Final teachings

Harry woke up the next morning feeling completely relaxed. All feelings of relaxation left him as he realized he had another lesson with Lavender today. His only comfort was that his mates were going to go through the same torture as he would be going through. Harry just hoped that since Lavender always talked about make-up, today wouldn't be as painful as the other day of learning.

Harry took a shower and then met his mates and their "teachers" in the common room.

"Okay, we know that yesterday had a few mistakes, but today will be fine." Lavender reassured him, as he looked scared at the ensemble in the common room. The girls had many packages and piles of tubes.

"First, we'll start with the eyes, because that is the hardest." Lavender declared as soon as Harry had sat down. Harry saw that on top of the table were some tubes and some small squares and rectangles.

"Okay, let us begin with the eye shadow. You take a bit and the you sweep it over your lids." Lavender explained and Harry tried to sweep it over his lids. He managed to do it but Seamus wasn't so lucky based on the yelp he heard.Lavender then picked up a black tube and opened it. A stick with a spirally thing came out and it was covered in black goo. He started to panic as Lavender proceeded to show him how to put it on his eyelids. Lavender then gave him the stick and he sat up and started to try and put the mascara on his eyelids.

He slowly brought the stick up to his eyes and he brushed it against his eyelashes. However his aim was off and the stick went straight into his eye.

"Ow, this stings!" Harry yelled as he clutched his eye.

"Oh man, this hurts!" Harry heard Seamus yell. He looked up and saw Seamus was also clutching his eye.

"Wow, I am so glad we are starting on lipstick." Dean told Hermione as he watched his friends who had poked their eyes.

" I wouldn't be so glad Dean, take a look in the mirror." Neville told Dean.

It was only at Neville's comment that Harry realized that there was a string of red down Dean's cheek. It looked like a he was bleeding, or he had a huge hickey.

When Dean shrieked, " Oh no, this lipstick is supposed to stay on for 24 hours." Harry tried to stifle his laughter but it didn't work too well. After Hermione's reassured him that the lipstick could be taken off did Dean calm down.

Harry turned to joke with Neville about Dean's lipstick incident but Neville looked embarrassed. He has two flaming red cheeks; it was as if the color was painted on. Harry realized that Neville was wearing blusher, and wasn't actually embarrassed. Man this is weird; Harry thought to himself, I never thought that make-up could be so hard and dangerous. I wonder why girls always put it on? As Harry was thinking, Lavender was trying to get his attention.

"Harry!" Lavender yelled.

"Yes?" He asked.

"Come on, its time to teach you how to remove that hair from your legs. First we will use wax strips because they take less time." Lavender replied smirking. At the look on her face Harry started to feel quite scared.

"Come on mate, these things are quite warm, I wonder why Hermione always complains about waxing your legs?" Ron told him. True to his word Ron was sitting on his bed with three white strips on his legs, Dean and Neville were in similar positions.

"Alright, it can't be too bad." Harry felt more reassures to see his friends with the wax on. The girl at his comment just smiled. Once Harry had on some strips the girls told them to pull them off. Neville smiled and he pulled off one of the strips.

"Oww, make it stop!" He yelled.

It can't hurt that badly, can it? Harry asked himself as he watched Neville on the ground clutching his leg.

"Come on mate, it can't hurt that badly, after all the girls do this." Ron told Neville as he started to take off one of his strips. "Oh man, why didn't you say it hurt this badly?" Ron yelled to Neville as he clutched his leg hopping around on one foot. Seeing their two friends in so much pain Harry and Dean made a silent decision to never remove the strips.

Harry looked up to the girls to ask if there was a different way to remove the strips, but they were laughing. Parvarti and Lavender were supporting each other, and Hermione was laughing on Ron's bed.

"Wow, you guys should have just shaved like me." Seamus announced as he entered the room from the bathroom.

"Let me see that!" Parvarti exclaimed as she pulled up Seamus' pant leg. "Wow, you did a good job on this, and you got around the ankles too. That s a hard spot." Parvarti praised him as she looked at his freshly shaven leg.

"Why couldn't we have done that instead of the wax?" Ron asked Hermione looking put out at Seamus' lack of pain.

"I wanted you to feel the pain that some women go through. It shows that it is painful and that women are not wimps." Hermione replied smugly. "Now that you know, you can shave the rest of your legs." Hermione made a complicated movement with her wand and the strips had vanished. The boys rushed to the bathroom to shave. When they came back the girls were waiting for them.

"Okay, the last thing we need to do is your eyebrows." Ginny told them while holding a pair of tweezers.

"You must be so glad that this doesn't need wax, you guys have the pain tolerance of a girl." Seamus taunted Neville and Ron.

"Actually Seamus I'm going to use wax on you." Ginny smiled sweetly, and Harry had never been gladder about a women's scorn. Before Seamus could protest Ginny had put a wax strip in the middle of his eyes.

"Thanks Ginny, that's really mature." Seamus told his girlfriend.

"Come on Seamus, show us what a mans' pain tolerance is." Ron told Seamus, obviously still insulted by the comment about lack of manhood.

"Okay, its no big deal." And to prove his point Seamus pulled off the strip. He also let out an incredibly high-pitched scream.

"Don't worry, plucking doesn't hurt as much as that." Hermione reassured a scared looking Dean. Lavender turned towards Harry with the tweezers in her hands. She showed him how to pluck properly and then she pulled one of his hairs out. It hurt so badly. It hurt more than having the mascara stick in his eye. Harry didn't want to seem girly so he suppressed the scream that threatened to escape his lips.

Harry looked around and saw that his friends weren't dealing with the pain all that well either. Ron had an ice cube against his eyebrow. Dean and Hermione were helping Parvarti by holding down Neville who was desperately trying to get away. Seamus was surprisingly plucking his own eyebrows. He looked like a complete git in front of the mirror plucking his own eyebrows.

Harry turned back to Lavender and she started to pluck again. This time there was more pain, and when he shut his eyes there was multicolored spots dancing around. When Lavender finally finished Harry looked in the mirror. Beauty really is pain. He thought as he looked in the mirror. His eyebrows were tidy and small. He could also see his green eye a lot clearer. He looked over at Lavender and smiled. After he was done admiring his new look, he went to see how his friends were doing.

Neville was missing a lot of hair, probably from the struggle with Parvarti, and was trying to draw in the missing strands. Ron had many red blotches near his eyebrows. Dean took a leaf from Ron's book and he was soothing his eyebrows with the ice cubes. Seamus was swearing as Ginny pulled off another waxing strip.

Harry saw that Lavender was starting to pack up the various tubes that they had used and he felt relieved that the next time they would see the girls would be to take them to the ball. As soon as his bed was cleared he collapsed because getting your eyebrows was painful, and surprisingly tiring.

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