Yeah.well, I'm going to make this chapter nice and long.so you all won't
come running for me with pitchforks or anything. I know there hasn't been
much happening and I'm not sure how far I'll get in this chapter. But yeah
just keep on reading and keep checking back coz I do update almost every
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Chapter 6- The Ball committee
The next few weeks went by and everyone had so much work to do they didn't even have time to think about the Halloween ball. One Friday morning (which happened to be exactly a week before Halloween) at breakfast Harry, Ron and Hermione all got letters asking them to attend a meeting in professor Dumbledore's office before start of classes today. They looked at each other confused. "I wonder what he wants?" Hermione asked. "I hope there's nothing wrong." She looked worried
"Don't worry 'Mione, I'm sure he just wants our help with something." Said Harry reassuringly, but he too was a little bit worried. As soon as they'd finished their breakfast they ran down to Dumbledore's office. He was waiting for them outside. He smiled at them "As soon as the rest of our friends arrive, I will tell you what this is all about" his eyes twinkled "we shall go for a walk and talk about it, as soon as the rest arrive." He smiled as he saw 2 figures walking towards them. As they got closer Harry's heart skipped a beat, he saw that it was Draco and Blaise. As they neared them Dumbledore smiled again "Okay, now that were all here lets go for a short walk around the grounds and enjoy what is left of the sunshine." They all followed him outside wondering what he could have to talk about with them all.
"Now as I'm sure you're all wondering what I have to say to all of you. I will not waste any time, especially since you don't want to miss too much class time. Now as you all know we are having a big Halloween ball and we want this to become a new tradition. But we want it to be something the students like, and we teachers know that you students sometimes think that we don't have very good taste and were sort of old. So I have decided that for this ball it will be the students ideas what will happen. Therefore I put it to you 5, who are among our brightest and most popular students to be the committee for this ball. You will have a huge responsibility and it will be yours to do what you want with. You will receive one class off everyday to work on it for the next week and hopefully you will also work on it in your spare time. You will have permission to sing yourselves passes to go to Hogsmede at appropriate times if you need to buy things and you will have a budget of 200 galleons. But hopefully you will not need to use of all of that. They doesn't include food because that will be prepared here, you must give the orders of what you shall need to be made to the kitchen no later than next Thursday. Now you do not have to do this. But you must realise that I personally picked you 5 because I feel you would do the best job and it would be a very good learning opportunity for you 3" he looked at Harry, Ron and Hermione "to get to know Mr. Malfoy and Mr. Zabini here better." His eyes twinkled. "As I know you 5 aren't exactly the best of friends." He looked at their confused faces.
"I'll give to until the end of the day to think about it, as you don't exactly have too long until the ball I would like it if you began as soon as possible. Any queries?" Harry thought for a minute and then said "Professor Dumbledore, I would be honored to be on the committee. And I'm sure Ron and Hermione would be as well." He looked at Ron and Hermione who nodded. They all looked over and Draco and Blaise. Draco wasn't going to leave it all up to 3 Gryffindors and he could get closer to Harry this way. "Blaise and I will help only to keep the party." he cleared his throat "unbiased. When shall we begin?"
Dumbledore smiled "you can begin this afternoon. There is a nice little study in the north tower where you will be quite comfortable while you are brainstorming ideas. If you need anything you may come and find me in my office or in the staff room. You may have this afternoon, after lunch off to work. I hope you enjoy working together. Now hurry off to class; give your teacher, professor Snape I believe this note explaining your absence. And do try not to disrupt the class. That is all."
They all ran off quickly to class and did as best they could in half of a potions lesson.
That afternoon harry found a spare notebook and he, Ron and Hermione made their way to the north tower. They walked through a corridor not knowing what room to go to until they found one with a note on the door. "Ball Committee" it read on the front. Harry pulled it off the door and opened it up. He heard footsteps behind him. And he turned around. Draco and Blaise were walking up the corridor. "Hope you weren't starting without us Harry, this isn't just about you! You better not try and take over this because it will not be a babyish little Gryffindor party! This is going to be really good." He smirked at harry and pushed past him opening the door. As he pushed him their hands brushed past each other so slightly that it made Harry tingle excitedly. He followed Draco and Blaise into the study and sat down on the nearest couch. After that tiny little touch with Draco he had to catch his breath. When they had all seated in the large warm study they looked at each other nervously, no one knew where to start. Draco cleared his throat.
"Okay, first we should decide on entertainment, because that takes the longest to organise. I suggest we get a DJ, because then we can have lots of different tunes instead of just one band playing their own music, and if we only have 200 Galleons to spend" (at this Ron coughed something that sounded remarkably like only!) "Then we should try and save on these things. As Blaise's brother is a DJ we can use him on a cheaper rate. Blaise, you can spend some time now writing to your brother and asking him if he is available next week. It's really quite late notice so this isn't going to be easy. If only the old fool Dumbledore wasn't so disorganized."
