After a very bad week and weekend, I have decided to finish my next chapter. I have been going through a very rough time, as I almost lost my mother. Hopefully I haven't been to depressed because I would hate to see it come out in my beautiful story. Please bear with me as I try to keep this story from getting to messed up. j/k! Enjoy!

Helen88uk Thank u for the wonderful review. Anytime u need help just let me know.

Well, enough babble.......on with the show.

Disclaimer: I own nothing..........with the exception of Aurora........she's mine damn it!!! You can't have her!!

Chappie 5

The past 7 days had gone by quickly for Aurora. Hermione had stuck around just so she could help her get everything finished in Auroras classroom and office. Aurora had had so much fun spending time with her friend, but there was just one problem. There were odd moments when Aurora would drift off and remember the taste of Draco on her lips. She hated what he had done to her, yet she yearned for more. She had yet to tell her best friend what had happened that night for fear of what she would say.

The two girls sat talking and giggling about their years at Hogwarts together in Auroras common room when Aurora realized that she only had 3 hours until the students would arrive.

"Oh god," she yelped, " what do I wear?" she stared at Hermione with a look of horror.

"Geesh Rory. I would have thought you had that figured out by now."

All Aurora could do was force a smile and play with her now should length red hair.

"Come on. Let's go raid your closet." Hermione said, with a look of excitement.

As the girls walked into the a joining bedroom, Aurora plopped down on the bed as Hermione made her way to Auroras walk in closet.

"It's useless Mi, there's nothing in there worth wearing tonight. The only thing I have are my muggle clothes and my regular teacher robes. I never got the chance to go out and get anything fancy."

"Yeah well what the hell is this?" Hermione turned to face her friend holding up a beautiful black and green velvet dress with matching cloak.

"Where the bloody hell did that come from" Aurora said, jumping off the bed and running to Hermione's side.

As she stared at the unfamiliar dress she realized there was a note attached to the hanger. She pulled it off and stared at it with confusion and amazement.

"Well shit! READ IT!!" Her friend yelled.

Dear Miss. Rayne,

I knew that you had yet to purchase any new dress robes for tonight's special night. So, I took it upon myself to pick out something that I think you will look stunning in. I hope this is suitable to your tastes.

Enjoy It!

Professor

The girls looked at each other with blank stares, wondering who would have known that Aurora had yet to get any new robes.

"It's gotta be from Albus." Hermione said quickly. "He's the only one that really would have known that you hadn't left to get any new robes."

The girls nodded in agreement as Aurora took the dress and examined it closely.

"It's beautiful." She said happily. "I'm gunna go put it on."

Aurora ran into the bathroom and began to put on her new dress. When she came out to show off to Hermione, she found that her friend was wearing a look of shock, her jaw almost to the floor.

"What?" Aurora asked. She had yet to look at herself in the mirror.

Hermione grabbed her friend and shoved her in front of the large dressing mirror. What Aurora saw in front of her almost caused her to faint.(OOC: This dress kinda looks like McGonagalls dress from the first movie, only more form fitting and a lot more revealing.) The dress clung loosely to her every curve. The plunging neckline stopped right above her cleavage. The long velvet green sleeves ran all the way down to her wrists, with a small amount of fabric coming to a point and sticking just below her middle fingers.

"There's just one thing I think should be changed." Hermione said as she took out her wand, ran it down Auroras sides and said a spell that she had never heard before.

Suddenly before her eyes, the dress shrunk to become even more snug to Auroras figure. It caused the bottom part of the skirt to react with every movement that she made.

"Perfect." Hermione smiled and then looked at Auroras hair.

"Rory, there's three things this outfit needs to make it complete. The first thing would be your hair. It's just to......ummmm....PLAIN for this outfit."

Aurora nodded, agreeing with her friend. But what to do. She never really ran out of ideas of what to do with her hair or what color to change her eyes, but tonight seemed to present a challenge. She knew that her usual flare for color would not be very professional for tonight. Suddenly an idea sprang into her mind. She starred into the mirror concentrating on her hair. Suddenly her short, strait hair was replaced by waist long red curls. She smiled at how perfect it looked.

Hermione turned her friend and backed away, assessing how she looked.

"Something's missing. It just doesn't look right." She tapped her wand against her chin while walking around Aurora trying to figure out what it was that looked so OFF.

"I got it." She screamed. "Blonde." A bright smile came out on both their faces as Aurora turned back to the mirror. A second later, the long red curls were now blonde and they both smiled their approval.

"Ok," Hermione continued, "Next piece to the puzzle." She ran to the closet searching through the boxes that lined the top of Auroras closet. When she finally came back to where Aurora was standing, she had one of her black satin dress hats in her hand.(OOC: Again, imagine McGonagalls outfit from the movie.) She placed it on top of Auroras head and cocked it slightly to one side. She tapped it lightly with her wand so it would stay in the same place all night long.

