A/N: GUYS! I'm so terribly sorry for not updating for so long! I've been so
busy! Loads of school stuff! Loads of fun with my friends of laziness and
writer's block(though I don't believe in writer's block, just in laziness)!
I actually think I have a life now! Or at least I'm getting one! That's so
great! I'm a higher being now! Hehehehe yeah right.so I hope you LOVE this
chapter because I've been away for so long, but I'm not sure you will.you
should re-read at least the last part to the last chapter in case you don't
remember what happened. K? Love you guys!
"It's taking Ginny quite a while! Harry's been here with Cho for ages!" Hermione said sipping her butter beer cup while watching the other couples dance.
"Hermione, did you really hope they would give everything up and get back together just to go to the ball with each other?" Ron ask shifting uncomfortably inside his costume. The couples were suppose to dress with similar costumes and Hermione had insisted to dress up like a princess, not very original, but not very comfortable either, one Ron had to walk around with those hot clothes tripping over his own robe.
"Well, not exactly, but I sure hoped they would have guessed this was all plotted by Malfoy! The problem is that Weasleys are as stubborn as one can be, and I assume Potters aren't very different either, they won't give themselves a chance! Not even if I give Veritaserum to Malfoy and make him confess everything, because then they would have issues as to each one would apologize first!" Hermione waved her hands furiously making her crown fall and mess her hair a little.
"That's it! Veritaserum! I mean, we could try..maybe they are too stubborn, but..what harm can it make to try?" Ron said excitedly.
"I don't think so Ron, they'd probably think we made Neville drink Polyjuice potion and lie to them."
Ron twitched his lips. "I guess so..but we have to do SOMETHING! I mean it's not like I'm thrilling to see my little sister go out with someone but have them two moping around half of the day and throwing daggers at each other the other half is not very pleasant. I mean, look at Harry and Cho! Do you see ANY chemistry?"
"No. Cho just accepted to come to the Ball with Harry because she knows she doesn't want Harry and that if Ginny or Harry change their mind it will be ok with her to back off, but if it's another girl..the problem is that them being together will only confirm Ginny's suspicion even though Cho didn't, or at least I hope she didn't kiss Harry." Hermione analyzed the situation.
"Yeah, it's all so simple and so complicated.I'm getting philosophical.take the butter beers away from me will you?" Ron asked. "Who is Ginny coming with anyway?" Ron looked around impatiently spotting Harry and Cho standing awkwardly in the middle of the dance floor, not dancing but not still either; both dressed as quidditch players(yeah I think when you're worried creativity is not a strong point).
"Don't ask me. She wouldn't even tell me." Hermione said laughing at Lavender and Dean dressed as drag queens and Malfoy and Pansy dressed as vampires.
"I sure wish Malfoy was the one wearing that Drag Queen costume." Seamus said sitting down at their table and pointing to the blond boy. "No Ginny yet?" He received negative nods.
They all saw Dumbledore raise from his seat and ask for silence.
"I have news for you. I slight change was made in the plans. The winners of the Quidditch Cup will no longer win the tickets to the World Cup finals." He said and as an immediate answer he heard grunts from everywhere.
"But the winners of the Schools Cup will." He continued after the Hall quieted. "This year was created a Quidditch Cup between wizardry schools and it will be held here in this first year. All the quidditch players may try out for the school team that can include students from any of our four houses but not necessarily from all of them." The head master stopped for the excitement noise to fill and leave the room so then he could go on.
"I assume you liked the news." He said with a small smile. "There is only one more news, as Durmstrang one of our finest wizardry schools won't be joining the championship for, to you, irrelevant reasons, I asked Mr. Viktor Krum to be the coach of our team.." He was obligated to stop due to the applause and excited talking the once more filled the room.
"The try outs will be held in two weeks and the training will start immediately after that. The first game will be held on November 15th so the teams will have a month to prepare. The lack of time is exactly to show how high is the level of each school without the due preparing. The guest students and teachers will arrive one week before the first game and share the training schedules. But Mr. Krum already arrived and is going to join us for this double celebration." Dumbledore then gave up talking and just smiled when the new coach and his date entered the Great Hall.
