A/N: Ha ha! We just spent half and hour designing outfits for the Christmas
party at Hermione's. Carleen just squealed... And then she said: "I
squealed!"
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Dear Tom (if it is you, let us pray),
I want to find this out now: if it really is you. And I have my ways of finding out things insert evil laugh. Email me (eternal_angel_usagi@Hotmail.com) and we shall talk.
And now, a word from my co-author: HOW COME I NEVER GET ASKED TO HOOK UP WITH CELEBRITIES!??!? Me: Because I'm pretty, and rabid, and have control over A/N's. And speaking of that, this one is really long...
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Christmas holidays were finally there at last. And Draco had finally found someone to stay with. Ironically, it was Hermione. So Draco would get to go to her party as well.
Just as Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Harry and Draco were boarding the train, Neville came running up to Hermione.
"Hermione, I lost my invitation!" Neville whined.
"That's okay Neville! I made an extra one, just incase!" Hermione smiled and handed him a green and red envelope.
Neville thanked her and boarded the train in front of them. The four Gryffindors and the Slytherin had a compartment to themselves. Already, Hermione had told the others that Draco was staying with her, much to Ron's dismay.
"Are you sure that I can't stay with you too, Hermione?"
Hermione shook her head. "I only have one guest room."
Ginny smirked. "You think he wants to stay in a guest room? Jeez Hermione!"
Ron blushed, as did Hermione.
******
The party was on Christmas Eve. Hermione and Draco were there first of course. Her in a blue t-shirt over a yellow tank top. Hermione also wore a green skirt and red high toppers. Draco wore a black muscle shirt with a red dragon and baggy jeans. Slowly the guests started to arrive. The Patil twins arrived first in off the shoulder shirts and pleated skirts. On their heads they had reindeer ears and on their feet they had Father Christmas boots. One twin was in red, the other green. After the Parvati and Padma, Fred and George came. The Weasley boys wore tuxedos; one in red the other in green.
"You like totally stole our idea!" Padma laughed.
George and Fred smiled broadly.
After the Weasley twins came, Katie, Angelina, and Alicia arrived at the same time. Katie had on a fifties style black and fuchsia dress with ballet shoes also in fuchsia. Angelina was decked out casually in a red turtle neck that had green lettering that said: "HO HO HO!". Alicia wore red dress with a collar and a flower where the lapels met.
The three girls started to dance right away to the booming music that Hermione had set up. Soon the two sets of twins joined in. Hermione stayed at the door to greet the guests and Draco sat in a chair by the refreshments all alone.
Ginny and Ron arrived next. Ron just wore jeans and a t-shirt while Ginny had gone glamour Hollywood. She wore a pink and coral salsa style dress with big ruffles at the bottom hem.
"Hermione," Ron gasped at the sight of the beautiful brunette. "You look... so... Sexy!" He growled at her and kissed her on the lips. Hermione giggled and Ginny sighed and dragged her brother onto the dance floor.
Cho and Zacharias showed up hand-in-hand. Cho wore a traditional Chinese dress in black while Zach just wore jeans and a t-shirt. The couple immediately headed the refreshment table to poke fun at Draco.
"What are you doing here?" Cho asked Draco, examining him from head to toe. She had admit, he was pretty sexy.
"I'm staying with Hermione," Draco replied, even more in a hateful tone.
"My," Cho smirked, "Is Ron okay with that?"
Draco glared at her and she and Zach left for the dance floor.
Neville and Luna just happened to show up at the same time. Luna went crazy with clothes again and wore a red and green striped dress with white faux- fur trim. A holy decal was on the collar of her dress. Also, she wore a giant Santa Claus-type belt. Neville, being quite controversial with the season, wore a button-up Hawaiian shirt and black pants.
As soon as Luna spotted Draco she stopped talking with Hermione and went over to him. "Draco," she said trying not to blush much or pass out, "You look nice!"
Draco smiled. "You do too. Want to dance?"
Luna smiled broadly and nodded.
After Ron was done 'busting-a-move', he joined Hermione by the door. They were deep into a 'conversation' when suddenly the door bell. This of course, extremely frightened Ron who ran and hid behind Hermione.
