Whatever else Pansy was, she was good for Harry.  She glared at autograph seekers, she yelled at bumbling old ladies who wanted to touch him for good luck, she'd told Molly Weasley to stop treating him like an idiot and where had she been when he'd been locked in his room, bars on the window?  Molly had started to stammer out an outraged answer until Pansy had pointed a manicured talon at the woman's face and said, "You were afraid to break the rules and your sons had to drive an illegal car to his place and rescue him. You ought to be ashamed."