"I don't care, Harry! Hermione is better suited for me! With all the enemies you've got she'd have her head blown off!"

"Hermione likes me better and you know it! You're jealous!"

Ron abandoned his previous position on the common room couch in favor of standing over Harry. "Jealous? Jealous! I've never heard of a more ridiculous idea!" Ron cried in outrage. "I'm taking Hermione to the Halloween Ball and there's nothing you can do about it!"

"Excuse me!" Hermione stalked in through the portrait hole. "What drug are the two of you on! I am not a possession!"

Both boys had the dignity to at least look ashamed as Hermione stormed off.

"Look what you've done! Are you happy now?" Ron fumed before stalking out of the common room to breakfast.

Harry sighed. Great, now he had no date for the Halloween Ball tonight and it was all Ron's fault. He shrugged at least he could say he had been invited for his Quidditch abilities. That would make Ron mad. Only six people had been invited for academic or athletic skill. Harry sighed again before turning to find a costume for the Ball.

But as he turned he rammed right into Ginny Weasley, she had been invited for academics, being in sixth year she'd come a long way from first year.

"Watch where you're going!" Harry growled.

"Sorry." Ginny muttered "But Harry, I was wondering, would you."

"What?!" Harry demanded heatedly.

"Well, would, you ah take me to the ball tonight." She sped through.

"No!" Was the automatic reply as Harry swept up to his dorm room.

The night rolled around and as every one else cleared the school to give the 'over achievers' their privacy. Every other child was taking a class in Kalamazoo on ocean crabs, even the professors. Dumbledore did have the sense though to lock the six students in so they couldn't leave the building and cause trouble.

Harry was the first to arrive in the adorned Great Hall. All about him were Halloween activities, bobbing for apples, trying to eat a pie off a string and a huge banquet table already set with scrumptious dishes for the 'lucky' student's consumption.

"The plastic tail protruding from your butt really pulls your look together Potter." Harry whirled around to lay eyes on Draco garbed as a vampire. "Why are you looking Malfoy?" Harry shot back.

"I had no choice in the matter Potter, it isn't my fault your bum is so large it block out all other forms of matter within my eye sight."

Harry just glared, but his attention was quickly pulled away by Hermione who waltzed into the Hall at that moment. She looked elegant dressed in silk robes mocking the princesses of medieval times, complete with a rope belt around her waist and a crown upon her head.

"Where is everyone?" She asked, surveying the room.

Then Pansy and Ron came bustling in. Ron was dressed as Frankenstein boasting huge chains that clanked on the ground in a rather annoying manner. Pansy was a black cat, bearing huge metal claws on the ends of her fingers.

Ginny followed her brother slightly afterward, wrapped in angel attire, with a harp and halo. She smiled at Hermione as she passed to take a seat at the dinner table.

"No not yet!" Pansy cried as everyone began to copy Ginny's decision of feasting.

Draco arched a eye brow. "Why not?"

"We have to bob for apples first." She reasoned.

"Oh yeah." Hermione reflected on the Halloween tradition.

Every one rose and strolled over to the huge metal pail filled with apples.

"You first, Harry." Ron suggested.

Harry shrugged. "Sure." He bent his head to scoop up one of the several fruits floating about and suddenly the lights went out plunging the room into darkness.

Hermione screamed. The lights came back on and Harry was face down in the water. Draco walked over and lifted his head. "Drowned." He analyzed. "Potter's dead."

************************************************************************How do you like it? Let me know. Oh and I'd also like to know who you suspect if any one. Later.