Love In All Forms

Chapter 8: Announcement

Hermione and Ron were no better or worse of than they were before. Ignorance was still dominating. Somehow, both of them still wouldn't accept that they liked each other. Morgan and Harry had become the best of friends, although Harry still liked her very much. The two had become a lot closer than before and there was hardly a time when you saw one without the other.

Draco was having a hard time dealing with the fact that he had lost Morgan to his worst enemy, but he was about to become more angry. Morgan had completely forgotten about how she had promised Blaise a date. In fact, he was planning his timing very well.

That night, in the great hall, Dumbledore made an announcement. "Students! I would like to announce a surprise. Although the Triwizard Tournament has been re-outlawed, we have decided to continue the Yule Ball. Just like the tournament, it will be around Christmastime. However, we decided that to add some fun and variety, you will all come dressed in muggle outfits. Yes, this means dresses and suits. I hope you all have fun. That is all."

A loud cheer went up from the entire crowd and the feast appeared. Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Morgan all started loading their plates, all the while talking about how fun the ball was going to be.

Blaise was making his way over from the Slytherin table. He came up behind Morgan. "Miss, I do believe you had promised me a date. Would you do me the honor of letting me escort you to the Yule Ball?"

She turned around and smiled at him. "I'm sorry I forgot, Blaise, and that would be lovely."

He picked her up bridal style and set her down in front of him. He then twirled her and began to dance. "We'll need some practice."

"I'm sure we will be fine. Blaise, I would like to eat now," she said, a little annoyed.

He laughed nervously and put her down. Draco was shooting glares at him for the rest of dinner and Blaise was just grinning at him. Pansy Parkinson was hanging all over Draco, batting her eyelashes and smiling as sweetly as she could. In the end, Draco just couldn't keep ignoring her.

"Pansy, I'm not going to ask you to the Yule Ball. I would rather go stag then be seen with a dog face like you!" Draco stood up and walked off, mumbling angrily. He wasn't the only one either.

Over at the Gryffendor table, Harry was doing some angry mumbling of his own. Morgan noticed and looked at him questioningly. "What's wrong Harry?" she asked.

"Nothing?"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes!"

"Ok. You don't have to get angry," she said.

"I'm going to bed!" he said and stalked off.

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The next morning, Morgan was the first awake. It was pretty early. Even so, she got ready to go to Hogsmeade to shop for her Yule Ball outfit. Around 10:00, she woke up Hermione and Ginny. Both girls had showered the night before and just got dressed. When they were done, the three went down to the great hall to grab a quick breakfast. Afterwards, they took the carriages to Hogsmeade.

Mysti's robes and dress wear had stocked up on muggle clothes, hearing about Hogwarts's Yule Ball theme. The three girls went inside. They told their sizes to the sales lady and each picked a dressing room. The lady brought them each about 20 dresses in their sizes.

After a few minutes, Ginny squealed. "This is the one you guys! You HAVE to see this!"

Hermione and Morgan came out of the dressing room. Ginny was wearing a sky blue dress with bikini straps. Around her bust it had many blue rhinestones. Near the bottom, the rhinestones got farther and farther apart. It complimented her eyes very nicely. She had conjured her hair into a fancy twist on top of her head.

"What do you think?" she asked quietly.

"Oh my gosh!" Morgan and Hermione said in unison.

Ginny giggled and went back into the dressing room to change back into her regular clothes.

Hermione was the next to find her dress. It was a strapless purple dress with a diagonal cut at the bottom. Different shades of purple fabric overlapped each other. Over the entire thing was a sparkly gauzy fabric.

Morgan was having a hard time picking one. Finally, she chose one. It was a dark green that matched her eyes. It was off the shoulder and looked velvety. There were slits up both sides it also had rhinestones, but they were few and far apart and matched the dress so well that they could only be seen when the light hit them and they sparkled. Her eyes glowed against the green and she smiled. "Finally, I found the right one," she said.

The sales women packed up their dresses while they paid. Once finished, they decided to go get some lunch at the three broomsticks.

"What would you like?" the waitress asked.

"We'll take three butterbeers," Ginny said.

The waitress walked to get their drinks.

"I'm worried about Harry," Morgan admitted quietly. She ran a hand through her long golden-brown hair. "He seemed really upset last night, and I'm not sure what to do."

"Oh, it's ok Morgan," Hermione assured her. "Sometimes he gets in a bad mood and there is nothing you can do about it.

Their butterbeers arrived and they soon finished.

"I need to go look for some jewelry guys," Morgan said. "I will meet you back at Hogwarts, ok?"

The two girls nodded and they went their separate ways. Morgan looked up and down Hogsmeade. Each shop looked nice, but not like it would have the right thing for her. To one side of her was a very dark alley. Curious, she walked down their. It kept getting darker and darker. She suddenly heard people talking and doors opening and closing. Suddenly, the area was plunged into light. She looked behind her and she saw the dark alley. In front of her, there were many witches and wizards dressed in black. They each had a look of contempt or anger on their faces.

A sign was creaking and she looked up at it. It said "Welcome to Snakesmeade." She backed away in fear and was about to try to get back to Hogsmeade when she felt a cane hit the back of her knees. She fell forward and looked up into the eyes of Lucius Malfoy.

"Hello Morgan," he sneered at her. "You're coming with me. I know someone who is very interested in talking to you."

Morgan shuttered. "Get away from me! Someone will notice I'm gone! You'lkl never be able to get away with this! My friends are waiting for me outside the alley!"

He laughed evilly. "You're lying. I was behind you the entire time. No one knows you're here and they won't notice you're missing until later tonight. Now come on, my master doesn't like to be kept waiting."

She felt a hand grip her shoulder, and turned to see Draco.

"Draco! Why are you doing this?" she cried.

"Because you should love me, not a traitor to wizard kind!" he said angrily.

Lucius whispered a spell and she fell to the ground. Draco picked up her limp body and followed his father towards a big black house. They brought her inside. Still carrying Morgan, Draco went upstairs and set her in a room on a bright red bed. He stripped down to his boxers and helped her under the blankets, then crawling in himself. He wrapped an arm around her still-unconscious body.

"You will be mine," he whispered and kissed her cheek softly.

Back at Hogwarts, it was getting late and Ginny and Hermione were getting worried. They were talking to Harry.

"We left her in Hogsmeade to find some jewelry. She said she would be back soon, but that was the last time we saw her!" Ginny said. Her blue eyes were filled with a worry never seen before.

Harry narrowed his eyes. "I'm going to look for her!" He reached into his trunk and brought out a bag. "For emergencies," he said. He pulled the powder out and stepped into the fireplace. "HOGSMEADE!" he yelled. A poof of green smoke went up and when it cleared, Harry was gone.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I think I've been doing better with this story cuz I got an inspiration all the sudden. Many of you are probably really happy now that Voldemort is back in the picture again. Didn't think the entire thing would be a sappy love story, did you?