Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in this story the people from the Land of Oz belong to L. Frank Baum and all the people at Hogwarts belong to J.K Rowling. I only own the plot though my brother did give me the idea.
Chapter Six/The Ball
Only two more days to the ball and everyone was exited, well apart from Ron who still couldn't get over the fact that he was going with the witch.
"Put it this way Ron I mean it could be worse at least she won't be wearing those awful black robes, hopefully she will be wearing some nice dress robes"
"Yea HOPEFULLY! More like a big fluffy pink bunny rabbit suit!" Said Ron even more miserably then before.
"Maybe you could fake out sick?" Harry asked.
"Nah she would know after all she is a witch."
"Well duh and we are wizards"
"Oh yea I forgot about that"
The two young wizards who we know as Ron and Harry were spending their Friday night off by wondering around the castle and just talking about whatever came into their minds.
"So hows the book going?"
"What book?"
"The book with like one thousand pages"
"Um..."
"You know the one about these frog-its and this house elf and a whole heap of other weird people?"
"Oh you mean Lord of the Rings"
"Yea something like that Ron"
"Well the frog-its are really hobbits and they are elves not house elves since a human has fallen in love with a girl elf."
"I just don't see how a human can fall in love with an elf Ron? I mean house elves are really ugly."
"Well the elves in this book are not house elf's they are just like humans but just immortal, so there!"
"R-right"
***
"515,321... 515,320... 515,319..." Hermione was on the edge of falling asleep while the witch was wide awake and very far from even falling asleep. Hermione was spending her Friday night trying to put the witch to sleep.
So far Hermione had tried to get the witch to drink lots of glasses of water. Hermione reading to the witch the first half of the wizard of oz, trying out magic' tricks. Reading the second half of the wizard of oz. Doing Hermione's homework since the witch didn't have any, Hermione making different types of dresses and pillows appear and Hermione counting backwards from a million. But so far nothing had worked.
"514,978... 514,977... 514,976..."
:::8 hours, 32 and a half minutes later:::
"100... 99... 98... 97... 96..." Hermione looked at her watch. "93... 92... 91..." It read 8:30 nearly time for her to get up, she thought. "89... 70... 30... 20... One... Now good night and next time you can't get to sleep don't go and bother me. So GOOD MORNING."
Hermione then got up and tried to have her shower but collapsed straight away only managing to be able to craw since her legs weren't strong enough to support her body weight.
"Great" she said to herself "Today is going to be a long day"
***
"Should I have the black lipstick with the black dress or the black dress with the red lipstick?" Lavender asked.
"The red lipstick with the black dress of course!" Parvati said.
It was a bright Saturday morning and Lavender, Parvati and Dorothy where sitting on the floor in the girl's dorm already starting to get ready for the ball.
"I can't believe we never started getting ready earlier I mean it been a week... A WEEK! WE SHOULD OF GOT READY LAST SATURDAY!" Screamed Lavender
"Lavender calm down... CALM DOWN ALRIGHT." Dorothy shouted. "Now grey dress or blue dress?" Dorothy asked in normal soft voice holding up two different dresses.
Lavender relaxed it was nothing that she loved better was giving out fashion tips to other girls with no style. "Blue dress with those ruby slippers" She said pointing to the ruby slippers on Dorothy's feet.
"Thanks Lav" Dorothy said happily "I have a feeling that this is going to be the best ball ever!"
"I think you mean your first ball ever" Said Parvati.
"Can you girls shut-up?" Yelled Hermione from her bed "Its not like I didn't spend half the night trying to get the witch to sleep."
***
It was lunchtime also the first day of the holidays and every one in the great hall was filled with the excitement that on Monday when it was Christmas Eve it would also be the day of the great Winter Ball. Hermione knowing no matter how tired she was she couldn't spend the whole day in bed and had got up to have some lunch. Her face was resting in a big bowl of tomato soup when suddenly a loud "BANG!" happened the hall was silent then they saw it was only the Witch and they all went back to eating. The Witch angry that no one was paying any attention to her clicked the fingers twice before hundreds of monkeys with bat's wings came flying in.
