*Disclaimer: I do not own any Characters belonging to the Harry Potter World.*
I know that today isn't Friday, I had plans to have this up last night but my son decided that he was going to be sick, so I got stuck going laundry... :).. He is alright now though.
I find this chapter super cheesy, and I don't like cheesy, but I needed to add Cassi's party in this story somewhere didn't I? You can't just mention something and completely forget about it. Next week we will have the class leading up to the girls party, and then we will actually have the party. I haven't decided if I should have the girls and boys parties in separate chapters or not, so let me know which one you want me to do... Enjoy.
-Rachel
Chapter Ten
The week had passed pretty quickly for the students of Hogwarts. It was currently the end of Thursday, the 30th of October, which meant that Hallowe'en was only one day away.
"Are you guys excited for tomorrow?" Cassi asked her group of Slytherin friends, while on their way back to their common room.
Daphne shrugged. "It's only Hallowe'en, nothing special."
"Nothing special? Are you mad? It's my favourite holiday that I spend away from my family! My friends and I usually have a huge sleepover, with chocolates, candies, butterbeer, sometimes firewhisky, and games. It is so much fun!"
"That does sound like fun." Pansy agreed.
Cassi smiled in excitement. "Do you guys want to do it? We can invite Hermione and Ginny. We can get started when classes end tomorrow."
"I'm in. We haven't had a sleepover like that before." Daphne agreed.
Cassi hugged Daphne and Pansy. "It will be so fun!"
"What about us blokes, what are we supposed to do?" Blaise asked.
Cassi shrugged. "Invite Scorpius and the rest of the Gryffindor boys. Have your own party, Scorpius could teach you guys beer pong or something."
"Beer pong?" Draco asked. "What in the bloody hell is that?"
"Scorpius will explain it to you. Harry might even know."
"You expect us to hang out with Potter and his gang of misfits for an entire night?" Theo asked.
"I agree with Knott." Draco agreed.
"Oh, come on. They may be fun. You like Scorpius right?" Cassi plead.
"We haven't really talked to him. You always go over to the Gryffindor's, he never comes to us snakes." Blaise pointed out.
"Details." Cassi said with a wave of her hand. "I'll tell Scorpius about it. He can pass on the invite."
"No, if we have to spend a night with the lions, then we will extend the invite ourselves." Blaise snickered.
"I don't even want to hang out with Potty and Weasel!" Draco complained.
"Think of the endless possibilities!" Blaise protested. "We could play poker and clean the lions out of their galleons and besides, it's an excuse to drink."
"I'm interested in having more spending money." Theo agreed.
Draco sighed in defeat. "Fine! But Pansy and I get to ask."
Theo and Blaise high fived behind an unsuspecting Draco. "Alright, I am off to find Hermione and Ginny. Are you two coming?" Cassi asked the girls who nodded. "Off to the library, see you later boys."
Blaise waved goodbye as the girls walked down the opposite corridor. "Do you honestly think this is a good idea?" Draco asked.
Blaise shrugged. "Pansy and Daphne get along with Granger and Weaslette, so who's to say we won't get along with Potter and Weasley?"
Theo made a face. "I am up for taking their money, but it's weird to think of them as… friends, with the lions."
"I am dreading this, but at least their faces will be priceless when we extend our invite." Draco said with a smirk. Theo and Blaise snickered.
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It didn't take long for the girls to locate Hermione. She was in the secluded area by the restricted section that Cassi liked so much.
"Hello, Hermione" Daphne greeted her friend as she sat down across from her. "What are you working on?"
"Hello." Hermione greeted when she looked up from her parchment. "I am working on Snape's assignment he assigned on Monday. I decided to research 'the volubilis potion.' It seems interesting enough. But something tells me you aren't here to talk about school or assignments, so what's up?"
Cassi smiled. "You're right, we are here on a personal errand."
"What would that be?"
"Hallowe'en." Pansy said.
Hermione looked confused. "It's tomorrow, what about it?"
"Were going to have a sleepover, just us girls." Pansy said in excitement.
"A sleepover? With just us?" Hermione asked.
"No, silly. We were hoping you could pass the invite onto a few more people."
"Like who?"
"Ginny and Lavender." Cassi answered.
"Can I also invite Luna?"
"Sure! We would love to have Luna there."
"Alright then. I don't see why not."
"Awesome. Classes end at noon. I was thinking that after lunch we collect the stuff that we need for the sleepover and meet up at the room of requirement. At dinner time, a couple of us will walk down to the kitchens. It will be so much fun!" Cassi said in excitement.
