Chapter 10
Halloween Plans
It has now been almost a month since the first and last youma attack. So far everyone has been happy and has stopped talking about the mysterious female warriors that Draco and the other guys told them about.
Three weeks before Halloween; during breakfast on Monday
Everyone is talking their usual chitchat when Professor Dumbledore stands up and raises his arms up for silence. Immediately everyone shuts up. "Now, as you know, Halloween is steadily approaching. The rest of the faculty and myself have decided that it is time you all had a sort of break. So, to get right down to the point, there will be a Halloween Ball on the night of Halloween and yes you may dress in costumes. As a matter of fact, it is required that you wear costumes. We will schedule a day when you will be able to go to Hogsmeade to get your costumes later, not this week though."
At that moment, everyone cheered and immediately began thinking about whom they might ask to go with them.
Dumbledore raises his arms again and silence again falls over the Great Hall. "One more thing. I must warn you, if any of you have more than three detentions before the ball, you will be restricted from attending. That is all, you may continue with your meal," he finishes before taking his own seat in the middle of the staff table.
Slytherin Table
"Drakie Pooh (eww lol)," Pansy says in the sweetest voice she can muster up while putting her head on his shoulder to get his attention. Draco simply attempts to ignore her. "Please Draco, why won't you talk to me?" she asks pretending to pout, head still on his shoulder.
Draco is finally aggravated enough by her when, without even looking at her, he takes his hand and roughly pushes her head off him. Her head lands on the table with a "thump". He then resumes his previous position.
"It's that Hino girl you're always hanging around with, isn't it?" she asks not bothering to hide her frustration and anger. "I thought you loved me," she screeches, obviously trying to make a scene.
At that moment he turns and glares at her, his eyes looking as though they were on fire (just like Raye, huh readers? LOL). "Listen Parkinson," he seethes as if her name were poison. "I never "LOVED" you. I NEVER SAID I "LOVED" you. I WILL NEVER "LOVE" you and if you haven't comprehended it by now I suggest you get a tutor. Because in case you haven't noticed "Hino", as you call her, and myself are together. So, leave me alone and go harass someone else."
At that moment she leans over and seductively whispers in his ear, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, dear dear Draco, what will your father think? What will he say? When he finds out your dating a Gryffindor, a mudblood no less. Think about it Draco. Would you want your girlfriend dead after such a short time?"
At her words Draco's eyes nearly pop out of their sockets. He looks at her and whispers, "you wouldn't." "Would you?" he asks in doubtfully.
"You never know. She can live or she can die, it's up to you my Ssssexy Ssssslytherin prince," she hisses in his ear licking his inner ear before lightly nibbling on his ear lobe.
When Draco finally realizes what she was doing he pulls away quickly and looking up down the tables making sure nobody saw her slutty little scene (AN: Don't you all just love my words. LOL.) "Don't you have a boyfriend waiting for you over there?" he asks glaring at her once again and pointing his finger at the end of the table where next to Blaize Zabini was an unoccupied place. "What would Zabini say if he saw you over here with me?" he asks lividly.
She gives him the evil eye before getting up and leaving. She then turns around once again and adds a final comment, "Mark my words Draco Malfoy, you and your mudblood princess will pay. As she is walking away Draco could swear he heard her mumble something like, "That whore is going to pay. OOOOH that bitch is going to wish she'd never laid eyes on Draco Malfoy." On her way to her seat she passes Hotaru and gives her an threatening glare before roughly bumping her shoulder against hers.
Hotaru then looks back at her and returns the glare as she thinks, "Ouch, that hurt, what's with her?" As she approaches her usual seat next to Draco, he notices her grasping her shoulder.
"What happened?" he asks with a concern coating his usual Slytherin tone.
She sits down as if it is an everyday thing to be hit by Pansy and then plan revenge and then answers with, "Oh, you know, the usual. Pansy deciding I'm not good enough for Slytherin and roughly bumping shoulders with me and glaring threateningly, her hating my guts and wanting to hex me to smithereens, the usual. Not to mention, she hates the idea of me dating Harry," she finishes as she grabs an apple from a fruit tray and begins munching.
"She bumped shoulders with you?" he asks concernedly.
"Yeah, that's what I said," Hotaru replies.
