Re: Table 1
This wedding may have looked the part of a proper society wedding - the bride was lovely of course, and the groom had managed to find something that could at the very least be called proper attire for the occasion, but it was apparent from the moment she and Theo had arrived for the wedding ceremony that all of this was merely an act.
It was one thing to have her own son married off to the sister of one of these lunatics, and quiet another to willingly give your daughter over to one of them personally. Pansy wouldn't have stood for it - they would have left the country, she wouldn't have cared about the threats made to their family. Yaxley was a poor excuse for a man, and his wife no better as this was all no doubt her planning, for letting this happen to their daughter.
And things did not improve at the reception. The company was poor and it was obvious that though these people pretended to be of society they had no idea what was actually involved in it - and The Dark Lord wanted them to believe he was doing this for the purity of their society, when his own were tarnishing it beyond repair in so many ways.
"I am rather amazed they were able to put this together so quickly." Pansy commented, it would have been better had they two less at their table. She wished that Belvina had been seated with them as well, but she had ended up at another table for the evening, and Pansy disliked having the young woman so far away. "One might almost never guess that this had to be planned in only a few short weeks."