Harry Potter What Could Have Happened

Book One

Year Five At Hogwarts

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and other characters, objects, places, etc. under copyright laws of J.K. Rowling. I also do not own any of the characters, objects, places, etc. of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" under copyright laws of Tim Burton and others who created the film. I also do not own Neverland or any other places under copyright laws of Disney and Warner Bros. I only own the plot and the characters: Bridget Delacour, Anastasia Delacour/Odette, Berlioze, Frou Frou, Maria Diaz, Tony Corona, Fiona Fey, Whiskers, Jacques Reparu, Professor Reparu.

Chapter One

The Early Train

One day on Number Four Privet Drive, Vernon Dursley had struck on Harry Potter's bedroom door with his meaty fist.

"Potter!" he bellowed, "Get up, you bloody boy, get up!"

Uncle Vernon was particularly nice to Harry this morning. Petunia Dursley, Harry's Aunt, had nicely awoken Dudley, her son, a few minutes after Harry had dressed and began to walk down the stairs. Aunt Petunia shoved a raggy apron, a spatula, and a pan into Harry's arms. She had been taking advantage of him being home that summer. He scrambled a bunch of eggs and put them in a bowl in the middle of the table.

Dudley complained, "Ever since Harry started cooking breakfast we always have scrambled eggs!"

"Then what do you want Duddykins?" His mother asked him, looking at Harry as if he'd broken the law.

"Well, pancakes would be nice, mum," Dudley said softly, acting coy.

"All right, well, you heard him, Potter, make pancakes!" Vernon yelled.

"How many does Dudley want?" Harry mocked.

"About twelve, and hop to it, I'm starved," Dudley said, rubbing his stomach which fell four inches over his belt. The belt was actually two belts sewn together to fit him.

"But of course, master," Harry said in a monotone. Vernon and Petunia glared at him.

Today was Harry's birthday, but it was never celebrated in the Dursley's house. Harry thought he'd treat himself by sneaking out and walking up and down Privet Drive. Across the street and one house over, number seven, had a moving van in front of it. He figured he'd introduce himself and be nice since no other person on the block had bothered to even peek out there windows and wave to the newcomers. He started walking up to the house and stopped dead in his tracks. There was a girl his age with blond hair, icy-aqua blue eyes, and porcelain white skin. She saw him looking at her and walked over to him.

"Bonjour, my name is Brigitte Delacour, Bridget in English, what is your name?" She had a French accent, and her last name seemed familiar.

"Hello, my name is Harry Potter...."

She interrupted him, " 'Arry Potter, it is a pleasure to meet you! Come, you must meet my parents!"

Bridget started to pull Harry to the front door of Number Seven Privet Drive.

Harry was a little confused. No muggle had ever made such a big deal out of him. Unless she wasn't a muggle.

"Mere! Pere! Anastasie! Come meet 'Arry Potter!"

A tall handsome man, a beautiful blond woman, a girl identical to Bridget ran in to the living room, all smiling broadly.

" 'Arry zis is my mom, my dad, and my twin sister Anastasia," Bridget said, pointing each of them out.

"Hello," He said, stilll wondering where he had heard the name Delacour.

"Bonjour," All three of the said in unison.

He finally remembered where he knew that name from, "Excuse me if this is too forward, but, are you related to a Fleur Delacour?"

"Zat is not forward at all, and yes, she is my cousin," Bridget said.

"Why is everyone standing, sit, make yourself comfortable!" Said Mrs. Delacour, bustling about, pulling up some folding chairs around an overturned crate, "Pardon zee mess, we have not brought everysing into zee house yet.

Harry nodded.

" 'Arry, where do you live?"

"Well, in the summer I live across the street and over one and in the school year, I live at Hogwarts...."

Anastasia interrupted, "Zat is where we are going to school!"

"Cool, you'll like it there," Harry said smiling.

"Would you show us around when we get zair? Zee early train is leaving tomorrow," Bridget asked.

"Early train, I didn't know Hogwarts had an early train...." Harry said, scratching his head.

"Well, zey want students who are first coming to the school and are not going into zeir first year to come earlier to get to know zee teachers. I am sure zey would not mind you tagging along," Bridget assured him.

"Okay, I'll pack my trunk tonight. Mr. Delacour, would you give me a lift to the train station, since you're taking your daughters to begin with. My aunt and uncle will want no part of magic," Harry asked.

"Sure, be 'eer at six, you can have breakfast wis us," He said, patting Harry on the shoulder.

The next morning Harry snuck out of the Dursley house a little before six with his trunk and Hedwig.

They ate breakfast and drove to the train station.

Harry followed Bridget and Anastasia onto Platform 9 3/4. As he was approaching the train, Mr. Delacour was already persuading the conductor to allow Harry on. The conductor nodded his head and grabbed Harry's trunk.

Harry, Bridget, and Anastasia walked into an empty compartment where their stuff had been put. Bridget's cat Berlioz and Anastasia's cat Frou Frou were sleeping in the corner together. Hedwig was sleeping in her cage.

Someone knocked on the compartment door. Anastasia opened it. It was two girls, one signifigantly shorter than the other, and a boy. The taller girl had jet black hair with orange highlights and almond eyes. The shorter one was hispanic and had dark brown hair with yellowish blond highlights. The boy had is arm around the short girls shoulders, since it was too hard for him to reach her waist.

"Tony, Marie, Fiona!" The twins yelled running up to the three of them and hugged them.

"You guys should know by now that my name is Maria," the short hispanic laughed.

"You know we cannot prenounce your name well," Anastasia said.

"Ah, zis is 'Arry Potter. 'Arry, zis is Fiona, Marie, and Tony," Bridget said excitedly.

Maria and Tony politely shook his hand.

"Well isn't that enchanting...." Fiona said disinterested. Harry didn't like her remark, but shrugged it off.

When they got off the train they rode into Hogwarts by way of a horseless carriage. Harry saw these scary blackwinged horses, but didn't say anything because no one else could see them, he noticed. They got off the carriage and there was Oliver Wood waiting to escort them into the school.

"Wood, what are you doing here?!" Harry said surprised, but happy.

"I was just about to ask you the same thing," Wood laughed.

"Well, I apparently live accross the street from Bridget and Anastasia," he pointed out the twins, "and they had asked me to come with them. Why are you here?"

"Professor Dumbledore asked me to give the new students a tour,"

"Didn't you graduate in my second year?" Harry asked, very confused.

"Well, yes, but, if you promise not to tell anyone...."

"I won't," Harry promised.

"I'm training to become a teacher here. I trained in Ireland, my homeland, and now I'm training here so I can be a teacher next year...."

Fiona had been sleeping in the carriage and just got out of it, "Oliver!"

"Fiona?!" Wood looked surprised.

Fiona ran up to him and gave him a big hug. Everyone was confused.

"How do you know him? You never told me about an Oliver Wood, and I'm your best friend!" Maria said, feeling left out.

"I told you about him. Remember when you said, 'Your smiling too much, who is he?' and then I didn't say anything and then you were like, 'Well, is he a student,' and then I said, 'Sort of,' Remember?" Fiona said, her preppy side showing.

"Oh, that one," Maria said giggling.

"How do you all know eachother?" Wood asked, blushing.

"Our fathers all work for the International Wizarding Society, it's what keeps all magic folk together," Maria said.

"Ya, all the good ones, that is," Fiona added in.

"Oui, all zee bad ones don't even know about it, so zis must stay secret," Bridget chimed in.

"Wait, I thought the Ministry of Magic took care of those sort of things...." Harry said, but not directly to anyone.

"Not zeez certain sings. I guess you can say zat zey are a secret army against evil," Anastasia answered.

"Where were they when I was in trouble? Where were they when my parents died?" Harry asked getting angry.

" 'Arry zey tried to save you and your parents, he killed zee two top agents who were on your case. Before anuzzer set of agents could save your parents, he had already killed your parents and had been defeated by you. Zey brought you to your Godfather, Sirius and Lupin. Zey greived zat night for your parents. Zee next day Dumbledore had come and said zat you had to go live wis your aunt and uncle," Bridget said, putting her hand on his shoulder, "I'm sorry your only finding zis out now...."

Harry was angry and sad at the same time. He didn't cry he just stood there, staring into space.

Bridget hugged him tightly, "I'm so sorry...." Bridget started to cry. Every one else was silent and looking down.

