DISCLAIMER: J.K. Rowling owns all characters except Devian, Serenity, and
Nella.
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"Found a new love, have you?" Devian joked half heartedly as she watched
Fred gaze into his plateful of potatoes as if they held all the secrets of
the universe.
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She had been trying to get him to talk to her since yesterday, when
he had first started acting strangely. Every attempt so far had been
futile, and this one promised to be no different. She turned to Ron who was
also staring at his older brother with concern. "I could be talking to a
brick wall for all the difference it makes."
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Ron nodded in agreement.
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"He's been like this all day, I mean, I could say anything to him and
it wouldn't make a difference. Watch..." she turned back to Fred, "Darling,
I have something very important to tell you...I am actually a 37 year old
divorced man with two kids...and what's more I'm leaving you for Snape. Is
that all right with you?"
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Without looking up from his plate, Fred answered in a distracted
tone, "Yes, fine, whatever."
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Under normal circumstances, Ron would have found this funny, but now
he gave Devian a worried glance.
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"Look Fred, I'm being serious, I really need to talk to you."
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"Huh? Did you say something Dev?" Fred looked up from his potatoes
for the first time.
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"Thats it, I give up! I don't understand why you won't tell me what's
bothering you." Devian said, with a hurt look on her face.
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She got up, slamming her chair back into the table loudly, and
stormed off. Fred sighed and looked at his brother. "What?"
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"Uhh... Fred, this would be the part where you go after her."
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"Oh, yea. I should talk to her, shouldn't I?" He asked more to
himself then his brother.
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He followed her the entire way down to the lake before making himself
known. "I'm really sorry I've been ignoring you lately," he said.
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She jumped and whirled around, looking startled, "Jesus Fred! You
shouldn't sneak up on people, you could kill somebody like that."
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"Oh come off it, don't tell me you really didn't expect me to follow
you."
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"Actually, I don't know what to expect when you're acting like this,"
she said, frowning.
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He sighed, "Look I know I've been acting strange, and there's a
reason for that. I've been thinking about you and me...I mean us, and the
future...our future..."
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"Fred, you're rambling."
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"Okay, what I mean is, what you said yesterday...well we really our
graduating this year, and then what? We have to move on, but where will we
go? What about us, where will we be in another 5 years? We have to plan
this all out so we don't lose each other!" He said quickly.
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She hesitated, trying to take in everything he had just said. "When I
said, it was alright to make plans for our future, I didn't mean we had to
map out every little detail. You can't do that with life, because nothing
is garunteed. We don't even know what's going to happen tomorrow, let alone
5 years from now, so there's really no point in getting that anal about it.
What I do know is that if I ever lost you, I would die, and trust me,I plan
on living a nice long happy life, so no matter what, we will always be
there for each other. I'm so sorry you've been agonizing over this, I
didn't think you'd take what I said so seriously."
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"No, that's alright, it just got me thinking, that's all."
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"Well can you please stop thinking? It scares me when you're that
serious. Come on, snap out of it, I need someone to make me laugh again,"
she said, smiling.
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He grinned and wrapped his arms around her. "Okay, I'll stop
thinking."
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She looked thoughtful for a moment. "You know what we need? Something
to get our minds off all this stressful stuff. We should have a party or
something before we go on break."
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"That's a great idea...and we should get smashed, too."
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"How exactly are you planning on aquiring this alcohol?"
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"I've got connections. Just let me run down to Hogsmeade, I'll be
back in an hour or so."
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"Okay, I'll tell the others. When do you want to do this, tonight?"
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"Yeah, that would make sense, because tomorrow's Saturday, and
everyone will be able to deal with hangovers better if they're able to
sleep in."
