Chapter 7:Fuss about ball and tender serenade
PLS remember-the name over the piece corresponds to RPG-player! It's RPG, not exactly FanFic, and i'm Severus
Lily:The weekend had passed uneventfully for the Gryffindors.Well that wasnt entirely true.They had spent the enitre weekend playing pranks on each other.Lily had met Melian, and was happy to meet a girl in her house that she could talk to.They quickly became allies against the boys after Sirius and James had planted dung bombs in the girls dormitory.They retaliated by putting a simple charm on the boys which made them sing the girls praises whenever they were in public, but it turned out that it was more embarassing than flattering after Sirius had proclaimed that Melian was the sun that woke him up in the morning and the moon wich put him to bed each night.Now at breakfast on Monday morning, they were all engrossed with trying to figure out what big announcement Dumbledore was going to make."Do any of you have any ideas?"Remus asked,while buttering his toast.Lily and Melian exchanged glances."I think some sort of Ball."Lily said finaly.The four guys had mixed expressions on their faces.Mostly horror of the thought of dancing with girls, but some was also excitement.Peter went pale."B-ball?Like where you have to ask a..a..""Girl, Peter,"James supplied."To dance?"Peter squeaked out.Sirius was luahging at Peter(which he uaually was anyway)."It's not that difficult,Peter.All you have to do is ask.Like this,Lily, would you like to go to the Ball with me?""No thanks Si.""See, it's that sim-wait, did you say no?"Lily nodded and Melian tried not to giggle at Sirius' expression."Yes I did,Si."Lily said calmly.Sirius looked crestfallen for a moment then a smile broke out on his face."Of course you'd say no!You're holding out for Jamesie here aren't you?"Lily and James wore identical expressions of horror at the thought."Someone hit the nail on the head."Remus muttered."Id never go with him!""Id never go with her!"they both said at the same time.Peter was giggling now.Sirius shrugged."My mistake.Sorry guys."But they saw the grin on his face which said how sorry he really wasnt."So, Evans, who are you going with?"James asked quietly."No one Potter.The Ball hasnt even been announced yet."James nodded slowly, his eyes straight ahead."Besides, Melian and I have to help with the Ball, I doubt I'll have time for all that..dancing with some boy.""But if someone did ask you, you'd go?""Ill be there anyway."James nodded again.Peter then interupted."I think Fiona Shaw is looking at you James."They all turned to see a pretty first year Ravenclaw glancing at James then looking away and giggling with her frineds.Lily rolled her eyes.Pathetic, really.Melian shared a sympathetic glance with Lily."Well James, I think you have an admirer,"Sirius said grinning.James turned back to his breakfast and smiled into his plate."Maybe Ill ask her to the Ball,"he said.With that proclomation, the other three boys laughed and started to help James figure out a way to ask her.Lily glared at the Ravenclaw table.For goodness sake, the girl didnt even know James.They were probably not even suited for each other.Melian leaned in to whisper."I dont think he'll ask her.Really.""I dont care who he asks."Lily replied to her friend."I really dont."With that, Lily ate her breakfast in silence.
Melian:
Prof Millstone walked forward and asked for some silence. "we have decided that we shall organise a ball for the students. It will be on Halloween and it has some rules to it. The boys have to ask the girls." She heards the screams and chatter of annoyment. There are two girls who aready have been elected they shall oragnise this ball. If a boy wants to have a girl as a date he has to do something really sweet to deserve this. Also, on the evening itself, a few couples will be chosen by the teachers and are given points as they are the best couple. Melian and Lily are the girls who are responsible. Well boys do your best and start with it right now.
Melian and Lily couldn't help themselfes, they started laughing at the face of the boys. When Melian turned her haed to the gryffindor table she saw Severus waving at her. She quickly turned around as she grabbed the books. "Come on Lil, we have potions together with the Slytherins. Along with Potter and Co the made their way to the dungeon. While walking lily and Melian kept teasing the boys. "if a boy wnats to go out with me he has to give me candy and help me with carrying my books." While saying that Lily and Melian launched their books into the arms of James and Sirius. While they ran off towards the lesson. Melian was happy to have a best friend and she and Lily were quite a team.