Everyone screamed "NOOOOOOOOO IT'S THE FLYING RATS THEY'RE HERE TO KILL US ALL RUN" Screamed out one little girl. The witch pleased with her doings clicked her fingers three times and the flying monkeys flew away.
"Thank-You all I would like to announce that the Wicked Witch of the West is not holding the play any more..." Dumbledore said. Everyone stopped in mid-air before screaming out YES!'
"But..." he continued "She will be showing a muggle movie called The Wizard of Oz instead." Everyone stopped celebrating "Now while I am here I have I few things I need to sort out since one student has been bugging me." All eyes turn toward Malfoy who seems to be smiling nervously. "Why didn't I use magic to fix the main hall so classes wouldn't be cancelled for a week? Well the Ministry of Magic has told me that since the return of Voldemont and how he has returned fully powered for two years now. That we need to be careful on how we use our magic because if we do one thing wrong with it Voldemont could come crashing down our walls at any time."
Everyone nodded in agreement last year when Harry Potter was in his fifth year Voldemont had tried to kill Harry Potter and his friends in their dreams. Dumbledore had to use lots of enchantments to protect his students so now if Dumbledore did one spell wrong he would be risking the death of his students.
"Now why did the holidays start today and not last Friday? Well we needed to make up the week of school you missed out on so you could get your holiday homework and last but not least the winter ball. Well the older students can go to the 3:00pm ball is they so wish but the younger students can't go to the 10:00pm. Now Mr Malfoy do you have any other questions or is that all. No? Good. Now thank-you ask again!"
The Witch sat back down and started giving death stares to every one, Malfoy ran away crying like a little girl, Hermione was still asleep in the bowl of soup never even waking up to Dumbledore's speech and Lavender was putting on some lip-gloss.
:::The Day of the Ball:::
It was breakfast time and at last the great day had came with everyone going crazy, Malfoy was giving Dorothy mean looks, while Hermione was giving the witch the evil eye and Cho kept staring at Harry till Harry started staring at her so Cho gave him the finger.
Halfway through breakfast when it was just seconds before owl post, the flying monkeys returned flying through the windows dropping a whole bunch of packages in front the Witch, who said a charm to them that made the packages float and follow her out of the room. The flying monkeys then disappeared out the windows just before the owl post came. There were only a few owls most of then all went to the girls, which probably contained their dresses for the ball. One large black owl with spots of brown flew down to Dumbledore and dropping a letter on top of his head before flying off. Dumbledore read the letter then stood up everyone turned and looked at him wondering what had been written on the letter.
"I have just been informed by the Ministry of Magic that every signal newspaper of the Daily Profet has gone missing and it has been notified that all the news papers are somewhere in this school so I want everyone to go on a newspaper hunt."
All the teachers looked shocked and started screaming out different things.
"What I'm going to do about my teaching plans?"
"How will I find out the latest news on the next Harry Potter movie?"
"How am I going to find out my horoscope?" Everyone stops panicking and turns to look at Professor Trelawney who had just said that.
"WHAT!!! Do you mean that everything you told me was out of a newspaper. You know what I think I'm glad that mum and dad made me change courses to muggle studies!" Lavender said who as we all know is one of the biggest Divination freaks.
"Are you saying that all 1,266 ways you told me how to die were just taken from a newspaper?"
"So my pet gold fish won't die?"
"So that how all my future predictions I got from you were always the same to the ones in the newspaper."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Screamed Professor Trelawney.
"I'm going" Lion said to Dorothy "I don't like it when humans fight over silly things. I guess I'll see you at the ball Dorothy." And so Lion walked off to go for a walk in the gardens.
***
"Red dress or blue dress?"
"Red"
"Hair up or down?"
"Up"
"Make-up, small amount of make-up or none at all?"
