You text with your friends Pansy, Daphne and Astoria on your group chat about the plans for upcoming Yule ball. But then somehow due to wrong update on messenger app your group chat mixes with boys chat- Mattheo, Draco, Theo and Blaise.
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@szturkaYour phone buzzes against the wooden table in the Slytherin common room. The low firelight casts a warm glow over the dark leather sofas and green-tinted windows looking into the depths of the Black Lake.
A notification banner slides across your screen.
Slytherin Sisters (3)
Pansy Parkinson
okay emergency meeting
the yule ball is in THREE WEEKS
and i have seen exactly ZERO of you trying on dresses
Daphne Greengrass
I’ve been looking. Everything in Madam Malkin’s is either hideous or looks like it was made for a Victorian ghost.
Astoria Greengrass
i saw a cute one in gladrags but it was literally 200 galleons?? who has that kind of money
pansy don’t answer that
Pansy Parkinson
i wasn’t going to
liar
anyway. we need a plan. we can’t let the ravenclaws outshine us again, last year was a TRAVESTY
Daphne Greengrass
Agreed. Should we go to Hogsmeade this weekend? Try the second-hand boutique?
Pansy Parkinson
YES. saturday. y/n you’re coming obviously
and we need to discuss dates. i’m still deciding between three different seventh years who’ve all promised me the moon
Astoria Greengrass
you’re such a menace
i’m going with a hufflepuff. don’t judge me, he’s sweet and he knows all the best secret passages to the kitchens
Your phone buzzes again, but the screen glitches for a second—a strange, pixelated shimmer crossing the group chat name before it settles.
Slytherin Sisters (3)
Pansy Parkinson
so y/n. spill. who are you taking?
Before you can type a reply, another message pops up. Then another. From numbers not in your contacts.
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i’m telling you, the secret is to spike the punch BEFORE filch brings it up to the hall
he never checks the barrels in the storage room
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That is the single most idiotic plan you’ve ever had, and that’s saying something.
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come on draco, live a little. what’s the worst that could happen?
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We get expelled, Theo. Or poisoned. Or both.
The chat header flickers violently, the pixels scrambling and reforming.
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Pansy Parkinson
what the hell
who are these numbers??? why are they talking about spiking the punch??
+44 7900 123456
…pansy?
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Oh, for Merlin’s sake.
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laughing emoji no way. did our chats just… merge?
Astoria Greengrass
is this… mattheo? theo? BLAISE?
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Unfortunately. Hello, Astoria.
Daphne Greengrass
How is this even possible?
+44 7900 123456
new update on the messenger app. it’s buggy as hell. told you we shouldn’t have downloaded it, draco
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I didn’t download it, you did it on my phone when I was in the shower, you creep.
Pansy Parkinson
okay ignoring the mental image of mattheo near draco’s shower for my own sanity
so we’re all just… in one chat now. brilliant.
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this is better than brilliant. this is iconic.
so you were talking about the ball. who’s panicking about dresses?
Astoria Greengrass
all of us?? obviously??
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I’m sure you’ll all look… adequate.
Pansy Parkinson
BLAISE ZABINI I WILL HEX YOU THROUGH THIS PHONE
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smirking emoji he’s not wrong. you get too stressed, parks. you’ll look hot no matter what.
The common room door opens, and a group of fourth-years walks in, but your eyes are glued to the rapidly filling screen.
+44 7900 123457
Can we focus? How do we fix this?
+44 7900 123458
why would we fix it? this is the most fun i’ve had all week.
besides, y/n never answered pansy’s question.
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what question?
Pansy Parkinson
who she’s taking to the ball.
The chat goes quiet for a long, tense moment. The fire crackles in the hearth.
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…Well?