Everybody looked stunned, but you couldn't tell if it was because his date was Ginny Weasley o all people or because she looked so gorgeous. Ginny was dressed as a Veela and so Krum was dressed as an Akeen, the male for a Veela(I made that up k?).
Viktor was dress in a beautifully white robe, his now shoulder length hair was tied back, as elegant as can be, but even though he was the star all the light was on Ginny. She was dressed in a pearl dress, with one long sleeve that covered her whole arm and gave the impression there was no sleeve(like J.Lo's dress for the Oscars). Her hair was no longer red, but almost as white as Malfoy's hair. She was the vision of beauty that night, and seemed so tall, and grown up no one could tell that was Ginny.
Elegance and beauty were not enough to describe it, but yet the only words good enough for it. Harry looked mesmerized and furious at the same time, and if you looked close enough you would think Draco was smiling a genuine smile.
The first dance every couple danced but soon some strayed away to the tables the courtyard, the halls, the Astronomy tower.while Ginny and Viktor dance Hermione and Ron managed to bring Cho and Harry closer to the other couple and make them bump into each other.
"Ah, Cho, would you please dance with me?" Ron asked getting mortal glances from Harry.
"Of course."
"Would you dance with me Viktor?" Hermione asked revealing their plot.
"Sure."
"So..i guess..do you want to dance?" Harry asked Ginny. She just shrugged her shoulders and they started dancing.
After two slow dances Viktor patted Harry's shoulder. "Do you mind if I interrupted?" Both eyes were saying "YES! GO AWAY!" But oh not their mouths.
"Not at all." They said in unison and let go of each other.
"Sorry to put you through that torture." Viktor joked. "Want to go for a walk outside?"
"Yes." Ginny nodded softly and took his arm.
They slowly walked to a bench near a tree, from where they couldn't be seen by anyone else, but had the most beautiful view of the moon. Viktor motioned for Ginny to sit down and then sat himself. Ginny smiled wistfully.
"Do you miss him Ginny?"
"Who? ..Yes. I miss us being around each other, having fun, being there for each other I don't know how to explain, but it seems there is something missing.it seemed I mean. And the way it ended.I hope you don't mind me saying that." Ginny smiled up at the brown haired boy.
"Not at all. I feel this way about Fleur too. I suppose we are still forgetting them..which doesn't stop us for remembering other people." He smiled.
"I know." Ginny smiled back. "Viktor I really like you, and I hope you don't think I'm just using you to make Harry jealous."
"I know. You did need a date." He said making them both laugh.
"Yes I did."
"I wouldn't mind if you were using me though. You look so beautiful." He said bringing his face closer to Ginny's.
"So are you." Ginny said taking Viktor's hand in hers. "Thank you so much for coming, and accepting to be my date."
"It was my honor Ginny."
"Viktor..do you think, you and Fleur will get back together?"
"I don't know. The way Fleur treated me, isn't the way of someone in love, or that likes you at all. She was all over me while I was famous, I mean, I still am, but while I showed up in all magazines. After that she told me I was suffocating her, and she needed a break!"
"I'm sorry to hear that Viktor. I really am. She has no idea what she just passed, you are wonderful, and any girl would be more than lucky to have you, and very stupid not to want you." Ginny said smiling, her eyes glinting.
"Do you?" He asked leaning in an closing the space between them in a tender, sweet and lingering kiss. When the broke for air there were only smiles between them, and Viktor got a glimpse of a dark haired form disappear in the dark. Was that Harry?
"What is it Viktor?" Ginny asked as the boy looked concerned in the other direction.
"I think I saw someone there." He pointed. "I think it was Harry."
"And is that a problem to you? If he saw it I mean." Ginny asked
"No. But is it to you?" Viktor asked but saw the puzzled look on her face. "Ginny I like you so much, but still..I think, neither of us is over Harry or Fleur. And I don't want us to hurt each other I'm not calling you naïve, but you are younger than me, and maybe you can't see as clearly as I do that both of us will get hurt out of this, so it's my job to tell you. I don't want to see you hurting further than you are."
"I know.I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.."
"Ginny it wasn't you. We both did it. But think about it, I saw you two dancing, you still like each other. If Harry won that trip to the Quidditch Cup finals? He would take you Hermione and Ron with him, as a couple. Wouldn't it be nice?"