"Make-up"
Hermione was getting some last minute tips from Dorothy who had become the new over night fashion queen. Half an hour later Hermione came out of the bathroom dressed up and all ready to be taken to the ball. Hermione had taken all of Dorothy's fashion tips and was wearing a red velvet gown with gold lace trimmings around the neck. Her hair had been put up into a bun with matching red velvet ribbons.
Dorothy was looking much better then Hermione she was wearing that famous blue and white checked dress. Her soft brown hair was plaited into two plaits tied at the bottom with two blue ribbons completed with of course the red ruby slippers. As for her face all Dorothy was only wearing some shiny lip-gloss compared to Hermione who was wearing the lot.
After five minutes of checking each other to see if there were any mistakes that needed to be fixed up they went down to the Common room and looked around at all the girls and boys who were getting ready to go to the 3 o' clock ball. There were boys wearing dress robes of nearly every colour while the girls were taking the teenage witch weekly tip of the month and all wearing dress of red, crimson and an off looking yellow colour. The only ones that stood out were of course Lavender and Parvati. They were both looking like twins in the same gold silk dress with gold slippers, a pearl necklace and matching pearl earrings.
"Hi gals" Dorothy said skipping over to the two girls and linking arms with them "You two look like twins, but I must say how dreadful do all these other girls look?"
"I know who would want dress up in yellow and red I mean HELLO." Lavender said. "Oh no offence to you Hermione."
"None taken." Hermione said then went back to not being noticed.
"So what happened to the black dress Lav?" Dorothy asked.
"Oh I gave it to Parvati who gave it to her twin sister."
"That is like so kind of you"
"I know"
"I'd hate to break the conversation with you two but what the hell is Hermione doing here?" Parvati asked.
"Oh I invited her." Dorothy stopped and then waved to Hermione who was now standing in the corner "Oh Hermy over here" Hermione looked up from the floor and went over and stood next to the girls.
"I see that you two have dressed up like twins" Hermione stated looking Lavender and Parvati up and down.
"No duh" Both girls replied at the same time.
"Well I'm Sorry"
"So you should be?" The both replied again.
"R-right"
"Well I'm going to go and find Harry now." Dorothy said holding a black cloak in her hands.
"Bye"
"See ya"
"Later"
Dorothy put on the black cloak to cover her dress she was wearing before walking out of the Gryffindor common room. Lavender then told them that she was going up to the girl's dorm so that she could reapply her lipstick and to get hers and Parvati bags. She walked up the stairs as ladylike as possible before reappearing three minutes later holing two gold silk lace trimmed bags she started walking down the stairs again but she stepped on the stair that was broken.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH" Lavender went crashing down. The noise stopped and Lavender put a hand up in the air. "I'm okay"
"R-right"
"Who said that?"
"Me"
"Well Me, I'm am going to kill you as soon as I get up" Lavender tries to stand but she just mangers to fall down again. "Er you do know that a little help here WOULD BE NICE!!!"
Parvati rushed over to help her up out of the hole but halfway up she loses her balance and falls back making Lavender crash down to the bottom of the hole again. At least five minutes later Lavender managers to get up by herself. She kicks Parvati out of the way and checks her dress for any marks or tears.
"Now" Lavender said pleased to see that the areas of the dress she had checked were okay, not noticing the big tear running down the back of the dress. "Now Me whoever you are if anything happen to my dress I would sooooo kill you and cut off your head and eat all the blood and guts that would come crawling out."
"And I would kill you and cut off your head even more!" Parvati added to Lavender's sentence.
"Fine I guess I can come out of my hiding spot anyway." The voice said revealing Harry coming out from under a couch that in the first place he could use to hide from Dorothy.
Lavender gasped and knelt down towards Harry worshiping him, Parvati of course copying.
"Oh I am so sorry master I never knew it was you who was the owner to that voice. Please forgive me I repeat PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, FORGIVE ME O MIGHTY ONE."
"Um Lavender are you okay? I mean you just DON'T go around worshipping people." Harry said staring at the two clumps of people on the ground at his feet
"Huh?" Lavender said her head snapping out of the drunkenness she had been in. "Where am I? Why the hell am I on this floor? It is just disgusting, absolutely disgusting and I for once am sick of it!"