Hermione laughed. "Ron, it's just the doorbell. It's like knocking on a door. Only, it's not. That must be Harry!"
But it wasn't Harry. It was quite the opposite.
"Lavender?" Ron and Hermione gasped.
"That's my name, don't wear it out!" She stepped inside the house, and took off her coat revealing a very ugly khaki green turtle neck and too tight jeans.
"Umm, Lavender? Do you have an invitation?"
"As a matter of fact, I do!" She flashed Hermione the invitation, on which Neville's name had been crossed out and her own had been scribbled in.
"Well," Hermione said reluctantly, "I guess you can come in. Mind yourself though, we have limited refreshments."
"Are you calling me fat?"
"No... Maybe a bit horizontally inclined, but not fat!"
Lavender tried to decide if it was an insult or not. She didn't know so she just ignored it and went to dance with the very yummy Lee Jordan.
"Where can Harry be?" Hermione said after an hour had passed. She and Ginny sat on a bench at the door, when someone knocked at the door.
"HARRY!" Hermione yelled. "Where have you been?"
Harry came into the house, clothing drenched, "I had to walk."
******
About two minutes before midnight, Hermione called the attention of everyone and turned down the music. "Okay everybody, I have a surprise for you!"
Everyone looked at her skeptically. They better not have to do homework!
"I have a karaoke machine!"
All the wizards that didn't come from muggle families looked at her oddly Hermione sighed and stepped up onto a one foot high stage with many electronics on it.
"You have this thing that you sing into and you have the words on a screen. And you have the music and background singers."
Some of them nodded, other just looked dazed. Hermione shook her head. "I'll just go first then. And you can follow along..."
The song started out with a couple of seconds of synthesized strings. The Hermione began to sing in a techno kind of voice.
"Roses are red and violets are blue, Honey is sweet but not as sweet as you, Roses are red and violets are blue, Ha dida dida might, Ha dida dida might. Mm dum de dadda da, Dum dee dadda da. Dum dee dadda da.... Dum dee dadda da, Dum dee dadda da, Dum dee dadda da! Come pick my roses!"
The music picked up and the other teenagers started to dance. Hermione smiled as she sang.
"Sweet from the flowers, Honey from the bees. I've got a feeling I'm ready to release. Roses are red and violets are blue, Honey is sweet but not as sweet as you. It's invincible, but so touchable. And I can feel it on my body, So emotional! I'm on a ride, on a ride, I'm a passenger. I'm the victim of a... Hot. Love. Messenger."
Hermione sang on, making everyone dance to the beat. It was contagious and soon everyone wanted to sing karaoke as well, no matter how well they sang. Fred and George sang right after Hermione.
"WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?!" Fred screamed into the microphone with no tune that was distinguishable.
"WHO? Who? Who?" George yelled. ((A/N to Thea: George is sooooo much hotter))
Then after a couple of people sang, a surprising singer stepped up on stage. It was Neville. Now Neville was known for having no talents, but as soon as he got on stage (shaking and sweating up a storm) he wowed his audience.
"I can't stand to fly, I'm not that naive. I'm just out find, The better part of me.
I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane, I'm more than a pretty face, beside a train. And it's not easy to be me."
Neville changed the mood of the party for the three and a half minutes that the song lasted. It had brought everyone back to reality. And reality was, was that none of them were safe. He finished off with a low trembling note, as if he just realized that he was singing in front of people. He quickly shuffled off the stage, and immediately ended up talking to Luna, whom, after hearing him sing, apparently liked him more. A lot more.
Ginny was too shy to sing. She danced to the other songs, but never quite made it to the stage, even though Hermione tried to push her up after hearing Ron's, George's and Fred's comments about her singing in the shower.
"Voice of an angel, that girl!" Fred said, taking a bite out of a slice of pizza.
"For sure," George agreed. "She's just too afraid of failure."
"Such a perfectionist!" Ron added, stepping off the stage after singing a song from the Wizarding world called 'Skele-Gro Won't Fix my Broken Heart'.
Suddenly, two grown-ups entered the room full of teenagers. "Hermione honey," the woman said. "Your father and I have been called into an emergency appointment. You and your friends will be responsible, won't you?"
