Art By @wizardnem, SlySquad Drabbles Part 15, That You’ve All Been Waiting For! (and If You Didn’t,

Art by @wizardnem, SlySquad drabbles part 15, that you’ve all been waiting for! (and if you didn’t, you should have, because this is the last, and the best one) : THE SNAKE MASQUERADE

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The NEWTS had been passed, they had celebrated Draco’s birthday, and now the much expected Snake Masquerade was upon them. Pansy and Draco had been dancing around in the common room all afternoon while they were getting ready. Draco was very dashing in his formal wear, his hair slicked back. Theo didn’t say it, but he thought Lucius would have been very proud to see him like that. Or he would have raged up a storm about his choice of date.

For now, though, Draco was messing around with the Barklay the Slyhterin Skeleton. (No one knew how it had ended up in their common room, it had appeared somewhere around their fifth year and had never left. Someone had named it Barclay, and it had become their secret mascot.)

“That’s a fire hazard, Draco,” Daphne Greengrass commented, adjusting her date’s, Millicent Bulstrode, corsage.

Draco shrugged and waltz up to Theo. “I like your mask. It suits you,” he commented.

Theo smiled and together they headed out to the Great Hall.

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