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Chapter 7
Invitations
Harry's actions had echoed in Olivia's mind for the next few days. She had explained her red and tear-stained face to Hermione when she questioned her after coming back in. Olivia didn't quite understand why she was so upset, she had been confused about Harry, and she had liked him as a friend, maybe more? However she felt about him she had not been ready for that.
Olivia became introverted around Harry and felt withdrawn. She didn't look at him or Draco, she didn't know what she was going to say to either of them. Olivia became more focused on her work then usual. If she didn't have time to speak to anyone else then she wouldn't have to.
"Look, Olivia lay off the work tonight." Hermione said waking her slumped on her books for the third morning. Olivia shrugged and followed her friend to breakfast. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Harry smile feebly at her, inside she wanted to smile back and go over and sit with him but her mind couldn't find the words to say and so she took her seat by Lavender and Seamus who had recently gotten back together.
Dumbledore made some announcements at supper that evening, to mark Professor Sinistra's retirement there would be a feast and a small ball a week that Saturday at six. It was a casual event but dress robes were compulsory and most of the girls in the Great Hall were chattering excitedly to their neighbours. Olivia groaned she wasn't in the mood for a ball but she had liked Sinistra her Astronomy teacher.
The week passed by with Olivia spending more and more time swamped in text books and when she wasn't doing homework she was practising extra Quidditch making sure she flew as far from Harry as possible. If he approached her she'd starting talking to Fred or Angelina, it would be too awkward and she would have to explain herself, something she hated doing.
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"Hermione," her roommate looked up from her Potions parchment. "Are you going to the ball?" Hermione went back to her Potions grunting slightly.
"Is that a yes Hermione?" She nodded. "That makes me probably the only girl without a partner. Who are you going with anyway?"
"Ron, he sort of sprung it on me in the corridor. What hasn't anyone asked you?"
"It's not that. I haven't really you know been with anyone to ask and there's no one really left is there. Lavender is with Seamus and Parvati's with Dean and Neville is going with Susan Bones."
"What about Draco?"
"Well, I haven't really seen him that much and I think he's a bit pissed off with me."
"And Harry," Hermione asked gingerly.
"That would be a fun date. "Hi Harry I haven't really spoken to you since you tried to kiss me when I was sort of with Draco but how would you like to take me to the ball even though I've been avoiding you for the past week." Fat chance of that."
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Draco stopped Olivia the next morning before she went into lunch.
"I've seen you round with Mudblood and Weasel, what are you becoming a mudblood lover like that old fool Dumbledore?"
"No, I've just been busy that's all." "I was going to ask Pansy Parkinson to the ball as you were too busy but now I've seen you I might be able to change my mind. Potter hasn't asked you by any chance?" She remembered Harry and in the spur of the moment spilled it all out to him.
"Well, well we can't have Potter going round assaulting innocent pure bloods now can we. So will you come with me?" Olivia in the end had decided she wasn't going to go but said yes anyway at least for a little while. Malfoy's plan had worked perfectly he now had gotten the girl completely but was arranging to meet Mr Potter later.
*** Harry was fed up and took the opposite route to Olivia by staying as far away from his work as humanly possible.
"Cheer up mate, she's only a girl." Only a girl, yeah right Harry thought, a girl he really liked.
"I might as well not go to the ball, no point if I don't have a partner."
"Why don't you ask her then?"
"Yeah, but the thing is she won't let me get anywhere near her and she's probably going with someone else anyway."
He was still thinking about Malfoy's "advice". He remembered Ernie and Justin and looking at them and thinking they were eying her up, but reflecting on it now they were only being friendly introducing themselves.
Why did Malfoy do it? What was in it for him, unless? Harry ran to the dungeons to try and find him. Harry found him outside the Slytherin Common Room for once not flanked by his usual cronies Crabbe and Goyle.
"You found me. I wondered what took you so long. How are you and that Harrington girl?" Malfoy asked off-handily.
"I know, you set me up to make me look stupid."
"You were rather slow at first, weren't you? So you made a move and she rejected it, not my fault is it? Did you ask her to the ball?"
"No," Harry said glaring at him with every inch of disgust.
"Poor Potter hasn't got a date for the ball. Shame really, I'll just have to take Olivia myself won't I?"
"You wouldn't, you don't even know her." Malfoy leant in towards him.
"I know her a lot better then you do and I've done more with her then you have. I've already asked her anyway." He said it slowly and Harry flinched.
Malfoy had set Harry up not just to make him look stupid but so that he could go out with Olivia. Furious, he went back to Gryffindor Tower thinking of a plan.
