WHO: Padma as Pansy and Mrs Parkinson WHERE: Pucey Manor WHEN: 3pm WHAT: Padma has tea with Pansy's mother and tries to pretend to be her daughter
Lunch with Adrian Pucey and his suspicious looks was bad enough. Talking to Auror Robards was worse. Yet, Padma felt even more daunted as she exited the floo at Pucey Manor to meet with Pansy's mother. Surely a mother would know her own child and Padma was going to be found out!
Unless Mrs Parkinson was Tulip.
In which case she would probably be laughing.
Padma tapped her foot and frowned as the nasty suspicion presented itself. Surely the so called sisterhood wouldn't be so evil?
Then again, considering what they'd just done, Padma wouldn't put it past them.
When it's all over, I am going to really growl at Mum about this!
Squaring her shoulders, tossing back Pansy's hair (which Padma was pleased to note wasn't as luxurious as her own), she prepared to meet this new challenge.
Only to realise she had no idea where to go since she'd never been to this manor before.
"Bugger it," Padma muttered and then reveled in the ability to swear outloud. Not that she was a dreadful potty mouth, but sometimes one really needed to express out loud and writing it down was NOT the same. "Now what?"
"Pansy!" a childish squeal made her jump and a girl, bordering on the age of eleven, with a sharp featured, pretty face surrounded by curls and ribbons, bounded towards her. "I haven't seen you in AGES! I..." the child paused and frowned, tilting her head to one side. "You look a bit... funny... are you all right?"
Who was this? Padma guessed the child to be a Pucey, there was some similarity around the eyes. "Uh... it's been a long day," she said weakly. "Is my mother around?"
"Of course, she's in the conservatory," the child pointed, still looking puzzled.
"Thanks, I'll talk to you later, all right?" Padma hurried away before this obviously clever child could ask more uncomfortable questions. Luckily she managed to find the concervatory without any further mishap and spied the woman sitting by a table covered with tea things. "Hello, mother..."