From the last chapter…
Harry looked over at Draco who seemed to be thinking the same thing. They're eyes met, and as soon as Draco moved, Harry shot off as well. They shot off like bullets to the hospital wing, both determined to ask Hermione to the dance.
Harry ran and ran up the stairs, dodging Draco's various curses and jinxes all the while. "You know Malfoy, you are kind of a lousy shot!" yipped Harry as a jelly legs jinx zoomed over his shoulder.
"AHH! You'll pay for that snide remark Potter!" he cried and shot more and more ineffective jinxes.
Finally Harry reached the door to the hospital wing and yelled "Expelliarmus!" he shrieked and the spell hit Draco in the chest and he fell back a flight of stairs. Another hex zoomed past Harry as he opened the door.
"Madam Pomfrey!" he said breathlessly, "Has Hermione been discharged yet?"
""fraid not Harry, the poor girl is still stunned, but at the rate she's increasing at, she will be out of here, by errr… I'd say about December twenty- first!"
"WHAT! But that's the day before the holidays! I'll never have time to ask her to the dann…. The danish, you know, to the hog's head to get, a errr… danish! Hey I gotta go see ya!" said Harry quickly and scrambled out of the wing, he had to find Ron.
"RON! RON! I just found out, Hermione is in the hospital wing until December twenty first!"
"But that's the day before holidays! We'll never be able to ask her to the dance when she goes home with her parents that day! Besides, what's the use, she'll want to go with Malfoy. She is still under that love potion…" a tone of resentment was in Ron's voice, "But the good news is that you're coming to the Burrow to spend Christmas with us, then we can all go to Diagon Alley and buy our suits for the dance! Won't that be fun?"
"Yes all except the shopping part," grumbled Harry, he hated buying clothes, none ever fit him right, he was too tall and thin, pants never fit right, they always came up a little short around the ankles or a little loose on the waist.
The rest of the month went down as most months do, a few potions class, defense against the dark arts went surprisingly well, even by Harry's standards and by the twenty-first of December Harry was ready to relax at the Burrow…
"Well Ron, this is the last supper before the holidays and Hermione was discharged today! But you know what I've decided?"
"What?" said Ron with his mouth full, and not really paying attention.
"I'm not going to ask Hermione to the dance! I have NO chance! I mean, come on here, she's under a love potion!" Harry said, trying not to sound too upset. "Well anyways, I'm all packed so, when your finished, LETS GO!"
"Yeah I'm done, time for X-mas!" cried Ron joyously and they skipped off to the front gates.
(yes I do realize I am skipping many parts… ) Christmas at the Burrow was grand! Harry got chocolate frogs, a hand knit sweater with a golden snitch on it form Mrs. Weasly, a spell dictionary from Hermione, a bunch of items form the joke shop from the twins (including some mood wands), and a limited edition signed Quidditch poster form Harry's favorite player.
Ron unwrapped a spell dictionary like Harry's from Hermione, "Wow, that's original," he remarked glumly.
"Gee Ron, how on earth did you get this signed? This is so cool!" said Harry, he really loved the poster and planned to keep it over his bed.
"That's my secret," chortled Ron and popped a chocolate frog in his mouth.
"RON WEASLY!" screamed a voice that sounded suspiciously like his mom's, "TIME TO GO TO GET YOUR SUIT!"
"ALRIGHT MUM I'M COMING!"
She appeared at the door and said sweetly, "and Harry dear, time to go for you as well, pack up your things, we're going straight from Diagon Alley to Hogwarts."
"Dad's booked a Ministry car, it was easy this time because of his new job, you know, he really loves that position…" said Ron dreamily and strolled out of the room.
Harry pulled on his muggle clothes and set out with the Weasley's to find a suitable suit.
They all walked into a dress shop, (a division of the robes shop) and began to browse through suits of all sizes, colors, and styles.
"Here's a good one for you Harry!" Ron smiled and held up an all white suit with a pimp cane.
"Very funny Ronald Weasly… How about this?" Harry said and held up a plain black suit with turquoise details.
"I'm likin the classic there, but how about THIS!" Ron said and pulled out a really nice dark red and brown detailed suit that was absolutely GEORGOUS!
"That has you written all over it Ron… I think I'm gonna go with the classic black. But do you think Hermione will like it?"
"Frankly, I don't think she'll pay any attention because of that potion but its worth a go I suppose," said Ron, who didn't seem at all interested, but was now examining the price, "29 Galleons! Sheesh, that's a lot! But mum did say anything under 30 so I suppose its my lucky day," he exclaimed and marched off to pay for the suit.
Harry held his own suit in his arms and looked longingly at Ron's bold fashion statement of a suit when he noticed a tag that had not been there before and furthermore he noticed that the suit seemed to have an alluring sparkle that made him suddenly very happy. He went up and read the strange tag.
"ohmygosh….." said Harry under his breath, "when worn it promises the wearer to get what?" "I need to get to Flourish and Botts as soon as possible!" he thought to himself and paid for the suit and left.
In the wizarding bookstore he went back into a section he had never visited before and selected a book just to make sure that it had the charm he was looking for and he bought it, it didn't matter the price. All that mattered was the one charm on page 45 that would help him and his friends greatly. If the suit did what it said it did, then he would need all the help he could get.
Oh la la! What does the suit's tag say? You'll find out soon enough! Be patient, but I am thinking you can guess or come close… lol well expect great things, and by the way, because that school is starting I am going to have to do a chapter a week or maybe two a week so don't expect everyday updates anymore.