Re: Pandora and Wayne
She looked him over again a little, assessing once more. Not necessarily negatively, and it's not like she had a great story herself if she were to tell him the whole thing. "More than one person dropped out during those years," she said after a moment. There were many reasons, too, and it wasn't like she could judge too much. "Might want to get your NEWTs eventually, though."
And what was it with Hufflepuffs lately, anyway? She took another sip of her drink and decided to say it. "I'm surrounded by you 'puffs lately," she told him, grinning a bit. "You're everywhere, I swear."
Her brows lifted. "Muggleborn?" she asked. Complicated feelings swirled in her but he'd bought her alcohol so they came down on the side she prefered, plus she thought she'd made excellent progress considering how her uncles and aunt had fucked her up int hat regard. "It's a real thing, as well as a metaphor. My mother was blasted off her tree for reasons of 'extreme differences in morals.'" She drank more, because honestly you really couldn't taste the alcohol that much in this thing, so it wasn't that strong in her eyes. "Montgomeries don't usually blast the tree, but with mother, who knows."