The next day at breakfast, everyone was waiting on the arrival of Sirius and his new look for the day. And then they saw him, along with the rest of the hall.
The first thing they noticed was the dress. Now everyone understood why Melany said she wouldn't be wearing it anytime soon. It was a very bright shade of pink, and ruffles were everywhere. And to make things better, the dress was knee length and very fitted on him, so they had a very good view of his legs, which were unshaved, like what Melany had advised him to do. He wore one-inch heels that were also pink and had sparkles and beads.
After taking it all in, Jenine said, "I think he looks quite pretty. Pink is a good shade for him."
Then the whole group roared with laughter and the twins gave Melany a high five.
'Note to self: Never make bets with daughter again,' he thought while was turning a deep shade of red as the whole hall started to laugh.
But he would have to get used to it, since he was going to be dressed like that for the whole day.
Ginny was quite happy that she had a free period before lunch. She decided to spend the time finishing homework in the common room.
"Oi, reddy," a voice said behind her as she was about to enter the portrait hole, "I see you decided to ditch class. I never thought you had that side to you."
"First of all Zabini," she said turning to look at him, "I have free period, so don't go accusing me of ditching. And for your information, I have ditched before.
"Okay, woman, calm down. Well since I have free period as well, why don't you and I do our homework together," he said, smirking.
She looked at him skeptically and said, "Why would you want to spend your time with me? We can't even have a civilized conversation let alone be in the same room together."
"Well it's never to late to change that, is it?"
"I guess not," she said after a brief pause, and she took a seat in the common room.
"So, Weasley, do you mind if I ask you something," he asked.
"Well, it depends on what it is you're going to ask."
"I was just wondering if you still have feelings for scar head?"
Ginny suddenly looked up at him from her Potion's essay and had a look of shock. "What's it to you, Zabini?"
"It's just a harmful question that I would like answered," he said, with a smirk.
"Well if you must know, I'm over him. Stopped liking him since 5th year. Now it's more of a brother sister relationship. Good enough answer for you?" she said, going back to her essay.
"I guess it is. So any feelings you have for anyone now, reddy?" he asked.
"That's none of your business," she said, turning a shade of red.
'Does he know?' she thought.
"Well that's too bad because I know someone who fancies you. But since you do-" but then he was interrupted.
"I never said I didn't or did like anyone. And I would like to know who this person is."
Blaise smiled at her and stood up, she doing the same. He moved closer to her, and for some reason, she found herself doing the same.
"That person is me," he said, now his face inches away from hers. He then closed the gap and kissed her. To his surprise, she didn't pull away, but instead, she kissed back. They then pulled away for air.
"Well it looks like little red does have feelings for someone," he said, smiling at her.
She just rolled her eyes and then looked at him, "So what does this mean, then?"
He gave a small laugh and said, "It means we're together, obviously."
She gave him another short kiss but then pulled away and said, "I don't think its such a good idea to tell anyone. Of course, I'm going to tell Jenine, so it only seems fair that you can tell someone, probably Malfoy. But no one else, deal?"
"Of course. I mean if everyone would find out, what do you think that would do to my reputation?"
"What reputation?" she said, teasingly. He just sighed and gave her another kiss before going back to work.
While walking to the Great Hall for lunch, Jenine was pulled into an empty classroom.
"May I help you Draco?" she said, looking at him.
"What, can't a guy see his girlfriend?" he said, before giving her a deep, long kiss.
She pulled away after a minute and said, "I think we should be heading for lunch now. Don't want people to worry." She then started walking out.
"Wait," he said, pulling her arm to get back in, "I just want to ask for permission if I can tell Blaise about, well, us."
She looked at him and thought for a moment. "Fine, but only if I tell Ginny about us."
He nodded in agreement and gave each other another quick kiss before leaving the classroom.
After eating her lunch, Jenine turned to Ginny. "Hey, I wanna talk to you alone somewhere. Are you almost done?"
"Yeah just about finished. Why don't we go to the common room. No one will be there anyway."
The other girl nodded and stood up along with her. She looked at Draco and mouthed 'Common Room.' Draco nodded and he turned to Blaise.
"Hey, mate, why don't we go settle in the common room before class starts," he asked.
"Alright let's go." And so the two men stood up, and followed the two girls.
When the girls entered the common room, they both sat down and started to talk.
"So I have something interesting to tell you," Jenine said.
"Really now? Well what a coincidence, since I have something to tell you."
Just then the portrait hole opened, and to their relief, it was only Draco and Blaise. The two men took a seat across from the girls.
"I was about to tell her," Jenine said to Draco.
"Tell me what?" she asked. The couple looked at each other for a moment.
"Come on, mate, spit it out," Blaise said, looking at the blonde haired boy.
Then Jenine finally said, "Me and Draco are dating."