"Let me look at it," he demands gently taking her arm and rolling up her sleeves to see if Pansy left any bruises (AN: I Hotaru is totally out of character for some of you, but here is where she and Draco are finally friendly towards one another.). "Ouch," he says looking at a big purple spot on her shoulder about the size of a baseball. "She really got you bad. Maybe you should get this checked out by Madam Pomfrey," he suggests.
"No, no. I'm fine, it doesn't hurt," she says as she lowers the sleeves to her blouse and robes.
Draco and Hotaru eat their breakfast quickly and in silence before heading off to Potions.
Ravenclaw table
"So, what are you two going to go to the ball as?" Cho asks Serena and Darien.
Serena turns to Darien as if he's supposed to know. Darien smiles as he clears his throat and answers, "you'll be the first to know as soon as we decide."
"Well, you take your time, I'm in no rush to know what you are going to be, seeing as how Professor Dumbledore only just mentioned the news about the ball."
For a moment they sit in silence as Cho finishes her food. She looks up for a moment to look around to see if she can find Cedric when she notices a usually irritated looking Draco sitting next to and talking to "too close for comfort" Pansy Parkinson. She nudges Serena in the side.
"Hmmm," she replies mouth full.
"What is he doing sitting so close to her, much less talking to her? I thought he was dating Raye?" Cho whispers.
"Who?" she asks in between mouthfuls but still paying very close attention.
"Draco, isn't he dating Raye?" Cho asks.
"Yeah, why?" Serena replies hesitantly.
"Well, should he really be that close to her?" she asks pointing to Pansy and Draco.
When Serena sees this, her jaws nearly drop open in shock, "Oh-My-God. She is going to be so pissed off when she hears about this," Serena says, shock still in her voice.
Well, now I must bid you both farewell. I am off to class now, I'll see you there Serena," Cho says as she gathers her things to leave.
"Hold on Cho, I'll go ahead and go with you," Serena calls to her. She stops and waits as Serena gathers her stuff and kisses Darien good bye (yum lol).
(AN: By the time Hotaru showed up these two had already left the Great Hall, so they didn't see Draco helping Hotaru or they probably would have gotten the wrong idea hint hint. Hee hee. Please continue reading. Enjoy. LOL.)
The two girls walk through the doors of the Great Hall. Darien watches until they are out of sight then returns to finishing the last of his pancakes before going to class himself.
Potions; Gryffindor and Slytherin 4th years
As everyone files into the Potions dungeon most of the students notice a few "differences" such as the Prince of Slytherin holding the hand of a Gryffindor and also sitting next to her. Everyone begins to stare at the odd couple.
"Draco?" Raye whispers trying to get Draco's attention.
"Hmm?" he replies taking his Potions book out of his bag.
"Why is everyone staring at us?" she asks curiously.
"Don't worry about it Raye, their just jealous," he says kissing her lightly on the cheek.
Just as she is about to say something else she sees Ron enter the classroom on crutches assisted by Harry and Hermione. They spot her as she beckons for them to take their seats next to her. They make their way over to her as Draco begins to groan. "Is something wrong Draco?" Raye asks fretfully.
"Nothing," he sighs. She knows it has something to do with Harry, Hermione, and Ron but decides not to push it.
"Hi Raye," Ron says cheerfully as he carefully takes a seat next to her followed by Harry and Hermione.
"Hi Ron," she replies. "How is your leg feeling?"
"Oh, it's feeling much better thanks, Madam Pomfrey says it should be good as new by tonight," he replies before facing forward.
Just as Ron finishes his sentence the door slams open to reveal a usually angry Professor Snape. "I do not want to hear any talking or complaining during class. If I do, the person talking and the person he/she is talking to will receive a week's worth of detention and also get 20 points taken from their house," he explains. After making sure everyone is paying attention he points his wand at the board in front of them and slowly yet surely words begin to appear as Professor Snape begins his explanation. "Today you will be making the Draught of the Living Dead. With this potion, the drinker will fall into a deep slumber." Hermione raises her hand to ask a question. "Yes Miss Granger, the potion does have an antidote. But it is very rare that people are able to find it. For if someone drinks this the only way to awaken the drinker is for him or her to be kissed by their one true love." (AN: I know this isn't really the antidote, but this is my story so it is now. MUAHAHAHAHA. Please Continue) Hermione raises her hand again. "Yes Miss Granger, it is exactly like a fairy tale. You have until the end of the class period to complete this. Begin," he finishes then seats himself at his desk and takes a book out of his drawer and begins reading.
