Chapter 3 - Preparation
Disclaimer- I don't own any of these characters. They belong to J.K Rowling, but if I did own them Draco would be mine!
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Harry, Ron and Hermione had reached the common room and were now standing in a dark corner away from everyone else. They may as well of been standing in the middle of the common room because Hermione's screams at Ron could be heard from the dormitories.
'What were you thinking?' Hermione screamed. 'You could have really hurt yourself and Malfoy! Heck, even Harry could have been hurt!'
'Hey, don't bring me into this!' Harry mumbled angrily at her. Ron looked at Harry hoping for support, but he looked away.
'Imagine in Snape had of caught you two rolling on the floor trying to kill each other! You could have been expelled Ron. Either that or a months worth of detention! Why? Why did you do it?' Hermione said this all in one breath.
'Hermione you weren't there! He provoked me! It's like he wants to fight! ' Ron got cut off.
'I don't care if I wasn't there! What I saw was enough to tell me what happened.' Hermione yelled.
'But.'
'No buts Ronald Weasley. Now I have to go and wait for Ginny in our dormitory to get ready for the party tonight..' Hermione went to walk off but Ron grabbed her arm.
'Party? Where 'Mione?' Ron asked
'In the dungeons,' Hermione said shortly, trying not to make eye contact with Ron.
'IN THE DUNGEONS? Hermione! Malfoy will probably be there! He might hurt you! I don't think it's a good idea,' Ron was clearly against the idea of Hermione going to the party. If you didn't know them, you would never of guessed they were going out.
'Yeh well I didn't think you punching Malfoy in the face was a good idea either!' She lightened her tone a bit. 'Besides, what harm could come from going to a party?' She asked in her most innocent voice.
Ron mumbled something under his breath and looked at the ground. Hermione and Harry exchanged glances.
'What was that Ron?' Hermione asked
'Nothing. When is it?' Ron asked, shaking his head.
'It's at 7.00 tonight. It's in the room where. where we last. faced You- Know-Who,' Now it was Hermione's turn to gaze at the ground.
'More of a reason not to go 'Mione,' Ron looked at Harry. 'Right Harry?'
'Ahh. yeh, wouldn't do you any good going back in there Hermione,' Harry frowned, who was trying his best to stay out of the conversation.
Hermione glared at them both.
'I KNEW YOU WOULD BE ON RON'S SIDE! You always are. You two are always together and I'm always pushed to the side!' Hermione yelled at them.
'Hermione, no it's not like that! I just think.' Ron started
'I don't care what you think! I'm. I'm going up to my dormitory,' she said, wiping what looked to be a tear from her hot face. With that she turned around and walked up the staircase to her dorm. Ron and Harry were still standing in the same position, lost for words.
Parvarti and Lavendar were one of the many people witnessing this incident and quickly ran up the stairs after Hermione to see if she was alright.
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Ginny ran all the way to the portrait of the fat lady without stopping once. She sat down on a chair next to a small table with a vase of roses on it to catch her breath. She leaned her elbow on the table and thought about what had just happened. A million questions were flying around in her head, but she knew the answers to none of them. She put her head on her hand that was resting on the table, feeling a head ache coming on. Her elbow slid along the table and she knocked off the crystal vase. Glass shattered on the ground with a loud smash. Ginny was startled for a minute and quite unaware of what she had just done. Then she quickly mumbled a spell that fixed the vase. The glass all flew back up to form the shape of the vase and the roses flew back into place. Ginny slowly bent down and picked up the vase, gently placing it onto the table. Then she stood up and walked over the the portrait of the fat lady.
'Password?' The Fat Lady kindly asked Ginny
'Quidditch,' Ginny said grimly as the Fat Lady swung her portrait open. Ginny slowly walked inside.
No-one noticed her as she walked up to her dormitory. She opened the door to see Hermione, Parvati and Lavendar going through bags of make up on Hermione's bed. They all looked at her when the door opened. They all smiled and said hello.
'Where did you get all that makeup?' Ginny asked wide-eyed looking at tubes of lipstick, eyeliner, mascara, eyeshadow, and other sorts of makeup all sprawled over the bed.
'Well most of its ours, but we borrowed some off some seventh year Gryffindor girls. There's a lot here!' Parvati giggled. Ginny laughed also.
'Yeh I can see that. So where do we start?'
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'Ron? Ron what are you doing?'
'Harry, we are going to this party!' Ron said without looking at his best friend. Ron was looking through his trunk for something to wear. Soon enough jeans, pants, jumpers and t-shirts where sprawled all over the floor and Ron's bed. He picked up a pair of old worn pants filled with holes with disgust, that looked like it was once Charlie's or Bill's. He threw it back down on the ground. Harry looked at him sympathetically. Ron went through all his clothes until he settled on wearing a pair of baggy black pants, a dark blue t-shirt, and a black sweater. He picked up the clothes that were laying all over his bed and threw them back in his trunk.
'Well come on Harry, get ready!' Ron growled, who was closing the curtains on his four-poster to put his clothes on. Harry took this as a warning and quickly grabbed a pair of blue jeans, a black t-shirt and a baggy dark green jumper and got dressed.