Harry watched fascinated as Draco took control of everything, he was very smart and forceful when he wanted to be. But harry didn't want to look like he was letting Draco be the leader. He was just as smart and forceful. He cleared his throat to speak but Hermione got in first.
"I think we should draw up a budget because we do not want to run out of money before we have everything that we need. Blaise, how much does your brother charge and how low can he get the price down for us?"
Blaise estimated that his brother could reduce his price down to 15 Galleons and 10 Sickles. They decided this would be rather cheap for entertainment and budgeted everything they would need. They were laughing and actually having quiet a good time planning that they worked quiet late. By the end of the night they had set up a reasonable budget and had decided they were survey the students on what foods they liked best. But they would mainly serve the food they receive at the usual Halloween feast.
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The weekend that followed their first meeting they went to Hogsmede to see what they could find in the shops that might be good for decorations. As they passed the costume shop harry felt a pang of guilt that he still hadn't got himself a costume for the ball. He would come back during the week he thought and then he would certainly get one then. They shopped for most of the afternoon. And finally when they arrived home they had some very scary and very cool decorations for the ball. Draco picked most of them and he did have pretty good taste.
They handed out surveys to every student at the tables next morning at breakfast and told everyone to hand it back to them by Tuesday morning. They had so much to do, and they spent most of the weekend together in the small study in the north tower. By Wednesday they had given their food orders to the kitchen and were well on the way to being totally organised for the ball.
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On Friday morning Harry woke up early and got Ron up after about 15 minutes of struggle. They had the entire day of classes off so they could get the last minute plans ready and have the hall decorated in time. They met down in the hall and Draco and Blaise were already there, putting up decorations. The hall had a very dark and gloomy look about it: the roof had jack-o-lanterns floating like every other Halloween, they had cast a spell that laced the corners of the roof with spider webs and the walls were coated with sprays of fake blood. Harry and Draco had brought in many props like coffins and gravestones and the whole hall had a very Michael Jackson Thriller-esc feel about it. After hours of decorating and magically enhancing the atmosphere of the hall it was time for them to all get ready for the ball. That was when harry realised.
"Fuck!" he screamed as they ran back to the Gryffindor common room. "I totally forgot to get a costume! What the hell am I supposed to do?!?" he was really panicking now!
"Don't freak," Hermione said calmly." I noticed you hadn't got a costume together yet, but every time I thought about telling you I got distracted. But don't worry.I read about this awesome potion that can make you look all transparent and ghostly. Is you wear all torn clothes and use some of that fake blood I can turn you transparent and you would make a perfect ghost." She smiled at harry who was suddenly reassured. He ran upstairs and got some really old clothes of Duddleys. He ripped them up and magiced fake blood all over them. He ran downstairs to wear Hermione was brewing up the potion, it was obviously very simple and she had it ready for him in about 30 minutes. He drank it down and made his way to the hall. He was there early to make sure everything went down according to plan.
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Everyone arrived in the hall at 7:30 and Harry's costume went off like a hit everyone thought it was a very amazing bit of magic and everyone was commenting on it all night. Ron and Hermione spent the night dancing with one another in the very middle of the dance floor. She had looked absolutely amazing, she had dressed as an angel and she wore a knee length tulle dress and amazingly real looking feathered wings and she enchanted her halo to float just above her head glowing ever so slightly. Ron had gasped so loudly when she walked in that nearly everyone in the room stared at him and he went completely red. He also made quite a display when alongside angelic Hermione Ginny came in a short red miniskirt, a black top with "She Devil" in sparkly red writing and a long pointed tail, devil horns and a pitchfork. She ignored Ron's looks of disgust and went straight to dance with some other 5th years. Harry had to keep himself from gasping out loud when Draco walked in. He was dressed as a vampire and he had a long black cape on over tight black pants and a fishnet dark green tank top. His muscles bulged and he had enchanted his teeth to stretch them down long to look like real fangs. As he walked past harry he winked at him and brushed his hand across Harry's butt. He almost fell to the floor.
As the night grew on everything went according to plan and everyone had an excellent time. As the night was nearing an end Harry was getting slightly excited about what was going to happen later at the after party in the Slytherin common room.
At 11:30 Dumbledore came in and told everyone they had to be back in their common rooms by 12. Harry left almost immediately so that he could have time to decide what to wear to the after party. His stomach was tying itself in nervous knots.