"Why are you sorry. You didn't do anything. You just told me the truth. Your one of the only people that has. Thank you...." Harry said, mixed feelings baffling him. He was angry because no one had ever told him the rest of the truth. He was sad because it took this long for some new person to come out and tell him the old news. He was happy because someone cared.

They were now in the Great Hall eating a late lunch. The staff wasn't sitting in their normal seats, they were all sitting at the Gryffindor table with Dumbledore at the head. Harry and the rest of them were sitting with them. Dumbledore had welcomed all of the new and old students at the beginning of lunch. At the end of lunch Wood began his tour, with Harry assisting him, since he knew just as much as Wood knew of the school.

"Harry, remember Fluffy," Wood asked.

"How can I forget," Harry laughed.

"Well, Professor Dumbledore and Hagrid gave me him,"

"They what!" Harry screamed, "Are they insane?!"

"No, not both of them," Wood joked, "The little bugger's all trained up and now he's quite the companion...."

"I really got to see Fluffy being obedient, calm, and....trained? Don't you mean tamed?"

"Trained, tamed, same thing in Hagrid's book," They both laughed.

The rest of them were clueless.

"What's a fluffy?" Anastasia asked.

"Well, Fluffy is his name, and he's a three-headed dog," Harry said.

"What's so bad about a three-headed dog?" Fiona said like it was a single-headed puppy.

"Yeah he must be sorta cute," Maria said smiling.

"That's a new way to look at Fluffy," Harry laughed.

"Well, let us see zis 'Fluffy' for ourselves. Wood, where does stay?" Bridget wondered.

"Well, all right then, follow me...." Wood said shrugging his shoulders.

They followed Wood up to a brown door with a rusty lock on it. This was familiar to Harry. Wood opened the lock and the door with his wand. Bridget and Anastasia screamed when they saw Fluffy, who was a good many feet taller than all of them.

"Woah that's some big shit...." Maria said giving it a once over. Tony just tightened his grip on her shoulders.

"That's nothing," Fiona said.

"Oh my zat is huge!" Fluffy looked at Bridget and started to walk over to her, " 'Arry...."

"You scared Bridget? Of that? It's just a puppy," Oliver said.

"He's right Bridget, I mean look at it," Fiona said pointing at Fluffy who was panting like a frisky puppy, "He just wants to play with you,"

"Sure, I'm nice size chew toy for him," Fluffy stopped panting and whimpered.

"Bridget, why do you not pet him. Look how sad you are making him," Anastasia said giggling.

"Don't worry Bridget I have my wand out if anything happens," Fiona laughed.

"Shutup Fiona...." said Bridget, walking up to Fluffy, "Come here, Fluffy, let me pat your heads," Bridget said holding out her hand. Fluffy's middle head sniffed her hand and let her pet it. His right and left head came down by her and she pet them, too, "Zis is not so bad, he is kind of cute," Fluffy's right head licked her. She was now soaked in dog slobber. She turned around and looked at everyone. They all laughed.

"Hey Bridget, that's a good look for you," Fiona laughed.

Bridget smirked, "Zis is really gross,"

"Come with me, I'll take you to the nearest bathroom to wash up," Harry took her hand and they walked away.

"Aw how cute," Tony laughed.

Chapter Two

The Committee of Teams

Harry sat against the wall outside the girls bathroom while Bridget washed up. She came out and Harry got up.

"Sorry, 'Arry, zat was a lot of dog slobber," Bridget laughed.

"It's all right. Want me to give you the rest of the tour?" Harry asked.

"Sure," Bridget took his hand and they walked around.

They had come into the gardens and Harry was taking her to the fountain. They sat down on the fountain and Bridget played with the water.

"Bridget?"

"Hm?"

"I was wondering...." Harry rubbed the back of his neck.

Bridget looked up from the fountain water, "Yes...."

"Would you like to go out with me sometime?"

Bridget smiled, "I would like zat,"

Harry smiled, "Well, we better go to the Great Hall or we'll miss supper," Harry said getting up. Bridget nodded and got up. He took her hand and they walked out of the gardens to the Great Hall. When they got there they were just walking in with the rest of them.

"Have you been in the powder room all this time, Bridget?" Tony laughed.

"No, 'Arry decided to give me zee rest of zee tour since we did not know where you all had gone off to," Bridget answered. Harry looked down at her and smiled.

The two of them walked ahead of them. They all looked at each other and laughed.

"Like we didn't know that was gonna happen," Fiona laughed.

"Ya, let's see how long it lasts," Maria laughed.

They all sat down.

Dumbledore stood up and called their attention to him, "Welcome students, in a week the school year will begin. I would appreciate the students that are here now to help me with something that has come to my attention. Mr. Arthur Weasley has come with his family to tell me about a muggle tradition. I will let him tell you himself. Mr. Weasley, if you may," Dumbledore had waved Mr. Weasley and his family in from outside the Great Hall. Mrs. Weasley and the Weasley children who were to attend this year sat down, Ron sitting next to Harry.

"Hey, Ron!" Harry said.

"How was your summer, mate?"

"Well, I can tell you it ended great," Harry nodded his head towards Bridget.

"Go, Harry," Ron punched him playfully in the shoulder. They laughed.

Mr. Weasley cleared his throat and stood next to Dumbledore, "Hello, Thank you for the introduction, Professor. As some of you may know, I work in the Ministry of Magic in the Muggle Artifacts Office. I have been on a special case for this past month. I've been watching a muggle highschool. Surprisingly I have come to find that the muggle's have a good thing running. The most important thing that I have found is that they have clubs and teams. Yes, I know we have a Quidditch team, but that's for a limited amount of people. I think that the students that are here today can put something together. I've taken the liberty to pick out some of the most popular ones. You may look them over and each one of you should pick out your favorite club or team. Oliver Wood, I hope that he doesn't mind, will surpervise your ideas. Well, I have nothing else to say. Dumbledore?"

"Thank you, Mr. Weasley. You students will be sleeping in the hospital wing since the majority of you have not been sorted. You may use the prefects lounge to bring together the clubs and teams. In fact, you've already formed one. You are the Committee of Teams," Dumbledore waved his hands and food appeared.

They had finished dinner and had settled themselves in the hospital wing.

"Hey Ron, I don't think I introduced you to everyone. This is Wood's girlfriend Fiona, Maria and Tony, Anastasia, and this is Bridget," Ron winked at him.

Bridget raised her eyebrow and shrugged it off, "All right, we have three choices, we can, as you say, hit zee sack, just 'hang out' here, or start our Committee of Teams in the prefect's lounge,"

"Let's start up, we can assign the jobs and stuff so we're all ready for everyone when they arrive next week," Wood said.

"Nothing like work to dull the mood," Tony said.

"Oh no, this will be fun, honey, you'll see," Maria said, smirking at him.

"I'll make it better, I'll go get some champagne that I brought from my old home, it's in my trunk," Bridget said.

"Nothing like some bubbly to get the mood lifted," Ron said, nudging Harry in the ribs with his elbow.

"Oh, it is not alchoholic, it is....how do you say....virgin," Anastasia said softly.

"Is that so...." Ron said staring into Anastasia's eyes.

"All right lover boy, let's go get some glasses," Harry said pushing Ron.

"What did you call me?"

"Is that so...." Harry mocked, batting his eyes.

"Aw, mate, now you've gone and done it. Get over here!" Ron said wrestling him. Anastasia blushed.

"All right, break it up," Wood said, acting superior.

"You're acting like a teacher already," Fiona smirked, throwing a pillow at his face.

"Hey," Wood laughed.

"All right, you donkies, let us go, I have the virgin champagne," Bridget said.

"Donkies?" Tony asked.

"Is zat not what you call people when zey are being stupid?" Bridget asked.

"No, you call them jack asses, the other word for donkey," Fiona laughed.

"Well, I got my point across. Come on, if we do not hurry, I will lose my creative mood,"

"And aren't you just the artist," Maria said. They all laughed.

They went to the prefect's lounge and poured some nonalcholic bubbly. Wood started calling out the possibilities.

"Football, Baseball, Tennis, Badmitton, Hockey, Wrestling...."

"I get wrestling!" Ron yelled out.

"All right that's yours then. There's also, basketball, cheerleading,"
"Cheerleading!" Bridget screamed.

"Oh, no fair, I wanted zat one," Pouted Anastasia.