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"Serenity, what are you planning on doing tonight?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "I was thinking I might relax, take a bubble bath, maybe go to bed early." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "I can't let you do that, my friend. You are going to get smashed with the rest of us, is that clear?" ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Who is the rest of us?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "Me, Fred, George, Nella, Draco, Harry, Ron, and Hermione...but only me and Fred know about it so far, so I need you to spread the word, can you do that for me?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "Sure thing...but how are we going to get drunk? We don't have anything to drink." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Fred's taking care of that as we speak." ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "Hello, Madam Rosmerta." ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ "Fred Weasley! Did you sneak out of school again?" ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________ "No, actually, I wasn't really all that sneaky," Fred said innocently, "Anyway, I was wondering if you could do me a favor, being as I am your favorite Hogwarts student and all." ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ Madam Rosmerta sighed. "How much do you need this time, dear?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ "Oh, I'd say about enough to get nine people plastered." ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________ "Fine, but if you grow up to be an alcoholic, don't come running to me." ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ Fred smiled gratefully at her. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________
"Okay everybody, this is the last time we'll be together until after Christmas break, so drink up!" Fred shouted, and started passing out bottles of rum, tequila, and vodka. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ *2 hours later* ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ "Attention ladies and uhh...the other people, I would like to recite a poem for you all," Harry cried over all the noise and confusion. "One tequila, two tequila, three tequila..." ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "Floor!" Devian screamed and tackled him to the ground. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ Ron wandered across the scene, tripping over them and falling face first to join Devian on top of Harry. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________ "Dog Pile!" George yelled as everyone lept on top of them, creating an ever growing mountain of bodies. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ "This just doesn't seem fair," came Harry's muffled voice from somwhere underneath the mass. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ "Cheer up, groupie,it's hurting me too, but maybe they'll get up soon," Devian said, trying to turn her head so she could see him. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________ "Did you just call me a groupie?" Harry slurred, trying to get the words out correctly. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ "I don't remember. But I wouldn't put it past me to do something like that...would you all mind getting up?" She yelled. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ "We can't," came a voice from above that sounded to Devian like Serenity's. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________ "Why is that?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "Because Fred fell asleep, and he's on top. Nobody can move." ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ "Well don't just lay there, somebody scream in his ear, or pinch, or punch him if you have to! I'm starting to lose circulation to all my limbs down here!" ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ Finally they heard a loud 'ow' and a thud as Fred rolled across the floor a few feet away from them. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ As the night progressed, the group only got more drunk. Ron was wandering around again, babbling to himself, Harry and Hermione were making out on the floor behind the sofa, Fred had passed out on the floor, and George, who was the least drunk of them all, had aquired a black marker and proceeded to draw all over his brother's face. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ "George, stop that!" Devian said angrily as she knocked him backward and took the marker from him. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ "Hey, I was jus havin a lil fun..." ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "You wait til you fall asleep...then I'll have a lil fun." ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ "So you're planning on taking advantage of me?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________ "Shut up thas not what I meant you ass!!! George...what are you doing, put your wand down." ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ "No...and I'm turning you into a pop star, so be quiet, I need concentration." ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "Ahhh! Anything but that!" Devian cried, looking down at her change of clothes. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________ "Whas goin on over here?" Nella asked, appearing suddenly. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________ George then turned his wand on her with an evil grin. "Now it's your turn." ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ She gasped in horror as her clothes changed as well. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ "You won't get away with this, Darth Weasley!" Devian yelled, pulling out her own wand. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ "Darth...what? What did you jus call me?" George asked, then looked into a mirror and screamed at the new hairdo Devian had given him. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ Draco came strutting across the common room and tripped over Harry and Hermione, landing on the couch. He looked up at the scene Devian, George, and Nella were making and started to giggle furiously. George turned to him. "What's so funny, Malfoy?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "Nothing, Goldilocks, nothing," he said, before breaking into another fit of giggles. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "Draco, where's Serenity?" Devian asked, looking around for her friend. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ "Thas a verrrry good question. SERENITY! WHERE ARE YOU?" He yelled at the top of his lungs. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ Serenity crawled stealthily over Harry and Hermione, who didn't seem to notice her at all. She poked her head up from behind the couch, staring at her unsuspecting prey. She giggled to herself,and Draco chose that moment to look up at her. The look on her face made his eyes widen in fear. "Pounce!" She screamed and jumped on him. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ Everyone laughed except Draco, who currently had the wind knocked out of him and was struggling to breath. That ended the eventful night and soon everybody was asleep. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________