The other couple looked at them, eyes wide and mouth opened.
After a moment of silence, Ginny broke from her shock and said, "How long?"
"Since the first night of rounds," Draco replied.
"Well, I can honestly say that I am happy for you both," Blaise said, and Ginny nodded, a smile creeping through her face.
"Well then, I think it's time to share a little news of our own," Blaise said, grinning at Ginny.
"What?" the other couple said.
"Me and Blaise are together," Ginny said.
"FINALLY!" the other girl said, which made the others jump.
"What do you mean, 'Finally?'" Blaise asked.
Jenine just chuckled and said, "Oh please. I knew that she liked you. And obviously, you liked her too."
They all laughed before Ginny said, "Okay, we have to make a promise between each other that these secrets will only stay between us. Got it?" Everyone nodded. They then stood up and left the common room just as the bell rang.
The whole week went by in a blur, and soon it was Saturday. Harry decided to get a good start on this year's Quidditch season, so he held tryouts that day.
Everyone but Hermione, Blaise and Malfoy, headed to the pitch.
"Welcome everyone. I'd like to make this tryout short and easy. So before we can start, I'd like to ask people who aren't in Gryffindor to please leave."
Then, five people stepped out of the group and left the pitch, smirking.
Harry just rolled his eyes and said, "Alright, as a warm up, I'd like to ask everyone to fly around the pitch until I blow the whistle."
With that, everyone mounted their brooms, and with the sound of the whistle, they kicked off the ground. Two 4th years immediately fell down and they ran away, and one 3rd year crashed into a stand. The only people who were left were the twins, Melany, Jenine, Ginny, and Ron.
At the end of the tryouts, Harry decided that the twins would play beaters. Ginny, Melany and Jenine would play as chasers. Ron will be keeper, and Harry will, of course, be seeker.
That night, all the boys decided to have a sleepover. Even Draco and Blaise went, since they all got along well now. After about a half an hour talking about Quidditch, Fred and George took out a piece of parchment and a quill.
"Hey, guys, it's the weekend. We don't have to do any homework. Besides, when did you even start doing homework?" Ron said.
"Never," they both said.
"And for your information, this isn't homework. We decided it's about time to tell these boys here the list," George said, while looking at Draco and Blaise.
"What list?" the Slytherins both asked.
"Oh, that's right. Only Gryffindors knew about it," Harry said, grinning. They two boys still had utter confusion on their faces.
"The list is on who is the hottest girl in Hogwarts," Fred said, "And since we trust you two enough, we decided that we should let you guys in on it."
The two Slytherins looked at each other and then smiled.
"So lets start with the girls in our year," George asked, "Starting with the so-so girl. Any thoughts?"
The boys thought for a moment, when Fred spoke up, "Well I guess Padma doesn't stand out that much, so I'd vote her as last. Anyone agree?"
They thought for a second, and they all nodded.
"Number five?" Fred said, after writing Padma's name down.
"Sorry Ron, but I'd have to go with Lavender," George said.
"Fine by me. I mean, I like her personality more than her looks, if you know what I'm saying."
They all nodded again, and Fred wrote on the piece of parchment.
"Number four?" George said.
"Not being mean to my sister or anything, but Ginny isn't really the hottest. But she surely isn't the ugliest either," Ron said.
"Yeah, I have to agree," said George, and then everyone but Blaise nodded in agreement. Only Draco noticed this.
"Number three?" Fred said.
"Well, Hermione did make good changes over the years, but she still isn't the hottest," Fred said.
Everyone but Harry nodded in agreement and Fred wrote her name down as number three. Luckily no one noticed.
"Which leaves us with two people: Jenine and Melany. Let's just go to number one. Who shall it be?" George said.
"Melany," the twins said together. Everyone looked at them skeptically but just nodded So with that, the list was done. Before Fred put the list somewhere safe, there was a knocking on the door. Being the closest, Ron got up and opened the door.
"Hey Ron, mind if we come in?" Jenine asked, pouting.
"No! Why should I let you people come in? You'll just ruin all the fu-" but then he was cut off by a hard kick in his manhood. He bent down and fell to the floor, while saying, "Bloody hell!"
Then one by one, Jenine, Hermione, Ginny, and Melany stepped over Ron's body and enter the room in their pajamas.
"May we help you lot with something," George asked, after laughing at Ron.
"Well we were just bored, so we decided to crash your party and have a little fun of our own," Ginny said, looking at Blaise.
"Oh looky, what's this?" Melany said, picking up a piece of folded parchment on the floor. All the boys' eyes widened as she picked it up.
"Uh, that's my homework," Harry said, standing up so that he can snatch it from her. But Melany threw it across the room to Hermoine.
"Well if it's your homework, why don't I have a look at it for any mistakes," Hermione said.