Severus
All the previous day (Sunday) i was too busy dragging cauldron and stuff to this passageway to think
about my dream (actually, G&G dragged it, but i granted security,dropping dung bombs near Filch's
office).
However, i sent Wald with warning to my father: after all these fascinating visions i couldn't sleep
more and pushed him from the window when the first beams of sun appeared.
When we set up at last all the affairs with exploding mixture (now happily bubbling and smelling
abysmally in cauldron), it was late evening already, and i was tired enough to sleep without next
meeting with Voldemort,bless Filch for that.
-Ball,-scowled Lucius-Couldn't invent something more stupid, yeah?
-No, Lucius.Great social event, it is.See, girls are simply bursting,never heard so many giggles ot
once.Look at Melian, for example-and i waved to her.Tehhie next to me snorted and hissed
something about "Boys".
-And you, Tehhie-continued i-Why you are not giggling and smiling and waving?Let's keep common
standards, girl, you have to blush, at least.Take your Lily friend as example, she's about to fall from
her chair from excitement.
-Could you kindly shut up,Severus?-was the response.
-O'key, Tehhie, but beware-with such a behavior you'll end with your Mefiliaro red monster as Ball
partner.
-Next to you he's prince of beauty,Severus, and now we've got Potions lesson, if you remember.
In class we all were splitted in pairs, and-my luck-i got Pettigrew.However, before he managed to turn
cauldron with boiling Nausea Solution on me,Melian came up.
-Hi-smiled i (it was slightly artificial smile, cozz i was performing a complicated charm to make
Pettigrew put his head in cauldron and was busy waving my wand under the desk)-Got already a
date for this Ball thing?
-Not yet-smiled she in return.
-No yes she got!-snarled Sirius from behind-Melian, don't say me you are dallying with this slimeball!
I changed incantation a little, so instead of putting his head in disgusting moisture Pettigrew roared
and turned cauldron over Sirius's desk.Liquid hissed and sent a cloud of green smoke in air, so in no
time half of classroom was on their way to bathroom,violently sick.
-So what about a Ball?-asked i, when the territory was cleaned.
Melian
Melian sighed "well I have had some invites from people, but i don't know. And besides I want to have a chance of winning the price. That means that the guy who wants to go with me has to do something nice in order to make us win that title." She looked at Severus while she threw her skinned salamander in the potion. She poked the fire high and watched how the potion was coming. "You heard Dumbledore, the winning couple gets to go to Hogsmead and wins a new broomstick. And I defenitely want one. But if you are serious and don't mind that Tehie is watching me with narrowed eyes, maybe I will." The teacher walked by and gave them praises for their excellent potion. On that moment Peter and Sirius walked in looking menacing at each other. Blaiming each other as usual
Melian got her stuff packed and looked at severus. " Well i see you by Prof whats her name class, were will see how good Pettigrew is on the broomstick" she swung her bag around and setted course for transfiguration. While James and Sirius carried their bags. Sirius turned around and looked at Snape "You are fighting a losing battle, Melian wants style and a chance to win the price. And why don't I see you carrying her books. " he turned back as Lily and Melian were quickly running their class. Leaving Severus cursing him. Lucius looked at him and smiled "so you let Sirius win? I can't believe you, try to win the title and the prices and see how the smile is slipping away from his face"
Lily and Melian looked at their table and looked up at Sirius and James again. Somehow their spell wasn't working. On the other table Peter and Remus hadn't any luck either. After a while Peter tried to do something and letted his wand slip out of his fingers. It landed on the table and changed that into a needle. With a sigh the teacher restored it. Melian looked at the lucifer before her and got a bright idea. She raised her wand and points at the object. Suddenly it changed their lucifer in a pig.