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Mwahahaha..this chap ends there.and I don't think I'll be able to have the next one up til..Sunday (..tomorrow is Halloween!! Ooooh spooky! Newya I betta uplaod this before my mum kills me for not going to bed toodles..enjoy..(oooh mental images of Tom felton.half naked..tight pants.muscles budlging.*drool)
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Chapter 6- The Ball committee
The next few weeks went by and everyone had so much work to do they didn't even have time to think about the Halloween ball. One Friday morning (which happened to be exactly a week before Halloween) at breakfast Harry, Ron and Hermione all got letters asking them to attend a meeting in professor Dumbledore's office before start of classes today. They looked at each other confused. "I wonder what he wants?" Hermione asked. "I hope there's nothing wrong." She looked worried
"Don't worry 'Mione, I'm sure he just wants our help with something." Said Harry reassuringly, but he too was a little bit worried. As soon as they'd finished their breakfast they ran down to Dumbledore's office. He was waiting for them outside. He smiled at them "As soon as the rest of our friends arrive, I will tell you what this is all about" his eyes twinkled "we shall go for a walk and talk about it, as soon as the rest arrive." He smiled as he saw 2 figures walking towards them. As they got closer Harry's heart skipped a beat, he saw that it was Draco and Blaise. As they neared them Dumbledore smiled again "Okay, now that were all here lets go for a short walk around the grounds and enjoy what is left of the sunshine." They all followed him outside wondering what he could have to talk about with them all.
"Now as I'm sure you're all wondering what I have to say to all of you. I will not waste any time, especially since you don't want to miss too much class time. Now as you all know we are having a big Halloween ball and we want this to become a new tradition. But we want it to be something the students like, and we teachers know that you students sometimes think that we don't have very good taste and were sort of old. So I have decided that for this ball it will be the students ideas what will happen. Therefore I put it to you 5, who are among our brightest and most popular students to be the committee for this ball. You will have a huge responsibility and it will be yours to do what you want with. You will receive one class off everyday to work on it for the next week and hopefully you will also work on it in your spare time. You will have permission to sing yourselves passes to go to Hogsmede at appropriate times if you need to buy things and you will have a budget of 200 galleons. But hopefully you will not need to use of all of that. They doesn't include food because that will be prepared here, you must give the orders of what you shall need to be made to the kitchen no later than next Thursday. Now you do not have to do this. But you must realise that I personally picked you 5 because I feel you would do the best job and it would be a very good learning opportunity for you 3" he looked at Harry, Ron and Hermione "to get to know Mr. Malfoy and Mr. Zabini here better." His eyes twinkled. "As I know you 5 aren't exactly the best of friends." He looked at their confused faces.
"I'll give to until the end of the day to think about it, as you don't exactly have too long until the ball I would like it if you began as soon as possible. Any queries?" Harry thought for a minute and then said "Professor Dumbledore, I would be honored to be on the committee. And I'm sure Ron and Hermione would be as well." He looked at Ron and Hermione who nodded. They all looked over and Draco and Blaise. Draco wasn't going to leave it all up to 3 Gryffindors and he could get closer to Harry this way. "Blaise and I will help only to keep the party." he cleared his throat "unbiased. When shall we begin?"
Dumbledore smiled "you can begin this afternoon. There is a nice little study in the north tower where you will be quite comfortable while you are brainstorming ideas. If you need anything you may come and find me in my office or in the staff room. You may have this afternoon, after lunch off to work. I hope you enjoy working together. Now hurry off to class; give your teacher, professor Snape I believe this note explaining your absence. And do try not to disrupt the class. That is all."
They all ran off quickly to class and did as best they could in half of a potions lesson.
That afternoon harry found a spare notebook and he, Ron and Hermione made their way to the north tower. They walked through a corridor not knowing what room to go to until they found one with a note on the door. "Ball Committee" it read on the front. Harry pulled it off the door and opened it up. He heard footsteps behind him. And he turned around. Draco and Blaise were walking up the corridor. "Hope you weren't starting without us Harry, this isn't just about you! You better not try and take over this because it will not be a babyish little Gryffindor party! This is going to be really good." He smirked at harry and pushed past him opening the door. As he pushed him their hands brushed past each other so slightly that it made Harry tingle excitedly. He followed Draco and Blaise into the study and sat down on the nearest couch. After that tiny little touch with Draco he had to catch his breath. When they had all seated in the large warm study they looked at each other nervously, no one knew where to start. Draco cleared his throat.
"Okay, first we should decide on entertainment, because that takes the longest to organise. I suggest we get a DJ, because then we can have lots of different tunes instead of just one band playing their own music, and if we only have 200 Galleons to spend" (at this Ron coughed something that sounded remarkably like only!) "Then we should try and save on these things. As Blaise's brother is a DJ we can use him on a cheaper rate. Blaise, you can spend some time now writing to your brother and asking him if he is available next week. It's really quite late notice so this isn't going to be easy. If only the old fool Dumbledore wasn't so disorganized."
