Your Joking, Right!

Chapter 11: A Magical Night

(A/N Hi again guys, I am soo incredibly sorry that I have been lagging in the update department! I haven't been writing out my chapters so it's been taking a while to update but im getting on track. Ughh I go back to school on the 23rd, Freshmen ahhh, doesn't that stink? Lol, Draconess23456 a.k.a. Emily, I know you are going to love a part in his chapter! Ok well on with the chappie!)

Hermione and Ginny were dressed within an hour. Hermione had altered her dress to fall right before her knees, she also made the silky light- green material zigzag at the bottom so it looked like one of her favorite muggle characters, Tinker Bell. She added a pair of silver sparkly wings, charmed her wand so there was a little glass star at the top, dyed her hair temporary cornflower blonde just like Tink's, and put on some light green eyeshadow that contrasted horribly with her now- once- again brown eyes, she decided brown was her color. So she decided to put on a silver glitter eyeshadow which turned out to look really cute. Next she pulled her dyed hair into a tight bun at the middle of her head, added some glittery spray to it, then pulled on her silver mask. She added a little lip-gloss then put the tube in her pocket, and she was now ready to go. She looked over at her best friend, Ginny Weasley who was also ready.

Ginny had left her light pink dress the color and length it was, but charmed some of the material to be a pale pink. She also shortened her sleeves to her shoulders and made them puffy and pale pink, she dyed her red hair blonde, by eating a brownie, and straightened it. She then added a tiara to he hair, put on some makeup and jewelry, then her mask. She was the mirror image of Sleeping Beauty.

"Wow, we look good!" Ginny exclaimed as herself and Hermione stood in front of the huge mirror in the bathroom.

"Yeah we do, be right back!" Hermione yelled and dashed back into their room, she rummaged in her trunk and grabbed her digital camera. Yes she had a digital camera, Yes it worked here, Yes she used it often, it was a muggle camera so she had to charm the pictures to move though.

"One quick picture for my scrap book" Hermione said.

Ginny gave her a reproachful look she hated taking pictures she could never look good in them, unlike perfect Hermione, even before her make-over she looked great, Hermione had never realized she didn't need her make-over to look good, she just needed confidence. Pictures to Ginny were a curse.

"Please Ginny, just one little picture, you take good pictures." Hermione begged.

"Yeah right I do!" Ginny replied.

"Please!"

"Fine, Fine, but just one!"

"Ok"

Hermione's one picture turned out to be like 5. She took a shot of the both of them, a shot of Ginny, Ginny took a shot of her, a shot of them both by the window, and another shot sitting on Hermione's bed. Once their photo shoot was over, they put on their shoes, Hermione's a flat, silver pair, if there was one thing Hermione would never wear, it was high- heels. Ginny put on a pair of high-heels in a light pink and both girls headed down the stairs to the common room, when both of them reached the bottom step they struck a pose for their escorts who were waiting for them in the common room.

"Hey Goldstein I thought we were taking a Ms. Hermione Damenzla and Ms. Ginny Weasley not these two beauties." Blaise asked the guy next to him.

"No Mr. Zabini I believe these beauties are our dates." Anthony replied.

"Well aren't we lucky."

Both girls laughed, then descended the stairs to meet their dates. Anthony, Hermione's date, was dressed as Will Turner from Pirates of the Carribean (A/N Lol, Emily), Hermione couldn't help but notice he looked very similar to him. Blaise was dressed in a long black overcoat with his black hair slicked back, old Draco style back in the day, and black sunglasses.

"Matrix?" Ginny questioned, raising an eyebrow at her boyfriend.

"Why of course" he replied. "I don't know many muggle movies"

"Well, being best friends with a person who was raised by muggles does have its advantages, right Mione'?"

"Yup" Hermione replied, "Now let's get going!" She linked arms with Anthony, Ginny and Blaise following suit, and the four made their way down to the Great Hall.

When the four reached the hall Hermione and Blaise said a hurried goodbye, for they had to open the ball, they cast an invisibility charm on themselves and made their way to the stage Hermione extinguished all the lights in the hall, leaving everybody in complete darkness, then she lit one single candle which Blaise was holding and she took it from him and held it to her face, the single candle gave the room and eerie glow.

