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Chapter Eight: A Halloween Disaster

Halloween morning started out as a normal day with classes, free periods, breakfast and lunch. In the afternoon classes ended early so that the students were able to get ready for the dance and the teachers were able to get the great hall ready in decorations. The students were bustling, especially the girls, because of the talk that a band was playing at Hogwarts. Hermione, Ron and Harry walked back from their classes and met in the Gryffindor common room. Harry walked over to the nearest cleaned table and sat down and planted his stuff on the chair next to him.

"Why are you sitting down? We have to get ready Harry?" asked Hermione. Harry had that puzzled look sketched on his face. "Harry what's wrong?" she asked turning around to face him fully. Ron stopped next to her and looked at his friend.

"Are you still thinking about last night?" he asked.

"Yeah. I'm mean come Draco was so infatuated with Pansy and vise-versa and now he's practically going out with Nightshade and according to Hermione; she doesn't even belong to Slytherin. But my question is why he so fascinated by her is?"

"I'm not sure." said Ron. Hermione looked at Ron and then back to Harry.

"Well now that I think about Blaise Zabini has been acting a little off as well, including Crabbe and Goyle. To me it looks like they've been snooping." Harry looked up at her.

"Why do you think that is?" he asked. She just looked at him blankly.

"I don't know."

Pansy walked by herself down to the dungeons and was thinking about what to wear. She wanted to wear something that would attract Draco's attention once more. She was not going to give him up to a girl who was only a month new to the school. She walked with her bag over her shoulder and her neck tie loose. She had a scowl on her face when she entered the common room. Her friend walked over to her and whispered in her ear.

Pansy nodded and headed straight into the girls dormitory. She dropped her bag at the foot of her four poster bed and looked over at the package that lay upon it. It had finally come. The dress her mother had bought her just for this dance. She had bought it for her to look nice for Draco since her mother new his well known father. Her mother didn't know what was going on and she didn't plan on telling her. She walked over to the package and proceeded to open it. She dug her hands inside and pulled out a long floor length purple dress. It was a halter top and had different various designs in violet beads running from across the chest down the right side. She held it to her body and saw that it had a knee length slit up the side. She smiled at the thought and looked to see if there was more in the box and to her surprise she had found a pair of matching high heeled shoes. They were purple as well with two straps over the front of the foot and a strap over the heel. This dance was diffidently going to be good.

Draco walked with Zabini to the Slytherin common room and sat down in two large deep green armchairs. Zabini sighed and took out a chocolate bar.

"So are you taking Pansy to the Halloween dance?" he asked Draco. Draco shot him an angry glare.

"No, actually I'm going with Nightshade. She and I have gotten to know each other pretty well. She's really a surprising person after you get to know her."

"So I take it you like her." Draco thought for a moment. He never really thought if he liked her or not. I guess he was attracted to her.

"Yeah, I suppose I am." Draco pulled out his chocolate bar and then he ate it. It was a few hours away from the dance and he felt like he was forgetting something. Then it clicked. A corsage. Draco stood up and told Zabini he would be back in a bit to get ready. Draco made his way to the owlry to send a note to his mother. He made it to the tower and found his large hawk owl resting near a window. He walked over to it and found a piece of paper and a pen nearby. Upon it he wrote a note to his mother explaining what he needed and why. He sent his hawk owl on its way and then went back down the many floors back to the common room. He headed for the guys dormitory and went up to his four poster bed. There on his bed were the dress clothes his father sent him and his new black robes for the dance. The next bed over was Zabini. He was already getting ready for the dance. About another half an hour later Draco and Zabini were ready for the dance and they were standing by two of the other guys they shared a dormitory with. Kit Vanex who stood there listening to Zabini who was wondering who he would dance with and Steve Reilly was still working with his tie. Draco was friends with Steve Reilly in there first year because he was fascinated with where he had come from. Steve had moved to England from California, North America.

There was a noise from outside the window they turned to see who it was and saw that a large bird was fluttering outside of it. It was Draco's hawk owl; apparently his mother went straight for the store because there was a small box in his claw. Steve opened the window and allowed the large bird inside, who flew to straight to Draco's shoulder as he dropped the box in his master's hands.

He gave his hawk owl a snack and then proceeded to open the box. Inside was the corsage that he had asked for. It was a white Cal Lily, with black around the rim of the petal and it slowly faded down to the flower until it turned white. It, in his opinion, actually looked rather nice and pretty cool.

"Is that for Nightshade?" asked Vanex. Draco nodded and then placed it back in the box that was nicely decorated as well. It was a square black box that flipped open. It had green trimming and the Slytherin symbol on it. He smiled and then placed it in his pocket.

