Sorry for the wait! Grr... Im so forgetful. Im still writing though. People have probably lost interest already. Oh well... continuing with the story.

I love this chapter because I wish I had what they are about to encounter!

Chapter 23

Ron opened the door to the Room of Requirement. As the students stepped inside, their eyes widened with bliss.

The room was two or three times bigger than the Hogwarts dormitories. A big, muggle stereo stood against a wall. In one corner was a game area complete with a pool table, a ping pong table and a foosball table. There was a muggle fridge with cupboards lining the wall beside it that were probably holding food. There was even a sink! On the other side of the room, inviting comfortable-looking, squashy neon lime green sofas formed a large square. There were spaces between each sofa. A coffee table in the middle of the "square" with a couple decks of cards gleamed luxuriously. There was also a table with two chairs facing each other along one of the walls. The table was a built in Wizard's Chess board, with a drawer under it that kept the pieces.

The group tried not to waste time goggling at the room. They soon got 'acquainted' with it and began to play with its toys.

There happened to be a CD rack with a bunch of CD's so Zack went straight to the stereo. He chose to put on some Gino Beats, and soon the room was filled with music that everybody seemed to bob there heads to.

The boys all decided to play pool, so the girls headed toward the lime green couches. Katie plopped onto one, and found a magazine basket with a bunch of recent magazines beside her sofa. There were even a couple of them that she loved to read back home! She showed the basket to the girls and soon they were all comparing fashions, and who was in and who was out.

Soon after, Viktor, Harry, Zack, Freddy, Ron, Seamus and Neville finished their game (Seamus and Zack had won) and they joined the girls at the couches. They began to talk about everything imaginable.

"Yaw, so he said 'I'm going to rule the vorld vun day,' and vut do I do? I smile and nod politely, pretending I know vut he's talking about," Viktor finished off. Nobody laughed at his punch line. "Oh... and I called him gay." They all laughed.

Katie got up with Lavender to get some snacks. The duo found some pop in the fridge. They found chips and put them in bowls. They also got some mini sandwiches going. The girls did this while dancing to the song, "I Need a Miracle."

Katie and Lavender returned to the couches with the trays of food and drinks. The rest of the group thanked them and started pigging out while talking and laughing and joking. Katie wished Summer was with them several times.

They all started playing a game of Signal kneeled around the coffee table. Katie was partnered off with Seamus. She felt bad for Harry who was partnered off with Parvati because she would start bursting out laughing when she had four of a kind. She had had a couple Cokes too many.

After a couple rounds of Signal, and a couple rounds of pop, the group split up once again. Hermione and Viktor were talking quietly to each other while playing Wizard's Chess; Ron, Freddy, Seamus and Neville were playing another game of pool while Parvati kept score since she was way too hyper to do anything else; and Zack and Harry played Katie and Lavender at Foosball.

"This so isn't fair!" Katie protested playfully while she played offence. "You two have stronger shots than we do!"

"What?" Harry asked pretending to be alarmed. "Like this one?" Harry's center players, Katie had no idea which one, whacked the small white ball into Lavender's net. This made the game tied. The next goal would win.

"Hey!" Lavender whined. "Be nice!" She threw another ball into the table.

"It's alright Lavender," Katie reassured. "All's fair in love and war."

"What love?" Zack asked, his eyes on the table.

"The love of the game," Katie finished off coolly. She whacked the ball into Zack's net. The little sirens on the corners flashed. Katie and Lavender cheered.

"Love of the game?" Harry asked. "Do you mean you love soccer, as you say it, then?"

"I love it!" Katie exclaimed. "What about you?"

"It's an okay game," Harry managed. "I'll sit and watch a game, but I'm not exactly crazy about it. I'm more into Quidditch."

"God, don't you ever shut up about Quidditch?" Katie asked sarcastically.

"I promise that I'll play Quidditch with you in the spring," Harry promised. "Then you'll get even more annoyed."

"Sorry to break up the good time guys, but what time is it?" Neville asked worriedly.

Zack glanced at his watch. "10 minutes before curfew." The curfew for the sixth years was 9:30 PM.

"I guess we better leave," Hermione said. The group looked around their room once more before they reluctantly left. Then they were out in the corridor, making their way back to the Gryffindor Common Room. Viktor said that he would walk the group back.

Katie noticed that Hermione and Viktor had been holding hands. 'I guess they're back together,' she thought to herself and she smiled. Then she noticed that Neville and Parvati were holding hands behind them. Katie made a mental note to ask Parvati about her and Neville. Then Lavender was holding hands with Freddy behind Parvati and Neville. Katie made another mental note about asking Lavender about her and Freddy. Katie couldn't stop giggling when Ron and Seamus started holding hands as a joke behind Lavender and Freddy. She knew they were joking but it was still pretty funny.