"Welcome one and all to Hogwarts First Annual Haunted Halloween Ball" Blaise said in a deep spooky voice.

"May the Fun Begin!" Hermione said, also making her voice sound creepy. She then lit all the candles in the hall, which gave enough light so you could see around you but not soo much that you could pin-point every person. Hermione adored the creepy atmosphere of the place. Everyone gave the heads a round of applause for their opening then started to dance as the weird sisters took the stage. Hermione and Blaise quickly found Ginny and Anthony, Anthony asked Hermione to dance and she willingly led him onto the dance floor. She was glad it was a fast tune, all her summer nights at 'Revenue' had finally paid off, she finally got to show off her moves. Anthony, she couldn't help but notice was a lot like Cody. "Cody!" Hermione thought to herself, "I never properly broke up with him, Oh well, I will during break." She didn't give her muggle boyfriend another thought as the night went by. Anthony and Hermione had danced a lot, they only missed 1 song because she had gotten thirsty. A slow song came on and Anthony led Hermione onto the dance floor, he placed his hands on her waist and she put her arms around his neck, she stared into his forest green eyes, she couldn't help but like him.

"But you like a certain blonde haired Slytherin better and you know it."

Yeah she did like Malfoy better, and she did know it but that didn't mean she couldn't like Anthony to. They continued to dance until the song was over, Hermione deep in thought until Anthony interrupted her.

"Care to join me for a walk outside?" he asked.

"Sure, I'd love to" she replied. He took her hand and they made their way out of the castle and into the chilly October air. Hermione smiled at the fact that, had she been a muggle, she would probably be passing out candy to the tiny kids dressed as witches and wizards, she herself knew the truth though and she was glad.

Anthony led her to a tiny bench, beside the lake and they both sat down.

"Hermione" he turned to look at his date. "Im really glad you came tonight, with me."

"Oh me too Anthony" she replied.

"Really?"

"Yeah really or else I would not have said yes."

"That's great!" he replied, then leaned in to kiss her, she kissed back but then as realization dawned on her, pulled away.

"Oh im sorry, Anthony but I can't do this, not yet." She said getting up.

"That's ok, would you like to go back inside and dance some more?"

"Yes, ok, sure" she replied.

They went back into the hall and danced to a few more songs, after the third song Anthony went to get refreshments and Hermione made a beeline for a table where she saw Ron, Harry, Katie, Hannah, Ginny, and a very sullen looking Blaise. She conjured two extra chairs as she reached the table and took a seat, saving the extra for Anthony. He came back shortly with two cups of butterbeer and a few brownies, Ginny and Hermione exchanged a smirk, Ron took one of the brownies and bit into it, almost immediately his hair turned, bright pink, everybody at the table burst out laughing, Ron just gave them funny looks and finished his brownie.

"That should last about a week" Hermione muttered to Ginny. Both girls laughed.

Next Harry took a brownie and his scar disappeared, but then his ears grew to be pointy and long, like a house-elves, this caused another round of chuckles, by then everybody had caught on to the secrets of the brownies and didn't eat anymore, that is except Blaise who had turned away during the event too look for somebody, but he soon turned back and grabbed a brownie and bit into it. His nose grew to be about the size of Snape's, this caused an uproar and everybody at the table was almost falling out of their seats laughing. Blaise, like Ron, was completely oblivious to it.

"Nice Hair Weasley, Nice ears Potter!' he muttered

"What!" they both exclaimed and grabbed their goblets to see their reflections in it.

"Bloody Hell!" they both yelled at the same time.

Draco had sauntered across the hall at that exact time "Blaise, man I thought you were coming as the Matrix not Professor Snape." he said laughing.

"What are you on about Malfoy?" he asked.

Draco held up his goblet and Blaise saw his reflection

"What the-(BLAISE! Said Hermione)-?" he yelled. "What the hell is up with those things?" He asked, pointing a finger at the brownies, suddenly realization dawned on him.

"Hermione Marie Damenzla, Ginerva Ann Weasley. What the bloody hell did you do to those brownies.?" He yelled.

Both girls put on innocent faces.