"She is quite a looker isn't she?" asked Steve. Draco nodded.

"You know Pansy will be jealous to no bounds." said Kit. Draco scowled; he couldn't imagine what she would do to make him like her again.

"Yeah, she does have a temper on her. Just the other day I saw her have a tantrum. It wasn't very pretty." said Steve. Draco laughed. He actually found it funny when Pansy had her tantrums. That was one of the reasons he had liked her, but then she just became annoying. I mean they had been going out since their third year. It was a rather long time. Draco brought himself out of his thoughts and noticed the time. It was about time to be heading to the great hall. He shrugged his shoulder to tell his hawk owl that it was time to leave. It flew back out the window and then Draco and his friends left.

Harry, Ron, Ginny and Hermione walked into the great hall. They were shocked at the sight. The room was covered in sparkling ribbons, floating pumpkins with scary faces, bats flying at the ceiling; occasionally swooping down, black and orange ribbons and tables that surrounded the room. The tables to left of the room were filled with food and the other three walls were holding the other tables for sitting. In the center of each table were floating candles and a small vase with a single rose. For the Gryffindor tables were red colored roses, the Hufflepuff tables were purple roses, in the Ravenclaw tables were orange roses and on the Slytherin tables were black roses.

The four stared in awe at what the great hall now looked like. Where the teachers usually sat was now the place where the band was playing. The teachers table was now set by the food court.

"Wow it's wonderful." said Hermione.

"This is cool." said Harry. Harry and Ginny walked into the partly crowded room and to find a place to sit. They found a table that was already occupied by Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood. Luna Lovegood had started hanging out with them in their third or fourth year. Harry couldn't remember. Ever since they had befriended each other she had been hanging around the Gryffindors.

"Hi, Luna." said Ginny happily. Ginny was Luna's first friend from the Gryffindor house. Harry was happy to have Luna around if it meant having Ginny happy, but he also thought Luna was pretty cool. She always said the honest things and most of the times it was hilarious just to listen to her. She was really funny during the Quidditch cup tournament and to hear her give the commentaries.

"Hey Luna." said Hermione, Harry and Ron. Hermione never really agreed with Luna, but they were still friends. Ron thought she was funny and Harry thought she was pretty cool. The four sat down and more chairs appear out of thin air so that they could all sit. Now the table was officially full.

Draco walked into the great hall and the first thing he noticed was the designs. He thought they fit perfectly. In the far corner there was an archway where people could get their pictures taken. He would have to go there to get a picture taken later. Zabini, Vanex, and Reilly walked off to find a table for them and Draco went to find Tesania. He knew she would be here, but he didn't know where. He looked around and then frowned. He didn't find her but he found someone that might know where she was. He walked over to the table and the faces looked up at him and they frowned as well. He reached the table and looked only at one person.

"Granger, do you know where Tesania is?" he asked as polite as he could. He didn't want to annoy them knowing Tesania was friends with them. And the last thing he wanted to do was piss her off. Hermione shook her head and Draco nodded his thanks since he really didn't want to say it out loud. He walked off and then stopped in his tracks. There stood Tesania Nightshade. She was wearing a long floor length silk black dress. It hugged to her body nicely and gave away all of her curves. On the top of the dress were tiny green beads that made a unique design. It was straight across the chess, so it wasn't a v-neck, it was spaghetti strapped and on her arms was matching gloves only instead of green beads, and there were small green spiked studs. Her gloves reached just above her elbows and there were finger holes. Her hair was let down and it was rather long. She never had it down fully like this. She didn't have bangs so they hung on the sides of her hair and when she turned, they sometimes fell infront of her eyes. She had put in her nose ring again and then he noticed that she had double piercing in each lobe and 1 cartilage piercing.

She saw him and walked over to him and smiled. She blushed a little because of all the stares she was receiving. Draco caught a side glimpse of Zabini, Vanex and Reilly. They were staring hungrily at her and were probably jealous of him for being able to be with her. He remembered the box and pulled it out. He handed it to her and she opened and smiled.

"It's my favorite flower, how did you know?"

"I didn't really know, but I had help." He took it back from her and placed it on her wrist himself. She admired it some more and then took his arm and pulled him to the dance floor. She had just remembered something and then jumped from herself in surprise.

"I just remembered something, hold on, stay here, I'll be right back." She hurried off towards the teachers table and then returned only moments later.

"What was so important?"

"You'll see like everyone else later. You just need to be patient." She smiled at him and the dance was finally in full swing. The boy band played their music and almost all the girls were jumping for joy and some of the guys danced with the girls to their music.

