He'd have his father slip Pansy some of their stockpiled blackmail material on some politician or other.  There was always somebody who'd accepted a favor he oughtn't to have, or who'd been caught with his hands in the till.  He'd throw one of them under the oncoming dragon.  That would make Pansy happy, and keep Granger out of the spotlight.  He needed to write his father anyway.  The effect was stronger than either of them had assumed.  She hadn't given any indication of that kind of lovesick adoration when he'd slapped her out of her fainting fit at the Manor.  Had she been too ill to respond, or did it not work on the unconscious?