Thank you Crystalnia, I miss you girl! Oh, and, yes, Maggie did get that wart taken off of her….thigh. Lol! Anyway, I won't keep you any more, here is chapter four.
"Ummm, uhh…" Ron stuttered and gave Harry a nervous look.
"Where's Annie?" Harry asked.
"She's in the library studying with Hermione." Maggie answered without taking her eyes off of Ron.
"Thanks." Harry left the common room through the portrait hole.
"Ask me what?" Maggie asked again, sitting down.
"Ask you what our homework was for Transfiguration." Ron said, trying to think of something quickly.
"Then why do you have to ask me, and Harry have to ask Annie?"
"Um…"
"Ron, you know you can ask me anything. So please, just ask me." She put her hand on his. He looked at her hand with his and gulped at her soft touch. When he looked back up at her their eyes locked and he blurted out all in one breath, "Will you go to the Halloween dance with me?"
"Oh." She said surprised.
"If you don't want to then-"
"Are you kidding? I've been going crazy wondering whether or not I should ask you. Of course I'll go with you."
"Really?"
"Yes."
In the library, Harry pulled Annie aside.
"Hey Annie, can I talk to you for a second?" Harry whispered.
"Sure." Annie walked between two bookshelves with Harry.
"Will you go to the Halloween dance with me?" He asked.
"Yes, yes I will." She replied without hesitation.
"Great. Ron's asking Maggie right now."
"I knew it! I knew he liked her!"
"Does she like him?" Harry started to get excited.
"She hasn't flat out told me, but it's really obvious. Whenever I mention his name her cool persona quickly disappears, and she gets all nervous and her cheeks turn red."
That Saturday Maggie, Annie, and Hermione woke up with anticipation in their veins. They dressed themselves in fall clothing and met Harry and Ron in the common room. Together, the five of them walked down to the quidditch pitch where there was a fun-looking carnival going on.
"Look a dunking booth!" Maggie pointed out the instant she saw it.
"That looks totally degrading." Hermione scoffed.
"But they're dunking Goyle, or is it Crabbe? I can't tell." Annie said.
"I don't care which one it is, let me at him." Ron said.
"Right behind you." Harry followed. The girls followed the guys and everyone lined up to dunk Goyle. Each one of them dunked Goyle, and every time they did they all laughed until their sides were hurting. Goyle just glared at them and cracked his knuckles.
"I wouldn't make him mad if I were you." Pansy said in Maggie's ear. Maggie jumped in surprise and grabbed her ear. She whipped around and glared at Pansy in the eyes.
"Are you stalking me?" Maggie said, irritated that Pansy couldn't let her enjoy the day.
"Only until I give you what you deserve." Pansy said, pulling out her wand.
"I'm not going to fight you, Pansy."
"Why not? Are you afraid?"
"No, I just think that this whole thing is ridiculous. I don't even know why you don't like me."
"Because you're a Gryffindor, and I hate Gryffindors."
"Then why aren't you stalking Annie, or Hermione, or Lavender?"
"Because you bumped into me."
"And then I apologized."
"Just pull out your wand!"
"No! Come on guys, let's go have fun that doesn't involve violent pug-faced psychos." They brushed Pansy off and started to walk away. Maggie made it two steps before she felt a blast of magic hit her. She turned around and glared at Pansy. A majority of the Slytherins were standing around Pansy and pointing and laughing at Maggie.
"Oh my God!" Annie screamed. Maggie felt tightness around her. She looked down and saw that her clothes were beginning to shrink and her sleeves were already ripping. Maggie tried to make a run for the castle, but the bottom of her pants ripped loudly, and everyone nearby heard. Maggie instinctively covered her butt with her hands, but that made the front part of her shirt rip exposing her cleavage. Thankfully, her bra hadn't ripped yet.
Thinking quickly, Hermione grabbed a towel from the dunking booth and wrapped it around Maggie. Annie and Hermione led Maggie to the castle, running as fast as they could. As soon as they reached the girl's dormitory Maggie did her best to take off her clothes, but Annie found a pair of scissors and had to cut them off.
"I'm not going back out there." Maggie said to Hermione and Annie after she was fully dressed in a new outfit.
"But then Pansy will know that she won." Hermione said.
"You have to go out there and laugh about it like you always do." Annie said.
"No way! All of Hogwarts saw my breasts! Do you know how many nicknames are probably forming in people's heads right at this moment?" Maggie said, crossing her arms over her chest.
"I thought you said you it was impossible to publicly humiliate you." Annie challenged.
"That was before my pants ripped in front of the whole school!"
"You aren't going to let a little thing like that get you down are you? You shouldn't." Hermione laughed.
"If it gets to ugly then you can always come back here." Annie promised.
