Somethings In This World Just Don't Make Sense

Chapter 3

"Ron! You stepped on my foot!" Harry whispered as they came up on the door to the Great Hall. They could hear people inside. They pushed the door open and took off the cloke. There was at least 150 people there. A few boys and their friends were pushing the Slytherin and Ravenclaw tables up against the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff tables that were already pushed together.

"Forget this!" someone said, pulling out their wand. They did a spell and the tables were turned violet. Hermione walked over did two quick spells and the tables were normal color and pushed together. She walked back over and smiled.

"Thanks!" a girl called from the other side of the room. The girl waved and Hermione waved back. The girl turned to her friend and pulled out a black tablecloth. Her friend and her began spreading it across the table. A boy, who they recognized as Malfoy, walked up to the girl, who Ron recognized as Margaret. Malfoy smiled and started talking to Margaret who wasn't listening.

"Look!" Harry pointed to the stage, that now a black tablecloth over it, and Ron and Hermione saw Cho. Cho was waving and, few people at a time, was getting the crowd's attention.

"Are you ready to rock?" she said.

"Yeah!" Everyone yelled. Cho nodded and smiled.

"Well, here's Margaret Smith at her first consert!" Cho called and everyone started clapping including Cho. Margaret stepped on to stage and yelled into the microphone, "Hit it!" Music started and Margaret began to sing and dacnce. Ron leaned against the stage and watched Margaret's every move.

"Oh, oh, oh! I can't believe what I'm sayin' but I geuss I'm in love with you." Margaret sang. Ron sighed. Harry peered around and spotted Malfoy smiling about something with his cronies, Crabbe and Goyle. Hermione followed his gaze and scowled. She had never trusted Malfoy, then again, who would?

When Margaret had her eyes closed and she was turned away, Malfoy jumped on stage and grabbed Margaret by the waist. Her eyes shot open and she tried to get him off her, but he had immoblized her from doing anything with her arm or hands. She didn't want to look bad so she acted normal and danced with Malfoy.

Ron jumped on to the stage and jumped on Malfoy, knocking him off Margaret. Margaret stumbled then fell into Ron's arms. For a milisecond Ron and Margaret gazed into eachother's eyes, but the dream was broken as Malfoy jumped up and grabbed Margaret from Ron. Ron pulled out his wand and yelled, "Expeliarmus!" It hit Malfoy, missing Margaret by a milimeter. Malfoy was knocked backwards and Margaret gasped. She jumped off the stage and ran into Harry. He turned and asked, "Are you alright?" She nodded and quickly wiped a tear from under her eye. She ran out of the Great Hall, her hair messy and wild though still very beautiful, and most of the people followed, heading for their dorms.

Meanwhile, Ron and Malfoy's fight had became interesting and some watched as spells zip from a wand and to the opponent. After a few minutes Ron was knocked on to his back and out cold, a cut was bleeding on his right cheek and a few on his arm and legs. Malfoy suffered from a black eye, a bloody lip and a sprained ankle. He limped off stage and Crabbe and Goyle picked him up and rushed him to the Slytherin commonroom. Harry and Hermione pulled Ron off the stage and threw the invisability cloke over themselves, in time to get out of there before Dumbledore and Mcgonnagal came in.

It wasn't easy, but they got Ron into bed and got in bed themselves, thinking about the last twenty minutes.

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Margaret ran upstairs and threw herself on to her four poster bed, shoving the curtains closed. She sobbed there until she heard voices, then she hushed up and listened.

"Did you see Margaret?" a girls voice said. It was a husky voice and a bit of cruelty touched it.

"Yeah! What an idiot! She let the boys take over." another voice said. This voice was high and funny.

"I disagree. I hate her for taking all that attention, I mean just because she's from Los Angelos doesn't mean she gets all the attention!" the husky-voiced girl said.

"Right, well good night." Margaret heard the other girl slide into bed. Then the other.

"Good night." the girl answered. Margaret felt so bad. She just hoped the red-haired boy didn't get caught, she didn't really care about the boy who called himself Malfoy.