~The Dance~

Harry was awoken the next day by a very loud yell, he sat straight up and surveyed the room, he saw Ron jumping on one leg and holding the other in his hand yelling in pain, it seemed as though he stubbed his toe.

Harry started laughing; as did the other boys also started laughing at Ron's pain.

'Thanks guys, real nice friends you all are!' Ron said while eyeing the end of his bed with a death glare, 'Damn bed, getting in my way,' Ron tried to look serious while saying this but he started laughing, Neville stood up and stretched and said 'Well you boys want to get dressed so we all can go down to breakfast?' they all agreed and hurriedly changed.

The five all walked into the great hall and Harry looked around, he spotted Malfoy who slouched down behind Crabbe so that he would be partially hidden from Harry's view; Harry chuckled at this and sat down for some food.

The day of classes seemed to speed by for Harry and soon it was going onto six o'clock and the five-gryffindor boys were in the Marauders room. Harry and Ron were in the middle of a heated chess match and Neville Dean and Seamus were all training against each other.

Harry while become much better at strategy ever since he became the leader of the Brotherhood of the Wolf was still losing.

'Checkmate!' Ron exclaimed and Harry was defeated and Harry said 'One of these days Ron, I'm going to beat you,' 'Okay Harry, the day you beat me at chess is the day I catch the snitch before you!' Harry thought about this for a minute and said, 'Yeah I guess I'll let you have this one' he then stood up and walked over to the library and went was looking through all of the books and came upon an ancient looking book, he carefully slid it out of the shelf and walked back over to where Ron was sitting looking through "Quidditch Through the Ages" for about the fifth time that night and looked up when Harry sat down.

'Where'd you find that?' Ron looked at the ancient text with a curious gaze and Harry told him he found it near the back of the library. They looked at each other and then Harry turned around and yelled 'Seamus, Dean, Neville come look at this book I found!' they stopped their intense training and jogged over to Harry and Ron. 'Wow, that looks old!' Seamus said while eyeing the book, the other two agreed and Neville said 'Well, open it!'

Harry obeyed his friend's wish and opened the book slowly and carefully. When he opened the book they all felt a very old magic pass through them, they felt over whelmed and Harry quickly closed it. 'You guys, I think I'm going to let Dumbledore look through this first, he's way more educated in ancient magic and did you see the writing in it? I think he'll be able to translate it much easier then we would.' They looked at Harry and they agreed, they didn't want to tamper with this kind of magic unless Dumbledore said it was all right.

Harry took the marauders map and looked at it, Dumbledore was in his office, 'Lets brig it to him now,' Harry said. While standing up. The others also stood and nodded their heads. The ascended the stairs and started walking towards the headmasters office. They looked at each other and started guessing the password when they found themselves at the stone gargoyle guarding the office. Dean was the one to guess correctly (twizzlers), they all stepped onto the rotating staircase and Seamus, Ron and Neville looked at Dean and Ron questioned 'What the hell are twizzlers?' Dean looked back and just simply stated, 'Muggle candy,' this satisfied their curiosity and they all stepped off the staircase at the top. Harry knocked on the door and they heard Dumbledore say 'Come in.' Harry turned the knob and they all walked over the threshold.

Dumbledore looked at them and inquired, 'so what do you need boys?'

Harry glanced at the others quickly and began 'Well sir, we were in the library and I found this really old book, when we opened it, it felt like a very old and powerful wave of magic passed through us and it's not printed in English, we wanted to show you first before we tried to translate it and read it; so here we are.

Dumbledore eyed the boys carefully, those piercing blue eyes seemed to be searching through they're minds and then he said 'Let me see that book Harry,' Harry handed Dumbledore the book and he opened it, again it felt like a powerful and old magic passed through the room and Dumbledore glanced at the words, 'Harry where did you really find this? , I know for a fact that this book wasn't in our library, not even in the restricted section.' Harry decided to fess up and he told Dumbledore all about the marauders room and about the library in it. Dumbledore looked thoughtful for a moment and then said 'Harry, I want to tell you something; this is a spell book that Merlin himself wrote! And as for that wave of powerful magic that you felt, I am guessing, Merlin infused some of his magical essence into it, now I can read some of it but most of it I will need to translate, I will tell you when I am finished, but now I am thinking you all need to get to bed, it is already eleven o'clock, good night boys.' The boys wished Dumbledore goodnight and walked out of the door, 'Wow, a book made by Merlin himself!' 'That's crazy,' they all agreed and they made their way up to gryffindor tower. They walked in and found that it was completely deserted, so they walked up to their dorm and changed, and without another word, climbed into bed and fell asleep.

The rest of the week went by in a flash and the day the Christmas dance was to be held came. Harry was walking up to gryffindor tower by himself as he reflected back onto the terrible potions class.

Harry, Dean, Ron, Seamus, and Neville walked in and Harry was thinking it was going to go well but he was terribly mistaken.

Professor Snape walked in looking in a very vindictive mood and then he turned to the class and said 'Today we will all be making a skele-gro potion as our kind Madam Pomphrey has ran out, because of some boneheaded, Hufflepuff second year accidentally expelled all of the bones in both his legs and one of his arms. The directions are on the board,' he said while tapping his wand to the board. 'You have one hour to get to step six, we will then leave the potions to stew over-night and then we will resume tomorrow.'

