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All the italic words would mean the characters are talking in Chinese/ Cantonese, as it would be a bit difficult for me to type Chinese characters here, and not everyone would understand it.

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Never had a dream come true

Chapter 19 Let the show begin Part 2

"Ron, do I look alright?" Harry was still pulling his bow tie.

"You look great, Harry. Just relax, Remus said you are quite used to playing pranks. Just treat it as one of them, just that this time you have to put on a costume." Bertha reassured him, who was also very nervous.

"Testing, testing." Miranda was trying if the microphone worked. "Bertha, everything's ready."

"Right. Can I have everyone's attention please?" Bertha was now speaking through the microphone. "Harry, Hermione, Ron, Draco and Ginny. I have no idea what Severus wanted you all to do, but I have also hired another group of staff to help with the serving. So once you finished whatever you were told to do, tell me or Miranda about it, and we'll ask the other group of staff in to take your place, we don't want you to become the target for attack somehow. Who knows what that bas..."

"Bertha!!! Language!!! Please!!!"

"guy would do." Bertha finished.

"I totally agree with Bertha. He is a bas... sorry." Remus shut up after getting a dangerous glance from Bertha.

"By the way, do you guys speak Cantonese?" Bertha asked.

"Yes." They all replied in Cantonese. They had put a translate spell on, so they could speak Cantonese.

"Don't worry. It will be fine. No use to make yourself so tense." Sirius said to Bertha, whom was now biting her fingernails.

"Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Draco. You all know what you are supposed to do?" Sirius asked them once more.

"Yes."

"Then get going."

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Quite a number of people had arrived at the gathering, but there were still no sign of either Eve and Severus, or Pablo and Jenny. Even Eve's professor, Mrs. Crew had arrived.

"Draco, do you think Sirius knows Bertha?" Ginny whispered to Draco, who were both given the job of checking the gathering invitation from guests, so if Pablo arrived, they could give signal to Harry, Ron and Hermione.

"I don't know. Why?" Draco asked, checking an invitation for one of the arrivals.

"He seemed to know her likes and dislikes." Ginny said, after checking another guest's invitation. "I just have a feeling he knows her."

"But how? She is a muggle, and Sirius spent most of his time in Azkaban, and he just recently cleared of his name."

Then there came a female voice, talking in Cantonese, "Why do you want to come anyway? It is held by Bertha Chau, Eve's best mate."

"Could she be Jenny?" Both of them thought.

This time a male voice said, "Don't you want to think what they are up to? I remembered that you enjoyed very much about last time when we insulted Eve in front of all her mates. Why not come to see what is it this time?"

"So that's Pablo." Both of them acknowledged.

Ginny waved her hand at Hermione, Harry and Ron, to recognize who the targets were. After she gave the signal, and turned back, Draco had already finished checking Pablo's invitation.

"What's wrong, Draco?" Ginny noticed that Draco was really angry.

"I have no idea what he had done to Eve, but I could understand why Bertha hated him so much." Draco looked at Ginny, "He behaved even worse than Lucius."

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Fortunately, Pablo and Jenny went to get drinks before going around.

"I don't understand. How come Bertha employ foreigners as staff?"

"Maybe illegal labour. haha."

"Two Bloody Mary." Pablo said to Harry.

"Sorry, sir, madam, we are only staff serving the drinks available, not bar tender. We have cocktail, juices and water. What do you want?" Harry replied, enjoying the effect that both of them were shocked about him speaking Cantonese.

"Er... Two cocktail then."

Hermione took two wine glasses and put Veritaserum in them before giving it to Ron to put cocktail in it. Fortunately, Pablo and Jenny didn't notice what Ron and Hermione had done, as they saw Tom coming in. They took the drinks from Ron, finished it straight away, threw the glasses back to Ron, and walked towards Bertha and Sirius. Hermione gave Remus and Sirius a signal that they had finished. Miranda immediately went to the staff room and told the other group of staff to come out and took their place, and Harry and the others went to change their clothes.

After they had changed back into their clothes and came out from the staff room, the show had finally reached its climax.

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Eve was still nervous, although Severus promised her everything would be fine. When they arrived, she knew her past schoolmates were looking at her and Severus, but she didn't know what they were thinking about her. Did they believe that she was innocent?

