Private Message to Daphne Greengrass

[alt_draco]

Hey Daphs,

You spent some time practising the play with Ginny Weasley, didn't you? She was your understudy, if I recall.

What sort of person is she, then?

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[alt_daphne]

Shouldn't that be scales, not wings?

I really don't have much to tell you. We were practising our lines, not baring our souls.

[alt_draco]

But you're girls. I doubt you were practising the whole entire time.

[alt_daphne]

No, but even when we weren't we just talked about other things related to the play.

Oh, we did talk about fashion a little. She knew about some of the upcoming Summer lines, which surprised me, now that I think on it. It isn't as if her family could ever afford anything designer, after all.

[alt_draco]

See, I knew you talked about more than the play.

Didn't Weasel-face give you a hard time about liking "girly" things, too? His sister must be on the verge of going mad, being the only girl in a house full of miscreants. Did she talk about them at all? The miscreants, I mean.

[alt_daphne]

Yes, he did. Sometimes I wonder if he likes any girls at all, other than Pansy and Sally Anne.

No, she didn't talk about them. I remember noticing that, actually. But she did complain to me that there were some people who weren't taking the play seriously, and whenever Ron was on stage rehearsing she would go completely stiff. I was quite obvious that she was worried he would make an arse of himself, and then - well, you saw how she blew up after the performance.

(Speaking of, did you see that Mr Crouch said that I was prancing about, and mimicking my betters? Ought I write him a letter of apology, telling him I would have turned down the role, if only I had known how much the very venture offended him? Oh, he's so terribly nasty, isn't he? And so dashing, too)

[alt_draco]

Interesting. And yes, we all saw that. The blow-up, I mean.

I didn't notice what Mr Crouch wrote about you, but I wouldn't take it too hard. Everyone else thought you were fantastic, even my Mother. You can write him an apology if you'd like to, but somehow I doubt that it'd have much of an effect...except maybe he'd say something nasty in response. Seems you might like that, though.

[alt_daphne]

I don't like nastiness at all, but it does have the peculiar effect of making some men seem more dashing. Just some men, mind. It certainly doesn't do anything for Ron Weasley! Or Zacharias Smith.

This isn't about you fancying Ginny Weasley, is it? Because I doubt you'd have to work terribly hard to get a girl's attention, especially one younger and in a house like Gryffindor. You're the only Malfoy in the school, last I checked.

[alt_draco]

Smith? What's he got to do with anything?

You and Blaise, I swear. No, I don't fancy her, and I already know I wouldn't have to work hard to get most a girl's attention.

[alt_daphne]

Well fine, be secretive! I'm going to become even closer friends with Ginny and then I'll find out what you're up to in the end, anyway.

[alt_draco]

I'd expect nothing less.