"I feel so left out!" Zack complained playfully. He, Harry and Katie had been walking a bit behind the "lovebird group" as they liked to call it.

"Yeah, everybody's coupled up! Even Ron and Seamus are together," Harry added, which brought a laugh to the trio.

"Not a problem!" Katie declared. Because she was in the middle of the two boys, she grabbed Zack and Harry's hands and they scurried to walk behind Ron and Seamus.

There were a couple of Sixth and Seventh Years out in the halls. When they saw the group all holding hands with someone or other, they raised their eyebrows. They got a good laugh when they saw Ron and Seamus holding hands.

The three couples up at the front had no idea what was going on at the back.

Ron, Seamus, Katie, Harry and Zack overheard Neville telling Parvati that she was "breathtakingly beautiful."

Seamus turned to Ron and said, trying to keep a straight face, "Ronald, my love, you are so breathtakingly beautiful." Seamus snorted, but Ron, Katie, Zack and Harry burst out laughing. The three real couples at the front looked back to see what had happened but kept walking. The five stopped walking just to laugh.

When they stopped, Zack turned to Seamus. "Seamus! I can't believe you're cheating on me!" This made the five laugh so hard they were holding onto their stomachs.

"By the way you guys are going, we'll never reach the tower," Freddy complained. "Hurry it up!"

"Sorry if we were ruining your date, lover boy," Ron muttered so that only Katie, Harry, Seamus and Zack heard. They kept walking, continuing to hold hands and trying to stifle their laughs.

The group returned to their tower. Katie saw Viktor and Hermione kiss good night. "I guess they've REALLY made up," Katie thought and stepped into the portrait hole.

The bass guitarist saw her friend sitting on the long table with a cup of hot chocolate in one hand and a quill in her other hand. Summer had been working on her homework.

"Hey Tinker Bell," Katie greeted Summer. She took a seat beside her and smiled. "I can't believe you are actually doing homework!" Katie added playfully.

"Well, some of it is due tomorrow!" Summer prompted.

Katie rolled her eyes. "Yeah, don't remind me! So what homework do we have for tomorrow?"

"Just read what's in my agenda," Summer said, not even taking her eyes off her parchment.

Katie found the agenda flipped to Monday.

Care of Magical Creatures- Professor Hagrid: Demiguise Portrait

Transfiguration-Professor McGonagall Practice 'Fereverto'

Divination-Professor Trelawny Report on Tea Leaf Reading in Renaissance (Monday)

Charms- Professor Flitwick: (None)

Potions-Professor Snape Report on Purposes and Effects on Newt Skin and Powdered . Frog Eyes

Katie was impressed when she saw Summer's homework list. It was so organized, not to mention COLOR CO-ORDINATED. "Thanks, Summer," Katie said as she gave Summer back her agenda.

"Hm," was all Summer said. Katie guessed it was a "you're welcome" but she didn't want to interrupt Summer again by asking. Besides, Katie had her own homework to catch up on.

Katie decided all she had to work on was the Potions report. The Demiguise portrait was finished (Parvarti had fixed the ear), she had Fereverto down pretty good, and the Divination report wasn't due until Monday. She took a Potions book that Summer wasn't using and looked for information, but she found nothing on Newt Skin or Powdered Frog Eyes. She heaved out a sigh of frustration.

"Hey! Need some help?" Harry asked as he slid into a seat beside Katie.

"Is it that obvious?" Katie snapped. She muttered a sorry for being so rude.

"Don't worry about it. I'll help you out," Harry offered. Katie thanked him 10 times. Then he showed her how to properly find "Newt Skin" and "Powdered Frog Eyes" and what Snape expected from his reports. The two finished their reports at a quarter after 10.

Katie got up to go to bed. "Thanks again Harry! I'll bet we'll both get a high mark on this!"

"Don't be so sure," Harry warned. "If Snape doesn't like you, he'll just give you a bad grade."

Katie frowned. "That is so unfair!" She protested. "So basically he's grading you on whether or not you two get along?"

"Yeah, I guess so," Harry said with a shrug.

Katie thought about this and decided she was tired. "Anyway, I'm going to bed. See you tomorrow. Thanks once again!"

"No problem. Later."

Wow... I edited it. Wow.. how bland. And this is my work I'm talking about. I think I should discontinue and just either start fresh or focus on my FABULOUS other fics (seriously... they aren't like other cliches lol.) Anyways... I dunno.

LYL!