"Well, Bridget can put it together, but that doesn't hold you back from joining the squad," Harry said.

"Well, all right,"

"....There aren't anymore, but I'm sure we can make our own clubs and teams, whoever's left can pick their own," Wood said, flipping through the remaining pages.

"Can we pair up? I can help Ron, Anastasia can help Bridget, Maria and Tony can think up one and you and Fiona can also," Harry said.

"Okay, Wood, we should make a martial arts club," Fiona said smiling.

"Okay, what about you two," Wood said looking at Maria and Tony.

"How about a dueling club?" Maria asked taking out her wand and pretending she was dueling someone.

"Careful where you point that thing, honey," Tony said, pulling her down on the couch next to him.

"Okay, now we should break up into our pairs and start to talk about it,"

"I sink zee cheerleaders should start to talk wis zee wrestling team coordinators to discuss cheering for zeir first match," Bridget said, smiling at Harry.

"Right," Fiona chortled.

In the morning everyone had breakfast and decided to lay out towels by the lake. Bridget and Anastasia wanted to tan, everyone else wanted to have a swim. Wood was picked by Dumbledore to be a lifeguard.

everyone got on their bathing suits and raced to the lake.

Bridget and Anastasia layed out their towels and made sure there were no wrinkles and layed down on their stomachs.

Ron checked out Anastasia and elbowed Harry in the ribs, "Is she taken," he whispered to Harry.

"I don't think so, why don't you ask her," Harry laughed pushing him towards her.

"I will after I push you into the lake," Ron said, pushing Harry in the lake and jumping in after him. The double splash got the twins wet. They both got up and looked at Harry and Ron. They smiled at eachother and then jumped in after them.

Later they went into the prefects lounge because Dumbledore had given them new tasks to do as members of the Committee of Teams. Wood was given a piece of parchment with all the tasks neatly played out.

"Okay, this says, basically," Wood said after reading it over, "that we have to make a suggestion box and put in the Great Hall for other students who are not members of this committee to have a say. We as the committee are to read through them all and try them out personally to find if these teams, clubs, and such are appropriate. Since we already have four, we have to make, find, or buy uniforms and equipment. Dumbledore has given us, well, me a password to every store in Hogsmeade so that we can take what we need and the purchases will be put on the Hogwarts tab. Tomorrow we have to all try out the four extra-curricular activities. All together, mind you. The girls have to wrestle and the guys have to cheer, it's all fair," Wood said, dipping his quill into an ink well and getting ready to write, "Are there any questions?"

"No, but I have a comment, you're pretty good at this teacher thing," Fiona laughed supportively.

"Thanks," Wood smiled at her, "Any other questions or comments," Wood asked looking around the room. Everyone shook their heads and watched him intently.

"All right then, let's make a list of what we are to buy in Hogsmeade," Wood said, freshening up his quill in the ink well, "Whoever wants to go first, just jump in,"

"We'll need a good bunch of the coat of arms of all the houses," Tony said.

"Good thinking," Wood said writing it down.

"We need streamers and we can use broom grips to make pom poms," Bridget said.

"Oui, and short pleated skirts, short shorts to go underneath, tanks for the warmer weather and long sleeve shirts for the colder weather," Anastasia added.

"Good, good," Wood said writing it all down.

"We need dueling outfits, I'm sure they have them in Hogsmeade," Maria said.

"Yes," Wood said, still writing.

"We need short white cotton robes, white cotton belts, and white cotton pants to make up the martial arts uniform," Fiona said

"There's and international muggle store in Hogsmeade, it might have that there," Ron said.

"Wow, I can't believe how much Hogsmeade is expanding," Harry said recalling back to his third year when he snuck around, how little there was there compared to now.

"Ya, I know," Ron said.

"Harry, Ron, you still have to tell me what you think the wrestlers should wear," Wood interrupted.

"Right, I think we should get sweats for the winter and shorts and plain t-shirts for the warmer seasons,"
"No ankle elastic and no draw string, zat is so zee eighties!" Bridget said. Everyone smiled.

"Okay, that's good, let's go," Wood said, getting up and leading the way.

As they were walking on the cobblestone pathway to Hogsmeade. Maria got curious.

"Fiona, what's the first martial arts thingy are you gonna start the club out with? Cuz, ya know, we all gotta do it," Maria asked.

"I think we should start with Tae Kwon Do,"

"Tie Kroo Doo?" Anastasia asked.

"No," Fiona laughed, "Tae Kwon Do,"

They reached Hogsmeade and started to window shop.

"Let us start in zee Boutique de Ensemble," Bridget said, walking towards the store. Everyone agreed and followed. The first thing Bridget saw was the colour changing short pleated skirts. She walked right up to them.

"What d'ya have there?" Harry asked her.

"Colour changing, short pleated skirts," She paused to look under the skirt, "And zee shorts are attached!"

"I've never seen somebody get so excited over clothing since the twins saw shoes that were only two sickles per pair. A sickle a shoe," Fiona laughed.

"That is pretty cheap though, I was pretty happy myself," Maria added, laughing, too.

Anastasia and Ron walked in just now. They had been talking outside the store.

"Ooh!" Anastasia screeched, letting go of Ron's hand and running over to the rack where Bridget was looking.

Everyone laughed.

"Hey, mate, let's go look over there at the sweats," Ron said.

"No elastics on the ankles and NO drawstrings zat is..." Bridget was interrupted by Maria, "We know, we know, the eighties," She laughed.

Bridget and Anastasia grabbed up forty of the pleated skirts, ten skirts for each house.

"What about the sizes?" Wood asked them.

"If zey are too big, use a shrinking spell, and if zey are too small, use an enlarging spell," Anastasia said.

"Oui, but these sizes are most likely going to be fine," Bridget added.

"Okay, that's good, what are the boys going to wear, though?" Tony asked.

"You can wear the sweats for the wrestling. What about us girls for wrestling?" Maria asked.

"Why don't you wear the cheerleading outfits, that should be fun," Tony laughed.

"You know, Tony, that's not entirely a bad idea. For Martial Arts and Dueling, there are going to be girls and boys uniforms, so everything else just works out," Fiona said.

"Okay, good, then that's settled," Wood said.

Anastasia spotted plain, solid color tanks, t's, and long sleeve shirts.

"Brigitte, come here and help me pick out some tanks and long sleeves," Anastasia said, motioning Bridget, who was helping Harry and Ron pick out the style shorts, to come over.

"Okay," Bridget said, walking towards her.

"Ten gold tanks, ten silver tanks, ten silver long sleeves, ten black tanks, ten black long sleeves, ten white tanks, ten white long sleeves," Bridget said out loud as if she were memorizing it.

Later on, when they had gotten everything they had went out and they sat down outside the ice cream parlour.

"Dumbledore said that when we were done we could have some ice cream on Hogwarts," Wood said, bringing out a tray full of ice cream for everyone.

"Yay, ice cream!" Bridget said happily.

"I know, I'm so hungry," Ron said.

"Your always hungry, Ron," Harry laughed.

"Ya, well..." Ron laughed.

"I bet you I could eat more ice cream zan you," Bridget said picking up a spoon.

Everyone looked around at eachother, they knew she meant it, "Ya, we can buy our own ice cream, you can compete with the ice cream we got from Hogwarts...." Maria said, stepping away, knowing it was going to get ugly.

"Beware, Ron," Annnie said, stepping back as well.

"Are you kidding, like that skinny thing can eat more than me," Ron said, picking up a spoon. Everyone ran into the parlour to take cover. Annie pulled Harry in because he didn't think he needed to move.

"Ready," Bridget said, putting her spoon in a dish.

"Set," Ron said, putting his spoon in another dish.

"GO!" They screamed together as they began stuffing their faces with ice cream.

They were on their last bowls, they were neck in neck.

"BRAIN FREEZE!" Ron Screeched. That gave Bridget the lead and the win.

"MY HEAD!" Bridget yelled.

"AHHHH!" Ron and Bridget were running around holding their heads like they would fall off if they didn't hold on to them. Everyone came out of the parlour, it was now safe.

Chapter Three

An Unhappy Sorting

They woke up and got ready for the arrival of the students and the sorting ceremony. Bridget was running around the Hospital Wing, wondering what to wear.

"What should I wear?" She asked everyone, still running around.

"Does it matter, I mean, it's going to be under your robes anyway," Harry said laughing.