'Ron may I ask why we are getting ready now? The party starts at 7.00 and its only.' Harry glanced at the clock on his bedside table. '4.30,' Harry finished. Ron chose to ignore this question.
'Harry where is your invisibility cloak?'
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Draco walked into his common room, but for once he wasn't looking for attention. Pansy still managed to spot him though.
'Oh Dracy what did you do to your face?' Pansy ran over to him and touched his jaw. Obviously she had forgiven him about this morning.
'Nothing that concerns you Pansy,' Draco said curtly pushing her hands away form his face. He quickened his pace and headed for his dorm. Pansy hurried after him.
'Dracy? Dracy? Are you listening to me? Who hurt your face Dracy?' Pansy screamed at him. They were now making their way up the stairs.
'It's none of your business Pansy,' Draco said, trying to stay calm.
'But Dracy if someone hurt you, I want to help. How dare someone hurt you! Just tell me who.' The had just reached his dorm. Draco opened his door and stepped inside. Pansy went in to follow him but Draco blocked her.
'Pansy I said it's none of your god damned business!' Draco couldn't stay calm anymore.
'But.' Draco never heard what Pansy was going to say because he slammed the door in her face. It closed with a thud and something on the other side yelped in pain.
'Draco! Your g-g-going to p-p-pay for th-that!' Draco heard Pansy let out a sob through the door. Draco ignored her though. He had had enough of her and her ways. He was fed up of her following him everywhere and her fussing over him. He walked over to his bed. His bed was nicely made and his room was very tidy. 'The house elves have obviously been in here today.' He thought to himself.
He sat down on his bed and looked at his wall. A big flashing sign said 'Party Tonight In The Dungeons!' He had almost forgotten. He quickly went through his cuboard until he found a nice pair of black pants, a blue shirt, and a black jacket. He threw them on his bed and got changed. Then he quickly grabbed one of his black cloaks off a hook on the wall and hurried out of his dorm. He walked over to Crabbe and Goyle who were still trying to play chess. As he walked over to them, Goyles castle has just had a tanturam because Goyle wasn't doing what it asked. It threw chess pieces everywhere and managed to hit Goyle in the eye.
'OWW!' Goyle screamed as the bishop hit him in the eye. He ran around the room howling whilst everyone else in the room laughed. Draco walked over to him as he was running in his direction and pushed hard on his shoulders.
'Goyle! Stop it ok? Get a grip on yourself!' Draco shouted at him. Goyle stopped running and yelling and looked and Draco.
'Now go to your dorm and get changed!' Draco yelled.
'But why?' Goyle asked, confused.
'The party? In the dungeons? Don't you remember? I only told you this morning! Now Crabbe! Goyle! Go to your dormitories and get ready. Meet me back down here in 5 minutes,' Draco told them.
Crabbe and Goyle quickly walked up the stairs to their dorms and started to get ready. Draco sat down on one of the green leather couches near the fire place. He crossed his arms and stared at the fire. A few minutes later Crabbe and Goyle came back into the common room. Draco stood up, and without a word, walked out of the common room, Crabbe and Goyle right behind him.
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Hermione sat in a chair in the bathroom. Parvati, Lavender and Ginny were all over her hair, trying to straighten it. Hermione had a book in her lap. It was called '1000 different spells to style your hair.'
'No Parvati, it says you have to flick your wrist, not twirl it!' Hermione snapped. Parvati tried the spell again. Parvati, Lavender and Ginny gasped.
'What? What is it?' Hermione asked, becoming worried. Parvati, Lavender and Ginny all exchanged glances. When none of them spoke Hermione yelled at them.
'What is it? What have you done?' Hermione said, trying to stay calm.
'Ahh. well your hair is definitely straight now,' Ginny said slowly.
'Great, then why are you so shocked?' Hermione was relieved.
'Umm. Parvati?' Ginny said hopelessly.
'Oh, yeh, well Hermione. Your hair is. well it's. ahh.' Parvati trailed off, unable to finish her sentence. Hermione was really worried now
'Take a look for yourself!' Lavender said quickly, thrusting a small round mirror in Hermione's hand. Hermione took the mirror and slowly raised it to her face. She screamed.
'OH MY GOD! What have you done to my hair?' Hermione screamed frantically. She grabbed a small lock of her hair. It was straight, but now it was blonde.
'Blonde? How did you do it? Can't you change it back?' Hermione yelled and Parvati hysterically.
'I-I-I don't know what I did. I was trying to make it straight by flicking my wrist like you told me to! B-b-but it made it blonde! I swear Hermione I didn't mean to make it that way!' Parvati was almost as hysterical as Hermione
'Don't worry about it Hermione,' Ginny said as she put her arm around her best friend. 'I like it. It suits you.'
'R-r-really?' Hermione stammered.
'Yes, it looks great!' Lavender told her. Hermione smiled and looked and Parvati.
'Sorry Parvati!' Hermione walked over to her and hugged her.
