Author's Note: Yay!!! Everyone did a fantastic job responding to my request for requests! I've gotten some really good ideas from all of you and I'll be posting them all soon enough!

This chapter is dedicated to Venus725 my new BEST reviewer!

So here it is. The first chapter in the Yule Ball Saga. I'm all tingly!

Tina woke up feeling oddly refreshed. She soon found out that this was because it was eleven o'clock in the morning.

"Oh, great," she muttered as she got dressed. "Bet they all left."

She was right. Hermione had left a note on her trunk that said, Sleep well? We'll find you around lunch.

"What do you mean you'll find me?" she asked paper as though expecting a response. "All right, fine, I'll find you."

Tina went down to the common room, but Harry, Ron, and Hermione were nowhere to be found. She checked the Great Hall (and stole a rather cold piece of toast) then headed down to the library. Ron and Harry might not be there but she was certain that Hermione would be.

Upon reaching the library (and having Madam Pince narrow her eyes at Tina; she had once accidentally folded one of the pages of Quidditch Through the Ages), Tina walked through all the shelves Hermione could possibly be looking in, only to find nothing except three Knuts and something that looked suspiciously like a Dungbomb. (She left that where it was) She was about to leave when someone grabbed her arm and pulled her behind another shelf.

"Hey! What're you--" Tina's captor held up a hand to silence her. When she looked up to see who it was, her jaw dropped. She was looking at Viktor Krum. He didn't bother to introduce himself because of this but instead began to speak very quickly in a deep, gruff, voice.

"You are friend of Hermy-own?" he asked.

"Friend of whom?"

"Hermy-own! The girl vith the brown hair."

"Oh!" cried Tina. "You mean Hermione!"

"Yes, Hermy-own," said Krum. Tina didn't bother to correct him.

"Yeah, what about her?" she asked.

"I vont for this Hermy-own to come vith me to the ball." Replied Krum.

Tina's jaw dropped.

"What?" she asked. "You…you do?"

"Yes," said Krum, as though Tina was a bit dim. "Vill you ask her for me?"

"Um…I don't think I'm allowed to do that," said Tina. "Against the rules of dating. But you can ask her yourself."

"How?" asked Krum looking around nervously. "Those girls, they follow me. How can I get avay from them?"

"Hmmm…" said Tina thoughtfully, a plan hatching in her mind. "Leave that part to me."

Krum raised his eyebrows.

"Look," said Tina. "Come here after lunch. I'll send Hermione down here too. Then I'll wait outside inconspicuously and if your little fan club shows up I'll tell them that you went the other way. How does that sound?"

Krum's eyebrows came back down and furrowed themselves.

"That is very vell," he said after what seemed like ages.

"Good," said Tina. "So you'll be here after lunch?"

"I vill be here after lunch."

"Okay. See you later then!"

"Thank you, friend of Hermy-own." Answered Krum.

"Um…you can call me Tina." Said Tina, suppressing an urge to laugh.

"Fine," said Krum. He added as an afterthought, "You may call me Viktor."

"Okay," said Tina, looking rather frightened at the prospect of calling an internationally renowned Quidditch player by his first name. "Or how about Vik?" she added, now enjoying the idea and not wanting to call Hermione's boyfriend by the same name she would use for him.

"That is fine too," Krum said.

"Cool," said Tina, grinning nervously. "Later then…Vik."

Then she ran from the library as fast as she could. This proved to be something of a bad idea, because on the way she had a rather violent collision with Terry Boot, of Ravenclaw.

"Argh!" screamed Tina as the two of them collapsed onto the floor in the corridor. "Oh, gosh, Terry I'm sorry I was just running…I mean, I was in a rush to get to lunch and…here let me help you…"

Terry had become tangled up in his robes and was unable to escape the situation. Tina managed to find his head (which was lodged in his sleeve) and finally pulled him up, only to tripe and cause both of them to fall over yet again in doing so. Terry looked at Tina and then she looked at him, and the two of them burst out laughing.

"You should've seen yourself!" cried Tina between fits of giggles.

"I would've if you hadn't brought me crashing down again!" People were starting to stare at the two of them, sitting on the floor, laughing madly, and showing no desire whatsoever to get back up. However, they had no choice but to do so, and it was Terry who got up first.

"Well that was fun," he said, smoothing out his robes. He offered Tina his hand, and she took it gladly. There was an awkward pause.
"We should probably go to lunch," said Tina.