Bridget gasped, " 'Arry, of course it matters, it's clothes!" Everyone laughed.
After they got dressed they started to go down to the Great Hall when Bridget realized she forgot her purse, Maria went back with her. Bridget grabbed her purse off of the nightstand and they walked back into the hallway. A tall blond with a noticeably strong build walked up to them.

"Hello, ladies, are you lost?" He asked, smoothly.

"No, we know where we're going," Maria said smiling, going to walk away.

"Merci," Bridget said following her.

"Wait, are you lovely girls going to the Great Hall because I would fancy escorting such darlings," Draco said, offering his hands.

"Thanks, but we are going out," Bridget said, grabbing Maria's hand and pulling her down the hallway.

"Do you know what you just said," Maria said as they were turning the corner leaving Malfoy scratching his head in the middle of the hall.
"Ya, I said we had boyfriends," She said.

"No, you said that we, you and me, were going out together," Maria explained.

"OH!" Bridget said, pulling her back the other way.

"I sink zat you misunderstood!" Bridget screamed at him.

"What?" Malfoy said still scratching his head.

"We aren't going out, we just have boyfriends," Maria said for her, blushing.

"Oh, well, who are the lucky guys?" Malfoy said, planning.

"Tony Corona,"

"Harry Potter,"

"POTTER?!" Malfoy screamed.

Harry had been coming back to see if something had happened on the way, "Ya, Malfoy, have a problem with that?" He said, putting his arm around Bridget.

"N-no," Malfoy said, flustered.

"Right..."

"Potter, just because you're life has been planned out for you doesn't mean that I can't change it," Draco said, with an attitude.

"Just because you have no life doesn't mean you can take away the love of mine," Potter said, getting all up in his face.

"Wanna take this outside, Potter," Draco said.

"Hold up!" Maria says, getting in between them.

"Hold up what?" Bridget asked.

"Hold it," Maria said, putting a finger in her face.

"HOLD WHAT!?" Bridget said, getting upset.

"Don't mind it," Maria said, now turning to Draco, "Look, just because you want some doesn't mean you have to take a broom and stick it up his ass, and Harry," She turned around, "Just because he's all up in your grill doesn't mean you have to insult his lack of signifigant other," Maria said. Everyone shut-up. Maria seemed to have ended the fight for everyone. She looked around at the staring faces, "We all cool?"

"Mhm..." Harry and Draco said, nodding, but not really meaning it.

"Good, let us go eat, I am soooo hungry!" Bridget said grabbing Harry's hand and pulling him toward's the Great Hall. They left Maria with Draco, who wasn't to happy with his defeat.

"Cheer up, it's not like it's the end of the world as we know it....wait what's your name again?" Maria asked as they started to walk to the Great Hall together.

"Draco Malfoy, and what did you say your name was again?"

"I didn't," Maria said, smirking and walking over to Tony who was waiting for her with Fiona and the twins on the seats designated for the transfer students.

When everyone was settled Dumbledore welcomed the first years and then stated that there were new transfer students, who were to be sorted first. He motioned to McGonagol, who was standing next to a stool and holding the sorting hat and a clipboard with names on it. She looked through her half spectacles and read off the first name, "Tony Corona," Tony got up and walked over looking back once at Maria, who was smiling broadly. The sorting hat looked grimly at him before McGonagol had placed it on his head.

"To you I say

Dear boy, I feel
I shall not sort you
You have more appeal

Something awry

Someplace not here

Someone will tell you

But you will not hear

Someone's sick

Someone's dying

You must leave now

To keep from crying

This person you love

Is far away

But if thou travel now

If you shall not stay

It won't be too late

To say goodbye

Before he goes

To heaven most high," The sorting had grimly rhymed. Tony turned red and his eyes were filled to the brim with tears. Wood got up from his seat in the corner by the staff table and grabbed Tony by the arm and walked him out of the Great Hall. Maria stood up, "Tony!"

"Marie, let him alone, first get sorted, zen you can go," Bridget said, pulling her back down into her seat.

McGonagol looked up at Dumbledore and he motioned her to keep going, Wood was capable of taking care of him.

"Anastasia Delacour," She called out, watching Anastasia approach the stool over her half spectacles. She placed the sorting hat on her head and it automatically said, "Hufflepuff,"

She smiled at Ron who was looking up at her smiling. She walked over to the Hufflepuff table and sat down.

"Bridget Delacour," The hat barely touched her head and it said, "Gryffindor," Bridget, being as happy as she was jumped up and practically skipped over to Harry and Ron, Hermione was sitting there smiling. Harry and Ron had obviously told her about the twins, Fiona, and Maria.

"Maria Diaz," She placed the hat on her head and it grunted, "Can you give me a little bit of a challenge?"

"You wanna take this outside?" Maria said, looking up.

"Oh, be quite, just for that, your a Slytherin,"

"And that's a bad thing?" Maria said, walking off to the Slytherin table. She sat next to Draco, who made everyone move down so he could sit at the end by her.

"And finally, the end of the transfers, Fiona Fey," She placed the hat on her head and it sighed in what seemed like relief, "Finally, a little bit of a challenge, she's cunning, but also very intuitive....I'll have to say....Ravenclaw!" He thought aloud. Fiona walked over to the Ravenclaw table and sat down. They sorted the new first years and started the feast.

"So, Ron, how's my sister?" Bridget asked with a mouthful of food.

"What do you mean?" Ron said, trying to swallow.

"You know, how is she?" Bridget asked, accidentally nudging Harry in the chest with her elbow.

"Do you know what your saying?" Harry asked her, rubbing his chest.

"Oui, I am asking if Anastasia is a good friend, like good to talk to," Bridget said, putting a forkful of mashed potatoes in her mouth. Harry and Ron laughed.

Draco motioned someone, who seemed to be his best friend, to come over. Pansy pouted because Draco hadn't invited her or acknoweledged her the whole time. She got up and not-so-secretly walked behind him and put her hands over his eyes, "Guess who!" She squeaked and giggled.

"Oh, let me think, hm..., oh, I don't know, is it Pansy?" Draco mocked.

"Aw, Drakkie, you always get it right," Pansy pouted, "Is this seat taken, thanks," Pansy said, pushing a little first year off the bench. The little possessed first year muttered a spell that turned her hair green. She didn't notice. Everyone just looked at her.

"What? Am I that beautiful?" Pansy said, flipping her hair.

"No, it's just that your hair is the color of flobberworm mucous," Maria said.

"HM!" Pansy walked away with her nose in the air. She didn't see the house elf walking and tripped over him and landed face first in the pudding he was holding.

"That pudding looks great with your green hair!" Maria said loudly so everyone in the Slytherin table could hear. Pansy started to cry and ran off. Everyone laughed.

"Is it hot in here or is it just you?" Draco's best friend said.

"No, I think it's you, did you feel your head?" Maria said.

"Good one," He said.

"This is Blaise, Blaise this is Maria, is it?" Draco said.

"Ya, nice to meet you," Maria said, holding out her hand to shake. Blaise took her hand and kissed it, "The pleasure's all mine,"

"Was that supposed to impress me because it didn't work," Maria said, taking her hand back.

"Ah, you must be taken because any other girl in your shoes would have fainted by now," Blaise said sarcastically.

"Well, by the way, I am," Maria said, smiling mockingly. Blaise sat down between Draco and Maria. Draco kicked him under the table.

"OW! Draco, the...."

Dumbledore interrupted everyone's eating, well Bridget and Ron's eating, everyone else's talking. He told everyone of this weeks schedule. Everyone's minds were wandering until Dumbledore had mentioned a ball on friday.

"Like a ball you bounce?" Bridget whispered to the boys.

"No, like a dance," Harry said.

"Oh....what?" She was confused.

"In English we call a really big formal dance thingy a ball," Ron said.

"Oh, I get it now," She said, leaning back, almost falling off the bench.

Everyone had left the Great Hall and went about socializing. Maria waved goodbye to Blaise and a pissed off Draco and went to find Tony and Olly. She turned the corner and saw them conversing. Tony was facing the other way. Olly was facing her so she could see his grim expression. He saw her walking towards them. Tony's head was down so he couldn't see Olly mouth, "Not now." Maria nodded, feeling useless, and went to go find Fiona, maybe she was with the twins.

