The Yule Ball

Part one

The week before the Yule Ball was a flurry of activity. After the general act of the younger student asking out the out of their league, older students everyone got down to the real business.

At the end of Double potions for the Gryffindors and Slytherins on afternoon, three fourth year students hung back. Of course, it was our main characters, Rowan, Olivia and Meghan.

Livvy was slowly packing away her books and potion stuff as she chewed vigorously on out of date gum that Rowan supplied her with. She was all the while thinking mischievous plans in her head, involving doom pigeons and bacon.

Meghan was watching Draco Malfoy leave the classroom with his best friend Blaise Zabini, with her hand on her chest and a look of such passion on her face.

And Rowan, well Rowan, as usual, was watching Professor Snape, who was defiantly marking the essays that they had handed into him. He knew the girl was staring at him and it unnerved him, just like her obsession with him. He couldn't understand it!

"I'm going to do it!" Rowan announced proudly as she tore her eyes away from the potions master to look at the two girls behind her at the back of the room.

"Do what?" Livvy and Meghan asked together, both snapping out of their lustful and devious thoughts.

"You'll see." came the smug reply from the overgrown midget with the small feet, already ten feet away and fast approaching the greasy haired man-child at the front of them room.

"What is it, Madden? Shouldn't you be at your next class, tormenting some other poor soul?" Snape drawled, not looking up from the essay he was scrawling neatly on. He had such feminine handwriting.

"Its actually lunchtime, Sir and I wanted to talk to you about something very important. I was wondering, professor Sexy-I mean Sevvy-No-I mean Snape, Professor Snape. I was wondering if you, well…." She paused, nervously wringing her hands together.

The Potions master looked up, unsettled by the weirder-than-usual behaviour of the strange student. He nodded swiftly for her to carry on, his greasy hair momentarily bouncing. He ignored Olivia and Meghan's sniggers as they watched, incredibly bemused.

"Go on. Get on with it, Madden."

"Would-you-like-to-go-to-the-Yule-ball-with-me?!" Rowan blurted out like vomit. It might as well have been, judging by the expression on the mans pale and pointed face.

"W-w-hat?!" His voice was incredibly strangled and suddenly his face turned a strange colour. Then, even more suddenly, he slid down from his chair and fell to the ground, unconscious.

He'd fainted!

"Oh dear. I take that as a no then?" The short haired girl said worriedly, peering over the desk at the still potions master on the dungeon floor. "I-I-I'll just go and…umm…get…Madam Pomfrey…" She stuttered and turned around swiftly.

Olivia was literally rolling on the ground, laughing her head off and Meghan was standing in an odd position, wearing an expression of utter disgust and amusement. She was torn between laughing and projectile vomiting.

"You're sick." She announced to Rowan as she joined them.

"I know, deary, I know." Rowan replied calmly, shouldering her bag. "Oh! I have an idea!" She said randomly and rushed from the room, forgetting all about her true love that was lying on the floor.

"I think he's wet himself." Olivia said quietly, once she'd stopped laughing.

"Ewwww!"

Meghan and Olivia rushed after their crazier friend.

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"Oi! Zabini!"

The dark-skinned boy turned and grinned good-naturedly at Rowan. "Yeah, Madden?"

"Go to the Yule ball with me?" She asked, breathlessly, having ran all the way from the Dungeons to the entrance of the Great hall. "You're on the rebound."

Beside him, Draco nudged his friend in the ribs, a superior smirk on her handsome, pale face. That was until Meghan, and only Meghan, joined Rowan, giving Malfoy a shy smile.

Ignoring his friend, Blaise shrugged and gave a short nod of his head. "Sure sounds cool. See ya then." he turned and started walking away, Draco after him.

Meghan took a deep breath and suddenly called- "Oi, Draco. Same question?" she squeaked, summoning all the non-existent Gryffindor courage in her.

The blonde, Slytherin prince turned, this time Blaise nudging him. Yes, boys are that immature.