"It would, but don't think that just because I'm not over him that I'll forgive him! I saw him kissing his old crush! Who tells me it was ever old? That he didn't just use me to get to her?!" Ginny stood up and went back inside the castle.
A/N: So? Was that Harry???? Do you want it to be Harry???/
"It's taking Ginny quite a while! Harry's been here with Cho for ages!" Hermione said sipping her butter beer cup while watching the other couples dance.
"Hermione, did you really hope they would give everything up and get back together just to go to the ball with each other?" Ron ask shifting uncomfortably inside his costume. The couples were suppose to dress with similar costumes and Hermione had insisted to dress up like a princess, not very original, but not very comfortable either, one Ron had to walk around with those hot clothes tripping over his own robe.
"Well, not exactly, but I sure hoped they would have guessed this was all plotted by Malfoy! The problem is that Weasleys are as stubborn as one can be, and I assume Potters aren't very different either, they won't give themselves a chance! Not even if I give Veritaserum to Malfoy and make him confess everything, because then they would have issues as to each one would apologize first!" Hermione waved her hands furiously making her crown fall and mess her hair a little.
"That's it! Veritaserum! I mean, we could try..maybe they are too stubborn, but..what harm can it make to try?" Ron said excitedly.
"I don't think so Ron, they'd probably think we made Neville drink Polyjuice potion and lie to them."
Ron twitched his lips. "I guess so..but we have to do SOMETHING! I mean it's not like I'm thrilling to see my little sister go out with someone but have them two moping around half of the day and throwing daggers at each other the other half is not very pleasant. I mean, look at Harry and Cho! Do you see ANY chemistry?"
"No. Cho just accepted to come to the Ball with Harry because she knows she doesn't want Harry and that if Ginny or Harry change their mind it will be ok with her to back off, but if it's another girl..the problem is that them being together will only confirm Ginny's suspicion even though Cho didn't, or at least I hope she didn't kiss Harry." Hermione analyzed the situation.
"Yeah, it's all so simple and so complicated.I'm getting philosophical.take the butter beers away from me will you?" Ron asked. "Who is Ginny coming with anyway?" Ron looked around impatiently spotting Harry and Cho standing awkwardly in the middle of the dance floor, not dancing but not still either; both dressed as quidditch players(yeah I think when you're worried creativity is not a strong point).
"Don't ask me. She wouldn't even tell me." Hermione said laughing at Lavender and Dean dressed as drag queens and Malfoy and Pansy dressed as vampires.
"I sure wish Malfoy was the one wearing that Drag Queen costume." Seamus said sitting down at their table and pointing to the blond boy. "No Ginny yet?" He received negative nods.
They all saw Dumbledore raise from his seat and ask for silence.
"I have news for you. I slight change was made in the plans. The winners of the Quidditch Cup will no longer win the tickets to the World Cup finals." He said and as an immediate answer he heard grunts from everywhere.
"But the winners of the Schools Cup will." He continued after the Hall quieted. "This year was created a Quidditch Cup between wizardry schools and it will be held here in this first year. All the quidditch players may try out for the school team that can include students from any of our four houses but not necessarily from all of them." The head master stopped for the excitement noise to fill and leave the room so then he could go on.
"I assume you liked the news." He said with a small smile. "There is only one more news, as Durmstrang one of our finest wizardry schools won't be joining the championship for, to you, irrelevant reasons, I asked Mr. Viktor Krum to be the coach of our team.." He was obligated to stop due to the applause and excited talking the once more filled the room.
"The try outs will be held in two weeks and the training will start immediately after that. The first game will be held on November 15th so the teams will have a month to prepare. The lack of time is exactly to show how high is the level of each school without the due preparing. The guest students and teachers will arrive one week before the first game and share the training schedules. But Mr. Krum already arrived and is going to join us for this double celebration." Dumbledore then gave up talking and just smiled when the new coach and his date entered the Great Hall.
Everybody looked stunned, but you couldn't tell if it was because his date was Ginny Weasley o all people or because she looked so gorgeous. Ginny was dressed as a Veela and so Krum was dressed as an Akeen, the male for a Veela(I made that up k?).