'I'm sorry too Hermione!' Parvati answered. 'And to make you feel better, I think we should go blonde!'
Lavender and Ginny glared at Parvati, but quickly put on smiles as Hermione looked at them.
'Really? You guys would do that? For me?' Hermione looked at them and smiled.
'Yes, of course we would Hermione,' Ginny said quickly. Hermione looked at Lavender.
'Yeh sure Hermione,' Lavender added, but didn't seem to keen on the idea.
'Ok then, Parvati what did you do? Flicked your wrist didn't you?' Hermione asked, her wand ready in hand.
'Yeh, then I said the incantation,' Parvati said.
'Ok, I'll try it on you first,' Hermione stood up and Parvati took up her place on the chair. Hermione rolled up her sleeves. She flicked her wand as Parvati had and said the incantation. Again, they all gasped.
'Did it work?' Parvati asked them curiously.
'Well it changed the colour for sure!' Ginny said as all of them, except for Parvati fell on the floor in another fit of giggles. Parvati grabbed the mirror from the ground. She screamed just as Hermione had.
'Oh my gosh!' Pavarti gasped. Her hair was now a deep red colour. 'Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!' After a minute of shock, Parvati also found herself on the floor, laughing with the rest of them.
'Ok, ok, now its Lavender's turn!' Parvati exclaimed.
'Damn, I was hoping you would forget about me!' Lavender joked. 'Ok, Ginny, you can do it!' Lavender sat down on the chair,
'Me? Well ok then,' Ginny said. 'She picked up her wand from the ground and did as Hermione and Parvati had done before. This time they didn't gasp. Lavender's hair was now black. The girls were in hysterics. Lavender started screaming!
'Ok, Ginny, now its your turn, get ready for revenge!' Lavender laughed and beckoned Ginny to sit in the chair
'No, noway! Not me.'Ginny tried to run out of the room but all three girls grabbed on to her. Hermione and Pavarti pulled her over to the chair.
'Ok, ok, I'll do it!' She laughed.
'Ok Ginny, here goes nothing!' Lavender copied what everyone else had done before. After she said the incantation, no one laughed, or gasped, or said anything. The three girls were gaping at Ginny.
'What? Oh god, don't tell me I'm bald or something,' Ginny said as she put her hand to her hair but felt that it was there.
'Well my hair is there. What is it?' Ginny snapped.
'Ginny.' Was all Hermione managed to say. Ginny couldn't take the tension anymore. She picked up the mirror from the ground. What the mirror showed her, totally shocked her. Her hair had changed into a dark brown colour. It actually looked quite good.
'Wow,' Ginny breathed.
'Wow is right! How come your hair came out nice?' Lavender said with fake annoyance.
'I-I-I don't know. but I love it!' Ginny said, tossing her hair over her shoulder and playing with her hair.
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Ron and Harry were walking down the grand staircase on their way to the dungeons. They were under the invisibility cloak.
'I can't believe we are doing this Ron,' Harry complained.
'Harry, we have to do this. I know there is something up at this party. I bet Malfoy knows something!' Ron said.
'So that's why we are down here. To find Malfoy and go up and ask him if something is going to happen at the party? He wouldn't tell us our lives were at risk. You know that Ron,' Harry told him, trying to knock some sense into him.
'That's why we are under the invisibility cloak! I bet if something was going to happen, Malfoy would be bragging about it to the other Slytherin's. We will have to wait until he comes out,' Ron sounded determined on his plan. Harry decided not to say anything at this point. Ron would probably lose his temper if Harry said anything against his idea.
They just stepped into the dungeons as they heard voices. Ron beckoned Harry to be quiet, and they slowly crept closer to the voice.
'Why are we leaving so early?' Ron and Harry heard someone whine.
'Crabbe, if this party is going to be any good, we don't want someone like Pansy, or Potter and Weasley starting it do you? We have to get this party started,' They heard Draco say. They quickly crept closer and closer to the voices, until they saw Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle standing in front of a green dragon. This dragon was the entrance to the room. Draco put his hands on the dragons head.
'Shekne,' Draco said to the dragon. Ron and Harry stared open mouthed as the dragon engulfed Malfoy and his two companions with a blinding green light. Harry and Ron squinted. The next second the light was gone, and so was Malfoy. No one else was in sight. Harry and Ron and had been through there before, but had never witnessed someone else going through. It was amazing. They quickly ran over to where Malfoy had just been, in front of the dragon.
'What did he say again?' Ron asked.
'Ahh. I don't know, I didn't hear it very well,' Harry answered.
'Damn it!'
'Don't worry about it Ron, I bet the other Slytherin's will know, and Hermione will probably know too,' Harry told him.
'Yeh your right, lets just wait here until someone else shows up. Then we can follow them,' Ron decided.
'Ok, well it looks like we will be awhile. How bout a game of truth or dare?' Harry winked.
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'Hermione, can you pass me the lipstick?'
'Just a sec,' Hermione told Parvati, applying the finishing touches on her lips with a deep red lipstick. 'Here Parvati, catch!' Hermione said as she threw the lipstick at Parvati. Parvati caught it and started to apply some to her lips too.