Hermione writes down the list of potion ingredients needed. The list consists of powdered root of asphodel and an infusion of wormwood. After copying these down she stops and thinks for a moment, "It's interesting how such easily accessible ingredients can be combined to make such a strong and powerful potion." She then gets up and walks over to the ingredient table to get hers and Harry's ingredients. Today, she is working with Harry while Raye and Ron work together. They switch off each class as decided when Raye joined them.
Things might have seemed peachy while everyone was working. But they were all unaware that a certain pissed female Slytherin (Pansy of course) was secretly planning something very dreadful.
Five minutes before class is ready to end Professor Snape raps his wand on his desk. "Ok, finished or not, I want samples of your potions now. Then you will go back and clean up," he instructs as each student takes of a sample of his or her potion up to him.
When nobody is looking Pansy quickly takes another vile and fills it with the potion, seals it and gently places in the pocket of her robes. "I have pleasant dreams for you," she thinks wickedly while absentmindedly patting the pocket with the potion in it.
Not a minute after everything is cleaned up Professor Snape dismisses them. They all quietly make their way out the door so as not to cause a disruption.
Back 20 minutes ago; Divination with Darien
"Why was I given this class in the first place," Darien complains mentally. "Well, I can't fake the headache today. It looks like I'll have to go through the whole class, damn."
Not a moment later Professor Trelawney turns away from scrawling something on the board and turns to the class and says, "I hope you have all found your partners future in the Crystal Balls." Everyone nods slowly knowing that everyone was just going to make something up. "Good, now I'm going to come around and you are all going to tell me what the images that you saw meant." She makes her way over to Darien and Roger Davies (who is his partner of course). She turns to Darien and says, "Mr. Chiba, please tell us what Mr. Davies' future will bring.
Darien looks at the crystal ball closely and furrows his brow as if trying to see the images. After thirty seconds had passed by he finally speaks up. "I see that he will have a bright future and marry the girl of his dreams and live happily ever after (AN: LOL, typical fairy tale dream, I'd say)."
Professor Trelawney then turns to Roger and he answers with, "I see that Darien will marry his girlfriend Serena and also live happily ever after," he lies.
Professor Trelawney goes through the same procedure with the other students until finally it is time for them to depart and go to their next class.
20 minutes ago; Charms with Serena
"Ok, now remember Serena, it's swish and flick," Cho says while slowly demonstrating the Wingardium Leviosa spell for Serena (obviously).
"Oh, ok, now I think I've got it down," Serena says before focusing her all on the spell. "Wingardium LeviOsa," she says (putting emphasis on the O in Leviosa) aiming the spell at the book in front of her and succeeding. "Yay, I did it," she happily screeches (although not too loud that Professor Flitwick can hear her).
"Shh, not so loud," Cho says making the hand signal indicating that she needed to lower her voice a bit.
"Oops, sorry," she says clearly embarrassed by her behavior.
They continue to practice the last few minutes of class. Then when it is time to leave they all gather things and go to their next class trying not to be late. For Serena, her next class is to be Transfiguration with the Slytherins, although she had not seen the little incident between Hotaru and Draco (the only time she was glad she had fallen asleep in class, hee hee).
Three classes later; Serena, Raye, Hermione, and Cho in the library
"I cant believe you cant fly Hermione, it's so simple," Cho whispers in disbelief. A moment ago Cho had just discovered that Hermione did not know how to fly a broomstick.
"I'm sure it is simple Cho, but I can not fly because I happen to be very much afraid of high places or heights in general," Hermione explains hesitantly.
"Ok, can you guys please stop arguing for a minute so we can get back to studying," Raye pleads. Everyone quiets for a moment as Cho and Serena look at each other and nod as if making a silent agreement.
"Um...Raye?" Serena requests, finally speaking up.
Raye looks up from her Divination homework and inwardly sighs before answering her, "Yes Serena, what is it?"