"Um…am I on the rebound?" he asked, looking at the black-haired girl.

"Oh! You'd never be on the rebound, Draco!" she said breathlessly, grinning happily.

"Then…sure. Look forward to it." came the cool and casual reply. The two boys turned around again and rushed of into the Great Hall.

Rowan rolled her eyes at her friend and quickly raised a hand to cover Meghan's mouth as she let out a scream of excitement and began jumping up and down.

"Hold on, where's Livvy?" Rowan asked, spinning around. A piercing scream was once heard again and Meghan began chanting, "Draco Malfoy is going to the Yule Ball with me! Take that, Parkinson!" repeatedly.

It suddenly stopped, to the much relief of innocent bystanders. "Hold on, weren't you meant to go and get Madam Pomfrey for Unholy-Snivellus-with-fat-legs Snape?"

"Shit."

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Meanwhile, after Meghan had rushed after Rowan, Olivia randomly walked off in the wrong direction, finding herself lost. As per usual.

She started to sing drunkenly as she spun along the corridor, head banging and thrashing around.

"How can I decide what's right? When you're clouding up my mind Can't win your losing fight all the time Not gonna ever own what's mine When you're always taking sides You wont take away my pride No not this time Not this time How did we get here? I use to know you so well How did we get here? Well, I think I know The truth is hiding in your eyes And its hanging on your tongue Just boiling in my blood, But you think that I can't see What kind of man that you are If you're a man at all Well, I will figure this one out on my own How did we get here? I use to know you so well How did we get here? Well, I think I know Do you see what we've done? We're gonna make such fools of ourselves Do you see what we've done? We're gonna make such fools of ourselves How did we get here? I use to know you so well How did we get here? Well, I use to know you so well I think I know I think I know There is something that I see in you It might kill me I want it to be true."

"Oh dear balls. Excuse me?" Came a bored voice from beside Livvy suddenly.

"Shit!" Livvy screamed and toddled over, landing in a mound on the ground. Hmmm… that rhymed…

"Sorry." Itchy Balls Aaron Montgomery mumbled incoherently, not sorry at all. He didn't laugh because he couldn't portray a single emotion.

"Yeah I'm sure you are, mister." Livvy shoved a finger in his face as she stood up and brushed herself down.

"Yeah, yeah. Anyway seen as you're the first thing I've saw that is of a female gender, go to the Yule ball with me?" Itchy balls asked, his hand scarily disappearing down his trousers.

"Eh, what the smoke is a Yule ball?!"

"How am I supposed to know? You have to dress up and all that crap."

"Fine, I'll go with you."

"Fine."

"Fine."

"Goodbye."

"Good riddance."

"How can I decide what's right? When you're clouding up my mind Can't win your losing fight all the time …"

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"George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George." Katie Watt yelled incessantly into George Weasley's red ears.

"Ow! What the hell?!" He yelled back turning to the Perpetrator who was screaming into his ear.

""George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George."

"Yes, Yes! I'm listening for Merlins sake! But now I'm deaf for sure."

"Ooh! You're listening! Okay, so go to the Yule Ball with me?" Katie asked eagerly, turning to flash Rebecca a grin.

"Will you go away if I say yes?" He asked, rubbing his ear unhappily.

"Hell yeah! So you'll go with me?"

"Yeah whatever…" George sighed, smiling slightly at the girl who grinned, full to burst.

He turned back to Lee Jordan and Fred, who were laughing at him.

Katie and Rebecca promptly wandered off, talking animatedly about George and Seamus, their dates.

Somewhere, Dumbledore began to waltz.

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Part one of the Yule Ball Tis over!

There will be a whole lot more frolics in Part two which will be coming to a fan fiction site near you in approximately a year…Kidding!

Maybe…

Anywho! Sorry for jumping from First Year to Fourth, Second and Third year will be written soon!

Signed, Faithfully

Druna Malgood.