After some time looking, Maria was just turning the corner when she saw Harry and Bridget fighting. She stopped herself from turning it all the way and just peered around and listened.

"I am not zat stupid, 'Arry!"

"Well, it appears so. You honestly didn't know that? I mean, ya, we've only been going out for a week and a half, but, I think you would know that about me by now!"

"So you admit you are an egotistical git?!"

Harry's face expression went from angry to sad and hurt, "Bridget..."

Bridget tried to hold back her tears. Maria knew too well what was to come next.

"I want you to know that I still love you....as a friend...."

"I knew you couldn't handle a little criticism! Once someone realizes you are not who you are thought to be, you try to run away from zem or cover of zee blunt truth! I love you, too, 'Arry, but it is over!" Bridget screamed at him.

"You broke up with....me?" Harry said, shocked.

"It is okay for you to break up with me, but it is not okay for me to break up with you? UH! You really are and ego-maniacal GIT!" Bridget turned on her heel and walked past Maria. Maria knew that if Bridget didn't run soon, she wouldn't make it to the bathroom without crying.

Maria couldn't hold it in, she just had to say something to Harry," Harry, I hope you're happy. You not only don't know how to handle criticism, you also don't know how to handle yourself!" He deserved that and he knew it. She ran after Bridget leaving Harry against the wall. He slid down to the floor and put his head in his hands.

"Bridget!" Maria yelled down the hall, "Bridget! JET! Come here, I saw what happened...." Maria said, catching up. Bridget stopped dead in her tracks, but didn't turn around.

"Jet, whatever you do, don't cry over that....JERK!" She said, her brow furrowed. She put her hand on her shoulder.

"Too late, Mya," Bridget sniffed turning around. Her mascara had run down her cheeks.

"Aw, Jet, come here," Maria said, hugging her, "He doesn't deserve you...he deserves...not even shit!" Maria said, trying to cheer her up.

"But I deserved him," Bridget said, looking down.

"Jet, you can't keep blaming yourself for that," Maria moaned.

"I cannot help it...."

Annie was walking with Ron down the hallway when they saw Harry sitting on the floor with his head in his hands.

"What is wrong, 'Arry?" Annie asked kneeling down beside him.

"Bridget, don't you think you've done enough....Oh, it's you blokes...." Harry said, looking up slowly.

"What happened here?" Ron asked.

"Bridget and I had a fight, and I think we broke up...." Harry said, uneasily running his fingers through his hair.

He told them the whole story and Anastasia rubbed his back, "Aw, 'Arry, you poor thing..."

"You think he's right?! I think Bridget is right, she's been through a lot, from what I've heard, and Harry just added himself to that long list of horrible guys!" Ron said, understanding the other half of the story that Harry obviously had not grasped.

"I am so tired of hearing zat Bridget has been living a hell life! She's zee perfect sister!"

"There seems to be a lot more to this than Harry and all the other guys...." Ron said.

"You sink?! She gets everysing she wants and zen I am left to clean up zee mess it leaves! I'm sick of it!"

"Anastasia, Bridget loves you and she's helped you through your bad times! I think it's only fair you help her once and a while!"

"And what do you know about my bad times?!" Anastasia said, standing up.

"Two words, Jacques Reparu!"

Anastasia's face went expressionless, "Well it seems that you and Bridget have become great pals. I do not need you! It is over between us, Ron, over!" Anastasia said, grabbing Harry's hand and walking away.

Ron was pissed. He went to go find Bridget.

Mya, Jet and Fiona (Noni) were sitting down together on the fountain in the gardens. Noni in the middle. Jet was feeling a little better, but still wasn't too happy. Mya was really upset, she didn't know what was going on with Tony.

"Guys, cheer up, would ya, you're bringing me down with ya," Noni said, pullin them into friendly headlocks.

"Hey!" Mya and Jet laughed.

Noni kissed them on their heads and let them go, "That always gets you guys to laugh,"

Ron had just saw them and walked over to them, "I was looking all over for you, Bridget," He said, running his fingers through his hair to get it out of his face.
"What were you looking for her for?" Noni asked.

"I know what happened. I'm on her side, and apparently, Annie's not. We kinda...broke up...." Ron sat down next to Jet.

"Aw, Ronnie, I know just zee remedy for break ups," She said standing up.

"And what's that?" Ron said looking up at her gloomily.

"FOOD! I'll race you to Hogsmeade!" Jet said, getting a head start.

"Hey, no fair!" Ron said, running after her.

Mya and Noni laughed, "Let's go find Olly and Tony, maybe everything's all better," Noni said getting up.

Mya got up, "I hope so, but I really don't think so...." She muttered to herself walking after Noni.

Chapter Four

It's Hard to Say Goodbye

The week went fast. Jet and Harry had made up, but still stayed as just friends. Ron and Annie did the same. Jet and Annie had a talk and settled the little problem between them. No matter how much they all said everything was good, there was still the great tension between them all. Tony was leaving tonight, Thursday night, to go home. It just so happened that the sorting hat was talking about his father. His father had been diagnosed with cancer two years ago. It had been taken out and everything was good, but it had come back, and there was nothing the muggle doctors could do. The muggle way was the only way they could do it. Wizards could not cure cancer yet. Tony's dad was told by the doctors that he had only a month to live.

Maria was sitting with Blaise and Draco while Tony was packing. She was crying and Draco comforted her. He rubbed her back and hugged her. Blaise didn't know what to do.

"He was like a second dad to me....I've known Tony and his family since I was born, I can't believe they won't let me go, too...." She cried.

"It's all right Maria, please don't cry," Draco said, soothingly, a single tear running down his cheek. Blaise was emotionless. Tony came out of the hospital wing with his bags and his belongings, his right hand in a fist.

"Maria?" Tony sniffed.

"Tony...." She got up and ran over to him, hugging him tight.

"Maria...." He grabbed her shoulders and looked into her eyes, "Maria, I know how you feel right now, I feel the same way. I may not see you for a long time. Maybe not ever again..."

"Don't say that!"

"Well, I can't help but think that. I hope not, but...I just can't help it...." Tony looked down at his fist.

"What do you have in your hand?" She asked, taking his wrist gingerly in her hands.

"My ring....I want you to have it, to remember me by. I want it to symbolize what we had. I want it to remind you of all the good times. I don't want you to forget that...." He broke off. He couldn't speak anymore so he just opened her hand and put the ring in it and closed her fingers around it.

"I love you, Maria, don't ever forget me. I know I'll never forget you," His voice was shaky. He bent over and kissed her forehead, grabbed his things, and walked away. She didn't move.

"Maria...." Draco said, standing up. She turned around and hugged him so tight, he almost couldn't breath. She cried into his chest while he rubbed her back and whispered comfort in her ear. Blaise rubbed the back of his neck, a nervous habit, wondering what he could do.

The girls had all promised each other they would go together to the new "Fancy Occassions?" Shoppe in Hogsmeade for their dresses for the ball. The guys had already gotten their tuxes during the week. The girls all had basic ideas for their dresses as they walked into the store.

"Poofy!" Annie kept saying.

"Sleek...." Noni said, intrigued.

"Ooooo...Shiny...." Jet said looking at a sage strapless with a platinum chain to hold together the open back.

"Sexy...." Mya said picking a dress that was gold with black lace and a black ribbon corset tie in the back.

"This is definitely the remedy for me, guys...thanks," Mya said, grabbing everyone in a group hug.

"Well, what are we all waiting for, grab a bunch of dresses, and let's try the damn things on!" Noni said, grabbing a few forest green and/or black sleek dresses and snagging the first dressing room. Mya, Annie, and Jet all looked at each other and raced for the last three. The race was kind of meaningless since, no matter who won they all got a dressing room equal to the others.

They all tried on many dresses and failed to find the perfect one, but all had the one that first caught their eyes to try on last.

"So, did everyone save the best for last?" Mya asked, looking at the gold dress as she took off the last one.

"Oui, which one are you trying on, Mya?" Jet asked, stepping on the couch in her dressing room, peeking over the top, "Oh, zat one, zat is very pretty, it compliments your hair and eyes," Jet said, loosing her balance and falling, "Thank God zat ugly orange poofy dress was on zee floor to catch me," Jet laughed. Everyone laughed.

They all counted to three, and on three, walked out of their dressing rooms.