As she stood back to admire her friend, she sighed with happiness at the way her friend looked.

"You look a lot like McGonagall. With the exception of being younger and you don't have that god awful bun she always wore. It's perfect." She smiled again as she gave her friend a huge hug. But then remembered. "Oh, I almost forgot." She ran to the bed and grabbed the black cloak and draped it over her shoulders handing the clasps to Aurora.

When Aurora had attached the clasp she looked down and noticed the intricate silver Celtic buckle. It was perfect.

She twirled around in front of the mirror and her laughing friend.

"Oh Mi, I look so grown up. I think there's one last thing I want to fix before I'm ready to go."

She walked closer to the mirror and concentrated one last time. When she turned back to her friend, her eyes were now a beautiful emerald green and her subtle make-up matched her outfit perfectly.

"Nice touch." Hermione laughed. "I love the eyes."

The girls hugged once again and then made their way out into the hall.

"I'm going to get ready. I think you need to go and find Dumbledore to let him know that your ready."

With that the two friends parted ways.

Aurora now stood at the front of the Great Hall waiting for Hagrid and the first years. Her meeting with the headmaster and the rest of the teachers had made her feel embarrassed yet flattered. She thought back to the look on Dracos face when she walked into the Great Hall. She laughed as she remembered how Ablus had leaned over and whispered into her ear.

"You look stunning in your new dress." She knew then that Hermione had been right. The dress had to have been from him.

The doors at the back of the Hall opened and all of the students turned to stare at the first years who were being lead by Hagird.

When they made it to the front of the Hall, Hagrids eyes grew large at the site of Aurora and she could hear her friend giggle behind her at his reaction.

It was now time for Aurora to begin the sorting. Hermione scanned the group of first years that now stood in front of her. A small boy right in the middle of the group looked as though he was trembling. She remembered how she had felt as she stood in that place on her first night.

The whole school waited with bated breath. Then the rip near the hat's brim opened wide like a mouth and the Sorting Hat, that sat on the stool next to Aurora, burst into song.

(OOC: Sorry guys but I'm not in the mood to think long and hard of a rhyme for the sorting hat.)

Once the Sorting Hat had finished it's song, Aurora took out her scroll and began to read off the names of the first years.

Once each one had been sorted and had sat down with their new house, Aurora removed the stool and the Sorting Hat and sat down in her chair next to Hermione.

"Very well done." Hermione said. "I couldn't have done better myself."

Dumbledore was now standing and ready to address the school and it's new students.

Aurora had heard this speech many a time and knew it would be basically the same as it had been year after year. She slowly began to let her mind wander when she felt a sudden jab in the ribs. She looked over to see Hermione was attempting to pull her back to reality.

"Pay attention," She said quietly, "You don't wanna be zoning out when he introduces you."

Aurora smiled and nodded.

"This year we are happy to introduce two new teachers, as it seems that Professor Snape, and Professor McGonagall are no longer here to guide us with their wisdom."

Aurora half expected to hear cheering as Albus let the school know that Snape was no longer teaching potions, until she remembered that the whole school must have known that he had been killed.

"I would like to introduce to you now our new Potions teacher, Professor Malfoy." The Slytherin table erupted in great applause. Aurora expected this, knowing that Malfoy had been a Slytherin himself.

Dumbdore raised his hands and the Hall became quite again.

"He will also be the new Slytherin Head of House." The words had barely come out of his mouth when the Slytherin table erupted even louder. Aurora's stomach dropped when she realized that she would be having to work with him on the Halloween Ball. But before she could worry any more about that, the hall became quite once again as Dumbledore raised his hands.

"Next I would like to introduce you to our new Transfiguration teacher, Professor Rayne, who will also be taking over the position of Gryffindor Head of House." The hall erupted for a third time, but much louder than the previous two. Aurora stood and nodded at all of the students.

The last bit of the headmasters speech never reached her ears. She had looked over at Draco as she sat down and noticed the large smirk upon his face. She knew he had realized the same thing she had earlier. They would HAVE to work together.

Aurora was brought back to reality once again. This time by the appearance of food in front of her. The Hall filled with a low roar of noise as the students began to eat and chat with all of their friends.

"What's wrong Rory?" Hermione whispered. "You look like you just found out your dog died"

Aurora just turned her head and smiled. "Nothing. I'm ok. I was just thinking, that's all."

Hermione returned the smile and went back to eating her plate of food.

Auroras appetite was now gone. All she could think about was the fact that at some point this year, she was going to have to work with HIM. This was defiantly going to be a very interesting year.