"Whatever do you mean?" Ginny asked, batting her eyelashes at him.

" Your 'special' treat!" He snarled.

"Ok, fine" Hermione said, "It was our doing, Happy Halloween" she said putting on a false cheerful face.

"How long will it last?" He asked.

"Bout a week" Ginny replied.

"Oh God, a week as Snapes twin" Blaise said slumping back into his seat and putting his head in his hands.

"I ate one of those brownies and nothing bad happened to me." Draco said.

"Lucky you!" Ron snarled, "Why are you over here anyways ferret?"

"Good question!" Draco replied coldly getting up from the table and saying goodbye to Blaise. As he turned his back on them, the 7 at the table burst out laughing, there on the back of his neck was a temporary tattoo, it was a picture of a lion and said Gryffindor rocks my sock.

"Nothing bad happened to him" Blaise muttered, laughing. "Can't wait until the other Slytherins notice!"

Hermione took a dance with each of the males at her table, and Draco who had cut in after Blaise, Hermione couldn't help but notice how good she felt dancing with him. I really like him, she thought to herself. They danced one slow song, one fast song, then they went back to their separate tables. Anthony immediately asked her to dance once more and she gratefully accepted.

After the last dance everybody in the hall stood in a big circle, Hermione and Blaise at the center on a podium.

"Ok on the count of 3 everybody unmask yourself." Hermione said. "1...2...3...Go!" Everybody looked around the room to see who they had danced with that evening. Hermione had already knew who she danced with, Blaise, Draco, Anthony, Ron, and Harry. After about a minute everyone started laughing, there was something funny about almost everybody. Some had large noses, like Blaise, weird hair, like Ron, large ears, like Harry, Knit eyebrows, like Colin Creevey, Tattoos of other houses, like Draco, antlers or animal ears, like Parvati Patil, a glowing aura about them, like Pansy Parkinson. It was quite a sight to see. Hermione decided she should tell them.

"As you all may have noticed you all look a little er.. Different." Hermione started. "This is due to the brownies, if you did not have one you are lucky but if you did there is something Different about you, there are colored hair, animal ears, animal tails, large ears, large noses, tattoos of other houses, color auras, knit eyebrows, and other things, this will all go away, and I must warn you not to try and charm them or get them off in any way, they will only spread." Hermione said. "Well I hope you have had a good evening!" She said. Everybody began to file out except for prefects and the heads who were to clean up, some students looked amused, others a little aggravated.

It took about another 2 hours to clean, Hermione, Ginny, Blaise, and Draco reached their room at about 3 in the morning, all looked tired and a little grumpy. Hermione and Ginny immediately headed up to their rooms and changed and readied for bed. When they were finally done they shut the lights off and climbed into their separate beds. Hermione lay their, just thinking, for at least another hour until a certain red head interrupted her.

"Hermione are you still awake too?"

"Yea Gin."

"Well can I ask you something?"

"Sure Gin"

"Do you like Anthony?"

Hermione sat up in bed, lit a candle and turned to face her best friend who also sat up.

"How did you know?" She asked.

"It was kind of obvious, you looked soo happy dancing with him, you looked like you were enjoying yourself." Ginny replied.

"Yea I like him." Hermione said.

"Well what about Draco?"

"I don't know Gin, That's what is bugging me, I like him to, a lot." Hermione replied

" You looked happy dancing with him to, well your gonna have to decide!" said Ginny.

"How?" Hermione asked.

"I don't kno-" she was cut off by an owl swooping in the open window.

"Faith?" Hermione said, fetching her owl. There was a scroll of parchment tied to the owls leg.

"Open it!" Ginny urged.

Hermione grabbed the parchment and began to read...

Dear Hermione,

I wanted to know if you would like to accompany me to Hogsmeade next weekend. Im to chicken to ask you in person so I figured this would have to do. So please owl me back as soon as you have an answer.

Yours Truly

"No name!" Hermione said staring at the yours truly.

"No way" Ginny said, snatching the parchment from her friends hands.

"This stinks!" Hermione said, laying back on her pillows.

(Well there it is, hope you enjoyed! You all know what to do now! ReViEw! XoXo NiCoLe OxOx)