"Wow, we're hott and sexy, all at the same time," Maria said, checking everyone out and then checking out herself in the mirror, "I got it goin on,"

"Oh get over yourself Mya," Fiona laughed. Mya smirked.

"We need tiaras, and gloves, and shoes, and....."

Noni interrupted Jet, "Hold your jets, Jet, but why so many accessories. I mean, I thought all we needed else was shoes and then we'd be done," Noni said, her tom-boy showing.

"Well, we will make sure you look nice, no worries, Noni," Annie said picking out the perfect tiara for her dress. It had lilac accents that just mixed well with her white, almost wedding, dress with lilac floral stitching. She picked out lilac gloves. While they were picking out tiaras and gloves, the shoppe door opened. Hermione came walking in.

"Hi, girls, mind if I join you?" She asked politely.

"Bonjour, Hermione! Let me help you pick out a dress," Annie said running up to her and holding different colored dresses up to her face.

"Thanks, Annie, I'm not to sure what to get...." Hermione said, blushing.

"Oh, no problem," Annie said smiling.

Later on, when they had gotten all their accessories, they went to the shoe store across the street to pick out shoes to match everything. They picked out the most perfect shoes and went back to Hogwarts.

As they were walking into Hogwarts, Jet started to complain, "Guys, I told you we should have stopped in Honeydukes to get me candy, I mean, dinner isn't even ready," She was in Hogwarts so long that she lost her French accent, she was catching on to the British one. Annie was still converting.

"Jet, you just ate two hours ago," Noni said.

"You know if I don't eat every hour I get upset. I mean feed me!" She screeched.

"Ya, I know, we don't want to deal with your NFSing," Mya said.

Draco and Blaise were walking over to them, "What the hell is that?" Draco asked, checking Mya and Jet out.

"No Food Syndrome," Annie said. Everyone laughed.

Ron and Harry were arguing as they approached them, "No, I still think that Puff the Magic Dragon is a children's nursery rhyme character," Ron argued.

"Hey, Ronnie, wanna go to Honeydukes?" Jet asked him.

"Honeydukes? Where?" Ron said, looking around.

"This way, Ronnie," Jet said, taking his hand and pulling him to Hogsmeade.

"Wow, their like perfect for eachother," Mya said.

"Well, duh," Noni said.

"Are you implying that I am stupid," Mya said, getting up in her face, jokingly.

Annie and Harry's faces turned an angry red.

Ronnie and Jet were practically skipping to Honeydukes. When they got there they bought their favorite candies and decided to have some ice cream at the the parlour across the road. They ordered two hunka chunka kiwi-nana splits with chocolate frog sauce and bowtruckle shell sprinkles. They sat down and ate. They didn't talk much. Jet was too busy eating to notice Ronnie's slow pace. Ronnie was thinking about asking her to the ball. He wasn't sure if it would be as just friends, or if it meant more to him. He was going to ask her no matter what. Jet was getting down to the last scoop and the kiwi-nanas when she looked up at Ron, who had barely touched his second to last scoop.

"What's wrong, Ronnie," Jet asked.

"Nothing, Jet, just thinking,"

"I didn't think you could think," Jet said just joking around.

"Oh really," Ron said, putting his finger in his ice cream and putting it on her nose. Jet crossed her eyes to look at it.

"Are you going to take that off?" Ronnie asked, leaning closer.

"I thought you would....you know, clean up your own messes...." Jet said softly. Ron leaned in and kissed her nose.

Maria had just left Fiona with Wood in his new office. She decided to go to the library. She had no idea what had possessed her to go. Blaise was leaning against the right pillar in front of the library entrance.

"Hey, Blaise," She said as she approached him. He looked up, "H-hey, Maria," He stuttered.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

"N-nothing," He rubbed the back of his neck, a sure sign that he was nervous, " I was...um...wondering....um....if...."

"Spit it out!" Maria interrupted impatiently.

"Would you go to the dance with me?!" He blurted out.

"Noooooooo!" There was a loud bang, and Draco was on the floor. He apparently had fallen from the ceiling. He got up, "No, go with me,"

"Um..."

"Blaise, you bitch, how could you, after all we've been through!"

"Uh...." Maria was confused.

"I mean, I told you I was going to ask her out, you bitch!" Draco pinned him to the wall by his collar.

"Oh, good..." Maria laughed, "For a second there I thought you guys were gay. My bad," Maria laughed some more. Draco turned around and let go of Blaise without realizing it. Blaise fell to the ground.

"How can I be gay and like you the way I do?" He started to get close to Maria.

"How 'bout you tell me?" Maria said, playing her game.

Blaise had gotten up and crawled over to them and stood up in between them.

"I can tell you that I like you a lot more than him," Blaise said.

"Okay....that was juvenile....i like you more," She mocked. Blaise felt defeated.

"Can you take both of us? It'll be a...a race! Ya, a race to win your heart. Whoever waits on you, and does whatever the best and the most wins. You're the judge," Blaise suggested. He knew this was his only chance.

"Sounds good to me," Maria shrugged. This could be fun for her.

"Malfoy?" Blaise always called him by his first name, when they were friends....

"I think the stakes should be a little higher...."

"As how?" Maria asked intrigued.

"Not only would we win Maria's heart, but the loser has to serve Maria and the winner a candle-lit dinner in the gardens. I know the perfect place," Draco said, sure he was to win.

"Deal,"

"Deal,"

"It's all good in the hood," Maria said, her Bronx showing.

Ronnie and Jet were walking on the cobblestone path back to Hogwarts. Ronnie stopped and faced her. Jet looked up at him. He stared into her aqua-blue eyes before he said anything, "I was wondering if....would...would you go to the ball with me?" He asked, not losing contact with her eyes for even a second.

His ears were now burning with red embarassment.

"Of course....I mean....I would love too, Ronnie," Jet said, blushing. He smiled out of relief. Ronnie took her hand in his. When they reached Hogwarts they saw Harry and Annie coming out of the entrance.

"What is going on?" Annie asked, looking at their interlocked hands. They quickly let go of each other's hand and put them behind their backs.

"Aw, mate, did you shag her first?" Harry asked, seeming disappointed.

"What?! No!"

"What do you mean, 'first'?" Jet asked, her eyes glowing red. She had about had it with Harry.

"You know....before me," He said as if it was too obvious.

She hissed and lunged at him and started punching him in the face. Anni tried to pull her off, but failed. You should never mess with a veela.

Ron slowly approached them, "Jet," She stopped in mid-punch and turned to look at him. His voice was enough to mellow her, but his grim face just made her run up to him and cry into his chest. He hugged her and whispered comfort into her ear. Jet had done a good amount of damage. She broke Harry's glasses in more than one place. Surprisingly he had no marks on his face, but his scar was gushing out blood.

Annie screamed, "Oh my God! You are bleeding!" Annie gave Jet an evil stare, helped Harry up, and walked him to the hospital wing. It had seemed as if Annie had forgotten that Jet was her sister.

Fiona was sitting on Wood's desk as she looked around his office.

"This is going to be a fun year," she thougt to herself. Wood was lounging in his office chair with his feet up on the desk.

"So, Noni, what are you wearing to the ball?" he asked, clsing his eyes again.

"A sleek forest green dress with black trim," She said, dangling her feet of the side of the desk. He pictured it in his mind and opened his right eye to give her a once over.

"You'd look sexy in anything,"

"What's that supposed to mean?" she asked.

"Just what I said," He said smirking as he lounged further back and fell out of the chair.

Fiona laughed at him.

Chapter Five

Traditions to Be Changed

The ball came quicker than expected. They all were changing in the Moaning Myrtle bathroom. Everyone ran into a stall to change. Ron was fumbling with his tuxedo and thought that there was one more empty stall since it was unlocked. He pushed it open and saw Jet taking off her jeans. He stared for a moment with his mouth open. She turned around and screamed, "Ron! Get out!"

"Y-you, sh-should h-h-have l-locked it," He stuttered.

"Well, if you get out of her stall she can j-just l-lock it now," Maria mocked, peering over the stall wall. He closed his mouth, walked out slowly, and closed the door behind himself. Jet locked it. He decided to quickly change outside while everyone was still in their stalls. Moaning Myrtle floated over.

"Go away,"

"Oh, all right, don't have to be so rude," She said, floating away disappointed.

Jet had realized she didn't have her dress in her stall with her so she ran out looking for it. She saw Ron and ran over to him, "Ron, where's my dress?"

