Chapter 11-The Yule ball
The day of the Yule Ball had come, and Albus and the professors had been working feverishly all day to set up the Great Hall for the nights' event. Meanwhile in the Potter Mansion Harry and the other had woken up (Harry and Ginny were sharing his bed) to a crispy Christmas Eve morning, after 10 minutes, Harry made a multi-course breakfast of fruit, bacon, eggs, kippers, pancakes and toast.
At six thirty pm, Harry and his friends were getting ready to transport to Hogwarts Gate, while Snape had been selected to meet them at gate (Much to Snapes chagrin) and the 3 Triwizard champions had been preparing for the opening dance. At 6:34pm Harry and the others met in the entrance hall of Potter Mansion, where Harry started to change into his Phoenix-thunderhawk form, after the transformation had completed, his friends grasped a tail feather, then thunder started to crackle and lightning began to ark around Harry's form, before encompassing his passengers in electricity and in a flash of bright light they all vanished from sight (If there was others around when they left).
At the Gates of Hogwarts, Snape waited for the guests to arrive and sure enough in a strike of lightning 11 people appeared. When the light had subsided Harry after returning to human form, took in his surrounds: Hogwarts castle, the Forbidden Forest, Hogsmeade and the black lake, before noticing the greasy haired, crooked nosed Potion Master and asked, "So, you've been given the short straw, Snape?" the man just glared at him, before walking the path to the front door with his robes billowing behind, the others looked at each other thinking, 'Well, that was a warm welcome,' before they followed suit and walked up the path. After entering the hall, they waited outside with the Champions and their dates: Viktor Krum and Susan Bones, Cedric Diggory and Cho Chang, and Fleur Delecour and Roger Davies, (Ron was over the moon at meeting Viktor Krum, while Chazz and Cyrus were going goggle eyed over Fleur) before Professor Dumbledore exited the Great Hall, found Harry and said, "Ah Mr. Potter, good to see you, my boy," irritated at been called a 'boy,' Harry replied, "Yes, its good to be home again," with a slight bit of cold lacing his voice, "Why was Snape the one to greet us, when Professor McGonagall is our Head of House?" Harry questioned with irritation, ignoring the tone Dumbledore replies, "First its Professor Snape," forgetting Harrys' letter from before the beginning of term, "And, Professor McGonagall is currently busy with educational matters! but will join us tonight," Dumbledore resumed, now is where Harry cut back in with, "Professor do you remember what my letter say regarding Snape and calling him by any title he doesn't ear?" but he never got his answer, as it was time to head into the Hall.
(A/N Hassleberry is immune to the Veela charm due to the dinosaur D.N.A. in his system.)
As Harry, his friends and the Champions entered the halls, the latter with their dates, Harry and his friends had been welcomed with a gasp of awestruck students and requests of, "Pinch me, I must be dreaming," and a few yelps of, "Ouch," from those whose dates were pranksters (which those pranksters got slapped), this made Harry and the girls blush the color of a setting sun. After the crowd calmed themselves down, Harry had time to notice the decor': the Great Hall had been transformed into a Ice Palace, he also saw standard 4 house tables had been replaced by many restaurant styled tables and then he noticed the Weasleys' and the Yukis' had also shown up (though its kind of hard not to notice when your bones are been crushed in a hug.) after Harry took a seat with his friends next to the Weasley and the Champions taking seats at the Head table.
The Yule Ball dinner was formal affair, well except for Ron who should've had a shovel rather than a knife and fork, after dinner and desert had been served, it was now time to start the dance portion of the night, so the champions lead their dates onto the dance floor and got into position. When the music started the six slowly began to dance, after 10 minutes of watching the champions dance, Harry turned to Ginny and asked, "Ginny would you do we the honor of a dance," while holding out his hand, without hesitation Ginny took Harrys hand and stood up to join the dancers, soon many others had joined the dancing couples and Bill Weasley noticed how board Fleur had been with Roger, he decided to cut in and give the lady a proper dance, and found that they found each other attractive.
