Second Chances
thelovelymissparkinson
“ I-I don’t know. I haven’t really thought about it. ”
@thesecondblackbrother answered:
“Well you should, the decisions you make now will be what you need to live with when you are my age. People do not always get second chances.” He had been given a second chance and while he was grateful for it he couldn’t allow his students to think he was the norm.
Pansy had been hauled into the castle after she’d been caught outside roaming the grounds. She’d been kicked out of her parents’ home months ago for having had the audacity to speak out against Potter and for the safety of herself and her Slytherin brethren. Pansy still wasn’t sure how she’d barely managed to scrape together enough to make her way back to Hogwarts. She, of course, hadn’t any concept of the cost of tuition for an 8th year, or how she’d go about asking for scholarships or assistance to get the basic school supplies - but Hogwarts was the only place she could think of to go after the harrowing summer she’d just spent using her feminine wiles and spellwork to survive the streets of wizarding London alone.
“I need to come back to Hogwarts, Professor,” she whispered, having managed to glamour herself back into some semblance of a ghost of the aristocratic pureblooded student she’d once been. “I don’t know where else to go, but I don’t know how to come up with tuition or what I’ll study in order to make something of myself when I leave.”