"No, no, no...I'll never drink again," Fred groaned, trying to sit up. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "Stop moving around, I'm comfortable!" ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "Devian, why are you dressed like Britney Spears?" Fred asked, suddenly alarmed. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "Oh God I don't remember. Please don't tell me I'm the red leather catsuit Britney Spears," she said without opening her eyes. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "No, but I'm pretty sure Nella will be very unhappy when she wakes up. You're the catholic school girl gone horribly wrong Britney Spears." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Well, It could be worse, I guess." ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "What did you do to George?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "I turned him into a Justin Timberfake...now I remember! He turned me into Britney Spears because I was yelling at him for drawing on your face." She opened her eyes. "Oh my...well at least it wasn't a permanent marker." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________ It wasn't quite dawn yet, and Ron was drunkenly stumbling through the Forbidden Forest. Suddenly he came upon a rather large centaur. "Hello there big horsey man! I'm very confused right now so would you mind giving me directions?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ "Mars is sure bright tonight." ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ "Why yes, yes it is...but I don't think I can go to Mars unless I have a rocket ship. Do you have a rocket ship?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "Mars is sure bright tonight." ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "Ummm...how about you just point me toward civilization?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ The centaur pointed and ran away. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ Serenity and Devian were sitting down by the lake talking quietly to each other as they waited for everyone to get done showering. Draco was the first to join them, sitting next to Serenity and putting his arms around her waist. Next came George and Nella, walking hand in hand. Finally Fred came and sat down next to Devian, looking slightly perturbed. She pushed the hair away on his forehead to expose an increasingly large bruise. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "Uhh...Fred, why is there a big red bump on your head?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "Well, I fell down in the shower." ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "Did you slip on the soap? I did that once!" ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "No, I just wasn't concentrating, and I fell over." ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ They all started laughing. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "That kind of sounds like something Ron would do," Devian commented. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________ "Hey, where is Ron?" Serenity asked suddenly. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ Harry and Hermione came running down from the castle. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "We can't find Ron, and we looked everywhere," Harry started, sounding out of breath. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "We noticed that too, when was the last time anybody saw him?" George asked. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "I vaguely remember watching him walk out the portrait whole at around one in the morning," Draco offered. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "Oh no, we lost Ron! And it's all my fault! I should have known...he's confused enough as it is, add alcohol to that and...I...I don't even want to think about it!" ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ Devian then slapped Fred lightly on the face to bring him back to his senses. "Sorry, but you looked like you needed that." ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "Yea, you're right, sorry. We need to go look for him now. George and Nella, you go look in the castle again, Harry and Hermione, see if he's wandering the grounds somewhere, Serenity and Malfoy, you can search the forest...and uhh, try not to get sidetracked," he said as he saw a look pass between the two. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "And who does that leave, Weasley? Let me guess, you and Devian will search the bed, and the showers possibly?" Malfoy asked, sounding miffed. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "No, as a matter of fact, we will be searching Hogsmeade. It isn't likely that he would've gotten that far, but it can't hurt to check." ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ They all left to search in their assigned areas. Serenity and Draco had a harder time not getting distracted then even Fred had guessed. Harry was beside himself with worry and Hermione had to keep convincing him that they would find Ron, and even if they didn't, he would have to come to his senses and turn up sooner or later. George and Nella were having no luck either. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ Fred and Devian arrived at Hogsmeade expecting to find nothing but quizzical looks from the residents, but instead everyone they asked spoke of the same confused looking red head wondering around for the past few hours. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "Yep, I saw him. I was goin' on my regular mornin' walk when he came runnin' across me path. Almost ran right into him I did. The poor bugger. I says to myself, I says 'Ned, tha's the strangest dern thing I've seen since Elvis come walkin' up inta the pub.' Now this was after his supposed "death" o' course. But I knew better," the old man said, knowingly. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "Er...well...do you remember where he went?" Fred said, making a note to himself to never speak to strangers in Hogsmeade, again. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "Who? Elvis? Heck no! That was years and years ago." ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "Uh, no, the crazy little red head." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Oh! Right, well he went tha' way," he said pointing off to the right. As the two were turning to leave he spoke again, "But then he went tha' way," he pointed in the opposite direction. "And the last time I saw him I'm pretty sure he went tha' way," he finished,finally motioning towards Honeydukes. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ Fred and Devain finally found Ron curled up in a corner of Honeydukes fast asleep. They decided it was better not to wake him, so instead they levitated him a foot above the ground and brought him back to Hogwarts still sleeping soundly. After putting him into bed, they returned to the common room. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "I'm glad that's finally overwith. Maybe next time we should be a little more responsible about our drinking," Devian said as she sat down on the couch. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "Or, maybe, we should put Ron on a leash so he doesn't get lost again." ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "That works too... so now what?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "Dunno, how about a game of chess?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "Sure...hey look, there's still a little bit of Rum left!" Devian exclaimed. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________ It was nearly dark as Harry and Hermione entered the castle, running into Nella and George. "Did you guys find him?" Harry asked hopefully. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "No, but maybe Fred and Devian did, or Malfoy and Serenity...did you talk to any of them yet?" George asked in response. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "Haven't seen them since this morning. Let's go back to the common room, maybe they're waiting for us." ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ As they approached the portrait hole, they could hear a great deal of noise coming from the other side. They entered to find Fred and Devian setting off fireworks and taking turns singing along loudly to a song no one had ever heard before. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "Err...what are you guys doing?" Nella asked sounding confused. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "Finishing up the rest of the Rum...oh by the way, we found Ron." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "You did, just now?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "No...I guess it must have been four hours ago," Devian said, looking at her watch. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "Four hours ago? And it didn't cross your minds even once that you should come find us?" Hermione asked incredulously. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "No, we're the airheads of the group, remember?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "Fair enough...Are Serenity and Malfoy back yet?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "No." ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "They're probably still searching for Ron...maybe we should go look for..." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ Hermione was interrupted by the sound of the portrait swinging open. A minute later Serenity and Draco came in. Everyone stared at them. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "What happened to you guys?" Devian asked mischeviously, knowing all to well what they had been doing. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ They were both covered in dirt and soggy leaves,buttons on clothing were done up crooked, and Serenity had a few twigs sticking out of her hair. Not noticing the knowing look Devian had given them, they both launched into a rather colorful explanation of what had happened. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Well, you see...we were umm...looking for Weasley, and then umm..." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "we were attacked by a unicorn..." ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "and then this leprechaun came along..." ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "something about lucky charms..." ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ "rather confused fellow if you ask me..." ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ "so anyway by that time the unicorn was gone..." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________ "and the leprechuan took us hostage..." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "a very violent situation..." ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "he rolled us down this big hill..." ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________ "kept mumbling about his red balloons..." ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "You guys got distracted, didn't you?" Devian cut them off. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________ "How did you know?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "I've done my fare share of rolling around on the ground to know what one looks like afterward," she said, grinning. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________
"Err...Hermione, before you go up to bed, could I talk to you?" Harry asked nervously. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "Sure..." she said, sounding equally as nervous. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ She thought she knew what was coming. They had been so caught up in finding their best friend that they still hadn't talked about what had happened between them the previous night. They snuck out the portrait hole without anyone noticing they had left. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ He took a deep breath before beginning. "I've never come close to a real relationship before...sure, I've liked people... I mean, there was that crush I had on Cho, and I've always found Malfoy a little attractive...but...well what I wanna say is...Hermione, we've been friends since first year, and in that time I've grown to like you as more than a friend, so... will you go out with me?" He asked quickly, holding his breath. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "Oh Harry thats...wait what did you say?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "Will you go out with me?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "No, before that..."