"I think you had a bit too much to drink this morning." Harry said looking at the now messed up Lavender.
"No I'm perfectly fine. I think someone just did a spell on me?"
"Oh sorry that would have had to be me." Parvati answered standing up "It was really meant to make Dorothy drunk. I just can't stand the way she is now Miss Perfect Fashion Queen. I guess I just didn't set it right."
"Or maybe it rebounded onto Lavender?"
"Any way my point is... Oh my gosh Lavender you have a big tear running down the back of you dress!"
"Ahhhhhhhhh when I find out who did this I am going to kill that person and rip off their head!"
"I think I'll go now." Harry said quietly to himself before slipping out of the common room leaving Lavender and Parvati to fight over the dress. While also crossing his fingers that he wouldn't run into Dorothy. Even though she was his date he found that he couldn't seem to face her any more.
Lavender and Parvati didn't seem to be doing any better they were fretting over the dress and what could be done.
"Parvati what am I going to do? I have to go and meet my surprise date in ten minutes by the lake to take me to the 3 o' clock ball then he has a surprise till the 10 o' clock ball."
"Oh Lavender I have no idea, why does this have to happen to you? OH WHY NOT ME?!" Parvati said whining while banging her head against the wall.
"Um excuse me but if I do a spell to repair your dress do you think you could shut-up?"
"Please, please, PLEASE DO SO!" Lavender said on her knees begging the person who had just said that, though she had no idea since her eyes were burred with tears. She heard a girl gasp and someone scream but they were probably only shocked by the sight of her and her dress.
"Okay if you wish." Said the voice that was male. "E-O-DAY-LAY-A" bright light blinded Lavender's eyes but as quickly as the light had came it went away. Lavender opened her eyes and blinked. She got up off the floor and inspected her dress pleased to find that it was as good as new.
"Thank-you sooooo much kind sir" Lavender said looking up at the man who had repaired her dress but to her shock she found out it was Lion. She stood still for a minute before screaming and running out of the Gryffindor common room with Parvati.
"Oh!" Lion said sighing. "That's the third time this week."
"Don't worry people do that all the time to me." Said a boy named Neville coming up behind him.
"And me," said another.
"And me."
"Don't forget me."
By this time Lion had a small crowd around him for really doing nothing, but everyone was pushed away by Hermione wanting to speak with him.
"Come on, come on. Hurry up. Chop, chop, aren't you going to take me to the ball or what?"
"Okay in a minute just let me say bye to my friends." Lion turned around and lifted a paw to wave with. "Ta, Ta darlings. Miss you."
"Okay we are going RIGHT NOW!" and Hermione pulled him out of the common room dragging him towards the great hall where the ball was going to be held.
***
"Master, Master. What are we going to do now?" Said a voice coming out of the darkness in the old Riddle house.
"Shut-up Wormtail and let me think. Let's see we or should I really say I tried to kill him as a baby but his stupid mother had to protect him. I tried but failed to kill him when he was 11, 12 and 14 years old. So last year when I was fully restored I tried to attack him in his dreams but dumb Dumbledore had to use all those spells to keep him safe and happy which is a pity since I was so close to getting him dead."
"So master what is your new idea?" Wormtail said gripping the back of his master's chair scared that he would lose his temper again at him for asking stupid questions.
"Well" croaked the lifeless voice. "Well" he repeated "I have no more idea's left and all I wanted to do was tell Potter that I was his father and that R2D2 was his cousin and that if he joined me together we could rule the galaxies. But now I I" the rest of the sentence was drowned off by his large wailing sops.
"UM MASTER SIR. I THINK YOU SHOULD STOP WATCHING STAR WARS!" Wormtail yelled out over his master's loud wails. "I THINK ITS GIVING YOU BAD IDEAS!"
:::At the Ball:::
It was that time of year again when all the first years were exited that Santa would be coming. Also that they would be going to the 3 o' clock ball with pretty much the rest of the school (apart from some of the older students that were only going to the 10 o' clock ball).
