Tripping and Falling
By. Chrissy
Part 5: The Yule Ball
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It was December already and Draco had not yet hooked up with Isabelle even though she'd "won" him in the duel with Pansy. The Yule ball had just been announced that morning in breakfast and Draco planned to ask her to go with him.
They were late for dinner and were in the common room doing their Transfiguration homework in French just to get the professor mad. Draco pulled Isabelle up to him and kissed her full on the lips, "Isabelle, would you like to go to the Yule Ball with me."
Isabelle kissed him, "Sure, I'd love to. Now let's finish our home work and get down to dinner because you have a Quidditch game to win." She smiled at him and they kissed again. He pulled them both towards the portrait hole telling her she needed to eat too.
"I'll be down in a few minutes, I have one more thing to do for the essay and then I'll meet you down there. Save me a seat!" She smiled as she pushed him ever so gently out the portrait hole. He said bye to her and went down up to dinner.
Izzy sent her owl, Nephele, with a packet or magical pictures to her aunt. The pictures were mostly of her and Draco but some of Pansy and some other Slytherin girls. She also wrote a quick note to her aunt saying Draco had asked her to the Yule Ball. Then she ran down to the Great Hall and straightened herself befor eentering. She was walking past the Gryffindor table when somebody grabbed her arm lightly.
She turned around to see who touched her and Harry let go of her arm. He was blushing... a lot... and he asked her, "Isabelle do you want to go to the Yule Ball..... I mean with um.... me?" Draco watched furiously from his seat and he stood up and walked over to Isabelle.
He wrapped an arm around her waist possessively, "Sorry Potter, she is taken. Maybe the Weasel Girl will go with you...." Harry looked shocked, "But I thought you two were just friends!"
Draco smirked, "Well you thought wrong Potter." He pulled Isabelle and himself back over to their table and left Harry staring after them. Once that sat down she broke into an uncontrollable fit of giggles. Once she calmed down she started full out laughing and pointed to the Gryffindor table where Harry was getting the snot kicked out of him by George, Fred, and Ron.
"I'm guessing he asked Ginny to the Yule Ball" Draco laughed, Snape sat at the professor's table. Hermione and McGonogal seperated them and Ginny stood on the side lines blushing profusely. She ran out of the Great Hall with her head in her hands. On the way out of the Great Hall Draco could've sworn he heard Hermione say, "Harry deserved it anyways."but he ignored it. Was it because Harry liked Izzy or because he asked Ginny out? Probably both. Granger was dating George so she was probably just as protective of Ginny as her boyfriend was.
The teams at the game were Slytherin and Gryffindor. Hermione and Isabelle stared up at the sky as their boyfriends warmed up and practiced their moves. Harry was still upset about Isabelle and Draco but now he had Ginny.
The next day was Hogsmede day so everybody could get their dress robes and such. Isabelle had decided to get ice blue, and Draco was going in black. Hermione would get a pale green and George would also go in black. Almost everybody had a date by now. But at the moment the only concern to anybody outside was who was going to win the match.
The Slytherin team was going to win this match because Harry was severely dragging and lagging. Even if he was actually doing his job, the Slytherin team could win. They'd won every game they'd played all school year. Every time they got the snitch too. Draco was performing his best ever and Snape didn't want to admit why he'd seen such improvement in performance.
George got knocked off his broom and broke an arm and dislocated his other shoulder so Herm brought him to Madame Pompfry's office and didn't let him finish the game. Nobody on the Slytherin team got injured at all. Of course they won again.
People were starting to glare at Harry and Izzy felt kinda bad knowing she'd caused him to be like that and been treated like that. She ran down to the field to congratulate Draco as Ginny worked her way down to comfort Harry. Then after having a small party in the common room everybody went to sleep.
Draco and Izzy snuck down to the cafeteria and the house elves made them cookies and chocolate frogs. Then the two took a walk around the dungeons and then re-entered the common room. After they talked again for a bit in front of the fire they went their separate ways.
When Draco got to his bed he opens the curtains and found a letter from his father. After changing and getting into bed Draco closed his bed curtains. He lit his wand and read the letter. He smiled a bit but he wasn't sure if he'd tell Isabelle just yet....
"Draco- Your mother and I are very happy that you have asked Isabelle to the Yule Ball. You have made a wise decision and all I can say is- WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG! You cannot pass her up Draco and you must take charge or you'll fall behind. Start listening to me for once. -Father." That is what the letter said and Draco put it in his chest. Then he went to sleep knowing he had the support of his parents and the girl he lo- er... liked.