Harry watched fascinated as Draco took control of everything, he was very smart and forceful when he wanted to be. But harry didn't want to look like he was letting Draco be the leader. He was just as smart and forceful. He cleared his throat to speak but Hermione got in first.
"I think we should draw up a budget because we do not want to run out of money before we have everything that we need. Blaise, how much does your brother charge and how low can he get the price down for us?"
Blaise estimated that his brother could reduce his price down to 15 Galleons and 10 Sickles. They decided this would be rather cheap for entertainment and budgeted everything they would need. They were laughing and actually having quiet a good time planning that they worked quiet late. By the end of the night they had set up a reasonable budget and had decided they were survey the students on what foods they liked best. But they would mainly serve the food they receive at the usual Halloween feast.
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The weekend that followed their first meeting they went to Hogsmede to see what they could find in the shops that might be good for decorations. As they passed the costume shop harry felt a pang of guilt that he still hadn't got himself a costume for the ball. He would come back during the week he thought and then he would certainly get one then. They shopped for most of the afternoon. And finally when they arrived home they had some very scary and very cool decorations for the ball. Draco picked most of them and he did have pretty good taste.
They handed out surveys to every student at the tables next morning at breakfast and told everyone to hand it back to them by Tuesday morning. They had so much to do, and they spent most of the weekend together in the small study in the north tower. By Wednesday they had given their food orders to the kitchen and were well on the way to being totally organised for the ball.
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On Friday morning Harry woke up early and got Ron up after about 15 minutes of struggle. They had the entire day of classes off so they could get the last minute plans ready and have the hall decorated in time. They met down in the hall and Draco and Blaise were already there, putting up decorations. The hall had a very dark and gloomy look about it: the roof had jack-o-lanterns floating like every other Halloween, they had cast a spell that laced the corners of the roof with spider webs and the walls were coated with sprays of fake blood. Harry and Draco had brought in many props like coffins and gravestones and the whole hall had a very Michael Jackson Thriller-esc feel about it. After hours of decorating and magically enhancing the atmosphere of the hall it was time for them to all get ready for the ball. That was when harry realised.
"Fuck!" he screamed as they ran back to the Gryffindor common room. "I totally forgot to get a costume! What the hell am I supposed to do?!?" he was really panicking now!
"Don't freak," Hermione said calmly." I noticed you hadn't got a costume together yet, but every time I thought about telling you I got distracted. But don't worry.I read about this awesome potion that can make you look all transparent and ghostly. Is you wear all torn clothes and use some of that fake blood I can turn you transparent and you would make a perfect ghost." She smiled at harry who was suddenly reassured. He ran upstairs and got some really old clothes of Duddleys. He ripped them up and magiced fake blood all over them. He ran downstairs to wear Hermione was brewing up the potion, it was obviously very simple and she had it ready for him in about 30 minutes. He drank it down and made his way to the hall. He was there early to make sure everything went down according to plan.
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Everyone arrived in the hall at 7:30 and Harry's costume went off like a hit everyone thought it was a very amazing bit of magic and everyone was commenting on it all night. Ron and Hermione spent the night dancing with one another in the very middle of the dance floor. She had looked absolutely amazing, she had dressed as an angel and she wore a knee length tulle dress and amazingly real looking feathered wings and she enchanted her halo to float just above her head glowing ever so slightly. Ron had gasped so loudly when she walked in that nearly everyone in the room stared at him and he went completely red. He also made quite a display when alongside angelic Hermione Ginny came in a short red miniskirt, a black top with "She Devil" in sparkly red writing and a long pointed tail, devil horns and a pitchfork. She ignored Ron's looks of disgust and went straight to dance with some other 5th years. Harry had to keep himself from gasping out loud when Draco walked in. He was dressed as a vampire and he had a long black cape on over tight black pants and a fishnet dark green tank top. His muscles bulged and he had enchanted his teeth to stretch them down long to look like real fangs. As he walked past harry he winked at him and brushed his hand across Harry's butt. He almost fell to the floor.
As the night grew on everything went according to plan and everyone had an excellent time. As the night was nearing an end Harry was getting slightly excited about what was going to happen later at the after party in the Slytherin common room.
At 11:30 Dumbledore came in and told everyone they had to be back in their common rooms by 12. Harry left almost immediately so that he could have time to decide what to wear to the after party. His stomach was tying itself in nervous knots.
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Mwahahaha..this chap ends there.and I don't think I'll be able to have the next one up til..Sunday (..tomorrow is Halloween!! Ooooh spooky! Newya I betta uplaod this before my mum kills me for not going to bed toodles..enjoy..(oooh mental images of Tom felton.half naked..tight pants.muscles budlging.*drool)