"Well, um," she stalls for a minute thinking if she should tell her about Draco and Pansy or not, no, she'll find out if she saw what she thought she saw before she even thinks of telling her again. She'll wait till tomorrow and confront Draco about it herself before Raye comes down to breakfast. "Never mind Raye, it was nothing," she laughs nervously as she returns to her potions essay. It's a good thing Hermione had convinced them to start their assignments a week ahead of the due date, otherwise she wouldn't have gotten it done.
Due to their intense concentration the group is unaware of the sneaking, bristling figure looming around the corner of a nearby bookshelf watching our "Gryffindor Princess"(AN: I'm sure my faithful readers know who this is, lol).
Not long after Serena's choke-up Cho begins silently packing up her things. They look up at her with questioning stares. "I'll see you guys later, I'm going to go put my stuff away and get ready for dinner," Cho whispers.
"Good-bye," they whisper as she turns to leave.
Just as she reaches the doors to the library who does she run into (AN: not literally this time, unlike Hermione and Oliver, hee hee.) but the Ravenclaw Quidditch Captain, Cedric Diggory himself. "Hi Cho, you are just the person I've been looking for," he says giving her one of his million watt smiles.
She returns the smile with one of her own nervous, "butterflies in the stomach" smiles. She then remembers that he said something and says, "oh hi Cedric, really?"
"Yes," he replies confidently. "Can we go somewhere and talk?"
"Sure, I was just heading up to the common room, would you like to talk there?" she asks genially.
"That would be just fine," he replies holding his arm out.
She happily takes his arm then they walk together up to the Ravenclaw common room.
AN: Do you all know what he wants to talk to her about? I'm sure you do but if you don't I'll just go ahead and leave you in suspense till they get up to the common room because I'm just so evil like that, muahahahahahahaha. Ok, back to the story.
Ravenclaw Common Room
They enter the common room still arm in arm and notice that it is totally empty.
"Perfect," Cedric thinks. "A little privacy is just what I need," he thinks as he quietly leads her over to one of the couches.
Cho sits down then Cedric follows. "Now, what is it you wanted to talk to me about Cedric," she asks looking at him with wondering eyes.
"Well, I was actually wondering if you were going to the Halloween Ball with anyone?"
She is transfixed by his question that she asks, "What?" while blinking a few times to make she was awake. "Are you asking me to go with you to the dance?"
"Well, sorta. That is if you'll go with me," he replies nervously (AN: very unlike him, I know)
"Of course I'll go with you silly. I wouldn't go with anyone else even if you hadn't asked me," she assures him. They sat there staring for what seemed like hours but was really thirty seconds. At that moment she could contain herself no longer and threw her arms around his neck and KISSED!!!! him fully on the lips.
After about a minute they hear someone enter the common and pull away to see a smiling Serena watching them. "No, no please continue. Don't stop because of my intrusion," she encourages them as she bounces up the stairs to her dorm room. They stare after her in complete shock, wondering if they should let her tell anyone or not.
"So, does this kiss mean you and I are together?" Cedric asks pointing from her to him.
"I guess so, if you want it to be," she replies staring at the floor as if it were the greatest thing since grated cheese (AN: I love my made up phrases. LOL).
At that instant Cedric pulls Cho into another kiss but this time it was more passionate than the last. She pulls away for a second to say, "I'll take that as a of course I do." She then smiles brightly before locking lips with him once more.
AN: Well, we'll end here for now. Tell me what you think. Was it worth the wait? I hope so.
Just so you all know, you will NOT here about Draco asking Raye, Ron asking Lita, Darien asking Serena, Harry asking Hotaru, or Oliver asking Hermione to the Ball. Because they are dating it is implied that they will obviously go to the dance together.
Also, I'm sorry I havent added Lita and Ron in since the last chapter but I havent found a good place forthem yet. I'll try to find a place for them in the next chapter. Just so most of you are aware, I also may not use Ginny in this fic. I'm not a big Ginny Weasley fan and I dont really see where I can use her. I've already used Cedric and I hadnt really planned on using him. So, please dont get mad. I'm just telling the facts. LOL. :D
I am looking for some suggestions on what Pansy should do with the sample of Sleeping potion she took from Snape's class. I have something in mind, but I want to hear what you think she should do with it.
Please read...review Hee Hee!!!!