"Harry and Ron won't be happy that I am not around for dinner."
"Don't worry about them, we have the covered." Pansy said.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Hermione asked.
"Don't worry, you will see." Daphne said while standing up. "Have to go now Hermione, we will see you later."
"Mhmm, bye." Hermione mumbled, she was back to working on her potions.
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On Friday morning Scorpius, Harry, and Ron made their way to breakfast. "Why did you have to get me up so early?" Ron yawned.
Harry laughed. "You slept almost an hour later that what Hermione usually wakes us up at, so be grateful." Ron groaned.
"I wonder why she didn't wake us this morning." Scorpius asked.
Harry shrugged as he pushed a stumbling Ron away from him. "I have no idea, maybe she had something better to do this morning."
"I like to think that she had mercy on us this morning and allowed us to sleep in, me in particular."
Scorpius chuckled. "Big words for so early in the morning." He said as he made it to the doors of the great hall.
"Hmm, and don't get used to it." Ron said, following another yawn.
When the three boys made it to the Gryffindor table they noticed Ginny, Lavender and Hermione talking animatedly, more so Ginny and Lavender.
"Smile a little more Hermione. It will be a blast." Ginny said to her friend.
"What will be a blast?" Scorpius asked as he took a seat next to his future mother.
"The Slytherin's are throwing a party and we were invited." Lavender gushed.
Ron choked on the cereal he had just put into his mouth. "WHAT?!" he yelled after he was finished coughing.
The three girls rolled their eyes. "Honestly Ronald. Don't you listen?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah Ron?" Ginny mocked. "Cassi, Pansy and Daphne invited the three of us to have a sleepover tonight."
Ron narrowed his eyes. "You will not be going."
Ginny looked at her brother in shock. "Excuse me? Are you honestly trying to tell me what I can and can't do?"
"You and Lavender will not be going! You are my sister and she is my girlfriend, I have a say what you do."
Ginny and Lavender narrowed their eyes in anger. "Listen here Ron, you do not get to decide what I can and cannot do. Do you understand? You may be my brother but I live my own life, and you live yours. I will be going tonight, and I will be having fun."
"You can't tell me what to do either Ron, so keep your opinions to yourself." Lavender finished.
Ron looked over to Harry. "Harry do something." He plead
Harry looked slightly scared. "What would you like me to do? If Ginny wants to go, who am I to say she can't?"
Before Ron could mess things up for himself even more, Scorpius spoke up. "Come on Ron, Cassi will be there and it is just a sleepover. They aren't joining the Death Eaters or anything."
All conversation stopped in their immediate area with the mention of the Dark Lord's followers. Harry looked down at his plate, Hermione avoided Scorpius' eyes, Ginny looked shocked and Ron looked angry."
"Morning." Someone said before anyone could speak about the forbidden subject.
"Looks like we joined at the wrong time George."
"Right you are Fred. What did we miss?"
Hermione cleared her throat. "Nothing, good morning boys. How was your sleep?"
Fred gave George a sideways look before sitting down across from Scorpius. "There is a rumor going around that our little sister is partying with the pit dwellers tonight." Fred joked.
"We're having a sleepover." Ginny answered.
"Are you looking forward to tonight?" Scorpius asked Hermione, hoping that his last slip up was forgotten.
"I suppose so." She answered. "I have never really been to a sleepover before. I mean, I have with my cousins and with Ginny, but nothing to this extent."
"Oh look, here comes Malfoy and pug face." Ron snarled.
"Ronald!" Hermione, Ginny and Lavender reprimanded.
"I wonder what they want." George mused.
"Good morning." Malfoy greeted as he has down in the empty seat beside Harry.
"Malfoy." All the Gryffindor's greeted but Ron.
"So welcoming." Malfoy sneered to a still standing Pansy.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry asked.
"Well, as you know, my friends are having some sort of girls get together with your friends, and I have been excluded. So, my friends and I have come up with our own idea of a get together, guys only, obviously. And us snakes would absolutely love it if, the twin Weasley's, Cassi's brother, Longbottom, Potter and other Weasley, would join us."
The six Gryffindor boys looked dumbfounded at Malfoy's request.
"What did he just say?" Neville, who was sitting beside a shocked Lavender, asked.
"I invited you lot down to the dungeons, tonight, for a party of sorts. We will be playing poker, drinking loads of firewhisky and Cassi mentioned about something called a 'pong'."