"Yes Mum," Hermione responded as she was kissed on the cheek by both her parents.
They rushed out the door, her father mumbling "Those damn hockey players..."
"Thank god!" Hermione sighed in relief. "I never thought they'd leave!"
Everyone stared at her.
"What? Now we can have some real fun..." Hermione smirked and turned to Ginny. "But first... Ginny MUST sing."
"What?!?" Ginny blushed profusely.
"That's right Gin, sing away!"
Next thing she knew, Ginny found herself on stage. She faced the crowd of friends (well, okay, Lavender wasn't a friend). Neville and Luna were missing. They had apparently found their way to an empty room, and were making out as you read this very sentence.
Ginny stood there in shock. Her knees shook and her heart was beating fast. She never did well in front of crowds. But then the music started, and it took her far from Hermione's house. It took her into a new world. Music did that to Ginny.
"Are you aware of what you make me feel, baby. Right now I feel invisible to you, Like I'm not, real. Didn't you feel me lock my arms around you? Why'd you turn away? Here's what I have to say.
I was left to cry there, Waiting out side there, Grinning with a lost stare, That's when I decided.
Why should I care? 'Cause you weren't there when I was scared. I was so alone. Yeah, you need to listen! I'm starting to trip, I'm losing my grip. And I'm in this thing alone..."
Her voice started to crack as she realized that she was in front of a crowd of people. People who were staring at her in awe.
"I'm sorry," she said sheepishly. "I know I'm not that good."
Everyone looked at her with a 'what-the-fuck?' expression. Hermione spoke first.
"Gin! That was freakin', amazing!!" She hugged the stunned girl. "You have talent, girl!"
Everyone nodded and mummers of agreement came from the kids. Ginny shrugged.
"Why don't we get this party on the move?" She asked everyone. Ginny grinned as everyone cheered.
Hermione put the music back on and everyone started grooving again.
******
"Gin!" Harry called to Ginny, who was just down the hall. He had followed her across the dance floor but couldn't get her attention.
She turned around. "Oh! Hullo Harry!" Her face was flushed.
"Are you going somewhere? Is something wrong?"
"No," she said smiling at him. Those emeralds of his were filled with so much concern. "I just need to go get some air. You want to come?"
Harry nodded eagerly, and the two of them stepped out onto the back porch. The moonlight illuminated Harry's eyes and Ginny turned away to prevent herself from staring. She couldn't help it. His eyes were what drew her back. Closer and closer, until she finally realized that not only did she imagine that she had been drawn closer, that she actually had drawn closer. Her face was right in front of his; eye to eye. But more importantly, lip to lip.
Ginny giggled. "I guess we'll never be apart."
"Not as long as I'm alive and sane."
Ginny blinked stupidly. "What is this sane you are talking about? You were never sane."
Harry let out a 'heh' but then his face turned serious. Serious, though, in a funny way. "Kiss me, you lovely little redhead!" He grabbed her and dipped her. It was a passionate kiss, the kind that you only ever see in movies.
Ginny started to giggle again as he lifted her back up. "Harry," she whispered as he took her hands and they danced a slow waltz to the little music that came out the door.
"Mm hm?" He mumbled as he nuzzled her neck.
"I've never been this happy in my life."
Harry and Ginny pulled apart and stood at arms length holding hands. The moon was full, and had centered itself between them.
Harry brushed some hair out of her face. "Every time I'm with you I feel like that."
Ginny blushed and hugged Harry. They both gazed at the moon, forgetting that the horror would soon come.
******
Now some last disclaimers:
Roses Are Red is property of Aqua and whoever owns it. Who Let the Dogs Out is owned by the Baha Men. Superman is owned by Five for Fighting. Losing Grip is property of Avril Lavinge. Skele-Gro Won't Fix my Broken Heart is property of me. I don't own any of the other songs, so... yeah....
Expect lyrics to Skele-Gro Won't Fix my Broken Heart in the next chapter.
