Hogwarts was much more intimidating than Beauxbatons, Pansy had to admit it upon entering the castle. It wasn’t only the fact that she was welcomed—welcomed might be an understatement—by a grumpy caretaker with an equally grumpy cat in his arms, but also the shadows dancing in the labyrinth of corridors, staircases, and chambers. Her old school wasn’t like this. Her old school was much more sophisticated, not stifling and burdensome like Hogwarts.