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Muggle Magazines and the Figure at the Yule Ball

Soon after Ann finished her sentence she ran as fast as she could, out of the classroom. To her surprise, when she ran up the first three sets of stairs, she could run no longer, and collapsed onto her knees; crying the whole time. Now, who could it be to see this completely unconnected, and so not caring about the world and only her misery? Now just who could that be? Well, a-duh, it was Eric. He had been on his way the men's room when he saw Ann run up the staircase.
'What's Ann doing out of class, and is she?.she's crying!' Eric thought "Ann are you alright? What's wrong?" Eric walked over to her and started to comfort her. "Shh, whatever it is, it'll be alright don't worry."
"No.it'll.never.be fine! And," Ann couldn't keep herself together. "And go away!"
"Ann what's wrong? Why are you crying?" Eric was soothing to Ann, but she was with Draco, and would never do anything with Eric again, no matter how much she needed him.
"Mitte des dunklen Walds!" (A/N it's germen, it means.well you'll find out?) And with that Ann was gone, but Eric had no clue where she'd gone to. He decided that he would go talk to Dumbledore, and see if the man who knew all, knew about this. As Eric walked into Dumbledore's office, the wise professor said "Yes, yes, I know Ann has left the campus, what I need to know is what she said." The old man had that twinkle in his eye.
"Well it sounded like mittens dies dunk lend welds. I think." He trailed off and looked up at the professor expectantly.
"Was it Mitte des Dunklen Walds?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yeah-that's it. What was it?"
"Germen. It means middle of the dark forest, obviously she knows more then she should, or has figured out some little snippet of info." Dumbledore saw the look of confusion on Eric's face. "No worries, I know where she's gone. You tell her cousin that she will be ok, and back here in a day or so. And don't worry yourself about what I was mumbling to myself a minute ago! Ok?"
"Uh.sure."

Meanwhile Ann was crying her eyes out in a place a VERY limited amount of people knew about, such as four people. Her father, Dumbledore, Draco, and herself. And then the man who knew all appeared in front of her.

"Its okay, Anezka. He will not harm you. I won't allow it. And as for why he hasn't seen you, you should be well aware that if he has contact with you it could be traced and that would put your life in danger. Kern would never want you life to be endangered in any way. He loves you very, very much. He is your father and has something really, very important to tell you."
"So why'd he choose the Yule Ball to tell me? What can be so gad damn important it has to wait until then to be said, he couldn't even call me to tell me that he wanted to see me! He didn't write or call or even floo, no, instead he makes sure he can see me in a month! Oh what's one more month to the billion he's missed already! Well, I refuse to see him! And I refuse for him to see me! Wohnung 980 Lilien Gasse in Zentralem London!" And she was gone again. (A/N you'll find out what that means, because it's Germen again.)
"Why does she insist on knowing such good Germen? Well she said 'Apartment 980 Lilly Lane in Central London.' So that is where I must go, but I wonder how she would react to seeing me. Not very well I do not intend on following her around the world, I wonder how she would react to seeing him.?" Dumbledore thought all this out loud. Then with a sigh, was back at the school.