Whoa, five reviews in like two minutes *is scared*. Not to mention the four from the supposed Dan, Rupert, Emma and Tom (if it was you Tom, I hope you know that I FUCKING LOVE YOU)... Excuse my rabid fan girl screaming. It's what happens when you mix Roxanne and Tom Felton. Everyone wants more action eh? Okay, I'll have more sex scenes. It's way more fun that way... Right guys? Oh yes and a review from... Mr. Nelner?!? WTF?! Who wrote that? *giggles madly as she imagines her gym teacher reading it*
Dear Tom (if it is you, let us pray),
I want to find this out now: if it really is you. And I have my ways of finding out things insert evil laugh. Email me (eternal_angel_usagi@Hotmail.com) and we shall talk.
And now, a word from my co-author: HOW COME I NEVER GET ASKED TO HOOK UP WITH CELEBRITIES!??!? Me: Because I'm pretty, and rabid, and have control over A/N's. And speaking of that, this one is really long...
******
Christmas holidays were finally there at last. And Draco had finally found someone to stay with. Ironically, it was Hermione. So Draco would get to go to her party as well.
Just as Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Harry and Draco were boarding the train, Neville came running up to Hermione.
"Hermione, I lost my invitation!" Neville whined.
"That's okay Neville! I made an extra one, just incase!" Hermione smiled and handed him a green and red envelope.
Neville thanked her and boarded the train in front of them. The four Gryffindors and the Slytherin had a compartment to themselves. Already, Hermione had told the others that Draco was staying with her, much to Ron's dismay.
"Are you sure that I can't stay with you too, Hermione?"
Hermione shook her head. "I only have one guest room."
Ginny smirked. "You think he wants to stay in a guest room? Jeez Hermione!"
Ron blushed, as did Hermione.
******
The party was on Christmas Eve. Hermione and Draco were there first of course. Her in a blue t-shirt over a yellow tank top. Hermione also wore a green skirt and red high toppers. Draco wore a black muscle shirt with a red dragon and baggy jeans. Slowly the guests started to arrive. The Patil twins arrived first in off the shoulder shirts and pleated skirts. On their heads they had reindeer ears and on their feet they had Father Christmas boots. One twin was in red, the other green. After the Parvati and Padma, Fred and George came. The Weasley boys wore tuxedos; one in red the other in green.
"You like totally stole our idea!" Padma laughed.
George and Fred smiled broadly.
After the Weasley twins came, Katie, Angelina, and Alicia arrived at the same time. Katie had on a fifties style black and fuchsia dress with ballet shoes also in fuchsia. Angelina was decked out casually in a red turtle neck that had green lettering that said: "HO HO HO!". Alicia wore red dress with a collar and a flower where the lapels met.
The three girls started to dance right away to the booming music that Hermione had set up. Soon the two sets of twins joined in. Hermione stayed at the door to greet the guests and Draco sat in a chair by the refreshments all alone.
Ginny and Ron arrived next. Ron just wore jeans and a t-shirt while Ginny had gone glamour Hollywood. She wore a pink and coral salsa style dress with big ruffles at the bottom hem.
"Hermione," Ron gasped at the sight of the beautiful brunette. "You look... so... Sexy!" He growled at her and kissed her on the lips. Hermione giggled and Ginny sighed and dragged her brother onto the dance floor.
Cho and Zacharias showed up hand-in-hand. Cho wore a traditional Chinese dress in black while Zach just wore jeans and a t-shirt. The couple immediately headed the refreshment table to poke fun at Draco.
"What are you doing here?" Cho asked Draco, examining him from head to toe. She had admit, he was pretty sexy.
"I'm staying with Hermione," Draco replied, even more in a hateful tone.
"My," Cho smirked, "Is Ron okay with that?"
Draco glared at her and she and Zach left for the dance floor.
Neville and Luna just happened to show up at the same time. Luna went crazy with clothes again and wore a red and green striped dress with white faux- fur trim. A holy decal was on the collar of her dress. Also, she wore a giant Santa Claus-type belt. Neville, being quite controversial with the season, wore a button-up Hawaiian shirt and black pants.
As soon as Luna spotted Draco she stopped talking with Hermione and went over to him. "Draco," she said trying not to blush much or pass out, "You look nice!"
Draco smiled. "You do too. Want to dance?"
Luna smiled broadly and nodded.