Viktor was dress in a beautifully white robe, his now shoulder length hair was tied back, as elegant as can be, but even though he was the star all the light was on Ginny. She was dressed in a pearl dress, with one long sleeve that covered her whole arm and gave the impression there was no sleeve(like J.Lo's dress for the Oscars). Her hair was no longer red, but almost as white as Malfoy's hair. She was the vision of beauty that night, and seemed so tall, and grown up no one could tell that was Ginny.
Elegance and beauty were not enough to describe it, but yet the only words good enough for it. Harry looked mesmerized and furious at the same time, and if you looked close enough you would think Draco was smiling a genuine smile.
The first dance every couple danced but soon some strayed away to the tables the courtyard, the halls, the Astronomy tower.while Ginny and Viktor dance Hermione and Ron managed to bring Cho and Harry closer to the other couple and make them bump into each other.
"Ah, Cho, would you please dance with me?" Ron asked getting mortal glances from Harry.
"Of course."
"Would you dance with me Viktor?" Hermione asked revealing their plot.
"Sure."
"So..i guess..do you want to dance?" Harry asked Ginny. She just shrugged her shoulders and they started dancing.
After two slow dances Viktor patted Harry's shoulder. "Do you mind if I interrupted?" Both eyes were saying "YES! GO AWAY!" But oh not their mouths.
"Not at all." They said in unison and let go of each other.
"Sorry to put you through that torture." Viktor joked. "Want to go for a walk outside?"
"Yes." Ginny nodded softly and took his arm.
They slowly walked to a bench near a tree, from where they couldn't be seen by anyone else, but had the most beautiful view of the moon. Viktor motioned for Ginny to sit down and then sat himself. Ginny smiled wistfully.
"Do you miss him Ginny?"
"Who? ..Yes. I miss us being around each other, having fun, being there for each other I don't know how to explain, but it seems there is something missing.it seemed I mean. And the way it ended.I hope you don't mind me saying that." Ginny smiled up at the brown haired boy.
"Not at all. I feel this way about Fleur too. I suppose we are still forgetting them..which doesn't stop us for remembering other people." He smiled.
"I know." Ginny smiled back. "Viktor I really like you, and I hope you don't think I'm just using you to make Harry jealous."
"I know. You did need a date." He said making them both laugh.
"Yes I did."
"I wouldn't mind if you were using me though. You look so beautiful." He said bringing his face closer to Ginny's.
"So are you." Ginny said taking Viktor's hand in hers. "Thank you so much for coming, and accepting to be my date."
"It was my honor Ginny."
"Viktor..do you think, you and Fleur will get back together?"
"I don't know. The way Fleur treated me, isn't the way of someone in love, or that likes you at all. She was all over me while I was famous, I mean, I still am, but while I showed up in all magazines. After that she told me I was suffocating her, and she needed a break!"
"I'm sorry to hear that Viktor. I really am. She has no idea what she just passed, you are wonderful, and any girl would be more than lucky to have you, and very stupid not to want you." Ginny said smiling, her eyes glinting.
"Do you?" He asked leaning in an closing the space between them in a tender, sweet and lingering kiss. When the broke for air there were only smiles between them, and Viktor got a glimpse of a dark haired form disappear in the dark. Was that Harry?
"What is it Viktor?" Ginny asked as the boy looked concerned in the other direction.
"I think I saw someone there." He pointed. "I think it was Harry."
"And is that a problem to you? If he saw it I mean." Ginny asked
"No. But is it to you?" Viktor asked but saw the puzzled look on her face. "Ginny I like you so much, but still..I think, neither of us is over Harry or Fleur. And I don't want us to hurt each other I'm not calling you naïve, but you are younger than me, and maybe you can't see as clearly as I do that both of us will get hurt out of this, so it's my job to tell you. I don't want to see you hurting further than you are."
"I know.I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.."
"Ginny it wasn't you. We both did it. But think about it, I saw you two dancing, you still like each other. If Harry won that trip to the Quidditch Cup finals? He would take you Hermione and Ron with him, as a couple. Wouldn't it be nice?"
"It would, but don't think that just because I'm not over him that I'll forgive him! I saw him kissing his old crush! Who tells me it was ever old? That he didn't just use me to get to her?!" Ginny stood up and went back inside the castle.
A/N: So? Was that Harry???? Do you want it to be Harry???/