"Beer pong?" Harry asked.
"Yeah, that. Anyway, are you in or not?"
Fred, George, Harry, Ron, and Neville all looked at each other in shock. "Of course they will be there." Ginny volunteered.
"Ginny!" Ron protested.
"Oh, shut up Ron." Ginny said to her brother. "Harry will be there, Malfoy."
"Why is it she can tell us to do but we can't tell her?" Ron whispered to Harry, who just shrugged.
"Alright, Potter will be there. Anyone else?" Malfoy asked.
"We're in!" the twins pipped up with a twinkle of mischief in their eyes.
"I guess I'll come." Neville said nervously.
"Ron?" Pansy questioned.
"No! I will not be going. You lot are mental for even agreeing to attend."
"Ron will be going." Lavender pipped up.
"Like bloody hell I will." Ron bellowed in anger.
"If you still want me to be your girlfriend, then you will." Lavender threatened.
"Honestly, you just told me not five minutes ago that I couldn't tell you what to do but you think that it doesn't pertain to you?" Ron's ears were starting to turn bright red from the amount of anger searing through his body.
"Ronald Weasley, they are just trying to be nice. If you don't wish to stay, then leave, but at least be polite and show up." Lavender said in a sickly sweet voice.
"Fine, I will go. But I don't plan on staying long." Ron said between clenched teeth.
"What about you Scorpius?" Pansy asked.
"I believe it was kind of implied that I would be there." Scorpius said after finishing a mouthful of eggs.
"Wonderful." Malfoy said while standing up. "Don't forget your galleons, I look forward to taking all of your money. Meet us in the dungeons after supper, enjoy your classes." Pansy waved goodbye to Hermione and Ginny before following a retreating Malfoy.
"What in the bloody hell is wrong with you Lavender?" Ron snapped at his girlfriend again. "I didn't want to go to the stupid party. I also don't have enough money to play poker."
"Awe, don't be like that Ronniekins!" Fred gushed.
"Yeah, Ronniekins! It will be fun." George finished with a laugh.
"Oh shut up you two. I'm going to my first lesson." Ron said in a huff as he got up and left the great hall.
"Ronnie didn't finish his breakfast." Fred pointed out.
"We must have really angered him." Harry said with a faraway look.
"It's alright, he will get over it. Tonight will be fun, you'll see." Ginny said to her boyfriend.
"I hope so." Harry mused while still looking at the great oak doors.
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"Their faces Draco, were priceless!" Theo laughed when Draco and Pansy returned to their respective seats at the Slytherin table.
"What did they say?" Blaise asked.
"Weaslette volunteered Potter, he didn't say a word against it, the twin Weasley's agreed immediately after. The only one who didn't say anything was the weasel. Brown pulled a Weaslette and he relented, after a very amusing exchange of words though."
"Looks like he was angrier than you thought." Cassi pointed to a retreating Ron, who looked like he was ready to commit murder.
"Looks like it." Daphne agreed.
"Oh well, his loss. I plan on getting so drunk that my hangover will have a hangover."
"Nice, Blaise." Daphne said in disgust.
"Shut it Daph!" Theo demanded. "Speaking of alcohol, what do we have?"
"I have dragon barrel brandy, aged a hundred years." Blaise volunteered.
"I have a few bottles of Ogden's old firewhisky, beetle berry whisky and red current rum."
Daphne made a face at her friend. "Merlin, Draco. Alcoholic much?"
Draco sneered. "No, Daphne. I happen to have a father who had fine taste in alcohol. It seems to be everyone's go to gift for father at Christmas. He won't miss what I took."
"I have about five bottles of firewhisky." Theo interrupted.
"We will be taking two of those, Theo." Pansy demanded.
"I don't think so."
Pansy started to pout. "Please, Theo? We're ladies, and it is improper for ladies to have alcohol on hand." Pansy fluttered her eyelashes in a flirty way.
Theo sighed in defeat, "Fine," he huffed. "I hate you, Pansy."
"That makes nine bottles, we should be alright." Blaise stated.
Pansy winked at Blaise and stood up. "We best be off if we wish to make it to our lessons." Her friends grumbled in protest. "We only have two classes today, so suck it up and it a move on." The Slytherin's huffed in annoyance but got up to follow Pansy anyway.
Another one down, tell me how you liked it.. REVIEW! Remember to tell me if you would like one chapter for the girls and one chapter for the boys, or if you guys would like one big chapter...
-Rachel