The Last dance- 10- Pinball
They walked into a room bigger than any Hermione had ever seen before. Not even the great hall was this big. It was wall to wall parke floor, polished to a bright shine. The walls had acoustical tiles places every few feet and expertly detailed snakes were painted where the tiles weren't. There was a bench next to the door and a small room off to the side. A small globe hung from the ceiling that Hermione thought might be for lighting effects but turned out was the music. With a flick of his wand music began to filter through the air.
"I just recently learned how to play something other than wizard music. The night you heard Dancing queen was the first time I had any decent music to skate too." He looked over at her to see what her expression was and was pleasantly surprised to find that she had on her class face. She was ready to learn. He walked into the little room and brought out a pair of skates and handed them to her. "Their charmed to fit."
"If you never brought anyone down here why do you have extra skates?"
"In hopes that my old partner would wise up and leave the son of a bitch that she married. Sorry." He saw her face change somewhat when he used foul language.
"Oh don't worry about it, I'm use to it at home. Just wasn't expecting it from you. Was she your girl friend?" She knew she was overstepping but she couldn't help it. She had an impulse to ask questions, about everything.
"No, we were just good friends. It would have been nice if there had been more. But no. Let's see what you got."
"Okay, but I'm warning you, I haven't even been on a set of skates in years. It's gonna take awhile." She got up and true to her word she was very wobbly. She managed to not fall on her face in front of Snape which was her main goal. She began to pick up speed and soon was skating around the rink. After awhile she sat on the bench to catch her breath. Snape was in his little room. She glided over and stuck her head in. Inside was a good sized room decked out in roller disco paraphernalia including a hot pink "Roller Disco" pinball machine.(A/N This actually exists go here to see it. It's kind of cool, well for people like me. ) There were Xanadu and Roller boogie posters and promotional materials. Everything roller disco.
"You know that there are lots of places that have these Friday night fever things, where you go out and skate down the street in your quads. They do it in Paris like every Friday. When my mom took me to Paris for summer break back in my second year we did it. There's also this huge underground roller disco scene in New York City now and in San Francisco." She smiled at him and figured the door was going to shut in her face, instead she was handed a drink. She stepped up into the room and saw that the entire room, right down to the furniture was 70's. Her mom would love this room. She sat down in the Lucite chair and sipped at her drink.
"You have to work your endurance up. You were out of breath far too soon. You will need to practice as often as possible. Do you have a problem skating around other people ... who are not skate fans."
"No, I guess not. I never thought about it."
"Try to skate as often as you can then. You can take those skates, just don't tell anyone where they came from." He turned around and walked back out to the floor and began skating himself. She sat on the step up to the room and watched him as he rolled around. He skated like it was second nature, there was no effort, he seemed natural on those skates. ' I wonder what else he can do on those skates? Hermione! You shouldn't be thinking that!' She smiled and put her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands. She watched him as the wind blew his hair away from his face, his shirt was open at the top again. He skidded to a halt in front of her and offered his hand. She looked at him sheepishly and took it. She stood and he began skating pulling her with him. She liked the feeling of not being in charge and let him lead her around the floor. It was fast becoming one of the best feelings she had ever had.
