This story I Just sort of thought of when I was in a lecture, so here goes nothing, I know that it has a lot of mistakes and if someone is brave enough I would very much like a Beta… Hint…. Hint…
Oh yeah and the couples in the story are very easy to figure out if you hadn't already known, but then again some people don't want to believe anything until they see it in writing….
The story is set post war and no neither Dumbledore nor Snape died, Harry won of course and all of them are back for a new 7th year, Ginny has moved up a year too because she technically passed 6th year, so did Theo whom I have put in as the same age as Ginny.
The new character which is my own creation, is called Lizzie Writer, she is a Slytherin in the same year as the others, her parents are best friends with the Malfoys and Zabinis and Parkinsons, all four children grew up together, and some of the other background you will get during the story, also, she is very much like Hermione, but then again the total opposite, its weird but it works.
I know the characters are a bit OOC, and that usually people who see that there is an OC in the story don't read, but please do, cause I would like to know your opinion.
Here it is:
Chapter one: The Ball and the Ball buster punishment.
"Hey Writer!" The call echoed across the common room. "What Malfoy?" the girl answered from her position in the plush chair across from the fireplace which roared in front of her, a well behaved amount of venom laced her words. "You going to that farce they call a ball with me?" He asked as he got closer to her, his tone suggested that according to him there was only one answer, yes. She barked an unlady like laughter at him, "No of course not" she said and glared at him saying why-would-I-ever-do-that with her eyes.
Malfoy scowled at her and as he sat down across from her leaned in to whisper, "If you don't I'll have to go with Pans and I really don't want to." He pleaded with her in a very Malfoy-esque way, "you could take the Weaselette" she suggested with a shrug of her shoulders. Malfoys eyebrows shot up as he looked at her like she had just grown tentacles and was speaking Italian. "so what, that would work hos? I just saunter up to her and say 'hey Weaselette you wanna go to the ball with me?'?" he asked his tone incredulous, she snorted shortly but put her book down, "No you dipshit, you ask nicely, like I did with Potter" she said and gave him a challenging look.
Once again he was dumbfounded "Lizzie, did you just say you were going with saint Potter?" he asked after he had picked his jaw up from the floor. She smiled proudly "yes and here is how you get the Weaselette to go with you, you go up to her, train you face in that charming Malfoy smile and smother her with your eyes as you say 'Ginny, it would be my honor if you would consent to me escorting you to the Yule ball' and then she will probably look at you shocked for some time and she will nod and then you have a date" she finished with the widest of smiles her proud angelic face snickered a bit at how Malfoy looked. A couple of minutes later found them in front of the portrait of the fat lady waiting for Ginny Weasley to exit her common room and join them, as she did her long red hair whipped over her shoulders when she was suddenly put on her guard by seeing that it was the two most famous Slytherins.
Draco took a deep breath and did what Lizzie had told him to do, his eyes smothering her, his charming smile in place and a relaxed but nervous tone in his voice "Ginny" he started and when she looked at him her eyes wide with shock "Will you do me the honor of letting me escort you to the ball in two weeks?" he asked as he had gotten closer, she stared at him for a long time before swallowing and smiling slightly "I don't know what you're playing at but sure" she answered and then turned around swiftly, "be here 5 minutes before the ball starts to pick me up, and wear something black but incorporate red, if you don't then don't even bother showing up" she said curtly as she went back into the common room. Malfoy sighed slightly then looked at Lizzie, she gave him the thumbs up and walked with him back to the common room.
In the Gryffindor common room Ginny dumped down beside Hermione and Harry, Ron being in the kitchens to get them food "God! Something has gone wrong in the world" she stated as she looked at the two other Gryffindors, they looked at her questioningly, she elaborated "Malfoy is now my date to the ball, and I heard Lizzie is going with you Harry?" she said and gave him a pointed look, he shrunk back a little and nodded, Hermione gasped and then looked a little sad "I still don't have a date, I had hoped Ronald would ask me but I can see that is not happening" she said as she looked down at the book in her lap. Ginny pulled Hermione's hand and ran out of the common room with her, she made it down to the main hall and shouted "Malfoy!" he turned around, and looked shocked to see Granger there as well "If you talk to Zabini tell him he is going to the ball with Hermione" She shouted and then turned around, "and the same rules go for him" she then smiled satisfied and walked back towards the common room. Hermione trailed after her still shocked from what had happened.
Three days later a group of 10 people stood in front of Snape, McGonagall and Dumbledore in the headmasters office. They had all been caught doing something or other to another person in the room. "I am very disappointed in all of you, I had thought since most of you are going to the ball together you would behave, but as this is not the case I have set up a punishment for you which has also been accepted by your heads of houses. You will until the ball be put in a housing together, not only will you have to stay confined within the housing for that duration, but if after the ball you either decide you like it for some reason you may stay, or if you still have not learned to behave, you will stay, even if only two of you still fight you will all suffer the consequences you will only leave the rooms for classes, and perhaps an excursion to Hogsmeade." He finished his speech and sat down as if to dismiss them, Snape sneered at his adversary in the other head of house and motioned for them all to follow him, as she stayed behind to talk to Dumbledore.