After this exhausting lesson, they went down to grab a bite to eat. While they were discussing the decoration a large and bulky girl passed their table. She walked towards James "say James would you go to the ball with me" It became silent all of the sudden and Melian looked at the faces around her. James was in shock, remus and Sirius duck under the table and laughed. Lily looked absolutely shocked. "well actually I was going with someone else" The girl nodded and walked to the slyherin table. "that was patricia Parkinson" Sirius explained. "let's see who her next victim is" they saw that she jsut sat down and started to talk to Tehie. Melian turned to the others and started to eat.
The next hour they were outside with a broomstick in their hands. In a few minutes they were all up in the air. Peter fell of his broomstick and Melian, Lily, james and all the others were playing with a ball. Severus turned out to be pretty good also. "Hey Severus what about a race? " Melian yelled. Before he could answer she took off and raced over the lake.
Tehhie
I was sitting in the Great Hall, right after Dubledore's announcement.
"oh, no, PLEASE, no balls!" - the day seemed to be ruined. Now it was obvious that even Lily will
be giggling around and talking abour guys. Everybody, but Tehhie Pondohva, as usual.
"Hard to be like everyone else, huh?" - I murmured, gloomily observing the excitement over on
Gryffindors table. Slytherins also seemed quiet happy about all of this.
All except for me.
I wasn't hungry, so I took my books from the dormitory, leaving all of the excitement behind and
headed for Potions.
Outside there already was some unnoticeable-looking guy, who was examining the POtions book as
if it was made out of gold.
- Hey, why are you not in the Great Hall, just like everybody else?
He nearly dropped his book.
- Er... I had to ask Professor something. By the way - why are YOU not there? You're a girl, right?
SO you have to be there, all excited about the ball and stuff...
- Not necessarily - I answered - I hate balls and all this fuss about "who am I going to go with"
- Really? I'm your soulmate then.
- Okay, I'm Tehhie.
- I'm Remus - he said and we shook hands.
- Hey, I think i know you - you're a part of Potter's gang, right? - a asked
- Yeah... But I don't remember seeing YOU.
- I talked to Lily once or twice, but right now I'm not a part of any gang, I guess I'm just too
different... - I smiled
The bell rang. Professor whats-his-face opened the door and me and Remus came in, his asking his
questions, and me looking for a nice place to sit.
Finally I sat in the corner of the room, beside Remus. Soon we heard laughter and voices - other
students were coming in.
I saw Lily, giggling about something with James Potter, and Lucius, sitting all by himself, wearing the
same troubled look he had all these days and Melian, who I didn't get a chance to talk to, laughting
about something with Severus and Petegrew.
I turned to Remus
- Hey - I whispered - is that girl, Melian, okay?
- Yeah, she's fine - he whispered back - although you know, kind of weird...
- We all are, don't forget!
- Sure we are - he didn't smile. I wanted to ask him what was WEIRD about HIM, but the teacher
gave us a very hard potion to brew so I cared not.
Severus
-Hey, want to get a first prize, ideal date with Melian, yeah?-muttered Lucius, when we descended in
Great Hall to lunch.
-Jealous, are you?-smirked i.-Don't worry, Lucius, i seriously doubts that after our operation
"Bye-bye sewer or potter in dung" will be Ball at all.Forgot about our little plan, yeah?I need Melian
to play our joke on Gryffindor's, no more!First business, then the fun, as my dad used to say.
-Business?-hissed Tehhie from behind, but i ignored her.By the way, all Potions she dallied with this
brainless weird git from Potter's Co, Lupin, it was pretty annoying.
After lunch we got Flying Lesson, good for change. And, naturally, at the first moment when Madam
Hooch put attention on Pettigrew, falling from broomstick with boring regularity, Melian yelled me
something about race and took off.
"Nice-thought i-A good time to ask her about our little plan "Potter and Pipes" ", and i kicked from
the ground, too.
I was level with her over the first trees.
-Hey, stop, my beautiful butterfly!-cried i, blocking her broom.-I have something to ask you.
She giggled, obviously sure i'm going to ask her to be my date.So it was, but first i had to know
about our prank.
-You seems to be a big friend of Potter and Co, yeah?-it was not the best beginning, because she
frowned and jerked her head impatiently.