980 Lilly Lane

'He may know where I went but he's not just going to come bursting in on a bunch of muggles!' Anezka thought to herself. She walked up the grand front steps, '72 stairs-damn' she thought and knocked on the door.
"Hello Ms.Cerin, how are you on this bleak day? Soaked to the bone I can see, come in come in, the Mistress was just about to have some tea. I'm sure she won't mind your company." The butler Johansson was such a kind man, and very loyal to the Queen.
Ann walked through the door and was immediately swept up by the maids to the guest bedroom where they gave her a nice skirt/shirt outfit. Ann wasn't about to complain, the Queen was always approached by people wearing their best, and her friends were to be no different. Sure, Ann hated the outfit, but it was blue and she was happy that this time she didn't get dressed into pink. So after getting dressed she was announced to the Queen who was pleased to see her.
"How have things been, Anne?" The Queen was the only one allowed to call her Anne, but Ann didn't mind too much.
"Oh fine, I suppose. I.uh.got into a bit of a.hassle back at school and needed to leave immediately. And being back in London made me think to come and see you." Ann smiled as if trying to prove it to herself.
"You know dear, I came to Lilly Lane to get away from my duties as Queen, and when everyone thinks I'm up at some bloody resort, I'm here sipping my tea and enjoying the quaintness of this little house. You know the story of why I come here,"
"Yes, you come because as a little girl you grew up in this very house."
"Precisely and I love every little bit of this house. It's not the palace and that I am thankful for. But escaping school, dearest you know that you shouldn't. That is why you must and will go back the day after tomorrow. Your Headmaster told me of what had happened, and he said that I should be discreet in telling you to go back to school. But I will not, and by order of the Queen you will go! Now dear, drink you tea and then off to bed with you after a bath. 'Tis nearly eleven and you need you rest."
Ann sat, legs crossed gracefully, hands holding her cup as gracefully as could be, but take one look upon her face and it was plain as day to see the shock that which was there. She recovered rather hastily after realization, bid the Queen goodnight and went for a bath once back in her room. Hogwarts

"SHE WENT WHERE!" Harry was pissed. He had to find this information out from the one person that he really couldn't stand.
"Well Potter maybe if you weren't screaming and were a little less irritating you would have been told by Pavel, he did, after all, tell me." Malfoy was enjoying the angriness of Harry's face, he was getting very, very mad at the boy for the things that he did. Malfoy tricked Peeves into throwing snail scum on him in the great hall right after dinner and then only got a day's detention from Snape. The entire time Ann was gone Malfoy took absolutely no pity on Harry! None whatsoever!Not such a nice guy after all, now is he?
"Eric! Eric Pavel told you where she was before me! When I'm her freaking cousin! What the hell? I share a dorm with that git! Ugg I know that you had something to do with this Malfoy, I just know it!" With that Harry stormed off in search of Eric.

Eric had been smart and slinked off in search of Hermione. She was the only one who could possibly get Harry to not tear Eric from limb to limb. He looked for her in every place she could possibly be, he even went to the girls dorms and she wasn't there. Eric decided that he might as well go flying for a while, then head back and find Hermione.
"Merlin's uncle." Eric whispered under his breath. There, in the stadium, flying like none before, was Hermione. "She's so good, why's she not on the team?" he said aloud, the screamed "HERMIONE!"
She froze. "Bloody hell! Since when did he go flying? Well better go face the music." On her way down, Hermione scolded herself for using a muggle cliché.
"Bloody 'Mine where'd you learn to fly like that! Because you should be on the house team! We need a beater and I know you've got one bloody hell of a right hook to take care of the bludger!" Eric finished his mouth agape.
"Well don't you remember that I spent the summer in Albuquerque New Mexico?" Eric looked confused. "America! You bimbo. Well anyway I changed a lot there, with my cousins' help and all. Well mostly her friends' help because it turned out she had a friend named Rory, who's a witch, who also know a couple other people in the area who were witches and wizards, and anyway we all went to this club, and they made me get all dressed up, and I loved it but it's not me. Well it is.well point being I played the game with them, I got really good, I've changed but I don't think anyone would like it! So as much as I think it'd be fun to be a beater, nah but thanks anyway." And Hermione walked off leaving a very confused Eric.

Back at 980 Lilly Lane, Ann wasn't enjoying her time away from school. She couldn't figure out what she would tell everyone back at school. She was even more worried about her father showing up at the Yule Ball, and to top it off she was worried the Harry was beating Draco to a pulp and that Draco was beating Harry to a pulp. She had to go, without the extra time. And so she got into her jeans and T-shirt, and went to bid the Queen goodbye.
"I'm sorry to leave early but I figure I gotta get back. My friends and family probably need me, so I wish you a good vay-k, and I'll see you over Christmas vay-k."
"Be good and have fun Anne."
"Hinter zu Hogwarts Schule von Hexe Handwerk und Zauberei!" And Ann was back at Hogwarts. (A/N she said "Back to Hogwarts School of witch craft and wizardry!")