"N-no it's quite alright. Uh, George and Fred looked at it already," he said, now making his way to Hermione. But Hermione then tossed it to Ginny.
"Fred and George checking homework? They can't even do their own homework!" the red-headed girl said.
"Please, just give it back," he said now taking big steps towards her. When he was getting closer, Ginny threw the paper to Jenine.
"Why should we, my dear cousin?" she asked, "Is it one of your diary pages?" she said.
Harry, now very irritated, made his way to Jenine, but Melany muttered a spell and he froze. She also did the same to the other boys.
"Open it Jenine," Melany said.
"Please don't," the frozen Ron said. But Jenine simply ignored him and opened the piece of parchment.
"Well looky here. 'The Hot List'" Jenine said, laughing.
"'You guys seriously have one of those? Not even we have a list like that," Ginny said, laughing with the rest of the girls. The boys' faces started to turn a deep red.
"We're officially screwed," Draco said.
"Number six is Padma Patil. I guess I agree with you boys," Jenine said while the other girls nodded.
"Number five is Lavender Brown. Wow, you're lucky that she's asleep Ron," she continued while Ron's ears turned a deep red.
"Number four is Ginny. Not bad Ginny," she said.
"I guess I won't argue with that," Ginny said, still smiling.
"Number three is Hermione," Jenine said, looking at the curly-haired girl.
"Thanks, I guess," she said looking at the boys.
"Number two is me," Jenine said, blushing a little.
"Who's number one?" Melany asked, laughing.
Jenine looked up and gave her a big smile. "You are."
Instead of smiling, like everyone thought she was going to do, her eyes widened and she started turning a shade of red that was redder than the Weasleys' hair. She then said a spell that unfroze the boys and looked at them.
"W-why me," she whispered, still very red. The boys looked at each other for a moment, before Jenine said, "Why not you? Look at yourself, Mel, you're bloody hot! Come on Melany, you should at least be happy about it."
The boys just nodded slowly, still not saying anything.
"Why should I be happy?" she said, disgusted. "First? Honestly? Are all boys this shallow? Now I'm thinking you boys don't like me for who I am, huh? I'm just a good shag to you, aren't I?"
The men then opened their mouths to talk, but Melany spoke again, tears filling in her eyes.
"I can't believe you guys! All this time I thought you were my friends. Now I see that I was being used as your toy."
"Melany! Surely you don't think that!" Hermione said, trying to comfort her.
"Yeah Melany, please," George said, "The list is just something we made up for fun."
"Oh, and I bet it was your idea to make it up in the first place," she said to him, tears now streaming down her face. He opened his mouth to talk again, but closed it.
"Out of all people George, I always thought I can trust you the most. But I guess I was wrong." With that, she left the dormitory.
The group looked at each other before Hermione said, "I should probably go after her."
She then left the room to go the girls' dormitory, but she didn't find her there. After looking around for her, she went back to the boys' dormitory.
"She's not in the tower," she said while taking a seat on Harry's bed.
"We should pro-" George began, but he was interrupted.
"No George. She needs her space. And by the looks of it, you're probably the last person she wants to see right now," Jenine said.
They all agreed and after a little bit of chatting here and there, they all fell asleep.
Meanwhile, Melany walked across the castle, to her fathers' room. She knocked, and after about 30 seconds, the door opened.
"Melany?" he asked. Then he looked at the tear streaks on her face, "What's wrong dear? Come in, come in."
She gave him a weak smile and went in. When she entered, she saw that Remus was also there, sitting at a small table. She took a seat next to him while her father poured her a cup of tea.
"Now, Melany. Explain why you come to my room well over curfew with tear streaks on your face. Nightmares?" he said, trying to cheer her up a little.
"Hardly. But before I explain, may I ask why you're here Remus, if you don't mind," she asked.
"No I don't mind. There's a full moon out tonight, so your father gave me a potion and wants to monitor me."
She nodded and then explained her own story to the two men.
"Didn't we have a list like that, Padfoot," Remus asked.
"Yes we did. But we never agreed on the girls. James would always pick Lily while I would picked your mother," he said smiling at Melany. "Look Mela, you know the guys will never think of you like that. I don't know about Draco and Blaise, but the other guys love you for more than your looks, Mel, I'm sure of it."
"Then how come they didn't say that before?" she asked, another tear rolling down her face.
"Maybe they didn't think that you were to take it offensively," Remus said.
"Just give them some time, Mel," her father said.
"Alright. And dad, do you mind if I sleep here tonight? I don't feel like going back yet. And besides, I'll probably get detention if Filch sees me out," she asked, looking at her father.
He laughed and said, "No problem. You can take my bed. I have to stay up with Remus, so I don't think I'll get much sleep."
She nodded and stood up. She bid them goodnight before going to her father's bed. As soon as her head hit the pillow, she was knocked out instantly.