A/N- Hey, sorry again about the super long wait from before, and sorry about this semi-long one too! But this is pretty good time considering all the stuff I have to do. Anyway, I'm glad to have at least *some* time to be doing this. Here's the next chapter-R/R!

Meanwhile in the Prefect's Bathroom, Cho and Colin continued to snog. Colin was a little shocked still, but he was getting into it, still thinking that it was almost as good as obsessing over Harry. They weren't the only ones in the school's highly reputed snog spot getting romantic, either.

Sevvie and Ally were cuddling in the corner with the bottle of champagne, much to the dismay of Parvati. Although it seemed like a good thing that Professor Snape was finding some love at last, it was not something Parvati really wanted to witness.

"This is so romantic," Ally smiled, looking up at Sevvie. Sevvie nodded, putting his arm around her. "But I have to admit," he commented, "that it would be a lot more romantic if there weren't students in the room, and if my supposed best friend wasn't in the middle of trying to work things out with his wife, and most of all if Black and Lupin weren't still trying to rescue Black from the bath without his precious shoes falling off."

Ally shrugged. She honestly didn't care who else was in the room. It was a dance, it was romantic, and she didn't care who heard her. "I love you, Sev," she said quietly. "I love you too," he responded, quietly again.

But he wasn't quiet enough for Parvati, who was standing fairly close, not to hear. "Professor, please! Could you two move this love-fest to another location? It's really not something I need to see, honestly," she said, shaking her head.

She had never expected to have to say something even remotely like that to Professor Snape. He was the greasy, haughty, bitter professor who taught everyone's least favorite subject. He was not supposed to be the one who found his perfect girlfriend before Parvati had even found her perfect boyfriend.

Of course, she thought Sirius was great, but unlike Cho, she understood that it would be ridiculous for her to even think of seriously dating someone that much older than her, even if he was funny, hot, and acted as if he was her age.

"Are you *asking* for a detention?" Snape asked, bringing his famous sneer back for the first time in a while that night. Parvati shook her head. Even she, one of the most outspoken and confident students in her year, wasn't ready to go head to head with Severus Snape.

"It doesn't matter, Sev. There are a lot of other people here anyway. Why don't we go back to your roo- office?" Ally asked, nicely trying to save Parvati from punishment on a night where it was her opinion that no one deserved it.

Not enjoying giving in to his students no matter what the occasion, Professor Snape hesitated before answering. But in the end, Ally won out over his students any day. "Fine. We'll go back to my office. I hope you are satisfied, Miss Patil," he said scornfully as he and Ally got up to leave.

"I am," Parvati assured him, assuming that she was home free now that they were leaving, "Very satisfied." She winked at the two of them. Sevvie's eyebrows looked like they were going to shoot off his head. "Talking back to a teacher would most definitely be considered grounds for a detention, Miss Patil," he informed her coolly.

Parvati frowned, hoping that if she looked very sorry they would let her off. "Oh, just let it go," Ally insisted, "I'm sure just having to stay here will be punishment enough." Looking around, Parvati didn't quite agree that it was going to be that much punishment, but it was certainly going to be interesting.

With one last cool look from Snape, and a wink from Ally, the two of them left the Prefect's Bathroom and headed down towards the dungeons. Parvati was able to breathe a sigh of relief after they were gone. Witnessing two of her professors snogging was not an experience she was too anxious to have again.

Since that scene was over, Parvati turned her attention to the bath, where a scene just as interesting but more fun to watch was going on.

"Ah! No Remmie no! Not my shoe! Don't let it fall off!" Sirius yelled, trying to catch his shoe and not drench his head at the same time. It was easier said than done. "I'm trying, Sirius! Doesn't it look like I'm trying?" Lupin asked, grinning. He was lucky. He didn't have to worry about getting wet, since he had changed into a bathing suit before going in.

But since he had been the one to pull Sirius in with all his clothes on, Sirius designated him responsible for getting him out without getting his hair soaked or having his shoes fall off. "Come on Sirius, you could help a little!" Remmie said, laughing at how ridiculous Sirius looked.

"My god, Lupin. Stop flirting and get Black out of the water. There's no need to make such a big deal out of an excuse to hold his hand," Lucius drawled, back to his usual arrogant self after reuniting with Cissa.

"Better than flirting with Sevvie!" Sirius shot back, finally able to get himself out of the water, with a lot of help from Lupin. "NO! MY SHOE!" he continued, looking down in dismay as one of the shoes he had worked so hard not to lose fell down to the bottom of the pool.

"Well, go down and get it," Remmie suggested, sniggering at how distraught Sirius looked. Lucius sneered at the two of them. "I find it so ironic that you're the one who's always telling me about how much I like Sevvie, and yet it's you who's flipping out over the loss of your shoe," he said scornfully.

"Look who wears little black bows in their hair, blondie," Sirius retorted, flipping his hair in an imitation of Lucius. Lucius' mouth dropped open. "Those bows are a fashion statement, okay?! I thought I already told you that!" he yelled, very insulted, "And incidentally, I'm not the one who snogged Lupin tonight."

Lupin gaped at him, but Sirius took it in stride this time. He had finally come to the conclusion that getting mad at Lucius wouldn't beat him. The only way to deal with him was to get even. "That was your idea in the first place, Malfoy," he pointed out, much to the dismay of Lucius.