-I am, and what?
-How about a little joke?Want to help me with it?We, me and Lucius, have a nice idea, only need
your help.And after that, my fairy, i can do all the sweet things you want.
-And what joke?
-Nothing dangerous, to be sure.Just a little prank (but i could bet my smile said more about nature of
this prank than i wanted).
-Say me more.
-If you are agree to help me.
-No first say what it is.
-But i cannot, Melian.How can i say, if you are not with us? Don't want Potter to know.
-So that's your "sweet things", Mr.Snape?-snorted she-O'key, I'll SAY Potter certainly that you are
planning something nasty.
-If i were be you, i'd prefer to be quite.
-Trying to scare me now?Let me go, Snape!-yelled she, turned her broom sharply and shot to
Quidditch Pitch, were the rest of class already landed and chatted excitedly.
-Damn, the girls are problem!-cursed i, flying back.
When i entered Common Room, glum as cloud, Lucius was already there.
-What?-sneered he-Your princess refused to go with you?Ideal pair broken, great disaster!
-Shut up-snapped i-Tell me better what:who you think can help us now?
-It was your plan, not mine.We can do with pipes without your pack of girls, and if you want to
make fun of Potter, ask his girl to be your date!
-Like you my gran. I...
But at this moment Tehhie came up, loaded with books, as usual.
-That's it!
-What?
-She can pour the potion in Potter's glass, she's friend of this Lily, no one suspect her.
-Like you my Gran, Severus!Are you mad? She even doesn't like you!
-But we can change it.Now!
And, before Lucius answered, i dragged him to Tehhie's armchair.
-Tehhie, the sweetest of my dreams, are you aware that you are going to be my date on this Ball
thing?
-No thanks,Severus-answered Tehhie, looking at me as if i was the bit of Cockroach Cluster or kind
of.More than that, she grabbed her books and hurried to girl's dorm.
-Not so fast, lovely mine!
I pulled out my wand and cried "Locomotus Mortis", so she plunged in the nearest arm-chair,
bewildered.
-And now i'm going to sing you serenade, and i won't stop until you'll tell me you are agree.Lucius,
you'll be the trumpet-say tru-tu-tu, and you two(to Grabbe and Goyle, hanging around, as
usual)-you are drums, say tra-ta-ta.Nice, and now i'm starting!
-Amore te, solo mia!-howled i (Tehhie's Howler was nothing compare to me, i'vr got really disgusting
sort of voice and not a bit of musical sense).
All Slytherins ran to common room goggle at us, it gave me additional inspiration and i continued on
all known and unknown languidges:
-Varum zi Menhen
Liben di Zoldaten
Darum zi haben
Bomben und Granaten!
....At last on "shelkovie petli k okoshku prives, chto medlish, chto medlish, uj net li sopernika zdes?!"
she surrendered and cried "Stop it now! I go with you, only stop it!"
-And now, my silvery flower, what about a little joke?
Melian
Melian sat down onto her bed and looked at the homework that she stuffed into her drawer. She
grabbed a book outside her hidden compartment and started to read. She took her necromancer
books with her when she was accepted at Hogwarts although it was forbidden. She looked up at the
pictures of demons and smiled. That were the funniest lessons, summoning demons and calling out ghosts.
She threw her long hair back and left the dormitory and the common room. She walked around the
corridors by herself while she thought about her life at school. It was so different than before, no
serious trouble and no real lessons. She sighed as she left Hogwarts. Severus had asked her to play a
little joke on Potter and she had almost agreed. She didn't saw Grabbe coming while she summoned a
demon. While she was sunken in thougths she heard how Grabbe started to scream as the demon
started to hunt him down. Melian quickly whisperd a counter spell and looked at Grabbe. "Sorry
about that, what are you doing here?" The guy looked suprised at melian who showed kindness
instead of the sneers he mostly got. "I was looking for something, Severus is making a potion you
know" Grabbe didn't know he was saying too much and told about a plan he had made. Actually
Melian liked it and told him to wait, within a few minutes she returned to him and gave him some
stuff. "Now come on, you don't seem to be such a liar as Severus. I will help ya guys out" -and she gave a small jar to him
- Look out and give it to Lucius and Severus, they know what to do it.