'Ginny, are you done with that mascara?' Lavender asked Ginny.
'Yeh sure Lavender here,' Ginny walked over to Lavender and handed her the black mascara.
'Does anyone have the eyeliner?' Ginny yelled out.
'I don't have it,' Hermione told her.
'Neither do I,' Parvarti said. They all looked at Lavender.
Lavender looked at them and burst out in laughter. They all laughed hysterically. Lavender finally stopped laughing.
'No I don't have it either!' Lavender laughed even more. For the next few minutes they searched the room for the eyeliner but couldn't find it.
'Oh for goodness sake!' Hermione finally said, and with a flick of her wand, the eyeliner came flying out from under the bed.
This caused them to break out in yet another fit of giggles. When they finally stopped, Hermione handed the eyeliner to Ginny. All the girls got back to doing their make up. Half an hour later, they were done.
'Ok, now that all the make up is done, what are we going to wear?' Lavender asked. A minute after Lavender said that, clothes were sprawled all around the room.
'Oh isn't this top gorgeous?' Ginny said in awe. She held up a purple top that crisscrossed at the back. At the front it was covered with sparkles that changed colour. All the other girls gaped at it.
'Gin, where did you get it?' Hermione asked.
'Oh..' She blushed. 'I was in the attic at home and I was looking through all these boxes and this was in one of them. I suppose it was mums.'
She took off her blue t-shirt that she was wearing and put on the purple one. It fitted her perfectly. The other girls looked at her for a moment, and then they all got back to choosing their outfits. Lavender ended up wearing a soft pink coloured top with flared jeans, Parvati wore a black top and white pants, Hermione wore a light blue top and a black skirt, and Ginny wore her purple top with a pink pleated mini skirt. They all looked beautiful. They stared at each other in the mirror, looking at all the changes.
'We look good!' Parvati laughed, which sent another fit of giggles around the room. Ginny stopped laughing first.
'What about shoes?' Ginny asked.
'I'll take care of that one,' Hermione said. She flicked her wrist, said a few words and 4 pairs of black stilletos appeared. They were gorgeous.
'Good job Hermione!' Lavender yelled. They all grabbed a pair each and slipped them on. They matched their outfits beautifully. Ginny looked at the clock on her table.
'Hey guys, it's only 6.30! We are a bit early,' Ginny said.
'Yeh your right. I know! Lets play truth or dare!' Parvati suggested. All the girls agreed. They sat on Pavarti's bed and got themselves comfortable.
'Ok I'll go first,' Parvati said. 'Lavender, truth or dare?'
'Truth.'
'Ok, who do you think is cuter out of Harry and Ron?' Parvati grinned. Hermione blushed. So did Lavender.
'Ahh. I'm going to have to say Harry,' Lavender said. 'Ok Hermione, truth or dare?'
'Truth.'
'Is Ron a good kisser?' Everyone laughed.
'Oh, I do not need to know that!' Ginny screamed.
Hermione went a deep shade of crimson. She muttered a word under her breath.
'What was that Hermione?' Lavender teased.
'YES!' Hermione screamed and grabbed a pillow to hide her face. All the other girls screamed and laughed.
'Ok, ok, enough already,' Hermione said. 'Ginny, truth or dare?'
'Truth,' Ginny said nervously, wondering what Hermione was going to ask her.
'Do you like Draco Malfoy?' The whole room went quiet and Ginny went as red as Hermione did before. No one said anything. Ginny looked around the room for something to save her. She spotted the clock which now said 6.45.
'Oh no! If we don't hurry we are going to be late!' Ginny said quickly and scrambled off Parvati's bed.
'Ginny?' They all chorused teasingly.
'Ginny turned slowly around to face them.
'Do you like Draco Malfoy?' Hermione asked again.
'Ahh. well that's a hard one, I think I will have to get back to you on that one,' she siad this all in one breath and quickly tried to make a run for it but Hermione grabbed her wrist.
'Gin, you can't back out now. You have to answer. Yes or no?' Hermione asked again. Ginny paused for a second, as if she was thinking.
'Yes,' she uttered quietly. Again the room went silent and everyone stared at Ginny. Parvati was the first to speak.
' Well he is pretty good looking!' She said.
'Yeh, I agree,' Lavender added.
'Well, he isn't bad looking.' Hermione said.
'Good, then lets just forget about it and go to this party!' Ginny said. They all got excited. They grabbed their robes and went down into the common room. Ginny couldn't see Ron and Harry and hoped they weren't up the something. They hurried their way out of the common room. They reached the dungeons in 2 minutes. They made their way through the dungeons and found the little green dragon. Ginny and Hermione changed glances. Last time they went in this room, someone didn't come out alive. Ginny put her hands on the dragons head.
'Shekne.'
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A/N~ Ok what did you think? Well please review me and give me your thoughts. and please please please don't flame me! I told you I'd make it longer! Sorry it took so long to write. I didn't have a writers block I just. OK OK I HAD A WRITERS BLOCK!
