Pansy Parkinson

## Appearances

**Pandora "Pansy" Parkinson** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*. She is one of the first friends Rigel makes at Hogwarts.

## Profile

### Appearance

Pansy has blonde hair and blue eyes. She moves gracefully and always has a poised manner.

In her first year, Pansy has "short blonde hair cut at a fashionable angle away from her face". As she grew older, she lost some of the roundness in her face. She also decided to grow her hair out to demonstrate her patience and maturity, and by her third year it was several inches past her collarbones.

Daphne Greengrass thinks that Pansy looks like a pug, but her younger sister Astoria Greengrass disagrees and thinks that Pansy is pretty.

### Personality

Pansy puts on a sweet, yet artificial persona, hiding her true thoughts and feelings behind it. Even from childhood, Pansy had the impressive ability to read people, and was annoyed by fake conversations. She was rude and headstrong until she finally decided to participate in social mores herself. She was surprised to find that she was actually good at it, and playing nice allowed her to learn more about other people. Her true personality is hard to pin down, partially because of the way a persona can mix with a person's true nature to change them. Most people do not realize there is more to Pansy than what they see, except for Rigel and Draco after Draco's Empathy gift tipped him off.

She inspires great loyalty in the people who know her, seemingly effortlessly.

### Skills

* Intuitive understanding of other people

### Possessions

* Friendship bracelet made of unicorn hair (from Rigel for Christmas 1991)
* Cookbook of dessert recipes (from Rigel for Christmas 1991)
* Book on rare magical creatures (from Edmund Rookwood for her 12th birthday)

## History

### Childhood

Pansy grew up studying under a number of private tutors, and had a background in Wizarding Law, Pureblood Etiquette, and Magical History before she ever came to Hogwarts.

When she was younger, Pansy became friends with a herd of unicorns that moved in the forest behind her mansion. Because of this, she became interested in taking Care of Magical Creatures when she attended Hogwarts.

Pansy is afraid of swimming, as she "had a bad experience swimming near her parents' estate in France as a child"

### 1992-1993 Year

She is at Draco's birthday party, and is crossed with Rigel for not having given news of his whereabouts since Hogwarts. She receives some private time with unicorns as a birthday present from Draco and Rigel, helped by Hagrid.
She and the other Slytherins from her year discuss the reasons for Lockhart's presence as professor. After the Quidditch tryouts, Rigel reveals to her, Draco, Rosier and Rookwood that she is a parselmouth. Pansy and Draco confront her about her busy schedule and her extra studies when she receives Archie's Healing syllabus by letter. Rigel answers their questions about where she eats lunch and the exercising she does in the mornings, and manages to begrudgingly appease them.

During the Halloween feast, Draco talks about Rigel's eccentricities with her, like the fact that he sleeps with his clothes on. When Rigel seems to be missing after the third floor collapse, they go there to get him, even though he wasn't. Rigel comes to get them and they go back to the common room.

## Relationships

### Aldon Rosier

A very close childhood friend. Throughout the novels, it is heavily implied that he is very protective of her and can recall many stories about her.

## Etymology

* Pansy is a type of flower. The name comes from the French *pensée*, meaning "thought", because the flower was considered a symbol of remembrance.
* Pansy's name came from the flower, because her mother Rose Parkinson was fond of them.

## Trivia

* Pansy is allergic to lavender, and hates the smell of it because of this.

## Appearances

**Appearances**
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 3
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 4
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 5
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 6
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 7
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 8
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 9
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 10
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 11
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 12
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 13
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 14
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 15
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 16
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 17
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 18
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 19
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 20
 * The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 1
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 2 (*mentioned*)
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 4
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 5
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 6
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 7
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 8
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 9
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 10
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 11
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 12
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 13
 * The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 3
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 6
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 7
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 8
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 9
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 10 (*mentioned*)
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 11 (*perspective*)
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 12
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 13
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 14
 * The Futile Facade: Chapter 1 (*mentioned*)
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 2 (*mentioned*)
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 4 (*mentioned*)
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 5 (*mentioned*)
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 6
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 7
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 8
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 9
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 10
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 11
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 12
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 13
 * The Malignant Masquerade: Chapter 1

## References

1. ↑ The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 11
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Futile Facade: Chapter 6
4. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 21
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 4
6. ↑ The Futile Facade: Chapter 8
7. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 2
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 6
9. ↑ The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 9
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 16
11. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 12
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 5
13. ↑ The Futile Facade: Chapter 11
14. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 1
15. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 5
16. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 6
17. ↑ Pansy on Wikipedia