Severus squeezed her hand as a sign of reassurance. Then he moved his hand to Eve's waist, which everyone gasped at, and they walked towards where Bertha and Miranda were. She was more surprised when she saw Sirius and Remus standing next to them too.

"Severus, you have a lot to explain to me later on." He only smiled at her.

"We are so afraid you are not coming." Bertha and Hermione hugged her as welcome. "Why are you two here? Aren't you guys with Harry and the others?" Sirius and Remus just smiled at her.

"Well well, Eve, I didn't expect to see you here." There came a voice from behind, which haunted Eve for two years.

Eve turned around. "Me too, Pablo. I didn't believe you still dared to appear in front of me."

"What did I do to make me so unbearable to you?" Pablo smirked. "By the way, have you met Jenny?"

"Of course, my cousin. How are you, Jenny?"

"Hi. Who's this? Don't tell me that he is your boyfriend. I thought you still love Pablo, so you refused all the matchmaking my mom arranged for you."

"No, I am not her boyfriend. I am her fiancé." Eve was shocked he spoke Cantonese, but suppressed the shock from her face.

"Your what?! Eve Ho, you are in big trouble. We won't approve of this!!!" Jenny screamed.

"Approved of what?" Eve looked at her so intensively that Jenny started to feel cold. "I am already twenty-four. I do not need a guardian signature to get married, and you are not my sister or even mother. You are only a relative. And what does this 'we' mean? I assume you mean you and Pablo? Tell you what, 'we' don't mean a thing for me!"

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"How long does it take for the potion to work?" Hermione asked, who had cast a spell, so they could hear their conversation, even they were standing that far away.

"I think it should be working now. Snape's potion never goes wrong, especially this time it is for his fiancée." Draco answered.

"Oh my God, I have never heard Eve that powerful and cool before... Looks do confuse people." Ron said in amazement.

"Shh... they are talking again."

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"Did he know what you did in your final yea..."

"I know about it, but would you be so kindly to repeat it again?" Severus snarled.

"She fell in to our trap which made her fell in love with Pablo in order to let him stole her desserta... God what am I saying?" Jenny was totally shocked.

"Jenny, everyone in this room heard what you said. As you picked it up, I can assure you that what you confessed is real and we can prove it." Bertha took the microphone she prepared earlier. "Ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention please?" Everyone was now looking at her. "Good. As everyone know that in our final year, something happened. Eve, my best friend was tricked into the trap of her cousin and Pablo, and now I have proof that proved Pablo stole her dissertation. Mrs. Crew."

There came an old lady from the crowd, who had a folder in her hands. "Eve, long time no see. You look great dear." She gave her a big hug.

"Mrs. Crew, what is this all about?" Eve asked, who was now totally confused.

"Just watch." She walked onto the stage and took the microphone from Bertha. "As you all know that I am retiring after this summer, while clearing out my stuff, I found the final draft of Eve's dissertation she had given me for final checkup . I have compared it with Pablo's dissertation, and noticed that they were exactly the same. I have already reported this to the school board, and they would clarify the marks again fairly soon. Pablo, originally, I don't want to do it so publicly, but you know the idiom 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth', I have to agree with what Bertha decided to do."

Pablo was so angry that he slapped Bertha, who was standing near him. He was about to slap her again, but was stopped by Sirius, who punched him hard on his stomach, and fell down on his knees. "No one dare hurt her in front of me, get up! A punch would not be enough for that slap!"

"Sirius, it's alright. I get what I want. He has lost everything." Bertha tugged at Sirius' coat. "It's alright now. Calm down. Come here." Bertha led Sirius away from Pablo in case he wanted to hit him again.

Eve turned to Jenny, "I think you better get your boyfriend and go. You know, you screamed so loudly that everyone here heard you confessed what you and Pablo did. This time everyone knows he deserve it."

Jenny quickly picked him up and headed out.

"By the way, if you are going to a hospital, don't you dare tell police that someone hit him unreasonably. Everyone in this room knew what he did, and he ended up in hospital. I will go on court to sue you if you dare do so. Goodbye, my dear cousin."

TBC

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How's it? Hope you all like it.

By the way, I was planning for a sort of sequel to this, not really a sequel. As one of the reviewers said it was not 'possible' that Dumbledore would offer Eve a job at Hogwarts, so I have been think writing a story of Eve without being offered a job. Tell me if you would like to read it, coz my muses don't normally last long… well… normally a few weeks…

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