Disclaimer- I don't own any of these characters. They belong to J.K Rowling, but if I did own them Draco would be mine!
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Harry, Ron and Hermione had reached the common room and were now standing in a dark corner away from everyone else. They may as well of been standing in the middle of the common room because Hermione's screams at Ron could be heard from the dormitories.
'What were you thinking?' Hermione screamed. 'You could have really hurt yourself and Malfoy! Heck, even Harry could have been hurt!'
'Hey, don't bring me into this!' Harry mumbled angrily at her. Ron looked at Harry hoping for support, but he looked away.
'Imagine in Snape had of caught you two rolling on the floor trying to kill each other! You could have been expelled Ron. Either that or a months worth of detention! Why? Why did you do it?' Hermione said this all in one breath.
'Hermione you weren't there! He provoked me! It's like he wants to fight! ' Ron got cut off.
'I don't care if I wasn't there! What I saw was enough to tell me what happened.' Hermione yelled.
'But.'
'No buts Ronald Weasley. Now I have to go and wait for Ginny in our dormitory to get ready for the party tonight..' Hermione went to walk off but Ron grabbed her arm.
'Party? Where 'Mione?' Ron asked
'In the dungeons,' Hermione said shortly, trying not to make eye contact with Ron.
'IN THE DUNGEONS? Hermione! Malfoy will probably be there! He might hurt you! I don't think it's a good idea,' Ron was clearly against the idea of Hermione going to the party. If you didn't know them, you would never of guessed they were going out.
'Yeh well I didn't think you punching Malfoy in the face was a good idea either!' She lightened her tone a bit. 'Besides, what harm could come from going to a party?' She asked in her most innocent voice.
Ron mumbled something under his breath and looked at the ground. Hermione and Harry exchanged glances.
'What was that Ron?' Hermione asked
'Nothing. When is it?' Ron asked, shaking his head.
'It's at 7.00 tonight. It's in the room where. where we last. faced You- Know-Who,' Now it was Hermione's turn to gaze at the ground.
'More of a reason not to go 'Mione,' Ron looked at Harry. 'Right Harry?'
'Ahh. yeh, wouldn't do you any good going back in there Hermione,' Harry frowned, who was trying his best to stay out of the conversation.
Hermione glared at them both.
'I KNEW YOU WOULD BE ON RON'S SIDE! You always are. You two are always together and I'm always pushed to the side!' Hermione yelled at them.
'Hermione, no it's not like that! I just think.' Ron started
'I don't care what you think! I'm. I'm going up to my dormitory,' she said, wiping what looked to be a tear from her hot face. With that she turned around and walked up the staircase to her dorm. Ron and Harry were still standing in the same position, lost for words.
Parvarti and Lavendar were one of the many people witnessing this incident and quickly ran up the stairs after Hermione to see if she was alright.
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Ginny ran all the way to the portrait of the fat lady without stopping once. She sat down on a chair next to a small table with a vase of roses on it to catch her breath. She leaned her elbow on the table and thought about what had just happened. A million questions were flying around in her head, but she knew the answers to none of them. She put her head on her hand that was resting on the table, feeling a head ache coming on. Her elbow slid along the table and she knocked off the crystal vase. Glass shattered on the ground with a loud smash. Ginny was startled for a minute and quite unaware of what she had just done. Then she quickly mumbled a spell that fixed the vase. The glass all flew back up to form the shape of the vase and the roses flew back into place. Ginny slowly bent down and picked up the vase, gently placing it onto the table. Then she stood up and walked over the the portrait of the fat lady.
'Password?' The Fat Lady kindly asked Ginny
'Quidditch,' Ginny said grimly as the Fat Lady swung her portrait open. Ginny slowly walked inside.
No-one noticed her as she walked up to her dormitory. She opened the door to see Hermione, Parvati and Lavendar going through bags of make up on Hermione's bed. They all looked at her when the door opened. They all smiled and said hello.
'Where did you get all that makeup?' Ginny asked wide-eyed looking at tubes of lipstick, eyeliner, mascara, eyeshadow, and other sorts of makeup all sprawled over the bed.
'Well most of its ours, but we borrowed some off some seventh year Gryffindor girls. There's a lot here!' Parvati giggled. Ginny laughed also.
'Yeh I can see that. So where do we start?'
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'Ron? Ron what are you doing?'
'Harry, we are going to this party!' Ron said without looking at his best friend. Ron was looking through his trunk for something to wear. Soon enough jeans, pants, jumpers and t-shirts where sprawled all over the floor and Ron's bed. He picked up a pair of old worn pants filled with holes with disgust, that looked like it was once Charlie's or Bill's. He threw it back down on the ground. Harry looked at him sympathetically. Ron went through all his clothes until he settled on wearing a pair of baggy black pants, a dark blue t-shirt, and a black sweater. He picked up the clothes that were laying all over his bed and threw them back in his trunk.
'Well come on Harry, get ready!' Ron growled, who was closing the curtains on his four-poster to put his clothes on. Harry took this as a warning and quickly grabbed a pair of blue jeans, a black t-shirt and a baggy dark green jumper and got dressed.
