House: Ravenclaw
Category: Short
Prompts: Dress shopping, "It was days like this where she really questioned her life choices" (Dress shopping is my chosen prompt for the seventh year challenge)
Word count: 715

Twilfitt and Tattings

It was days like this where she really questioned her life choices. An entire day of shopping was not Ginny's idea of fun, but dress shopping? It was like she had stepped into a nightmare. It wasn't like the wedding mattered… She immediately felt guilty at the thought. Yes, she didn't care much for the bride, and no, she certainly didn't think the middle of a Wizarding War was a good time for a wedding, but Bill was her brother. In fact, Bill was the brother who stood up for her and cared more about her happiness than any of her other siblings, and the least she could do was to support his wedding, of all things.

Fleur's family had put quite a bit of money towards the wedding, and, after making sure all the necessary arrangements were made, Ginny's mum had given her, Luna, and Hermione money to spend on dresses to make sure they looked 'suitably presentable' for the wedding. Ginny had taken slight offence to this, arguing that she always looked 'suitably presentable', which both she and her mother knew was most definitely not true.

"Ooh, Twilfitt and Tattings?" Hermione said, looking slightly interested as they reached their destination. "It's meant to be really posh in here, isn't it?" It was true she didn't much care for fashion, but Hermione had never come across a Wizarding shop as grand as Twilfitt and Tattings. She thought it wouldn't look out of place as the Queen's wardrobe.

They entered the shop and almost immediately, a voice was heard from the back of the store. "Welcome to Twilfitt and Tattings! Are you in any need of assistance or just here to browse?"

"We're looking for dresses to a wedding!" Ginny yelled, as she looked around. Everything seemed so… neat and tidy. Two minutes later, a tall, skinny looking woman emerged from the back room wheeling a rack of all sorts of brightly coloured dresses.

She directed them towards the changing rooms and Luna lead the way, eagerly eyeing a sunflower yellow dress from the rack. Hermione picked out a short, red dress for herself, and offered Ginny a long, pink dress, with rose embroidery.

"What about this one?"

Ginny looked at it, one eyebrow raised. "Apparently, 'ze pink clashes 'orribly with ze hair'."

Hermione sighed. "Why can't you just give them a chance?" When Ginny didn't reply, she just gave a resigned shrug and picked another dress off the rack. "What about this one?" The dress she had picked out was gold, and it seemed to give off a glow which made Hermione's skin sparkle.

Ginny took it from her and held it up to herself, letting out a giggle at the thought of wearing something so long and low-cut. "What do you think?"

"Guess you'll just have to try it on to find out," Hermione said, and disappeared behind a curtain to change.

Ginny did the same, and a couple of minutes later, the two emerged, took one look at the other, then burst into laughter at the sight of the other girl looking so… fancy. "Ginny, you look amazing in that!" Hermione said, her face split in a grin. Ginny realized Hermione had probably never seen her in a dress, and doubted that many other people had.

Ginny looked at herself in the mirror. She didn't exactly have much of an opinion about the dress, but she liked the glow it gave her skin. Besides, she didn't really want to have to try on another one.

She was about to comment on the other girl's dress, but Hermione had already started walking towards the rack, eyeing some of the other outfits on sale. Instead, she turned to Luna who was wearing her yellow dress.

"You look lovely Luna, but have you considered wearing something… A little less bright?"

Luna refused to budge. "My daddy says wearing yellow at a wedding brings good luck," she said, stubbornly. Her eyes widened dramatically, and Ginny whipped around to see Hermione wearing a floaty, lilac dress.

"How do I look?"

"You look gorgeous Hermione! Ron is going to be speechless."

"Ron?"

Ginny grinned at the thought of her brother's not-so secret crush on her best friend. Maybe this wedding wasn't going to be so bad after all.