"Ok, fine! But if Pansy is still out there with her wand then you can guarantee she won't have a wand to do any sort of magic with once I'm through with her." Maggie said, opening the door.
Harry and Ron were in the common room waiting for the girls. Maggie found it hard to look Ron in the eye at first, but he didn't seem bothered by what had happened at all.
"You should have seen what happened to Pansy after you left," Ron said excitedly, "Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape came over and took away fifty point from Slytherin and made her go back to the Slytherin common room for the rest of the day, and she's banned from the dance tonight!"
"Is that all she got?" Maggie asked angrily.
"Snape was supposed to walk her back to the common room and come up with a suitable punishment." Harry said.
"I doubt he'll give her a punishment she deserves. He hates me!" Maggie stomped through the portrait hole. She calmed down once they got back to the quidditch pitch, and they decided to go on one of Hagrid's hayrides through the forbidden forest.
"Jus' the five of ya?" Hagrid asked. He looked around and said, "Room fer one more."
"I'll go." Malfoy said, as if he had appeared out of no where. Ron and Harry glared at him, Hermione looked nervous, and Annie and Maggie smiled.
"Why?" Harry asked rudely as Malfoy stepped onto the hay-filled trailer and Hagrid took off.
"That's a good question Harry!" Maggie said quickly, "Why?" Then she started singing, "Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends?"
"Because Malfoy is a git!" Ron spat.
"Ah, yes, but people can change." Maggie pushed on.
"Stay out of this Bruce!" Malfoy said instinctively. Then he looked surprised at himself for a moment and said quickly, "I mean, you don't even know me? So why are you standing up for me?"
"I'm standing up for you because I don't know you. Sure, I've heard that you're a jerk, and you would have proven that theory correct if you hadn't caught yourself just now. But why should I dislike you? When I first moved into the house near Ron's is Fred and George told me that Ron was a git then I wouldn't have let that affect my opinion of him before meeting him. And look how good of friends we are."
"But he-" Harry tried.
"Let me guess," Annie piped in, "He did a few immature things to you before growing balls and acting like an adult and you're going to hold a grudge?"
"I'm not asking you to two to be my friends, but I do want to take a moment to let you know that I'm not proud of what I did when I was younger." Malfoy said.
Harry and Ron both looked at each other and they didn't say another word about it, because a flock of bats flew in out of no where and the three girls screamed. The guys all laughed and forgot that they were arguing.
After fun and games at the carnival the girls said goodbye to the guys and made their way to the dormitory to get ready.
"But it's only four o'clock! The dance isn't for another three hours." Ron complained.
"Girls take longer to get ready then guys." Hermione said simply.
"Can I ask you two a favor?" Hermione asked Maggie and Annie once they were safely in the dormitory.
"It depends on the favor," Maggie said at the same time Annie said, "Of course we can." They just looked at each other and let Hermione ask the favor.
"Will you two distract Harry and Ron at the dance tonight so I can spend at least a little time with Draco?" Hermione asked.
"Sure!" The twins agreed.
To prepare herself for the dance Maggie teased her hair and squeezed her slender body into a tight leather dress with a slit above the cleavage (one that she would never ever wear otherwise). She painted her nose and cheeks to resemble a cat, and topped it off with cat ears.
Annie put her hair half up on top of her head and added glitter to give it shine. She put on makeup and body glitter to give her skin a goddess-like glow, and she wore a beautiful flowing pink dress and fake wings. She was a mythical fairy.
Hermione curled her hair and put in fake vampire fangs. Her makeup was magnifying and she was wearing a sexy sleek dress. She was stunning. They all were.
Harry and Ron's mouths dropped at the sight of the girls. Harry was a mad scientist, and Ron was a pro quidditch player. They all walked down to the great hall where people were dancing and eating candy.
"I'm going to go get some punch." Hermione said, which was the signal that she was going to meet Draco.
"Ron, let's dance." Maggie said, pulling him onto the dance floor.
"You too Harry." Annie said.
After dancing for a while the four sat down at a table and indulged themselves in candy.
"Where's Hermione?" Harry asked, looking around.
"I'm sure she's around here somewhere." Annie said a little nervously.
"But what could she be doing?" Ron wondered.
"She probably met someone and is dancing up a storm." Maggie said, knowing that she was correct. She also had to admit that she was a bit jealous.
"Well he must be one great dancer. I'm going to go get something to drink." Ron said, standing up.
"No! No! Allow me." Maggie jumped out of her seat.
"That's ok, I'll get it."
"No, I don't mind. Harry, Annie, do you want anything?"
"Sure." Harry said.
"I'll help you." Annie said. They disappeared into the crowd in a desperate search for Hermione.
"Where is she?" Maggie yelled over the music.
"If I knew we wouldn't be in this mess!" Annie said anxiously.