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"Serenity, what are you planning on doing tonight?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "I was thinking I might relax, take a bubble bath, maybe go to bed early." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "I can't let you do that, my friend. You are going to get smashed with the rest of us, is that clear?" ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Who is the rest of us?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "Me, Fred, George, Nella, Draco, Harry, Ron, and Hermione...but only me and Fred know about it so far, so I need you to spread the word, can you do that for me?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "Sure thing...but how are we going to get drunk? We don't have anything to drink." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Fred's taking care of that as we speak." ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "Hello, Madam Rosmerta." ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ "Fred Weasley! Did you sneak out of school again?" ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________ "No, actually, I wasn't really all that sneaky," Fred said innocently, "Anyway, I was wondering if you could do me a favor, being as I am your favorite Hogwarts student and all." ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ Madam Rosmerta sighed. "How much do you need this time, dear?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ "Oh, I'd say about enough to get nine people plastered." ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________ "Fine, but if you grow up to be an alcoholic, don't come running to me." ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ Fred smiled gratefully at her. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________
"Okay everybody, this is the last time we'll be together until after Christmas break, so drink up!" Fred shouted, and started passing out bottles of rum, tequila, and vodka. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ *2 hours later* ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ "Attention ladies and uhh...the other people, I would like to recite a poem for you all," Harry cried over all the noise and confusion. "One tequila, two tequila, three tequila..." ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "Floor!" Devian screamed and tackled him to the ground. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ Ron wandered across the scene, tripping over them and falling face first to join Devian on top of Harry. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________ "Dog Pile!" George yelled as everyone lept on top of them, creating an ever growing mountain of bodies. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ "This just doesn't seem fair," came Harry's muffled voice from somwhere underneath the mass. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ "Cheer up, groupie,it's hurting me too, but maybe they'll get up soon," Devian said, trying to turn her head so she could see him. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________ "Did you just call me a groupie?" Harry slurred, trying to get the words out correctly. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ "I don't remember. But I wouldn't put it past me to do something like that...would you all mind getting up?" She yelled. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ "We can't," came a voice from above that sounded to Devian like Serenity's. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________ "Why is that?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "Because Fred fell asleep, and he's on top. Nobody can move." ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ "Well don't just lay there, somebody scream in his ear, or pinch, or punch him if you have to! I'm starting to lose circulation to all my limbs down here!" ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ Finally they heard a loud 'ow' and a thud as Fred rolled across the floor a few feet away from them. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ As the night progressed, the group only got more drunk. Ron was wandering around again, babbling to himself, Harry and Hermione were making out on the floor behind the sofa, Fred had passed out on the floor, and George, who was the least drunk of them all, had aquired a black marker and proceeded to draw all over his brother's face. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ "George, stop that!" Devian said angrily as she knocked him backward and took the marker from him. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ "Hey, I was jus havin a lil fun..." ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "You wait til you fall asleep...then I'll have a lil fun." ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ "So you're planning on taking advantage of me?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________ "Shut up thas not what I meant you ass!!! George...what are you doing, put your wand down." ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ "No...and I'm turning you into a pop star, so be quiet, I need concentration." ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "Ahhh! Anything but that!" Devian cried, looking down at her change of clothes. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________ "Whas goin on over here?" Nella asked, appearing suddenly. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________ George then turned his wand on her with an evil grin. "Now it's your turn." ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ She gasped in horror as her clothes changed as well. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ "You won't get away with this, Darth Weasley!" Devian yelled, pulling out her own wand. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ "Darth...what? What did you jus call me?" George asked, then looked into a mirror and screamed at the new hairdo Devian had given him. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ Draco came strutting across the common room and tripped over Harry and Hermione, landing on the couch. He looked up at the scene Devian, George, and Nella were making and started to giggle furiously. George turned to him. "What's so funny, Malfoy?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "Nothing, Goldilocks, nothing," he said, before breaking into another fit of giggles. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "Draco, where's Serenity?" Devian asked, looking around for her friend. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ "Thas a verrrry good question. SERENITY! WHERE ARE YOU?" He yelled at the top of his lungs. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ Serenity crawled stealthily over Harry and Hermione, who didn't seem to notice her at all. She poked her head up from behind the couch, staring at her unsuspecting prey. She giggled to herself,and Draco chose that moment to look up at her. The look on her face made his eyes widen in fear. "Pounce!" She screamed and jumped on him. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ Everyone laughed except Draco, who currently had the wind knocked out of him and was struggling to breath. That ended the eventful night and soon everybody was asleep. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________