The group were shown to their new quarters where Snape promptly left as he did not fancy staying there listening to their bickering. Lizzie and Hermione being the two book nerds stared in wonder at the common room that now surrounded them and then ran towards their rooms as they knew a fight would ensue and all both of them wanted was to read. Ron was beet red in the face as he scowled at Theodore Nott, Blaise Zabini, Pansy Parkinson and Draco Malfoy; they were glaring at the Gryffindors they stood across from Ron Weasley, Lavender Brown, Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley. They all huffed as they one by one left, until only Pansy and Ron were left.
Pansy slumped down in one of the big chairs and sighed, she had hoped Draco would invite her to the ball, and then she overheard Blaise and Lizzie speaking, they were saying he was going with a Gryffindork, and to top it all she hadn't even been asked by another one from Slytherin, none of the eligible bachelors of Slytherin house had asked her, she knew that people thought she was screechy but it couldn't mean that no one at school would even go near her, well, they spoke with her and she had good friends, her, Lizzie, Draco and Blaise had grown up together, but that didn't mean that she wouldn't want romance, before the war had finished she was supposed to marry Draco and she knew Lizzie was supposed to marry Blaise, but the war changed everything and now she had to fall in love.
Ron on the other hand was still seething from hearing that Hermione was going to the ball with Blaise, he wanted to ask her, but he didn't know how, after the yule ball he was so scared of making a move. Now he didn't have a date and even his sister had one, only he didn't know who, he had questioned her on several occasions, but Harry, Hermione nor Ginny would utter a word about it. He sat down in the other big chair and sighed too. Pansy looked at him with a raised brow, and his answer was a look of utter defeat "I still don't have a date to the ball, and Hermione was my last option" he said in a short explanation feeling it funny that he now sat in a shared Gryffindor/Slytherin common room and spoke with none other than Pansy Frigging Parkinson.
She smiled sympathetically "I know the feeling." She said shortly feeling the same as Ron. He looked at her weirdly and answered her suddenly "So how is it that the Slytherin princess doesn't have a date, won't Malfoy or Zabini take you?" he was truly curious as to the fact that a girl he had always admired from afar, very far, couldn't even get a date, he would ask her, but he knew not how to do it. She looked at him sadly "Blaise and Draco both have other dates, so does Theo, no one wants to go with me, even Lizzie has a date, she's going with Potter" she said and cast her eyes down to the floor. Ron took a deep breath and then looked at her, hooking a finger under her chin and offered her a small smile "You know, if you would want to, you know, I could take you? I mean you do not have to say yes, but I was just thinking it would be nice to have a good looking date and I would like it if it could be you" he finished his short ramble and looked at her with his big blue eyes wide open and a sweet smile playing on his lips. She quirked her own small smile as he had finished and wiped a small tear from her eye "I would love to Ronald, even though you kind of made it seem like a burden to go with you, it is not and you should know that, only, please get some new dress robes" she added as an afterthought, but smiled wider when he looked at her with shock etched on his strong but goofy features. She perked up a bit after that and ran into Lizzies room to tell her, only to find Granger and Weasley there.
Five minutes prior to Pansy walking into Lizzies room.
"so how come Dr-Malfoy asked me to the ball?" Ginny exclaimed as she burst into the room, Lissie shot up wand in hand and then softened as she saw her guest, she smiled slyly "Well actually, I was going to help him ask your friend Granger, but I knew that was a bit too big, so I decided to get him to ask you, that way he had an in, then I spread the rumors around school of different things involving the 4 of us Slytherins so that they would react, I was just playing along, then you Gryffindors did your part perfectly, and so the plan is in action." She finished with a very proud expression. Ginny stared at her wide eyed the opened her mouth only to close it again the found her voice "if I'm guessing correctly then you were doing what I have been trying to do for years now. Well I started it before the war and now plan to finish it, so I am yours to command around and help, though I do have an idea, and it involves those lovely bottles you have hidden in you bottom drawer" she said with a smirk that could have rivaled Malfoys.
Lizzie and Ginny were discussing when a knock interrupted Ginny, being closest to the door, opened it to find Hermione there, she looked shocked to find Ginny there then shrugged, it was only natural. "So how do I get out of going with Blaise" she asked suddenly biting her lip knowing that this was going to be bad. Ginny smirked at her good friend "Well Herms here's the deal, you need a date and I know someone who would trade you, just do as I say and you will have a new date." She said and clapped the bedding next to her, the three girls had just started discussing dresses when Pansy burst in.