Draco sat in the Slytherin common room reading. At first glance, and really anytime you looked at it, it looked like a wizards magazine. But really and truly he was looking at a muggle PS2 games magazine. And if anyone dared to look on the inside of it you could tell. And so when Ann popped he room as if she had done it a million times, Draco freaked and threw the magazine up into the air. And up it went and face down it landed, exposing the inside of the magazine for it's true self.
"Ann-what in the bloody seventh hell are you doing here!" Draco screeched.
"Me, oh nothing much, I'm just about to castrate you for being a complete asshole to my cousin!" Ann had her wand pointing at Draco and was indeed ready to use it. Harry had been the first to talk to her upon her arrival, and told her all about Draco being an asshole to him.
"I didn't do anything to Potter! I promised you I wouldn't and I swear that I didn't! So why don't you just put down you wand and we'll go talk about this up in my dorm." Draco planed on Ann believing him, to bad for him she didn't.
"You now I'm not usually a bitch about things but when it comes right on down to it I am. You forget that I didn't grow up in Europe, but in America! So you know what I'm going to be nice this time, so come here." Ann gestured Draco over and pretended to be about to kiss him, and then kneed him in the balls. "Why do guys always think with their dicks? It does them no good!" and then she left off in search of Eric.
She fount him just as Harry was about to punch him. "Harry NO! Eric made me realize just how big of a jerk Draco really is. And don't worry about killing him; he'll be hurting for a while because there's no magical cure for getting rid of the pain from being kneed in the balls. Which I think is a good thing! So three more days until the Yule Ball, yeah this'll be so wonderful." She finished leaving yet again a confused Eric and an even more confused Harry.
So Harry was smart and went after her. "Ann, what were you talking about? The Yule Ball'll be wonderful? What does that mean?" he asked her.
"It means that my dad is supposed to be there, and after the Yule Ball it's- what two three more months until summer, remember the note Harry! 'hopefully see you this summer." I mean come on-I sure as hell don't want to see my dad let alone Voldie!"
"Oh come off it. Like Uncle Kern would do anything to harm you! You were with them your entire childhood and nothing happened to you, so what are you worried about? Because I see nothing to be scared of! You go to the ball, have a good twenty minute talk with him, say you want to dance and as an American would say ditch 'em!"
"Harry you a freak! Besides I don't even think that I'm going to go, it's not like I have someone to go with or anything, so what would be the point?"
"Well, I do believe that Jake was going to ask you before you and Draco."
"Jake-that flipping idiot! He should have told me he wanted to go with me to the ball, and then nothing between me and Draco would have happened!"
"So if I tell him to ask you, you'll be ok with it?"
"As long as he gets the part about me needing to talk to my dad then yeah, why not!"
"He'll be jumping off the bloody walls all night!"
"Ha-ha! Well I'll see you later, I'm gonna go down to the kitchens to grab something to eat since I missed dinner, then off to find Hermione for our study session."
"Test tomorrow in Arithmacy?" Harry asked nonchantly.
"Yep, and I gotta study! See ya later." Ann replied
"All right. Uh, I think that Eric was looking for Hermione too, so you may want to ask him if he's seen her."
"All right thanks." And they walked there different ways.

Meanwhile Eric had found Hermione

"'Mione I really do think that you should dress up as you want. To bloody hell with your school profile, if you want to be yourself then be yourself!" Eric was lecturing Hermione, and sadly Hermione believed him to the fullest because, even sadder was the fact that Eric had a point.
"All right Eric, I'll do it. I'll be myself as long as you promise to not laugh. But I make no promises to this everyday!" And she did it.
Ten minuets later Hermione walked out of the girls' dorms and into the common room and everyone in there at the time stared in disbelief.