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Chapter 7
Invitations
Harry's actions had echoed in Olivia's mind for the next few days. She had explained her red and tear-stained face to Hermione when she questioned her after coming back in. Olivia didn't quite understand why she was so upset, she had been confused about Harry, and she had liked him as a friend, maybe more? However she felt about him she had not been ready for that.
Olivia became introverted around Harry and felt withdrawn. She didn't look at him or Draco, she didn't know what she was going to say to either of them. Olivia became more focused on her work then usual. If she didn't have time to speak to anyone else then she wouldn't have to.
"Look, Olivia lay off the work tonight." Hermione said waking her slumped on her books for the third morning. Olivia shrugged and followed her friend to breakfast. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Harry smile feebly at her, inside she wanted to smile back and go over and sit with him but her mind couldn't find the words to say and so she took her seat by Lavender and Seamus who had recently gotten back together.
Dumbledore made some announcements at supper that evening, to mark Professor Sinistra's retirement there would be a feast and a small ball a week that Saturday at six. It was a casual event but dress robes were compulsory and most of the girls in the Great Hall were chattering excitedly to their neighbours. Olivia groaned she wasn't in the mood for a ball but she had liked Sinistra her Astronomy teacher.
The week passed by with Olivia spending more and more time swamped in text books and when she wasn't doing homework she was practising extra Quidditch making sure she flew as far from Harry as possible. If he approached her she'd starting talking to Fred or Angelina, it would be too awkward and she would have to explain herself, something she hated doing.
***
"Hermione," her roommate looked up from her Potions parchment. "Are you going to the ball?" Hermione went back to her Potions grunting slightly.
"Is that a yes Hermione?" She nodded. "That makes me probably the only girl without a partner. Who are you going with anyway?"
"Ron, he sort of sprung it on me in the corridor. What hasn't anyone asked you?"
"It's not that. I haven't really you know been with anyone to ask and there's no one really left is there. Lavender is with Seamus and Parvati's with Dean and Neville is going with Susan Bones."
"What about Draco?"
"Well, I haven't really seen him that much and I think he's a bit pissed off with me."
"And Harry," Hermione asked gingerly.
"That would be a fun date. "Hi Harry I haven't really spoken to you since you tried to kiss me when I was sort of with Draco but how would you like to take me to the ball even though I've been avoiding you for the past week." Fat chance of that."
***
Draco stopped Olivia the next morning before she went into lunch.
"I've seen you round with Mudblood and Weasel, what are you becoming a mudblood lover like that old fool Dumbledore?"
"No, I've just been busy that's all." "I was going to ask Pansy Parkinson to the ball as you were too busy but now I've seen you I might be able to change my mind. Potter hasn't asked you by any chance?" She remembered Harry and in the spur of the moment spilled it all out to him.
"Well, well we can't have Potter going round assaulting innocent pure bloods now can we. So will you come with me?" Olivia in the end had decided she wasn't going to go but said yes anyway at least for a little while. Malfoy's plan had worked perfectly he now had gotten the girl completely but was arranging to meet Mr Potter later.
*** Harry was fed up and took the opposite route to Olivia by staying as far away from his work as humanly possible.
"Cheer up mate, she's only a girl." Only a girl, yeah right Harry thought, a girl he really liked.
"I might as well not go to the ball, no point if I don't have a partner."
"Why don't you ask her then?"
"Yeah, but the thing is she won't let me get anywhere near her and she's probably going with someone else anyway."
He was still thinking about Malfoy's "advice". He remembered Ernie and Justin and looking at them and thinking they were eying her up, but reflecting on it now they were only being friendly introducing themselves.
Why did Malfoy do it? What was in it for him, unless? Harry ran to the dungeons to try and find him. Harry found him outside the Slytherin Common Room for once not flanked by his usual cronies Crabbe and Goyle.
"You found me. I wondered what took you so long. How are you and that Harrington girl?" Malfoy asked off-handily.
"I know, you set me up to make me look stupid."
"You were rather slow at first, weren't you? So you made a move and she rejected it, not my fault is it? Did you ask her to the ball?"
"No," Harry said glaring at him with every inch of disgust.
"Poor Potter hasn't got a date for the ball. Shame really, I'll just have to take Olivia myself won't I?"
"You wouldn't, you don't even know her." Malfoy leant in towards him.
"I know her a lot better then you do and I've done more with her then you have. I've already asked her anyway." He said it slowly and Harry flinched.
Malfoy had set Harry up not just to make him look stupid but so that he could go out with Olivia. Furious, he went back to Gryffindor Tower thinking of a plan.
***