I think the loneliness post really went a long way to show how she, and alternity is different from cannon. I assume that by now she would have become thick as thieves with the draco and crabbe/goyle crew in cannon. Maybe, if this had actually happened in cannon, draco would not have seen the tea situation as sharing and an undue strain on his stash, but as an opportunity for bribery to buy himself a new 'friend'. Thanks to the introduction of harry marvolo as the de facto leader of the slytherins she has been hedged out of being included in that group, and is now struggling to make up for the friends she was always 'meant' to have. It is as if pansy is a casualty in the re-shuffling of the the-world-that-was-meant-to-be into alternity's version.