity on him. She put her hands on his shoulders and started to push him in the direction of the Gryffindor common room. She'd been there many times to see her sister. "Come on, lover boy. Drunkenly wandering the castle isn't going to help you win your lady back."
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