'Ron may I ask why we are getting ready now? The party starts at 7.00 and its only.' Harry glanced at the clock on his bedside table. '4.30,' Harry finished. Ron chose to ignore this question.
'Harry where is your invisibility cloak?'
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Draco walked into his common room, but for once he wasn't looking for attention. Pansy still managed to spot him though.
'Oh Dracy what did you do to your face?' Pansy ran over to him and touched his jaw. Obviously she had forgiven him about this morning.
'Nothing that concerns you Pansy,' Draco said curtly pushing her hands away form his face. He quickened his pace and headed for his dorm. Pansy hurried after him.
'Dracy? Dracy? Are you listening to me? Who hurt your face Dracy?' Pansy screamed at him. They were now making their way up the stairs.
'It's none of your business Pansy,' Draco said, trying to stay calm.
'But Dracy if someone hurt you, I want to help. How dare someone hurt you! Just tell me who.' The had just reached his dorm. Draco opened his door and stepped inside. Pansy went in to follow him but Draco blocked her.
'Pansy I said it's none of your god damned business!' Draco couldn't stay calm anymore.
'But.' Draco never heard what Pansy was going to say because he slammed the door in her face. It closed with a thud and something on the other side yelped in pain.
'Draco! Your g-g-going to p-p-pay for th-that!' Draco heard Pansy let out a sob through the door. Draco ignored her though. He had had enough of her and her ways. He was fed up of her following him everywhere and her fussing over him. He walked over to his bed. His bed was nicely made and his room was very tidy. 'The house elves have obviously been in here today.' He thought to himself.
He sat down on his bed and looked at his wall. A big flashing sign said 'Party Tonight In The Dungeons!' He had almost forgotten. He quickly went through his cuboard until he found a nice pair of black pants, a blue shirt, and a black jacket. He threw them on his bed and got changed. Then he quickly grabbed one of his black cloaks off a hook on the wall and hurried out of his dorm. He walked over to Crabbe and Goyle who were still trying to play chess. As he walked over to them, Goyles castle has just had a tanturam because Goyle wasn't doing what it asked. It threw chess pieces everywhere and managed to hit Goyle in the eye.
'OWW!' Goyle screamed as the bishop hit him in the eye. He ran around the room howling whilst everyone else in the room laughed. Draco walked over to him as he was running in his direction and pushed hard on his shoulders.
'Goyle! Stop it ok? Get a grip on yourself!' Draco shouted at him. Goyle stopped running and yelling and looked and Draco.
'Now go to your dorm and get changed!' Draco yelled.
'But why?' Goyle asked, confused.
'The party? In the dungeons? Don't you remember? I only told you this morning! Now Crabbe! Goyle! Go to your dormitories and get ready. Meet me back down here in 5 minutes,' Draco told them.
Crabbe and Goyle quickly walked up the stairs to their dorms and started to get ready. Draco sat down on one of the green leather couches near the fire place. He crossed his arms and stared at the fire. A few minutes later Crabbe and Goyle came back into the common room. Draco stood up, and without a word, walked out of the common room, Crabbe and Goyle right behind him.
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Hermione sat in a chair in the bathroom. Parvati, Lavender and Ginny were all over her hair, trying to straighten it. Hermione had a book in her lap. It was called '1000 different spells to style your hair.'
'No Parvati, it says you have to flick your wrist, not twirl it!' Hermione snapped. Parvati tried the spell again. Parvati, Lavender and Ginny gasped.
'What? What is it?' Hermione asked, becoming worried. Parvati, Lavender and Ginny all exchanged glances. When none of them spoke Hermione yelled at them.
'What is it? What have you done?' Hermione said, trying to stay calm.
'Ahh. well your hair is definitely straight now,' Ginny said slowly.
'Great, then why are you so shocked?' Hermione was relieved.
'Umm. Parvati?' Ginny said hopelessly.
'Oh, yeh, well Hermione. Your hair is. well it's. ahh.' Parvati trailed off, unable to finish her sentence. Hermione was really worried now
'Take a look for yourself!' Lavender said quickly, thrusting a small round mirror in Hermione's hand. Hermione took the mirror and slowly raised it to her face. She screamed.
'OH MY GOD! What have you done to my hair?' Hermione screamed frantically. She grabbed a small lock of her hair. It was straight, but now it was blonde.
'Blonde? How did you do it? Can't you change it back?' Hermione yelled and Parvati hysterically.
'I-I-I don't know what I did. I was trying to make it straight by flicking my wrist like you told me to! B-b-but it made it blonde! I swear Hermione I didn't mean to make it that way!' Parvati was almost as hysterical as Hermione
'Don't worry about it Hermione,' Ginny said as she put her arm around her best friend. 'I like it. It suits you.'
'R-r-really?' Hermione stammered.
'Yes, it looks great!' Lavender told her. Hermione smiled and looked and Parvati.
'Sorry Parvati!' Hermione walked over to her and hugged her.