Ron was in his boxers, "Um...."

"Ron, where's your clothes?"

"I w-was about to a-ask the s-same," He stuttered. She had only her under-garments on. Everyone came out of their stalls and just looked at them.

"If you want, we can wait outside, ya know," Noni said giggling.

"No, you could stay," Jet said, not understanding fully.

"Well, if that's how you like to do it, but I would have hoped to never see the weasel shag," Draco laughed.

Jet seemed to not have heard him and neither did Ron, they were staring into each other's eyes.

"Just a suggestion....I mean....you are in your underwear and all...." Maria said, holding out Jet's dress. Jet grabbed it blushing. Jet and Ronnie put on their clothes. When they were all done the girls had to do their hair and make-up. The guys decided to just sit and talk. Annie didn't want to bother with them all, so, she sat in the corner and did her make-up by herself. Moaning Myrtle looked over her shoulder and into her pocket mirror.

"Don't you think you have enough?" She asked, referring to the black eyeliner that she was putting on so liberally. Annie never did her own make-up. Whenever she did where any was when Jet did it for her.

"Don't you think I would know better than a ghost?" Annie said, not even turning around.

"Damn, the whole lot of you are terribly rude!" Moaning Myrtle screeched and flew into one of the toilettes.

Everyone was occupied while Maria was running around yelling at them.

"Can someone zip my zipper?" She said, failing to reach that part of her back herself. No one seemed to hear her.

"HELLO! ZIPPER! NOW!" She screeched. Draco snickered.

"What's so funny? ZIPPER!" she said, turning her back to him. He walked up to her and slowly zippered the zipper.

"While your back there, can you tie my corsiette thingy too?" She asked, wiggling her bum.

He laced it up and pulled, "Is that tight enough?" He asked her.

"Tighter, I'm not fat!"

He laughed and pulled really hard.

"AH! I CAN'T BREATH!"

He loosened it a little, "How about now?"

"Perfect," she said, catching her breath.

"Wow the robes really cover you girls up. You'd never know you girls had cleavage and were this skinny!" Draco said amused.

"Thanks Drakkie,"

"Don't call me that, that's what Pansy calls me," he said disgusted.

"Okay, I'll call ya babe,"

"Aight, it's all good in the hood,"

"Babe....no...."

"No? Thought I'd try it on. Guess it doesn't work with me," He laughed.

"What about me, Mya, what's my nickname?" Blaise asked walking over to them.

"You're ma homie, Blaise, you're ma homie,"

After all the problems that occurred, they finally went to the ball. They arrived fashionably late, arms hooked with their dates. First Noni and Wood walked in. Then, Jet and Ronnie, Jet almost tripping on Ronnie's shoe laces. Next, Mya walked in with Draco on her right arm and Blaise on her left. Not bad accessories, I might add. Harry and Annie slunk in unnoticed, but it just as well, Harry's face was a mess. It looked as if someone was pumping blood through his scar. He was pale, but red by his scar, his left eye blood shot. Annie's face wasn't to pleasant to look at either. She put way too much eyeliner on and the black lipstick didn't suit her, nor did it match her white dress with lavendar trim. You could definitely tell she had issues. Only she could make a veela look as ugly as that!

Dumbledore stood and called everyone's attention to himself.

"Attention students, we are trying something new this year. The committee of teams, well, two of it's officers, have made a suggestion. They have suggested we use a muggle device called a stereo and 'play' muggle songs at our dances," Everyone who were brought up in a wizarding manner moaned. Those who knew of the muggle life seemed interested, "I will now hand over the 'spotlight' to Maria Diaz and Brigitte Delacour," Draco helped Maria up on a table and handed her a flask of magnifico potion to make her voice louder. Ron helped Jet onto the table. Maria drank some potion and handed Jet the flask. Jet took a sip while Maria started to talk,"Dumbledore has basically told you guys what there is to know about this. The first song is called the 'Cha Cha Slide'"

"If you would all make an organized line formation," Everyone listened to Jet.

"Okay, hit it, Sparky!" Maria called out to the guy at the stereo.

Maria and Jet pulled off their puffy skirts revealing a cheerleader-like version of their dresses.

"Now just do whatever the music tells you to!" Jet yelled out as Sparky hit up the volume.

Jet and Maria did the first round by themselves, but once they all realized what they were missing, they joined in.

After the "Cha Cha Slide" was the song "Blue," Maria and Jet had something prepared. They made everyone form a large circle around them.

The music started to play, "Yo listen up, here's a story...." For the beginning of the song, Maria and Jet did a hip-hop dance, mirroring each other's moves. At the end of the intro they hip-hop skipped around the circle so that they were on opposite sides. Jet grabbed Ron and through him into the center.

The first verse started, "I'm blue da ba...." Ron did the robot while the girls did their own little routine on the sides of the circle.

At the end of the song Maria and Jet had ended up posing next to Ron, who had stopped in mid-robot when the music stopped. Everyone applauded.

For the next song, "Abracadabra," Maria had told everyone that the committee of teams were going to start it off. Harry and Anastasia kept their distance. They didn't want any part. For lack of another partner, Draco paired up with Hermione. (Blaise had beat him to Maria.) Neville looked a little jealous.

They did a kind of a salsa dance for the first verse, by the second verse, everyone had joined in, paired up with their dates. Anastasia and Harry even joined in, I mean, no one was watching them. Then "Baby Got Back" came on. The same pairs from the committee of teams did a routine to it.

The last muggle dance song was "Get Busy," It started out that everyone started to dance, but towards the end, it ended up being a face off between Draco and Blaise. Draco grabbed Jet and Blaise grabbed Hermione. Maria watched them closely. Whatever the one did, the other one went and did better. Maria seemed to have taken a mental note on who did better for later purposes. Everyone was upset that that was the last muggle dance song for that ball.
"If you all liked that, we can arrange that we have that for every ball,"

Everyone cheered loudly.

"Take that as a oui!" Jet said excitedly.

Jet and Ronnie sang the last song.

"All right, you blokes, this last song is a romantic song, so grab your girl and dance her into your heart," Sparky said, shining the muggle lighting system on Ronnie and Jet. This was the very last muggle song for the night. They had made a song together called "Just You and Me."

Maria was sitting with Draco and Blaise in the gardens after the ball. It was her time to choose. She laid out the pros and cons.

"Okay, Draco, you helped me a lot, but, I can get up on a table on my own,"

Draco looked down.

"But Blaise, you did nothing but check me out the whole night! The only thing you did was steal the slow dance from Draco when he clearly deserved to get that more than you did! I mean, come on, you got served!"

"Draco, I saw you deliberately pick Jet as you partner in the face-off! You can't have two girls! Keeping that in consideration, Blaise you just were unfair and didn't even give him a chance, you made it all about you. I don't need that quality in a boyfriend,"

Blaise looked defeated. Draco was regaining his courage.

"Blaise, you're fired," Maria said, flicking her wrist in his face.

Ronnie and Jet were walking together on the other side of the gardens.

"That song was pretty good," Ronnie said, referring to their duet.

"Oui, I never knew you could sing that well," Jet said smiling. They sat down on one of the benches. Ronnie put his arm around Jet and she laid back on him. He was signifigantly taller her, about a foot and a half difference. They looked up at the sky, the sun setting. The sky was pink and orange and the clouds were a lovely shade of lavendar-blue. Jet started to hum the old muggle song, "Lavendar-Blue." She was his lullaby, cradling him into his dreams.

Noni and Olly had gone to Hogsmeade. Olly said he had a surprise for her. He had taken off his tie and used it as a blindfold. He guided her past the Shreiking Shack into a wooded area. They walked past many trees until they reached a clearing. Around them was a nearly perfect circle of trees, each having decorated door on them. There were seven big doors standing out amongst them all. Olly took his tie off her eyes and showed it to her.

She gasped, " I thought I'd never see this place again!"

"Me neither, not after the last time when your cat died, I mean, she was the portkey, and, well, I think it's a little insane to use a dead cat as a portkey...."

"Poor Whiskers died of a heart attack in Halloween town, remember? When Jack put her on Zero for a ride. She thought she was going to fall through him," Noni reminisced.

Flashback

Fiona was swinging on the swing at the park, waiting for Oliver. Whiskers was running around in circles, not to far away. Fiona never really knew if her cat was "all there". Oliver ran up to her, out of breath.

