Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Andrea were eating their breakfast at the Gryffindor table, when they looked over at the teachers' table, and saw Dumbledore standing up to make an announcement. He banged his fist loudly on the table for attention, and the room instantly quieted.
"I wish that would happen when I did that," said Ron rather wistfully.
"I have an announcement to make," said Dumbledore. "Even though we're not planning on having another one of those TriWizard Tournament things again this year, I would like to say that many people had fun at the Yule Ball, we're going to do that again. Only this time, every teacher has to go with another teacher this time, and they can't choose to skive off."
Professor McGonagall looked up at Dumbledore hopefully.
"Yes, Minerva, I will go with you," said Dumbledore. "In fact, I think I was going to ask you just before I finished making this announcement."
Harry looked over at the teacher's table. Professor Smith, their Assistant Defense teacher, was jabbering away to Professor Trelawney, who was looking intrigued. Professor Lockhart, who was the actual teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts, was trying to work his way into the conversation, but Snape was pulling him back with one spell or another. Harry knew Snape and Lockhart both wanted Meg Smith to ask them, but she thought Lockhart was too stupid, Snape too evil. Harry almost wouldn't mind if she had asked him, with her long blonde hair, brown eyes, and pink dress robes.
"So who are you going to ask, Harry?" said Hermione, knowing the answer.
"You," said Harry. Hermione nodded and high-fived him. Harry knew his twin sister, Andrea, was going to ask Ron, because they had been going out almost as long as Harry and Hermione had. The two were French-kissing at the moment. Ron had hated kissing until Andrea had introduced it to him.
Harry and Andrea had been separated from each other when they were both a year old. Voldemort attacked Harry's house when Harry was home but Andrea was at a special magical day-care center (she had lots of friends there and so Lily and James let her go there even when they were home). Harry's parents died and he was sent to live with the horrible Dursleys. He was, of course, a lot more famous than his twin sister, Andrea, who had lived with another wizard family until she was old enough to go to Hogwarts, and met Harry for the first time. Dumbledore had told them this story, and they had discovered they were twins, and Andrea discovered how much she liked Ron, and they started going out, while Harry and Hermione went out together too, but the four were also best friends now.
Harry looked over at his twin sister. Sometimes she just made him so mad, but other times he was glad he had been able to meet somebody like her.