'I'm sorry too Hermione!' Parvati answered. 'And to make you feel better, I think we should go blonde!'
Lavender and Ginny glared at Parvati, but quickly put on smiles as Hermione looked at them.
'Really? You guys would do that? For me?' Hermione looked at them and smiled.
'Yes, of course we would Hermione,' Ginny said quickly. Hermione looked at Lavender.
'Yeh sure Hermione,' Lavender added, but didn't seem to keen on the idea.
'Ok then, Parvati what did you do? Flicked your wrist didn't you?' Hermione asked, her wand ready in hand.
'Yeh, then I said the incantation,' Parvati said.
'Ok, I'll try it on you first,' Hermione stood up and Parvati took up her place on the chair. Hermione rolled up her sleeves. She flicked her wand as Parvati had and said the incantation. Again, they all gasped.
'Did it work?' Parvati asked them curiously.
'Well it changed the colour for sure!' Ginny said as all of them, except for Parvati fell on the floor in another fit of giggles. Parvati grabbed the mirror from the ground. She screamed just as Hermione had.
'Oh my gosh!' Pavarti gasped. Her hair was now a deep red colour. 'Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!' After a minute of shock, Parvati also found herself on the floor, laughing with the rest of them.
'Ok, ok, now its Lavender's turn!' Parvati exclaimed.
'Damn, I was hoping you would forget about me!' Lavender joked. 'Ok, Ginny, you can do it!' Lavender sat down on the chair,
'Me? Well ok then,' Ginny said. 'She picked up her wand from the ground and did as Hermione and Parvati had done before. This time they didn't gasp. Lavender's hair was now black. The girls were in hysterics. Lavender started screaming!
'Ok, Ginny, now its your turn, get ready for revenge!' Lavender laughed and beckoned Ginny to sit in the chair
'No, noway! Not me.'Ginny tried to run out of the room but all three girls grabbed on to her. Hermione and Pavarti pulled her over to the chair.
'Ok, ok, I'll do it!' She laughed.
'Ok Ginny, here goes nothing!' Lavender copied what everyone else had done before. After she said the incantation, no one laughed, or gasped, or said anything. The three girls were gaping at Ginny.
'What? Oh god, don't tell me I'm bald or something,' Ginny said as she put her hand to her hair but felt that it was there.
'Well my hair is there. What is it?' Ginny snapped.
'Ginny.' Was all Hermione managed to say. Ginny couldn't take the tension anymore. She picked up the mirror from the ground. What the mirror showed her, totally shocked her. Her hair had changed into a dark brown colour. It actually looked quite good.
'Wow,' Ginny breathed.
'Wow is right! How come your hair came out nice?' Lavender said with fake annoyance.
'I-I-I don't know. but I love it!' Ginny said, tossing her hair over her shoulder and playing with her hair.
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Ron and Harry were walking down the grand staircase on their way to the dungeons. They were under the invisibility cloak.
'I can't believe we are doing this Ron,' Harry complained.
'Harry, we have to do this. I know there is something up at this party. I bet Malfoy knows something!' Ron said.
'So that's why we are down here. To find Malfoy and go up and ask him if something is going to happen at the party? He wouldn't tell us our lives were at risk. You know that Ron,' Harry told him, trying to knock some sense into him.
'That's why we are under the invisibility cloak! I bet if something was going to happen, Malfoy would be bragging about it to the other Slytherin's. We will have to wait until he comes out,' Ron sounded determined on his plan. Harry decided not to say anything at this point. Ron would probably lose his temper if Harry said anything against his idea.
They just stepped into the dungeons as they heard voices. Ron beckoned Harry to be quiet, and they slowly crept closer to the voice.
'Why are we leaving so early?' Ron and Harry heard someone whine.
'Crabbe, if this party is going to be any good, we don't want someone like Pansy, or Potter and Weasley starting it do you? We have to get this party started,' They heard Draco say. They quickly crept closer and closer to the voices, until they saw Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle standing in front of a green dragon. This dragon was the entrance to the room. Draco put his hands on the dragons head.
'Shekne,' Draco said to the dragon. Ron and Harry stared open mouthed as the dragon engulfed Malfoy and his two companions with a blinding green light. Harry and Ron squinted. The next second the light was gone, and so was Malfoy. No one else was in sight. Harry and Ron and had been through there before, but had never witnessed someone else going through. It was amazing. They quickly ran over to where Malfoy had just been, in front of the dragon.
'What did he say again?' Ron asked.
'Ahh. I don't know, I didn't hear it very well,' Harry answered.
'Damn it!'
'Don't worry about it Ron, I bet the other Slytherin's will know, and Hermione will probably know too,' Harry told him.
'Yeh your right, lets just wait here until someone else shows up. Then we can follow them,' Ron decided.
'Ok, well it looks like we will be awhile. How bout a game of truth or dare?' Harry winked.
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'Hermione, can you pass me the lipstick?'
'Just a sec,' Hermione told Parvati, applying the finishing touches on her lips with a deep red lipstick. 'Here Parvati, catch!' Hermione said as she threw the lipstick at Parvati. Parvati caught it and started to apply some to her lips too.