She saw him leaving. After that
she sighed again, she was always considerd cruel and mean and she always enjoyed it. But why was
she sorted in Gryffindor and why did the nightmares bother her. She summone the demon again and
gave him the task to tease Filch. The was pure dark magic and no one would expect that she was
capable of it.
Tehhie
-Stop it now! I go with you, only stop it!- I yelled, unable to hear Severus's singing any longer - my
sister's Howler was a song of angels compared to THAT!
-And now, my silvery flower, what about a little joke? - he asked, smirking
"Oh, god damn me if I'll not find a way to play a little joke on YOU, Snape" - I thought, but didn't
say anything aloud - I was curious what was he talking about
- What joke?
- just, you know, little, innocent type of prank... Friendly surprise... - his grin widened
- INNOCENT? Am I deaf or something or did you say innocent? -
- Well, you might be deaf after everything I sang to you, but here is the living proof that you are not -
yes, it's just an innocent, friendly prank on Gryffindors...
I coughed and looked at him. "Innocent? Gryffindors? Prank?"
- Cross your heart and hope to die it's not going to get me in trouble?
- Cross my heart and hope to die - he said, grinning. As if I couldn't see his fingers cross under the
table!
- Hey, no finger crossing!
- Well, if you'll not agree i'll sing...
- Damn you!
- So, do you agree?
I was silent, so he began
"U lukomoriya dub zelenyi..."
- Shut up! Okay, okay, you, blackmailer - I'll be in a joke... What is it about?
Severus
-What is it about?-asked Tehhie with kind of martyr's look in her eyes (hey, even greatest martyr
couldn't bear this performance!), but before i invented a tolerable lie, Grabbe staggered in room,
suspiciously-looking jar in his hands.
-It's for you!-exclaimed he,and the stupid proud smile blossomed on his face.
-Where you've get this?
-Melian gave me.She said it...
But before he finished, jar violently trembled and exploded, cloud of horribly stinking smoke floated
to ceiling.
When we coughed smoke out of our lungs and wiped tears from the eyes, really fascinating sight it
was!Grabbe, who was the nearest to smoke source, sprouted several extra legs and green
pimples.Lucius got worms instead of hair.Don't know what happened to me, but, judging by terrified
glance that Tehhie shot to me (by the way, she, lucky pixie, got only green skin and it even adorned
her, somehow), i was not better.
-Damn her!-snarled i, when we (not without Evan Rosier the fifth-year help) managed to perform all
counter-curses and return to our usual appearances.
-You really annoyed her, man!-hooted Lucius,-wow, it was COOL, why she's not in Slytherin!
-Isn't she this girl to whom you waved at breakfast and smiled, as idiot?-snorted Tehhie,-now i can
see her point, if you gave her the similar concert.May be i'll take leaf from her book, later.
-How promising!But first we need get back to gryffindors, no doubt it was Potter's idea of good
joke.Now you can see why our little revenge is necessary.
-Okay, just tell me what it's about.
-Your part is really simple.Tomorrow at dinner Lucius is going to distract Potter's and Black's
attention, and you have to pour a several drops of my best "Practical Joke Mixture" in their glasses.
Lucius and Tehhie chorused
-Distract?Why me?
-And what's gonna happen to Potter?
-Why you-i smiled at Lucius-Because you gonna to ask Potter's girl to be your date, it's the best way
to focus their attention on you.And don't worry, Tehhie, Potter's end up even without green pimples
and second head, i promise.Don't want to spoil surprise.
Lucius choked, then roared:
-And why not you? They'll make a pin-cushion from me!
-Scared, Lucy?-Tehhie smiled tenderly.
-I have to organize all operation, if you remember-answered i, nodding at Tehhie behind her back.
"Great Wet Evening, or bye-bye, Potter"-i have to choose a decent name yet, thought i.
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