"Yeah," Terry replied. "Our friends may be wondering where we are."

"Yeah." Tina began to leave, but suddenly Terry stopped her.

"Um, Tina?" he asked rather timidly. "I was wondering…um…would you like to…come to the ball with me?"

Tina whirled around to face him.

"What?" she said blankly. "Me? Really?"

"Well, yeah," said Terry, looking sheepish. "But if you don't want to, I understand--"

"No, it's not like that," said Tina quickly. "You just…surprised me, that's all. But yeah, I'd love to go to the ball with you."

Now it was Terry's turn to be surprised, only he looked quite delighted. "Really? You will? I mean…er…okay then, I guess I'll see you there."

"Yeah, till then," said Tina, smiling at him.

"Till then."

Tina went to lunch feeling rather dazed. She had never thought Terry Boot of all people would ask her. She didn't know him very well, but had seen him often and remembered with a grin that she had on more than one occasion thought he was cute. Before long she was taking a seat at the Gryffindor table next to Hermione, still looking thoroughly preoccupied.

"What's wrong with you?" asked Hermione as she helped herself to some sandwiches.

"Oh, nothing," said Tina, smiling again. Hermione gave her a Now-we-both-know-it's-not-nothing look. Tina sighed and quickly managed to tell Hermione in whispers what had happened before Harry and Ron arrived. There were both rather giggly by this time.

"Sorry we're late," said Ron, taking a seat and piling his plate with food. "Peeves stole my shoes. Took a good ten minutes to get them down from that chandelier," he added, looking rather tired. "Hey, what's wrong with you two?"

"Nothing," said Hermione in a rather strained voice.

"Come off it," said Harry, eyeing them both suspiciously. "Tell us, why don't you?"

"We might," said Tina. "Just…not now."

The boys seemed satisfied that they would at least receive the information at some point during their lives and they all finished their meal arguing over who Snape would be poisoning at the end of term. (Harry was first in line)

When everyone was leaving the table, Tina pulled Hermione aside.

"Let's go to the library," she said.

"What?" asked Hermione. "Not that I object, but why now all of a sudden?"

"Someone there would like to talk to you," said Tina, unable to hide her trademark smile. "Just go, you won't regret it."

And they set off for the library.

A/N: So? What do you think? I didn't want Tina to go to the ball with Dean Thomas because he's going to end up with Ginny. I decided on Terry Boot because we don't know much about him and for all we know he and Tina can go steady for years to come. Now, I don't have Hermione being asked to the ball by Krum in here, because Tina doesn't witness that, but she will hear the details later on.

This chapter's idea, the Tina/Krum interaction, was one of many requests I got from Anandini77 via E-mail.

Now, I will be posting again very soon, possibly on the same day I post this, but you still have to review EVERY chapter!!

Tekvah Ariel- The Easter eggs, eh? I could do that, but it'd be a really short chapter. I suppose then I could kind of fast forward to when Bill and Mrs. Weasley come to the tournament and show that part, too…okay, cool, I think I'll do that. As for Arithmancy, I think it's like math, but different and it might be hard to do. I suppose we may never know what it really is unless Harry starts to take that class in the books. ::sigh::

Anandini77- Yay! Again, glad you're liking it. The thing about Tina balancing her friendship with both boys was also something that I've based on personal experiences. I've got several friends who're boys, and when my friends (boys and girls alike) fight, I never really take sides. I at least make sure I'm still speaking to and hanging out with both of them. Question, can you email the email you sent me with your requests again? I want to keep it as new so I remember everything you requested.

Ronkid8829- Thanks, glad you like it. As for your story, anytime. I really do like being a beta, because I'm strange, and I'm happy to help.

Venus725- OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!! You are so awesome!!!!! Seven reviews…all at once!!!! I only know one other person who has reviewed every single chapter of a story they read all at once like that, and it's me. You are most definitely my new best reviewer and for that, this chapter is dedicated to you. All right! So you're an R/H shipper too? Excellent. I am going to have Tina and Malfoy interaction sometime, but I doubt it will be in a remotely nice way. I'm planning on inflicting some sort of pain on him, but we'll see. (hehe)

Padfoot, Prongs and Moony- I will try to work Sirius in, I promise! I just don't know when to, but I think it'll be sometime in Book 5. I got some good ideas from Anandini77 about that. We'll see what I do. I feel the same way about Ron's behavior before the First Task in Book 4. I just want to give him a good kick up the--okay, I think I should shut up now.

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