'Ginny, are you done with that mascara?' Lavender asked Ginny.
'Yeh sure Lavender here,' Ginny walked over to Lavender and handed her the black mascara.
'Does anyone have the eyeliner?' Ginny yelled out.
'I don't have it,' Hermione told her.
'Neither do I,' Parvarti said. They all looked at Lavender.
Lavender looked at them and burst out in laughter. They all laughed hysterically. Lavender finally stopped laughing.
'No I don't have it either!' Lavender laughed even more. For the next few minutes they searched the room for the eyeliner but couldn't find it.
'Oh for goodness sake!' Hermione finally said, and with a flick of her wand, the eyeliner came flying out from under the bed.
This caused them to break out in yet another fit of giggles. When they finally stopped, Hermione handed the eyeliner to Ginny. All the girls got back to doing their make up. Half an hour later, they were done.
'Ok, now that all the make up is done, what are we going to wear?' Lavender asked. A minute after Lavender said that, clothes were sprawled all around the room.
'Oh isn't this top gorgeous?' Ginny said in awe. She held up a purple top that crisscrossed at the back. At the front it was covered with sparkles that changed colour. All the other girls gaped at it.
'Gin, where did you get it?' Hermione asked.
'Oh..' She blushed. 'I was in the attic at home and I was looking through all these boxes and this was in one of them. I suppose it was mums.'
She took off her blue t-shirt that she was wearing and put on the purple one. It fitted her perfectly. The other girls looked at her for a moment, and then they all got back to choosing their outfits. Lavender ended up wearing a soft pink coloured top with flared jeans, Parvati wore a black top and white pants, Hermione wore a light blue top and a black skirt, and Ginny wore her purple top with a pink pleated mini skirt. They all looked beautiful. They stared at each other in the mirror, looking at all the changes.
'We look good!' Parvati laughed, which sent another fit of giggles around the room. Ginny stopped laughing first.
'What about shoes?' Ginny asked.
'I'll take care of that one,' Hermione said. She flicked her wrist, said a few words and 4 pairs of black stilletos appeared. They were gorgeous.
'Good job Hermione!' Lavender yelled. They all grabbed a pair each and slipped them on. They matched their outfits beautifully. Ginny looked at the clock on her table.
'Hey guys, it's only 6.30! We are a bit early,' Ginny said.
'Yeh your right. I know! Lets play truth or dare!' Parvati suggested. All the girls agreed. They sat on Pavarti's bed and got themselves comfortable.
'Ok I'll go first,' Parvati said. 'Lavender, truth or dare?'
'Truth.'
'Ok, who do you think is cuter out of Harry and Ron?' Parvati grinned. Hermione blushed. So did Lavender.
'Ahh. I'm going to have to say Harry,' Lavender said. 'Ok Hermione, truth or dare?'
'Truth.'
'Is Ron a good kisser?' Everyone laughed.
'Oh, I do not need to know that!' Ginny screamed.
Hermione went a deep shade of crimson. She muttered a word under her breath.
'What was that Hermione?' Lavender teased.
'YES!' Hermione screamed and grabbed a pillow to hide her face. All the other girls screamed and laughed.
'Ok, ok, enough already,' Hermione said. 'Ginny, truth or dare?'
'Truth,' Ginny said nervously, wondering what Hermione was going to ask her.
'Do you like Draco Malfoy?' The whole room went quiet and Ginny went as red as Hermione did before. No one said anything. Ginny looked around the room for something to save her. She spotted the clock which now said 6.45.
'Oh no! If we don't hurry we are going to be late!' Ginny said quickly and scrambled off Parvati's bed.
'Ginny?' They all chorused teasingly.
'Ginny turned slowly around to face them.
'Do you like Draco Malfoy?' Hermione asked again.
'Ahh. well that's a hard one, I think I will have to get back to you on that one,' she siad this all in one breath and quickly tried to make a run for it but Hermione grabbed her wrist.
'Gin, you can't back out now. You have to answer. Yes or no?' Hermione asked again. Ginny paused for a second, as if she was thinking.
'Yes,' she uttered quietly. Again the room went silent and everyone stared at Ginny. Parvati was the first to speak.
' Well he is pretty good looking!' She said.
'Yeh, I agree,' Lavender added.
'Well, he isn't bad looking.' Hermione said.
'Good, then lets just forget about it and go to this party!' Ginny said. They all got excited. They grabbed their robes and went down into the common room. Ginny couldn't see Ron and Harry and hoped they weren't up the something. They hurried their way out of the common room. They reached the dungeons in 2 minutes. They made their way through the dungeons and found the little green dragon. Ginny and Hermione changed glances. Last time they went in this room, someone didn't come out alive. Ginny put her hands on the dragons head.
'Shekne.'
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A/N~ Ok what did you think? Well please review me and give me your thoughts. and please please please don't flame me! I told you I'd make it longer! Sorry it took so long to write. I didn't have a writers block I just. OK OK I HAD A WRITERS BLOCK!