Five minutes before the 3 o' clock was to start the students at Hogwarts was crowding around the large oak doors waiting for them to open. Everyone was busy chatting about how the hall would be set up and decorated.
"I hear that they doing a theme this year." A kid said.
"Yea Car Wars." Said another.
"Not Car Wars, Star Wars you nitwit!"
"Shhh the doors are opening!" a little first year girl said pointing at the door which were opening very slowly. When they were open fully everyone gasped the had indeed chosen a theme, the theme of
"OH. MY. GOD. I mean gosh what the hell is that meant to be?" A girl in her seventh year said pointing at the brightly coloured lights and tables.
"That's a table."
"No duh I mean what's on the table?"
"I have no idea?" This talk continued on like this for a while with no one moving or doing anything that would cause sudden notice of one another.
"I know what it is. I know! Pick me, pick me!" It was Ron who was jumping up and down like a two-year-old baby.
"Well what?" Hahhah Abbort said coming up and joining the back of the line.
"Well I have no idea what's on the table but I know that the ball is set out like the land of Munchkins. In fact I do believe its Munchkin land!"
"Come again?"
"Oh for the love of god, pun intended." Hermione said coming up still dragging Lion.
"It's from the Wizard of Oz and that" Hermione said pointing to the thing on the table "Is a television."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE WIZARD OF OZ ANYTHING BUT THE WIZARD OF OZ!!!" Screamed everyone while running around in circles.
"Oh just shut-up every one and chill out. Oh come on Lion lets just go and enjoy ourselves at this ball." Hermione remarked before pushing Lion into the great hall.
***
While that had been happening Dorothy had just found Harry hiding in the boys toilets. She had managed to get lost while wondering around and got lead into the boy's bathroom by a ghost.
"Oh Harry what are you doing here?" Dorothy asked finding Harry sitting on the floor in an empty toilet cubicle.
"What am I doing here? What are you doing here?"
"I was lost silly, so this nice ghost named Peeves lead me here saying that this is the girls toilets. Anyway I repeat what are you doing in the girls toilets?"
"GIRLS? DOROTHY LOOK AROUND YOU DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THE GIRLS TOILETS TO YOU???"
"Yes!"
"Oh forget it."
Forget what?"
"Oh come on we're leaving this place before anyone sees us." Harry stood up off the floor, which he had been sitting on. He grabbed Dorothy and started pulling her to the exit.
Just as they were about to leave Malfoy came into the bathroom, he looked up saw Harry with Dorothy then screamed and ran out yelling; "It's unfair why does Potter always get the best looking girls. Why can't I for once get an real date?"
"Why did that boy scream like a little girl?" Dorothy asked.
"Probably because he is upset cos he wanted to go with you to the ball. Now come on lets go I don't want anyone else to see us."
***
"We're off to the wizard the wonderful wizard of oz. We hear he is a..." the music was playing loudly from a C.D player near the back of the room.
The floor was made up of yellow bricks; the walls had been painted with picture of houses and things and the waiters were funny little small people dressed in blue with weird voices.
The table had been painted blue to match the waiter's suits, but were covered with yellow straw as an odd type of tablecloth. The brightly coloured lights were shining upon the dance floor where the yellow bricks had been layed. The teachers had dressed up as characters from the wizard of oz and were looking very miserable.
The main attraction though was the large wide screen T.V placed at the right end of the room in the middle. The muggle born children knowing what it was kept away, but all the others were crowded around it prodding and poking it.
"What is it?" one of the kids asked.
"I don't know"
"Maybe it's a mirror or a window?"
"Okay lets open it."
"Are you dumb or what?" Screamed Hermione looking very annoyed "It's a television a... T.V a... Screen!"
"A T.V?"
"That's a funny name, I would of called it not a window not yet a mirror'"
"Nah winor'"
"Okay everyone just shut-up it's a television and that's what it shall only be called."