Harry began he potion and he felt like he would be able to do it, even with Snape breathing down his neck. When all of a sudden while on step three, three black objects dropped into his potion and Harry knew what was coming, his potion exploded and his potion was sent flying, he looked toward the slytherins, Malfoy and his little "posse" were laughing like hell and Snape was ready to kill, he came over and yelled 'twenty points from gryffindor and you have to stay after and clean up the mess potter!' Harry looked disappointed and then the bell rang, the others left and Harry was left to clean the mess.

Harry looked at his hands, they were still wrinkled from the water he used to clean the potion with, he looked at his watch and saw that it was six thirty, 'Oh dammit, I'm going to be late if I don't hurry. Harry took off and transformed, as everyone was getting ready for the dance the corridors was empty. He made it to the tower in record time and he transformed back, he walked in and ran up to his dorm where the others were already getting ready. He busted through the door and he walked to his bed where he collapsed, breathing very heavily. 'Harry you look exhausted!' Neville said, he whipped out his wand and said a spell, suddenly he felt normal and not tired at all, 'thanks Neville,' 'No problem Harry, just get ready we all want to go down there with a grand entrance, so we need you to be in your robes!' Harry chuckled and went to his trunk and took out the midnight blue dress robes, he could already see them illuminating slightly in the semi-dark dorm and he smiled, these were awesome robes.

They were all walking towards the staircase and Harry took the lead like usual. They were just about to take their first steps onto the stairs when they stopped, 'Okay, what did you all have in mind for this "Grand Entrance?" Dean just said 'okay cast the spells' the others cast a spell each and dean then said 'okay when you take a step onto the stairs, don't look surprised okay?' Harry nodded and then took his step, suddenly the whole common room went dark and a silver light appeared from nowhere, Harry walked down the stairs his dress robes glowing slightly, everyone's attention was on the boys staircase, Ron came next and the light changed to red, then the light changed to blue and Neville came down, the light again changed this time to gold and Dean came down, the light changed for the last time this time to green and Seamus came striding down the stairs. The lights came back on and everyone started clapping for the performance.

 Harry quickly found Serena by the notice board and he was amazed, she was wearing a silky pink dress robe that went down to her thighs, it was her hair was down but there were two parts in the front that came down the sides of her face and they were slightly curly. Harry puffed out his chest and offered his arm; he then said in a mock-dignified voice, 'Shall we go?' Serena giggled and took his arm and said in the same manner as he did 'Yes, we shall.' They all walked down to the great hall, each with their partners accept for Neville who was meeting Hannah in the great hall, he found her with minimal difficulty and they all waited for the doors to open, all of them making small talk with their partners.

The doors suddenly opened and the whole school walked into the great hall. All the house tables had been moved again and then the music started, Serena instantly brought Harry out onto the dance floor, she started dancing and Harry tried too, but he wasn't very good at all. He just kept trying and he started to get better after about three or four fast songs, then the first slow song started and Harry took Serena by the waist and twirled her around and set her down, she put her arms around Harry's neck and he held her close, Harry thought that he was much better at dancing slow songs then he was at dancing fast songs. The danced for bit longer and the song ended, another fast one came on but they decided to sit at one of the small tables and get something to drink, Harry brought her a butterbeer and then the others came and joined them, they all expressed how much fun they were having and started making small talk. The song ended and another started, they all went and danced for a bit more and then Dumbledore stood up and told them all that the next song was going to be the last song, they all grabbed their partners and pulled them close, the slow song started and the danced to it. Serena looked up to Harry and said 'I had a lot of fun tonight Harry, thanks for asking me,' 'Oh no problem, I had fun too!' Harry said with a smile and with that Harry leaned in close and gave her a kiss, she kissed him back and the deepened it and then they stopped, 'You want to go somewhere a little more private?' asked Harry, she nodded and Harry led her out, he led her to the animagi room and they walked in.

Harry let Serena go first and she gasped as she saw the room, Harry walked in as well and asked 'Do you like it?' she nodded and Harry picked her up and with walked over to the edge of the pond, he jumped over to the boulder and the sat down, Serena looked at him and she grinned, Harry's rode was glowing faintly and it illuminated his features, she came a little closer to him and wrapped her arms around his neck and 'Now, where were we?'

Harry was lying on his bed thinking happily of the night he had, the others hadn't come back yet, but right when he was thinking about where they could be they walked in, with the same lopsided grin Harry had on his face. 'Had a fun night boys?' they all nodded and then Seamus said suddenly 'I saw you and Serena leave early, where did you two go?' 'Uhh, no where, you mind your business and I'll mind mine.' He nodded and then Ron said 'Awesome night, but I'm going to bed now.' The others also decided to go to bed and they all changed in silence, they all climbed into their beds and said goodnight, Harry fell asleep almost instantly, a giant lopsided grin on his face.

There it is, chapter 14, hope you like it,

I know there was a bit more romance

In this one, I don't think there will be to

Much more of it in the story, well hope you

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