A/N: Hmmm, what should I call this chapter? Eaither "A Complete Waste of Makeup" or "Number Four." I'll put one of them up and LMK if I should change it, k? K? Good. The next chapter will probably be ridiculously long, since I have a lot to fit in on June 15, the day before the banquet. It may take me a couple weeks.

There will probably only be four chapters after this, I think. One for the rest of the night, one for the next day on the road and leading up to the ball (or maybe that'll be two), one at the ball, and one concluding everything. So it's all wrapping up.

I really hate to end it, but I must. I need to concentrate on some of my other stories which I wouldn't MIND if some people checked out. *Hinthint* I hope italics worked in this chapter, I'll have to play around with it. Enough of me, here's your chapter.

Disclaimer: I got some of these jokes off of http://www.geocities.com/rogue_010/ so go there or something. I am disclaiming them (hence disclaimer). Well, the plot is JK's but the rest is mine so go eat pork! (unless you're a vegitarian, like Ginny, in which case you may go eat a caesar salad… mmm… caesar salad…)



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"There is no way," Cho declared flatly, "that I am doing my natural business behind a bush." Draco made some snide joke but Cho managed to tune him out, in fear that she may have to brutally maim him. "You're only alive because murder is illegal," she said through gritted teeth to Draco. He appeared a bit frightened by her seriousness and backed away a little.

"Uh, seriously, though. I gotta go NOW!" Ginny said, looking frazzled.

"Number four?" Cho asked, eyes wide as if it was a national emergency.

"Number four? Harry, quick, call the Ministry! This one looks dangerous," Ron snickered, and then stopped abruptly as Cho glared daggers at him.

sympathetic at the same time; Draco just shifted his eyes around, confused.

"Excuse me? Pardon, I don't speak 'girl'. Does anyone mind explaining?" Draco felt himself getting whiny; it was nearing midnight and he hadn't had sufficent beauty sleep in a week, and so Draco thought he had every right to be.

"Yeah," Ginny said regretfully. "But, um, where in the forest?"

"Well, it's your first time out there, so you'd probably want to check out some of the more popular tourist locations," Draco said, receiving an instant smacking from Hermione. Normally he'd tease Hermione back, but with the current situation at hand with her and him, Draco wasn't sure what to do. He just stood there, his hands awkwardly stuck in his pockets. He watched silently as Ginny gave the rest a frightened last look before disappearing into the patches of pine trees.

"Let's get situated," Hermione said, and the rest agreed with uneasy nods. Harry had received six sleeping bags, a small cooler, the tent, and six pillows when he had summoned the supplies, and so he began hauling over the sleeping backs, Draco effortlessly dragged the cooler and Ron's head was lost in a sea of pillows as he stumbled over rocks and mud, trying to carry all of them at the same time. One of the plain, feathery pillows fell as Ron momentarily lost his bearings onto a puddle of brown groundwater.

"Er, that can be your pillow," Harry said, reaching the tent entrance and laying down some of the bags. Side by side, without a centimeter between each, it took up every square millimeter of the ground of the tent and Harry sighed upon the aspects of the night ahead.

At that moment, Ginny returned, blushing and darting her eyes side to side. "Never doing that again," she mumbled, silently deciding that the dark pink sleeping back would be her's. They all seemed awfully small though. The six stood outside; neither seemed ready to give up the unlimited space of the outdoors and condemn themselves to the miniscule tent.

"Let's hope not!" Draco came up beside her, feigning a gushing tone. "When you said number four, I just completely, like, idiedi!"

"If I threw a stick, would you leave?" Ginny spat, biting her lip from further commentations.

Draco smirked and surveyed the area. Harry and Cho were feuding over maximizing the tent space, Ron was batting out the muddy pillow ("NO MAGIC!" Harry had insisted for the millionth time), Hermione was sitting lonesome, still pale (probably from her encounter with Draco earlier) and nervously jotting things down in her journal, and Ginny was still peeved from his "number four" comment. "Yep," Draco said satisfactorally. "Chaos, panic, and disorder... my work here is done."

"Ginny, let me fluff that pillow for you." Ron had given up on his own and tried to snatch Ginny's from her grasp.

"I'm perfectly capable," Ginny retorted, and it was plain to see that she was restraining from hitting him with further remarks.

"Oh, I'm sorry, maybe Jason should do it for you," Ron sneered, obviously put off.

"SCREW YOU!" Ginny screamed, and then her hand flew to her mouth as she realized what she had just done. It felt relieving, though. Liberating, actually. "Ron," said, "I'm fine. You need to trust me. I'm not a little girl, and I don't need you looking over my shoulder, okay?"

"So you're saying you're too good for our family now?"

"WHAT!?" Ginny exclaimed, almost ready to laugh. She balled her small ahnds into two fists, turned her head upwards, and screamed to the endless sky, "CAN I TRADE MY LIFE FOR WHAT'S BEHIND DOOR NUMBER ONE?"