"Oh come on Hermione can you stop being a know-it-all for once?"
"No and shut-up Ron."
"Why should I little miss buff head?"
"Why you little..."
But Dumbledore entering dressed up as a lion in a large fluffy lion suit cut her off.
"Oh my god!" Ron said starring into the distance.
"Yeah look at all the gold fur." Lion said
"Not that... THAT!" Ron said moving Lion's head in the direction where another person was standing.
"Please tell me that is not the Wicked Witch?" Ron said with a hint of panic in his voice while he was still starring at the person in the distance who was moving closer and closer.
"I think it is?"
"Okay just tell me what is she wearing?" Ron asked Lion since he now had his hands over his eyes dreading what he might see.
"A dress"
"Yea so far so good what does the dress look like and what is it made of?"
"It's like a ball gown and it is made of newspapers I think?"
"Oh no you have got to be kidding?" Ron said taking his hands away from his eyes.
"No joke I'm sure it's made of newspapers."
"Kill me" was all Ron managed to say.
***
"Where are we?"
"Somewhere"
"Are we lost?"
"No"
I think we're lost Harry?"
"No we are not lost Dorothy!"
"I'm scared"
"Yeah and I want my mummy."
"You do?"
"Okay here we are at the Great Hall, I told you we weren't lost."
"This isn't the Great Hall we are lost."
"How can we be lost if there are other student in there?"
"They might be lost as well?"
"Yea sure whatever you win."
***
"Out of all the ball gowns, dresses and dress robes in the world she had to pick a dress that was made out of newspapers." Ron was in a really bad mood now about the Witch's dress and nothing could cheer him up. Before anyone could reply to that Dumbledore stood up really to make his opening speech.
"Welcome to the Winter Ball, for the older student who are here I look forward to seeing you at the 10 o clock ball tonight. So right now enjoy the food and feel free to dance whenever you want. Thank you that is all." After Dumbledore's speech everyone clapped politely, though knowing that enjoying the ball would be the last thing on his or hers minds.
The excitement of the television had now worn off most of the students and were now more interested in what the teachers were wearing. Another small crowd had also appeared around Fred and George who had came to the ball dressed up as Scarecrow and Tin Woodman.
"I say, I say Fred I believe these people like us"
"Yes George who would of thought that these people would have wanted to still be our friends after we stayed back a year and are now repeating seventh year?"
"Oh yes and also how we replaced Harry with the Witch for Quidditch"
"Oh no we mustn't forget that"
Just then the real Tin Woodman and Scarecrow entered the hall and looked around.
"You know I do believe we are back where we started?" Scarecrow said peering around at the decorations.
"Yea back in Munchkin Land."
"No I mean back at Pig-Boils or something"
"Your right and there are two people who also look like us."
"Arrrrrrrrrrr KILL THEM!!!" Scarecrow said and started charging toward Fred who had dressed up as Scarecrow. Tin Woodman joined him and started charging toward George. Fred and George quickly realised that two crazy people were charging towards them and quickly ran away.
***
"So that's where all the newspapers went!" A man came up to the Witch and started inspecting her dress. "Hey did you know that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has been just caught?"
"He did? Hey I want a read of that." Said another man who came up to the Witch and ripped a piece of the newspaper off her.
"Ahhhhhh my eyes have been soiled!"
"The light is blinding me!"
"Help me lord. HELP ME!!!" Everyone was screaming and running around.
"Oh Lord..." Was all Ron managed to say.
***
A/N: That was chapter six, folks! Next chapter should be up soon! I would also like to say thanks to all my reviewers.
(But you Jess -Tip for fanfiction: Only review if you HAVE read the story- So don't go around reviewing my story telling to update when you haven't even read itthat's for Jess only)
Next Chapter:
*Rest of the ball
*Songs that we hate
*How the oz people came to the school
*The ending
Bya
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P.S I am very sorry for all my spelling mistakes, Yes I do go over my work but I always miss some. Don't worry though I always end up reloading my chapters, over and over. (This is like my 5th time)