"And incidentally, Lucius, it was an excellent dare," Lupin added in, winking at Sirius. If there was one way better than getting even to make Lucius Malfoy angry, it was making it seem like he had no affect on you.

"Are we through questioning about each other's sexuality?" Cissa asked, sneering at Sirius and Remmie. It was obvious that she was directing the comment to them, and not her husband who had started it in the first place.

"Yes. Now we're returning to the issue at hand. I want my shoe, Remmie, and I want it now. I refuse to have it ruined in that water," Sirius said in mock-seriousness. Lucius had to bite his lip to resist making a comment. Remmie shook his head. "Then go in and get it," he repeated, trying not to laugh at how bad an impression of being earnest Sirius was doing.

"Remmie, won't you *please* go get it for me? After all, you're wearing a bathing suit," Sirius begged, taking Remmie's arm and leading him over to the bath. Again, Remmie sighed and shook his head. He couldn't believe how someone as smart as Sirius really was could be so incredibly clueless sometimes.

"Sirius, the fact that you didn't think of this is just embarrassing," he said, still trying to hold back a snigger, "Accio shoe!" As soon as the shoe started flying out of the water, Sirius started cracking up. Even he couldn't believe his stupidity. It flew up to the ceiling, and then plummeted down.

But instead of hitting the floor like it should have, it landed on Lucius' head, and then hit the ground. "Thanks for breaking its fall," Sirius grinned, sniggering at the look on Lucius' face while he put his shoe back on. Lucius was giving him a signature Malfoy glare in all its evilness.

"You better watch your aim, Lupin," he drawled angrily, "Don't ever even *think* about bringing one of Black's shoes near my head again." Sirius laughed, and Remmie returned with, "Why? Afraid it would mess up your hair?"

Although Sirius and Remmie were really enjoying going back and forth insulting Lucius, Cissa was starting to get really bored of it. "Honestly, this is pathetic. You're not Hogwarts students anymore, boys. Not even you, honey," she said sincerely, shaking her head.

Sirius put on a face of mock-outrage. "Just because you want to be old doesn't mean we all have to! And it's people like you who make it so boring to get older. Just because I don't go to Hogwarts anymore doesn't mean that I can't have fun!" he said, shaking his head in an imitation of her.

Finally, Cissa decided that the only way to stop the ridiculousness was to just leave the room. "That's it, everyone. Lucius and I are leaving," she said, grabbing Lucius' arm and leading him over to the door.

Remmie shook a finger at them. "You wish," he said, rolling his eyes at their stupidity, "But you and Lucius, Cissa, can't be more than 5 feet away from me and Cho, remember?" Sirius had to laugh at the look on both of their faces when they remembered that rule. Obviously, that wasn't what they were planning on to have happen.

Cissa shook her head though. That just didn't make sense to her. The dance was definitely more than halfway over; there was no question about it! Why wasn't the spell to hold you no more than five feet away from your partner off by now? It made no sense. Why wouldn't Dumbledore have taken it off?

After sharing her question with Lucius, Remmie, Sirius, and Parvati (who had just walked over), they were all just as puzzled. "Well, I say we go investigate!" Sirius suggested, grinning broadly.

"No. Not this time, Sirius," Cissa said firmly, "Last time we tried to investigate something, Snape and Ally were ready to wring our necks. No, as much as I want the spell off, we're just going to have to accept it, for whatever reason."

Lucius arched an eyebrow. That was the last thing he wanted, to be stuck with some of the people he hated most. But he wasn't about to argue with his wife after he had just fixed their last issue. So he had no choice but to agree.

"Fine then," he consented, "In that case, we have to find some place in this school where we all, including Cho over there in the corner, agree on to stay." Cho looked up upon hearing her name, and she and Colin walked over. "What was that about me?" she asked coolly, barely looking at Lucius (or Cissa).

"We have to find some place in the school where we all don't mind going," Sirius said when it became apparent that Lucius wasn't going to repeat it. Cho rolled her eyes. "That rules out a lot of places," she commented.

Before anyone could say anything else, Colin started jumping up and down. "Oh! I know where we could go! I know where we could go!" he said excitedly, raising his hand as if he was in one of his classes.

"We're not in class Colin, so you really don't have to raise your hand," Lupin pointed out, trying not to laugh, "But go ahead and tell us what your idea is." Everyone looked at Colin curiously, but they were sure that his idea wouldn't be one that they would particularly want to use.

"I think we should go up to the Gryffindor dorms! Or the common room! Or some place where we could find Harry!" he said, smiling in anticipation. Everyone rolled their eyes. That was so typically Colin, and getting pretty old. "Colin, we all love Harry," Sirius said, trying to be tactful for once in his life, "but really, none of us want to spend the night looking for him."

Colin nodded understandingly. "Okay, well then how about we go down to the dance? I mean, that's probably where Harry is anyway. And besides, isn't the dance supposed to be the whole point of tonight?" he asked sensibly.

"What is this world coming to? Colin Creevey just made sense. And he just had an actual fairly good idea that wasn't solely based around Potter (even if it was mostly based on him). I'm shocked, to say the least," Lucius said off-handedly, knowing all about Colin's obsession from Draco's filling him in.

Any normal person would have been insulted, but Colin wasn't normal by any stretch, so he took it as a compliment. Everyone else agreed to the idea too, after they knew they were safe from the wrath of Lucius. "Alright, then let's go!" Sirius said happily, walking toward the door.