"No, no, no...I'll never drink again," Fred groaned, trying to sit up. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "Stop moving around, I'm comfortable!" ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "Devian, why are you dressed like Britney Spears?" Fred asked, suddenly alarmed. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "Oh God I don't remember. Please don't tell me I'm the red leather catsuit Britney Spears," she said without opening her eyes. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "No, but I'm pretty sure Nella will be very unhappy when she wakes up. You're the catholic school girl gone horribly wrong Britney Spears." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Well, It could be worse, I guess." ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "What did you do to George?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "I turned him into a Justin Timberfake...now I remember! He turned me into Britney Spears because I was yelling at him for drawing on your face." She opened her eyes. "Oh my...well at least it wasn't a permanent marker." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________ It wasn't quite dawn yet, and Ron was drunkenly stumbling through the Forbidden Forest. Suddenly he came upon a rather large centaur. "Hello there big horsey man! I'm very confused right now so would you mind giving me directions?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ "Mars is sure bright tonight." ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ "Why yes, yes it is...but I don't think I can go to Mars unless I have a rocket ship. Do you have a rocket ship?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "Mars is sure bright tonight." ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "Ummm...how about you just point me toward civilization?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ The centaur pointed and ran away. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ Serenity and Devian were sitting down by the lake talking quietly to each other as they waited for everyone to get done showering. Draco was the first to join them, sitting next to Serenity and putting his arms around her waist. Next came George and Nella, walking hand in hand. Finally Fred came and sat down next to Devian, looking slightly perturbed. She pushed the hair away on his forehead to expose an increasingly large bruise. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "Uhh...Fred, why is there a big red bump on your head?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "Well, I fell down in the shower." ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "Did you slip on the soap? I did that once!" ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "No, I just wasn't concentrating, and I fell over." ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ They all started laughing. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "That kind of sounds like something Ron would do," Devian commented. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________ "Hey, where is Ron?" Serenity asked suddenly. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ Harry and Hermione came running down from the castle. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "We can't find Ron, and we looked everywhere," Harry started, sounding out of breath. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "We noticed that too, when was the last time anybody saw him?" George asked. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "I vaguely remember watching him walk out the portrait whole at around one in the morning," Draco offered. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "Oh no, we lost Ron! And it's all my fault! I should have known...he's confused enough as it is, add alcohol to that and...I...I don't even want to think about it!" ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ Devian then slapped Fred lightly on the face to bring him back to his senses. "Sorry, but you looked like you needed that." ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "Yea, you're right, sorry. We need to go look for him now. George and Nella, you go look in the castle again, Harry and Hermione, see if he's wandering the grounds somewhere, Serenity and Malfoy, you can search the forest...and uhh, try not to get sidetracked," he said as he saw a look pass between the two. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "And who does that leave, Weasley? Let me guess, you and Devian will search the bed, and the showers possibly?" Malfoy asked, sounding miffed. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "No, as a matter of fact, we will be searching Hogsmeade. It isn't likely that he would've gotten that far, but it can't hurt to check." ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ They all left to search in their assigned areas. Serenity and Draco had a harder time not getting distracted then even Fred had guessed. Harry was beside himself with worry and Hermione had to keep convincing him that they would find Ron, and even if they didn't, he would have to come to his senses and turn up sooner or later. George and Nella were having no luck either. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ Fred and Devian arrived at Hogsmeade expecting to find nothing but quizzical looks from the residents, but instead everyone they asked spoke of the same confused looking red head wondering around for the past few hours. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "Yep, I saw him. I was goin' on my regular mornin' walk when he came runnin' across me path. Almost ran right into him I did. The poor bugger. I says to myself, I says 'Ned, tha's the strangest dern thing I've seen since Elvis come walkin' up inta the pub.' Now this was after his supposed "death" o' course. But I knew better," the old man said, knowingly. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "Er...well...do you remember where he went?" Fred said, making a note to himself to never speak to strangers in Hogsmeade, again. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "Who? Elvis? Heck no! That was years and years ago." ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "Uh, no, the crazy little red head." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Oh! Right, well he went tha' way," he said pointing off to the right. As the two were turning to leave he spoke again, "But then he went tha' way," he pointed in the opposite direction. "And the last time I saw him I'm pretty sure he went tha' way," he finished,finally motioning towards Honeydukes. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ Fred and Devain finally found Ron curled up in a corner of Honeydukes fast asleep. They decided it was better not to wake him, so instead they levitated him a foot above the ground and brought him back to Hogwarts still sleeping soundly. After putting him into bed, they returned to the common room. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "I'm glad that's finally overwith. Maybe next time we should be a little more responsible about our drinking," Devian said as she sat down on the couch. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "Or, maybe, we should put Ron on a leash so he doesn't get lost again." ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ "That works too... so now what?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "Dunno, how about a game of chess?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "Sure...hey look, there's still a little bit of Rum left!" Devian exclaimed. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________ It was nearly dark as Harry and Hermione entered the castle, running into Nella and George. "Did you guys find him?" Harry asked hopefully. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "No, but maybe Fred and Devian did, or Malfoy and Serenity...did you talk to any of them yet?" George asked in response. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "Haven't seen them since this morning. Let's go back to the common room, maybe they're waiting for us." ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ As they approached the portrait hole, they could hear a great deal of noise coming from the other side. They entered to find Fred and Devian setting off fireworks and taking turns singing along loudly to a song no one had ever heard before. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "Err...what are you guys doing?" Nella asked sounding confused. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ "Finishing up the rest of the Rum...oh by the way, we found Ron." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "You did, just now?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "No...I guess it must have been four hours ago," Devian said, looking at her watch. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "Four hours ago? And it didn't cross your minds even once that you should come find us?" Hermione asked incredulously. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "No, we're the airheads of the group, remember?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "Fair enough...Are Serenity and Malfoy back yet?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ "No." ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ "They're probably still searching for Ron...maybe we should go look for..." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ Hermione was interrupted by the sound of the portrait swinging open. A minute later Serenity and Draco came in. Everyone stared at them. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "What happened to you guys?" Devian asked mischeviously, knowing all to well what they had been doing. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ They were both covered in dirt and soggy leaves,buttons on clothing were done up crooked, and Serenity had a few twigs sticking out of her hair. Not noticing the knowing look Devian had given them, they both launched into a rather colorful explanation of what had happened. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Well, you see...we were umm...looking for Weasley, and then umm..." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "we were attacked by a unicorn..." ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "and then this leprechaun came along..." ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "something about lucky charms..." ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ "rather confused fellow if you ask me..." ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ "so anyway by that time the unicorn was gone..." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________ "and the leprechuan took us hostage..." ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ "a very violent situation..." ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "he rolled us down this big hill..." ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________ "kept mumbling about his red balloons..." ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "You guys got distracted, didn't you?" Devian cut them off. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________ "How did you know?" ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ "I've done my fare share of rolling around on the ground to know what one looks like afterward," she said, grinning. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________
"Err...Hermione, before you go up to bed, could I talk to you?" Harry asked nervously. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "Sure..." she said, sounding equally as nervous. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ She thought she knew what was coming. They had been so caught up in finding their best friend that they still hadn't talked about what had happened between them the previous night. They snuck out the portrait hole without anyone noticing they had left. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ He took a deep breath before beginning. "I've never come close to a real relationship before...sure, I've liked people... I mean, there was that crush I had on Cho, and I've always found Malfoy a little attractive...but...well what I wanna say is...Hermione, we've been friends since first year, and in that time I've grown to like you as more than a friend, so... will you go out with me?" He asked quickly, holding his breath. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "Oh Harry thats...wait what did you say?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "Will you go out with me?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ "No, before that..."
____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________ "I had a crush on Cho? I though you knew that." ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________ "No...I mean yes, I knew that, but did you say something about Malfoy?" ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________ "That's not important right now." ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ "Okay...well then yes, I will go out with you," she said, smiling. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ _____END OF CHAPTER!!! Told ya I wouldn't harm Fred! Even Ron got back safely! I just can't hurt these lovely wonderful redheads *begins to drool* Right! Well, please review!