Draco and Tesania were dancing together with strobe lights and the neon lights flashing over their bodies. People crowded around them and the dancing got tighter. Almost an hour went by when the crowd finally dispersed so the they could rest and as well as the band. Tesania and Draco sat down by Zabini and Vanex. Reilly had gone to get something to drink and eat. Vanex and Zabini smiled at them. Draco didn't sit down though.

"Do you want anything to drink?" he asked her.

"Ummm, sure. Something ice cold. Thanks." she said sweetly. Draco left and went straight to the food court. He returned a few minutes later with the drinks and he finally sat down. They were only talking for a few minutes until Pansy Parkinson walked up to them. She had walked slinky over to them and smiled at Draco. The dress looked amazing on her; it also gave away her curves and bared her left leg up to her knee. Her skin was a creamy white and a dark pearl anklet adorned her ankle. She was radiant, Draco had to admit, but he was still in awe over how Tesania looked. To prove this to Pansy, he placed his arm around Tesania's waist and pulled her up.

"Let's go dance again." Pansy scowled at her and Tesania just gave her an innocent look. Tesania didn't want to be in between Draco and Pansy, but since Draco liked her, she didn't want to throw away the chance. Pansy looked over to Vanex and then smirked.

"Vanex, can I talk to you?" Draco figured she was going to try and make him jealous and smiled at her futile attempt.

Harry and Ginny danced together to the slow motion song that the band was playing and Ron and Hermione were beside them. Hermione had just raised her head from it being on Ron's shoulder when Tesania and Draco walked up next to them and began to dance slowly next to them. Tesania waved and silently said hi. Hermione was shocked to see Draco dancing comfortably next to her and Ron, but didn't let the shock get the best of her. She returned the gesture and rested her head once again on Ron's shoulder. She smiled at Tesania and then closed her eyes again. Tesania rested her head on Draco's shoulder and closed her eyes as well.

The three couples danced there slowly for the next three songs, which all happened to be slow. At the end of the fourth song, Professor Dumbledore walked over to the band and magically made his voice echo through the room so everyone could hear. Everyone stopped dancing and looked up at him.

"Before the night ends, I would like to treat everyone to a gift; well Ms. Nightshade would like to treat you to something. She is going to demonstrate a gift that all witches have from where she comes from." Dumbledore changed his voice back to normal and Nightshade left Draco's side and walked onto the higher leveled ground. Draco stood in curiosity next to Ron and Hermione. He didn't feel like taunting the two of them tonight. The crowd watched as she made her way up. She turned around and faced them. Dumbledore walked back over to the table and sat down. The band, excluding the singer, started playing music which started off slow and the moved fast to follow Nightshade's movement.

Nightshade closed her eyes and held out her arms in front of her, palms up. A white light formed around her body and then in the next second wings flapped open and spread outwards and up. Some people jumped from surprise, others gasped in shock.

Draco stared at the girl that he had been falling for since the day they met on the train. The wings started out white and then slowly faded to black on the outer wings. The bone area and the inner feathers were almost a pure white. Draco realized it was just like the corsage that he had given her. No wonder it was her favorite flower. Then people began to notice the wind being picked up around her and the people who were closest to her.; meaning Draco, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Harry, Luna, Neville, Vanex and Pansy. Their hair and clothes ruffled as they felt the wind stir and move around them.

The air was moving in a circular motion around her and slowly she lifted off the ground. Her arms moved to where they were above her head. Her bottom of her dress moved slightly and her wings bent and opened; bent and opened. After a minute she touched back down and opened her eyes. Her wings folded in and then disappeared.

She did just what Dumbledore had done and made her voice louder.

"What I had just done was something that is passed down in my blood line of witches. It's called Clufuih in my language, translated it means Pureblood and in my bloodline pureblood was meant for the higher power." Draco snapped to complete attention when she said this and so did Harry and his gang.

'So she was a pureblood!' thought Hermione. 'And the whole time I thought she was put in Slytherin by mistake. Well she isn't evil, so what makes her so much different from her other house mates?' Hermione didn't get to think any further than what she did because the room flashed a bright white and blinded everyone. A scream could be heard from the far side of the room where the Slytherin tables were set. When the light disappeared and everything was returned to normal everyone saw who had screamed. One of Pansy's friends was suspended in thin air with a pentacle floating above her head. Harry and Ron gasped, they had seen that sign before, but couldn't say anything because the sign started to burn and then disappear into burning embers. The girl was released from the invisible grip and she fell about three feet to the ground smacking her elbow on the floor and shattering it. Pansy ran to her friend's aid and tried to calm her.

Tesania watched as she felt fear grip her stomach, she looked at the table where all the teachers were rushing to the girl's aid. The only person she didn't see there was Mr. Ruche, her father.