'Miss Slughorn' Cad greeted with a formal and very grown up bow as he came level with her. For 2 years he had been on something of a charm offensive with his house mates - he had realised in the middle of 4th year, that he could win outright against Cameron Gillenwater and his seemingly impossible hold over the little quidditch click - a hold that had strengthened when Cad had lost his captaincy when Beaters were banned and Gillenwater had gotten his spot. He was sure he would never really get over that loss. He had complained about it to the pureblood set who were his friends, all of whom were older than him, and their council had been to stop tearing down Cameron and focus on his own ingratiation. Still - it was a hard hill to climb - and it was hard for him to get close to those who were closest to his rival during the school year, so situations like this were to be capitalized upon.

'Are you having fun?' he asked, and took a sip of the punch, wincing at the excess of alcohol that someone had snuck into it - even though whatever booze had been added didn't match the flavor of the punch and the whole thing was acrid and pretty disgusting.

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