After Ron was done 'busting-a-move', he joined Hermione by the door. They were deep into a 'conversation' when suddenly the door bell. This of course, extremely frightened Ron who ran and hid behind Hermione.
Hermione laughed. "Ron, it's just the doorbell. It's like knocking on a door. Only, it's not. That must be Harry!"
But it wasn't Harry. It was quite the opposite.
"Lavender?" Ron and Hermione gasped.
"That's my name, don't wear it out!" She stepped inside the house, and took off her coat revealing a very ugly khaki green turtle neck and too tight jeans.
"Umm, Lavender? Do you have an invitation?"
"As a matter of fact, I do!" She flashed Hermione the invitation, on which Neville's name had been crossed out and her own had been scribbled in.
"Well," Hermione said reluctantly, "I guess you can come in. Mind yourself though, we have limited refreshments."
"Are you calling me fat?"
"No... Maybe a bit horizontally inclined, but not fat!"
Lavender tried to decide if it was an insult or not. She didn't know so she just ignored it and went to dance with the very yummy Lee Jordan.
"Where can Harry be?" Hermione said after an hour had passed. She and Ginny sat on a bench at the door, when someone knocked at the door.
"HARRY!" Hermione yelled. "Where have you been?"
Harry came into the house, clothing drenched, "I had to walk."
******
About two minutes before midnight, Hermione called the attention of everyone and turned down the music. "Okay everybody, I have a surprise for you!"
Everyone looked at her skeptically. They better not have to do homework!
"I have a karaoke machine!"
All the wizards that didn't come from muggle families looked at her oddly Hermione sighed and stepped up onto a one foot high stage with many electronics on it.
"You have this thing that you sing into and you have the words on a screen. And you have the music and background singers."
Some of them nodded, other just looked dazed. Hermione shook her head. "I'll just go first then. And you can follow along..."
The song started out with a couple of seconds of synthesized strings. The Hermione began to sing in a techno kind of voice.
"Roses are red and violets are blue, Honey is sweet but not as sweet as you, Roses are red and violets are blue, Ha dida dida might, Ha dida dida might. Mm dum de dadda da, Dum dee dadda da. Dum dee dadda da.... Dum dee dadda da, Dum dee dadda da, Dum dee dadda da! Come pick my roses!"
The music picked up and the other teenagers started to dance. Hermione smiled as she sang.
"Sweet from the flowers, Honey from the bees. I've got a feeling I'm ready to release. Roses are red and violets are blue, Honey is sweet but not as sweet as you. It's invincible, but so touchable. And I can feel it on my body, So emotional! I'm on a ride, on a ride, I'm a passenger. I'm the victim of a... Hot. Love. Messenger."
Hermione sang on, making everyone dance to the beat. It was contagious and soon everyone wanted to sing karaoke as well, no matter how well they sang. Fred and George sang right after Hermione.
"WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?!" Fred screamed into the microphone with no tune that was distinguishable.
"WHO? Who? Who?" George yelled. ((A/N to Thea: George is sooooo much hotter))
Then after a couple of people sang, a surprising singer stepped up on stage. It was Neville. Now Neville was known for having no talents, but as soon as he got on stage (shaking and sweating up a storm) he wowed his audience.
"I can't stand to fly, I'm not that naive. I'm just out find, The better part of me.
I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane, I'm more than a pretty face, beside a train. And it's not easy to be me."
Neville changed the mood of the party for the three and a half minutes that the song lasted. It had brought everyone back to reality. And reality was, was that none of them were safe. He finished off with a low trembling note, as if he just realized that he was singing in front of people. He quickly shuffled off the stage, and immediately ended up talking to Luna, whom, after hearing him sing, apparently liked him more. A lot more.
Ginny was too shy to sing. She danced to the other songs, but never quite made it to the stage, even though Hermione tried to push her up after hearing Ron's, George's and Fred's comments about her singing in the shower.
"Voice of an angel, that girl!" Fred said, taking a bite out of a slice of pizza.
"For sure," George agreed. "She's just too afraid of failure."
"Such a perfectionist!" Ron added, stepping off the stage after singing a song from the Wizarding world called 'Skele-Gro Won't Fix my Broken Heart'.