"Wow 'Mione is that you!" Eric asked.
As Ann walked into the common room she looked at Eric looking at someone, she turned her head and said "Holy shit Hermione, is that you!"
"Yes it's me. Under the make-up and clothes and hair and nails and all it's me. I swear! But hey-if you don't like it I could go change before we go to the library!"
"Chick you aien't going anywhere BUT the library! So grab your books and lets' go!" replied Ann. Eric's mouth was agape again.
It was true; Hermione looked truly different. Instead of her unrulely hair, it was straight and sleek and shiny. And instead of her never leaving uniform, she was wearing a pair of muggle blue jeans that weren't anything resembling tight, and held up by a belt. Her shirt was rather very from fitting with a Fox Racing logo on it. Her nails, instead of being nice, long and never polished, they were long and black. She was wearing muggle skater shoes and had sunglasses on her head. Her make-up wasn't heavy but worked perfectly with her outfit. Hermione now looked very much as Ann did, given there different features, but both looked very out of place in a school filled with sameness.

Walking down the halls Hermione got a lot of cat-calls and awkward looks from everyone but the weirdest was from Ms.Foster, the library assistant. "Uh-hum, nice, uh, changes Ms.Granger." she said and the two walked to the back to study.
Now to everyone's amazement, Draco and his knuckle headed body guards were also in the back of the library as well.
"Mudblood is that you?"
"If I were you Malfoy, I'd be watching who I called what, unless you feel like feeling just how my knee feels in you crotch!"
With a horror-stricken look on his face Draco said "Come'on let's go. We don't want to be around Gryffindor filth anyway." And got up and left.
"Well at least we don't have to worry about him thinking anything of my new look." Hermione said cheerfully.
"Well, if he's smart he'll be keeping to himself for a while!" Ann replied. They studied for a while then went back up to the dorm.

Once there Hermione went straight up to her room, Ann, however stayed back upon the request of Jake.
"So, Ann. How are things going?" Jake asked.
"Just fine and you?" Ann said with a smile.
"Well, just fine! So, uh, well if you're not going to the Yule Ball, do you want to be my date?" There was a hopeful glint in his eye.
"Jake, I would love to be your date for the dance!" She answered, kissed him on the cheek and went up to bed.

The Next Day

The girls went shopping for gowns and the boys went shopping for tuxes.
They all fount the perfect one for them, even Hermione fount one for her split personality!

At the Yule Ball

"Come on 'Mione or else we'll be late! The Boys are waiting!" Ann yelled to the bathroom door.
"All right, I'm coming out now. No laughing!" replied Hermione.
No one laughed, because there was nothing to laugh about! All the girls looked in awe at how pretty she looked in her dress. They congratulated each other on how they looked then went down to see the boys.
Hermione was wearing a black skirt with sky blue lace over it and a matching strapless top, with ever changing black and pink accessories; and had dyed her eyes pink for the evening. Ann was wearing a black, one shoulder strap dress with navy green accessories and navy green eyes. Kristine and Kristina were wearing matching black dresses with silver accessories and silver eyes. And the other girls they hung out with had decided to not go to the ball this year.
When the girls saw the boys they were pleased. They had told them the colors of their dresses and they had managed to dress accordingly. Eric matching Hermione wearing a black suite with a pink tie. Ron and Harry wearing black suites with silver ties. And Jake wearing a black suite with a navy green tie. They all looked great. And upon entering the Ball even Malfoy, who was wearing a Black and god awful orange tie, and with Parkinson in a god awful orange dress, had to admit that the four pairs looked great.

Everyone was dancing to a group called "Ozma", muggle of course but all the Slytherins had no problems with them. While they were playing a song called "Rocks" Ann saw a dark figure in the corner of the great hall.
'Well it can't be Snape, he's over at the food stand yelling at those poor fourth year. So that means it's Kern. Well wonderful.' Ann thought to herself.
Ann and Jake went back to their table. Harry and the rest of the boys were singing along.
"To throw me off your trail you move to boulder Colorado. A hop and skip and one long jump away. A woow wooooow awooooow a woooow awooooooooow awwooooooawwwoow awoooow awoow aoh aoh."
"Boys are dumb." Ann stated.
"Yeah they are!" Hermione agreed.
"Well I'm off to go see my father." Ann got up and left the table. She walked up to him and said "Hi."

Well to be mean I'll leave you there. Sooo sorry for the mega long wait to update, but I wasn't feeling inspired, so hope you like it, and review. All flames will be used for burning my sisters pink boe!