"Heeellllpp." Pansy said, standing in a full length miror, trieing to zip up her torquise green dress in the back. Mimery walked over to help her, telling her to suck it in as she moved the silver zipper up her back and fastening it. "Thanks." She smiled at her and began to comb her hair in the miror. Mimery smiled and took a black comb, parting her hair from the right to the left, moving her bangs so her eyes could show. They had no pupil, but unlike her brothers' they were a blast of purple and silver, like a firework in the sky. Her dress was red and had three stripes swirling around the bottom half. and was layered from the waist down.

Pansy and her then left the girl dormitory and met their dance partners in the common room. Draco and Shamus stood waiting in black and white tuxs. They rocked back and fourth on their heels and toes, looking up at the ceiling and giving sighs. Once Pansy and Mimery entered the room their attention turned towards them. Draco and Shamus bowed low and smiled, although Shamus's face turned a bright red. They then left, arm in arm to the great hall.

"Wonder where they are..." Mimery looked around for Aria and Fred. Surely they weren't that hard to find since there weren't many red heads in the school. But instead of seeing her friend, she saw her eldest brother running towards her with his girlfriend.

"That's..." He gestured towards Shamus. "You know!"

"Who?"

"Mimery!" She heard a yell from a distance and saw Aria pulling Fred along towards her. Aria's dress was long and black. she had a light sprinkle of glitter on her chest and around her eyes which were a silver shade of blue. She looked towards Fred who was staring at Mimery's explosive like eyes. "Pretty eyes." Aria commented but Proffesor McGonagall rushed towards Mimery and pulling her and Shamus away from the others.

"See you guys in a bit!" She yelled back and was escorted to a line of pairs. She was standing behind Hermione and Krum and gave a small laugh.

The Great hall's doors opened and then walked in, everyone clapping and whistling, waving and shouting. The champions then stood on the dance floor as Mr.Flitwick readied the orchestra. The music soon began and they danced, and soon joined by Dumbledoor and McGonagall.

"You seem awefully familar." Mimery looked at Shamus who was in the lead of dancing. Neville and Ginny now joined the dancefloor.

"Do I?" His voice seemed familar too. She nodded and he smiled with a small blush. "Alot of people say that I do." Flint zipped passed them with a short blonde haired girl with small brown eyes as his dance partner. Aria then came by, getting in the way of Flint's veiw.

"Who's that?" Aria nodded towards the long black haired boy.

"A close friend." Mimery answered back, being lifted up into the air and let back down on the ground.

"Cute." And with that, this dancing part of the Yule Ball was concluded. Everyone's attention was turned to the stage where a band was tuning their instruments.

"Are you ready to rock?" The lead singer yelled and everyone cheered, jumping up and down with their arms in the air.

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They had moved on to the third song and Mimery took Shamus to a table to rest. "Having fun?" She asked him. He was breatheing a bit heavy but was alright overall.

"Yeah." He nodded.

"Mimery," A whisper came from not to far away as she looked around. "Mimery!" She then saw her eldest brother, Eric, by the punch bowl, gesturing her to come to him.

"I'll be right back." She asured Shamus and quickly jogged over to her brother. "What?"

"Do you know who THAT is?" He pointed towards Shamus who was looking at his fingernails.

"Shamus...?"

"That's Snape! What are you doing with him?!"

"Hm?! That's not Snape. Snape's old and...old." She said, looking at her brother then back at what was supposively Snape.

"He took Dark Arts class over when Moody was gone one day. We were learning about entering people's minds and stuff. And when I entered his mind, I saw a boy that looked just like him," Eric pointed to Snape, "It's him, I swear it is!"

"But, he's not mean or anything."

"Well, when Snape was younger he was always shy and was always teased by everyone else. So whatever potion he took bought his feelings and stuff back as well."

"That's..." Mimery shook her head, looking at Snape and back at her brother. "Uhm...so if I kissed that would be wrong wouldn't it?"

"Duh!" She sighed and looked at the ground and at Snape who was getting up and walking over to them.

"Hello..." He said quietly and was looing at Eric, giving a small wave and glancing down at the ground.

"Don't go off doing the dirties, sister." Eric then walked off towards the moshing crowd who was happily enjoying the evening music. Mimery grabbed snape's hand and walked him out of the Great hall, not knowingly they were being watched by Flint who was sitting on the staircase above them. It looked like his date ditched him and left him there to sulk in his sadness.

"Shamus, you aren't lieing to me about anything, are you?" She asked him.

"...Maybe just one tiny little thing." He muttered. "My name isn't Shamus and...I'm not who you think I am..." mimery took a deep breath and leaned against the wall, sliding down it and sitting on the ground.

"You're Snape...I know." Flint's face went an eerie pale as he looked away and stood up, walking down the staircase slowly. "My brother told me about the little mind reading incident. You could have at least told me what you looked like after I gave you that note." sh laughed and he gave a small laugh as well.

"Well, since I'm your potioins master, we can only be friends." He was looking at the ground, playing with his thumbs. There was a faint 'yes' coming from the staircase.

"I know." Mimery stood up and brushed her gown off. "Thank for coming with me though, hope you enjoyed it." He nodded. His hand shot to his stomache as he felt a strong pain coming from it.

"Sorry...I have to...go." He then ran off quickly towards the dungeon and disappeared into the darkness. She sighed and looked around for anyone she knew.

"Well, well." Flint walked toward her, down the steps.

"You heard all of it...?" She asked, hoping he didn't but she knew he did. "Don't tell-"

"I won't tell." he put an arm around her shoulder and smiled at her.

"Come back! I'm sorry!" A voice yelled. Aria came running out of the Great Hall with an anrgy look on her face.

"Fred, leave me alone! How dare you do something so...so immature a disrepectful!"