Suddenly, two grown-ups entered the room full of teenagers. "Hermione honey," the woman said. "Your father and I have been called into an emergency appointment. You and your friends will be responsible, won't you?"
"Yes Mum," Hermione responded as she was kissed on the cheek by both her parents.
They rushed out the door, her father mumbling "Those damn hockey players..."
"Thank god!" Hermione sighed in relief. "I never thought they'd leave!"
Everyone stared at her.
"What? Now we can have some real fun..." Hermione smirked and turned to Ginny. "But first... Ginny MUST sing."
"What?!?" Ginny blushed profusely.
"That's right Gin, sing away!"
Next thing she knew, Ginny found herself on stage. She faced the crowd of friends (well, okay, Lavender wasn't a friend). Neville and Luna were missing. They had apparently found their way to an empty room, and were making out as you read this very sentence.
Ginny stood there in shock. Her knees shook and her heart was beating fast. She never did well in front of crowds. But then the music started, and it took her far from Hermione's house. It took her into a new world. Music did that to Ginny.
"Are you aware of what you make me feel, baby. Right now I feel invisible to you, Like I'm not, real. Didn't you feel me lock my arms around you? Why'd you turn away? Here's what I have to say.
I was left to cry there, Waiting out side there, Grinning with a lost stare, That's when I decided.
Why should I care? 'Cause you weren't there when I was scared. I was so alone. Yeah, you need to listen! I'm starting to trip, I'm losing my grip. And I'm in this thing alone..."
Her voice started to crack as she realized that she was in front of a crowd of people. People who were staring at her in awe.
"I'm sorry," she said sheepishly. "I know I'm not that good."
Everyone looked at her with a 'what-the-fuck?' expression. Hermione spoke first.
"Gin! That was freakin', amazing!!" She hugged the stunned girl. "You have talent, girl!"
Everyone nodded and mummers of agreement came from the kids. Ginny shrugged.
"Why don't we get this party on the move?" She asked everyone. Ginny grinned as everyone cheered.
Hermione put the music back on and everyone started grooving again.
******
"Gin!" Harry called to Ginny, who was just down the hall. He had followed her across the dance floor but couldn't get her attention.
She turned around. "Oh! Hullo Harry!" Her face was flushed.
"Are you going somewhere? Is something wrong?"
"No," she said smiling at him. Those emeralds of his were filled with so much concern. "I just need to go get some air. You want to come?"
Harry nodded eagerly, and the two of them stepped out onto the back porch. The moonlight illuminated Harry's eyes and Ginny turned away to prevent herself from staring. She couldn't help it. His eyes were what drew her back. Closer and closer, until she finally realized that not only did she imagine that she had been drawn closer, that she actually had drawn closer. Her face was right in front of his; eye to eye. But more importantly, lip to lip.
Ginny giggled. "I guess we'll never be apart."
"Not as long as I'm alive and sane."
Ginny blinked stupidly. "What is this sane you are talking about? You were never sane."
Harry let out a 'heh' but then his face turned serious. Serious, though, in a funny way. "Kiss me, you lovely little redhead!" He grabbed her and dipped her. It was a passionate kiss, the kind that you only ever see in movies.
Ginny started to giggle again as he lifted her back up. "Harry," she whispered as he took her hands and they danced a slow waltz to the little music that came out the door.
"Mm hm?" He mumbled as he nuzzled her neck.
"I've never been this happy in my life."
Harry and Ginny pulled apart and stood at arms length holding hands. The moon was full, and had centered itself between them.
Harry brushed some hair out of her face. "Every time I'm with you I feel like that."
Ginny blushed and hugged Harry. They both gazed at the moon, forgetting that the horror would soon come.
******
Now some last disclaimers:
Roses Are Red is property of Aqua and whoever owns it. Who Let the Dogs Out is owned by the Baha Men. Superman is owned by Five for Fighting. Losing Grip is property of Avril Lavinge. Skele-Gro Won't Fix my Broken Heart is property of me. I don't own any of the other songs, so... yeah....
Expect lyrics to Skele-Gro Won't Fix my Broken Heart in the next chapter.