The Serpent's Lair

[sgt_majorette]

Pansy Parkinson
Pansy's a preppie chick -- the sort of girl Brits call a "Sloane Ranger". (The frilly pink Yule Ball robes were an aberration.)
She's the mean girl, the snotty cheerleader who dates the quarterback, and is completely, thoughtlessly contemptuous of lesser beings. If she doesn't have an epiphany before she's twenty, she comes to a bad, or at least boring, end. If you know the Disney channel series "Kim Possible", check out Bonnie Rockwaller.
Draco has the epiphany, the trial by fire; Pansy doesn't. She never realized what was at stake. Her parents weren't Death Eaters. She's the only one who opens her mouth at the end, as if she hadn't understood the gravity of the situation. Most of those kids were probably hoping to low-crawl out with plausible deniability:
"Yeah, Parkinson, way to go! Now we'll all have to move to America!!"
"Don't suppose you could have kept your big mouth shut for once, could you?"
When she's drunk, she rants about how she can't understand why nobody stood up behind her that day in the Great Hall. She stopped doing that after Malcolm Baddock put his hands on his hips and screeched "Because everybody just wanted to get the f*** out of there before the other three houses hexed us all into oozing sores in robes! You dim cow, do you think that lunatic with the red eyes and the GIANT EFFING SNAKE around his neck was just going to smile and go home just because we handed over Harry Effing Potter?" Now she just mutters into her firewhiskey sours.
Like a lot of Slytherins, Pansy ends up in New York, which, Like Los Angeles, is the kind of place people with questionable pasts end up. As she has no marketable skills except social contacts, she gets a real estate license.
She's bored, bitter, and she chain-smokes. She hangs out at a downtown club where a lot of expat Slyths congregate. Blaise Zabini was quite rude to her -- told her to quit whining and pull herself together; all those Muggle cigarettes were spoiling her complexion. Adrian Pucey and Edwin Bole didn't recognize her.
Everything's so not fair...
It's a little after midnight in New York City, and Pansy is in a karaoke bar with a Japanese wizard to whom she is trying to sell an overpriced downtown condo in a post-9/11 office building conversion. She is beginning to wish she had some --ugh-- Muggle educational credentials. Blaise Zabini left school after sixth year and took a degree in finance; now he has a job in investment banking where he can be as snotty as he likes and doesn't have to actually do anything.

Blaise Zabini
They say Zabini has a much older, much darker, secret illegitimate half-sister back in the bayou. A powerful and malevolent traditional Vodun priestess, she would come down on the side of the Order (assuming she could be persuaded to care) if only because Voldemort is a tacky half-blood who gives all magical people a bad name, and also she hates white people anyway...
The late Count Aldo's family were only too glad to have the raising of the boy away from his mother's baleful influence. They sent him to university and then to America to work in the family's banking business.

Daphne Greengrass
In America, the Greengrasses would call themselves "our crowd": pureblood, wealthy Jews who arrived more as colonists than refugees. Daphne was always described as a "sporty" girl, which did not mean that she was athletic, but rather that when she attained an age such that her sexuality was an appropriate topic for speculation, no one would be surprised that she was a lesbian. She and her younger sister (who was feminine enough for both daughters) had inherited their father's Gentile good looks, to the despair of the grandparents on both sides. The Greengrass clan was somewhat embarrassed by their Teutonic beauty, and were relieved that David had developed an attachment to Rivka Mandelbaum in their fourth year in Slytherin House. If he had not, they would have had to call in a matchmaker and spend a fortune; Rivka, the very model of Semitic feminine beauty, a veritable Queen Esther with her strong features, sloe eyes, and long, richly curling black hair, was a prize catch.

Tracey Davis
Who? As a matter of fact, she was one of the Good Slytherins who went back and fought the Death Eaters. Everybody thought she and Daphne were "together". Tracey was never sure how she felt about that uncomfortable frisson of pleasure she experienced when Daphne leaned in too close as they studied together. She was the dying girl Ginny was comforting during The Battle. She wouldn't have realized it was just Ginny Weasley; she thought the beautiful creature holding her could take her home...

Edwin Bole
Big, thuggish beater-dude: unlike Crabbe and Goyle, he actually was a lot smarter than he looked. He had a huge crush on the fey but ironically heterosexual Adrian Pucey, following him to America even after being kindly rejected. He was perfectly comfortable in New York and wondered why everyone always talked as if America was was ruled by savage gangs of homicidal witch burning Muggles. In fact, it seemed like everybody's grandmother brewed her own potions, and you could get any herbs you wanted over the internet.