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Chapter 6
At Hogsmeade
Harry woke up that morning with a vague feeling of dread. It was a moment before he realized why. I asked Pansy Parkinson to the Halloween Ball! What's worse she said 'yes.' And she wants to drag me around Hogsmeade to find a costume. Ugg! He flopped back on his bed.
"Harry, are you still in bed?" Hermione's voice was muffled by the fact that she was talking through the door. Harry sat bolt upright. He'd fallen asleep again!
"I'm up, I'm up!," he yelled as he ran around the room getting dressed. Grabbing his cloak, he ran to the door and opened it. Hermione stood there with a grin on her face. The first thing he noticed was the bright orange CC on her robes.
"Here," she said as she pinned Pansy's green ribbon to his robes, "all the girls decided last night that everyone who had a date for the Ball should exchange tokens so the people who don't have dates can keep from embarrassing themselves. We've already told everyone in the other houses. This is for you to give to Pansy," she added the last as she handed him a pin of a tiny golden snitch with little fluttering wings, "Now go to breakfast because she's waiting for you to go to Hogsmeade." She gave him a gentle shove down the stairs.
"Where did this come from?," he asked turning the little pin over in his hand.
"I transfigured and charmed it this morning but I told her you did it so…" she trailed off and gave him a significant look.
"Right, right I did it," Harry said, "I can't believe I'm doing this," he added going down to the Great Hall.
As he was walking in he passed Draco coming out, "Just a friendly warning Potter, Pansy clings," he drawled as he left.
Harry turned around to ask him to explain when he felt his arm being taken by Pansy. "Oh Harry, I thought you'd overslept, come on get some breakfast so we can go."
Harry suddenly understood what Draco had meant as Pansy dragged him over to the Slytherin table. "Uh, Pansy…um…shouldn't I go sit at MY house table?"
"Nonsense no one is going to say anything." This statement was accompanied by a glare from those Slytherins already seated.
Across the hall Hermione gave him a look and tapped her pin. Oh right he thought, "Um…this is for you Pansy." He pinned the little Snitch to her with difficulty as Pansy still had a hold of his arm.
"Oh how adorable!," she gushed, "and so appropriate too since you are the best Seeker at school."
Harry was beginning to get the idea that this was going to be a long week.
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Whoever came up with the idea of trading tokens should be permanently hexed…or given a medal, I can't decide which, Draco mused as he looked at the display of pins in the store. Now to find something that says "my date" without saying it. Suddenly his eyes fell on a gold pin shaped like a cape. Perfect! Now for mine, I think I saw a silver wolf's head in here…there it is! He paid for the pins and left the store pocketing them. Looking up he spotted Harry with Pansy attached to his arm like a limpet. Ha! I almost feel sorry for him, maybe I should have warned him about her before he asked her to the dance…nah this is too much fun to watch, he thought shaking with silent laughter.
"Pansy this is the third store we've been to," Harry was getting tired of
being pulled all over Hogsmeade and felt like he was about to explode. Remind
me why I'm doing this? Oh yes, I was a stupid git and waited too long to find a
date, that's why.
"Oh Harry look! This is perfect," Pansy was now twirling in place causing the skirt of the Cinderella dress she'd tried on to flair, "what do you think?" Harry had to admit it looked better than some of the other stuff she had tried on so far. Actually Harry had to admit she looked pretty in it.
"You look really nice, Pansy," he said. While he didn't want the endless trying on of dresses to end(it was the only time all day he had had his arm unencumbered by a fawning Pansy), he did want to stop going from store to store.
"Look they even have a matching Prince Charming outfit too," she giggled.
Harry gaped, she didn't expect him to wear that did she? Dismayed he surveyed the costume; tight red pants, a matching red jacket with gold buttons, a white shirt, white gloves, knee high spit shined black boot and a sword belt complete with sword and scabbard. To top it all off it had a gold coronet engraved with dragons and studded with false stones.
"Pansy, please tell me you're joking," Harry pleaded still staring.
"Now how can I be Cinderella without my Prince Charming?" she asked pushing him toward the dressing rooms, "now try it on and let's see how it fits."
Harry gave the outfit in his hands one more dismayed look before sighing in resignation. He'd been doing that a lot today.
AN: Sorry for the short chapter everyone, but as I've said before I can only write what these people tell me to write.
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