They searched high and low, but there was no sign of Hermione or Draco. They finally gave up and got the drinks for the guys. When they returned Hermione was sitting at the table talking with Harry and Ron.
"Every dance this year better not be like this." Maggie growled.
"What took you so long?" Ron asked when Maggie handed him his drink.
"Oh, we ran into Lavender and Parvati. You know how they are they just can't stop talking." Maggie lied.
"You can say that again." Hermione joked.
"Hermione you and Draco need to come out of the non-gay closet!" Maggie scolded when they got back to the dormitory after the dance.
"But we-" Hermione tried.
"Maggie's right Hermione. You can't keep going on like this." Annie said softly.
"But what about Harry and Ron?"
"What about them?" Maggie said.
"If they can't accept you and Draco then they aren't your true friends." Annie said.
"Just give us until Christmas. I promise I'll tell them by then. I'm hoping they'll warm up to Draco some more before I tell them. Maybe then it will be easier to break the news to them." Hermione said.
Almost every Friday and Saturday night Maggie could be found at Club Hogwarts. Club Hogwarts was basically a club inside the castle for the students to go when they had free time on the weekends that was created the year before by the prefects. There was always music playing and students could have all the food and non-alcoholic drinks they wanted. She usually dragged Annie and Hermione with her, but she was trying to get the nerve to ask Ron to go with her.
"Here, have a flyer!" A perky Hufflepuff said, handing Maggie a flyer.
"Fridays from seven to nine at Club Hogwarts are going to be karaoke night starting this Friday." Maggie read.
"That sounds like fun!" Annie said excitedly.
"Hey Ron," A pretty girl with long dark hair said as she walked by with a group of giggling girls. Ron was speechless and Harry and Hermione glared at the girl. Maggie and Annie looked at each other and they both raised an eyebrow.
"Who was that?" Maggie asked.
"Eliza Shelley." Harry spat.
"A Ravenclaw." Hermione snarled.
There was silence. Ron was looking in the distance at Eliza with confusion in his eyes, and Harry and Hermione were glaring.
"Ok what's the story?" Maggie asked breaking the awkward silence.
"No story. Come on, let's go." Ron said, picking up his pace.
"I have to go to the lavatory. Hermione, care to join me?" Maggie asked.
"Not particural-" Maggie pulled Hermione into the girls' lavatory, and Annie followed.
"Who was that chick?" Maggie asked.
"Last year she and Ron went on a date, but it ended badly. Then she started flirting with him again. They went out some more, but her friends didn't approve of him since he wasn't upper class or popular, no matter how cute they say he is, so she broke his heart. Now I'm trying to figure out if she's just teasing him or if she plans on trying to break his heart again." Hermione explained.
"Does he still like her?" Annie asked.
"I don't think so, but I know that she brings back a lot of pain." She was the first girl that he ever went out with that he liked.
"This is just my luck! I finally find a guy I like and he has issues with some slut!" Maggie whined, leaning against the wall in defeat.
"You like him?" Hermione gasped.
"I knew it!" Annie exclaimed.
"Oh like it isn't obvious!" Maggie snapped.
"I'm just glad you finally admitted it!" Annie danced.
"Maggie this is great! Ron likes you too." Hermione said.
"He does?" Maggie was caught off guard.
"Yes." Hermione nodded.
"Then why hasn't he asked me out?"
"Because he's Ron. He has it in his thick skull that you only went to the dance with him because you're 'nice like that.'"
"And I'm only bloody crazy for him!"
"You should ask him out!" Annie said.
"Maybe I will." Maggie thought. She eagerly left the lavatory and walked to the great hall in a daze with Annie and Hermione on both sides of her.
"Why do girls always have to go to the bathroom in groups?" Ron asked the girls when they met Ron and Harry in the great hall.
"That's something you will never know." Maggie smiled.
Professor Trelawney had been pestering Harry, Ron, and Maggie all semester about "admitting their true feelings" and "giving in to love." Every time she said things like that they would just laugh when she wasn't looking.
"Are you two dating yet?" Professor Trelawney asked Maggie and Ron one day during class, throwing them completely off guard.
"You're the psychic. You tell me." Maggie challenged.
"Oh never mind. It's none of my business." She backed off. Ron's ears started turning pink and Maggie held back laughter.
After class Harry made an excuse to leave Ron and Maggie alone. Maggie made idol conversation before finally getting the nerve to try and ask Ron out.
"Hey Ron, do you want-" Maggie began, but she was interrupted by Eliza Shelley.
"Hey Ron, want to go to karaoke night with me?" She asked seductively, pushing Maggie out of her way.
Normally, Ron would have helped Maggie, but he was so shocked by Eliza's question he just stared at her with his mouth hanging open.
So what will Ron say? Will he fall for Eliza's evilness or will he come to his senses and ask Maggie out?