Harry snickered, but Ron just stormed into the tent. He almost took the whole thing down as he pulled on the opening flap. Cho had already snuck inside and smiled warmly as he entered. "Hey," she said gently, beckoning for him to come beside her.

"Hey yourself," he murmured, kissing her quickly and then falling back on the array of sleeping bags. "Cho?"

"Mmm?"

"Do you think that sometimes I vent my frustrations on Ginny?"

"Mmm?"

"Pay attention," Ron said, trying to sound angry but Cho was rather amusing when she was half-asleep.

"I am," Cho insisted drowsily, letting her head droop onto his shoulder. "But I don't think so."

"You don't?"

"Nah," Cho said, "but you do treat her like an infant. You need to let her grow up... make her own mistakes. She's growing to resent you, you do know that?"

"I guess you're right. But she's my little sister!" Ron sighed, frowning deeply. "And I have problems of my own. Like, is it unhealthy that I want to teach at Hogwarts so that I can stay there longer, so that I don't have to go into the real world?"

"Ron, that's ridiculous! Teaching is a job, in the 'real world'. If Hogwarts is what makes you happy, then teaching there will make you happy!"

"Know what else makes me happy?" Ron murmured into her hair as he let his head rest on top of his.

"Me?"

"Yes, you." He lifted her chin to him.

"Eh-hem?" Draco audibly cleared his throat as he stuck his head into the flap. Ron and Cho looked up abruptly, causing Cho to clunk her head on Ron's. "Just remember, don't make the same mistakes your parents did; use birth control."

"Draco!" Cho shrieked, tossing a juice box from the cooler at him, but his head had already disappeared back outside.

Draco straightened and smirked. His humor had developed since he's stopped being so sinister, and he did owe it to his father. iFather was the one who always making the wise cracks... even if they were about death, famine, and those not of pure blood.i Draco smirked at the irony; only a few years ago he let the word"mudblood" drop loosely and now he couldn't even say it. iI was such an ass.i

Harry briskly maneuvered past Draco and into the tent. He summoned a piece of parchment, an ink well, a seal, and a quill and crouched in the corner farthest from Cho and Ron, who were eying him suspiciously but didn't say a word.



iDear Snuffles

I need a favor. Please, please send me all the information on Lily Sarah Evans-Potter as soon as wizardly possible. Use spells to retain the information if you must, but it is top priority. Thanks indefinitely, and I hope you are well.

All my love, HJPi



Harry sealed the letter and called for Hedwig, who entered at the same time as Ginny. The snowy owl perched elogantly upon Harry's left shoulder and nibbled affectionately on the sleeve of the Muggle shirt saying, "Gemini's Leading Man" on it. Harry tied the note to her leg and with a dutiful nod she fought her way out of the tent (she ran into Hermione who was entering, notebook in hand).

"Hey, Mione, what are the headlines?" Harry asked casually, setting his ink well and quill down.

"You don't even want to know," said Hermione. She sat beside him on the floor with her knees tucked up to her chest and her arms hugging her knees.

"Yes, I actually do. That is why I asked."

"Okay," Hermione said, smiling unusually. "Draco Malfoy--"

"Don't all problems start with Malfoy?" Harry sighed, raking his fingers through his hair.

"Draco Malfoy read my diary, acted out one of my dreams that I had of him, asked me out to avoid me finding out, went home with Charlene--"

"Charlotte."

"Went home with iCharlottei," Hermione said, rolling her eyes, "Made some sappy excuse about why he didn't get any, whether it was true or not, questioned are friendship, and then said that he actually likes me... like ithat/i.

Harry stared at Hermione for what must have been ten seconds. Then, he calmly stood up, walked out of the tent wordlessly, and loud beating sounds could be heard from inside the tent. Naturally, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, and Cho glued themselves against the thin tent wall.

A few moments later Harry reappeared through the opening flap and smiled gently. "Who's hungry?"

There were various grunts that vaguely resembled "yes" and so Harry took a step over to the cooler and began distributing cans of beans with pork. Draco entered at that time, a few scratched and grass stains mangling his confused face, and was hit in the stomach by a tossed beans and pork can. "Ughhh..." he groaned, but quickly magicked the can open.

"Pork?" Ginny exclaimed, wrinkling her nose. "Harry, you know I don't eat meat!"

"We didn't fight our way to the top of the food chain to be vegetarians," Draco said, digging into his "meal" savagely. Already the bean sauce was dripping down his chin.

"Well this day was a complete waste of makeup," Hermione sighed, suddenly feeling extremely weary.



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A/N: Yaaaaaaaaaaaa…. That's done. Phew. Well. Okay. Thanku to reviewers... we hit the 300 mark!!!!!!! Weeeeeeee! A lot. Here's a thanks:



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Phew. You people… thanks! I gotta go, the next chap nwill be a couple weeks cuz it'll be very long I think. If it turns out I'm a hipocrit, o well. Don't feel like spellchecking. C ya, adios…



And I'm out…