"Where were you!" Fiona said, jumping out of the swing.

"I was trying out that new hair gel and my hand got stuck to my head,"

Fiona lauged.

He smirked, "Well, you wanna go or not?"

"Oh, you know I wanna," Fiona laughed, running over to her cat whiskers, who had fallen on the grass, dizzy.

"Whose my little whiskers," Fiona baby talked. Wood put his hand on whiskers and they both closed their eyes. The next thing they knew, they were in that familiar clearing in that unfamiliar woods. They quickly walked up to the door that looked like a jack-o-lantern. They opened the door and a gush of wind pulled them in and shut the door behind them. They seemed to be falling and landed in a familiar town of Halloween. The townsfolk heard their arrival, especially a skeleton named Jack, or also known as the Pumpkin King. He ran over to Sally who was sewing her arm back on. She had successfully escaped from her dwelling once again.

"Sally! They're here!" Jack yelled excitedly.

"Noni and Olly?!" She exclaimed, getting up with his help, holding her arm on with the other. She ran with Jack to the top of the Curl Cliff, where Fiona and Oliver always landed.

Annie and Harry were sitting alone in Annie's dorm, just sitting there, not knowing what to do.

"So...." Annie said.

"Ya...." They looked at each other.

"So what do you..." They both said it at the same time. They laughed.

"Go ahead," Harry said, pressing the bandage on his scar.

"Oh, I was just wondering what you wanted to do...." Annie said, picking at her pink nail polish. She hated pink. She never knew why she wore it, or any other bright color, for that matter.

"Well, you wanna help me dye my hair?" he asked, pulling a bottle of jet black hair dye out of his pants' pocket.

"I thought you were a natural black!"

"Nah, I'm a natural dark brown," He said, running his fingers through his hair.

"Harry?"

"What?"

"Can we dye my hair, too?"

"Sure, why not, you'd look really good with black hair," He said, picking up a piece of her hair to get his point across, or maybe just to flirt. Annie smiled.

Chapter Six

The Clearing

The next day, Saturday, they all decided to go to Hogsmeade together. They left Sunday open for dates. They, once again, were waiting for Jet to get done. She was trying to get her hair up nice. She finally got it up the way she wanted it and ended up leaving it down.

"Leave it to you to spend an hour on your hair and end up leaving it down," Fiona said, pracitically dragging Jet out of the bathroom and away from the mirror.

They decided to go to the Boar's Head first to have some breakfast.

After breakfast, Olly had brought everyone to the edge of the forest that was past the Shreiking Shack.

"In there there's a clearing and a circle of trees, each having a door. There are seven big doors, one for each of the biggest holidays. Then there are other smaller doors to other places...."

"Huh?" Ron said scratching his head.

"You lost me," Jet said, looking confused.

"The holiday doors bring you to a town that celebrates that holiday everyday. They don't know of any other holiday but their holiday," They started to walk into the forest, "The other doors are ones to fantasy worlds, the doors change for the people who are in the clearing,"

"Wait, so, there'll be a fantasy world, one for each of us?" Blaise asked, intrigued.

"Yup," Fiona said as Wood pulled back the tree branch, revealing the clearing. Everyone gasped.

When they walked into the clearing, extra doors formed, one for each of them. They had all decided to check out each of their fantasy worlds. They first went into Harry's, a door in the shape of a lions face with Harry's glasses and his scar. His world was definitely a candle held to the muggle movie "The Lion King." When they went in, each of them turned intot the character from the movie. Harry turned into Mufasa, the lion king. Wood turned into Simba, the lion prince. Draco turned into Scar, the lion king's jealous brother. Noni turned into the lioness Sarabi, Simba's mom. Jet turned into Simba's best friend Nala. Mya turned into Nala's mom. Ron turned into Rafiki, the crazy African baboon. Blaise turned into Zazu, the toucan royal advisor. Last, Annie turned into Ed, the stupid hyena.

"I'm a kitty!" Jet said, prancing around.

"Who's who?" Harry said, standing at the high edge of Pride Rock.

"I'm a kitty!"

"Okay, Jet, I'm Harry, who else?" Harry said, recognizing Jet's voice.

"I'm a monkey...." Ron said, walking over.

"Ah! Ron! Put some pants on!" Jet said, pawing him.

"I'm a lioness...." Noni said walking around with her head held high.

"Not if I can whoop your ass in a kitty duel!" Maria said, playfully pouncing by Noni.

"Haha, look, I got a tail," Wood said, chasing it.

"I can fly!" Blaise squawked, soaring over head.

"I think I have fleas...." Annie said, laughing hysterically and scratching herself with her hind leg.

"Then that leaves you, Malfoy....look who's got a scar now...." Harry said, looking down at Draco who was licking his paw nonchalantly. He looked back, "I think you'd want to take that back....I'll give you four seconds," After he counted each second aloud he opened one of his claws. he opened two claws when Harry said something, "Bring it!" Harry said, crouching in his ready stance.

Mya and Noni stopped play fighting and walked up by everyone who was watching Harry and Draco intently. Draco had opened all his claws and they both jumped in the air to attack each other. They seemed to have gone into slow motion and the world disappeared. They started to fall and landed in the clearing. They began to turn back into themselves.

"What happened?" Noni asked.

"I think that we're being timed, only a little in each fantasy...." Annie suggested, no one listened to her.

"Maybe the world's don't want us to fight. Maybe they're here to bring us closer together as a group of friends, some of us much more than friends...." He smiled at Jet. She walked over to him and he put his arm around her.

"Ron, you little weasel, your genius is showing," Draco laughed punching him in the shoulder.

"WHERE?!" Ron screamed, checking himself out.

"Uh...nevermind...." Draco said, muffling his laughter the best he could.

"Who's is next?" Mya asked.

"MINE!" Jet said, walking over to a door with a fairy that looked very much like her on it.

When they went in they changed into characters from "Peter Pan," a muggle movie. The world they were in was called "Neverland."

Jet turned into Tinkerbell, the mischievous fairy. Draco turned into Peter Pan, the leader of the lost boys. Annie turned into Wendy, the oldest of the siblings from London. Harry turned into John, the middle child. Ron turned into Michael, the toddler with the teddy bear. Blaise turned into Captain Hook, the evil pirate. Wood turned into Mr. Smee, the evil pirate's not-so-evil side-kick. Mya turned into Tigerlily, the Indian Chief's daughter. Fiona turned into a mermaid.

Draco walked up to Mya,"Nice mocasins."

"Nice tights, babe, very sexy," Mya said in return. Draco smirked.

"Ew! I have no hand!" Blaise said, flipping out," Do you know how gross this is?!" Blaise said, shaking his hook at Jet.

"HEY! Watch where you point that thing, it's sharp and it's bigger than me!" Jet said, fluttering around.

"Hey, Jet, give me and teddy some pixie dust!" Ron said, holding out his teddy and waddling around like a toddler. She brushed some pixy dust off her shoulder onto Ron and teddy.

"Now think happy thoughts!" Draco said, putting his hands on his hips and floated off the ground.

"I'm fat!" Wood said, waddling out of the water. He had apparently fallen in with Noni, who was swimming around, admiring her fin. Annie and Harry sat in the corner, bored.

Ron closed his eyes and thought his happy thoughts. He floated up by Jet.

"Wow, you look really pretty," He told her.

She laughed, "It's hard to take that seriously from a flying toddler with a teddy and feety pajamas,"

"Hey! Feety Pajamas are cool!" He whined. Everyone laughed.

"Ron, you're trap doors open," Noni said.

He went to check.

"Ha ha, made you look!" Noni laughed.

"Hey, not fair. Just because I'm a toddler doesn't mean I'm...."

"Naive?"

"I don't know, what does that mean? Is it bad?"

"Nah,"

"Okay, then, ya!"

"Exactly my point,"

"What? HEY! I'm confused, your....your....your......your MEAN!"

"OooOOooo, I'm so scared. What's ickle Ronnie-kins gonna do? Spit at me?"

Ron had a temper tantrum and had ripped his teddy's head off, "Look what you made me do! Poor teddy....AHHH!" He threw the teddy's head at Noni and right before it was able to hit the unflinching Noni, the world disappeared and they fell back into the clearing.

The next door they went into was a door with Ron's face with curly/frizzy hair and an orange top hat.

"I think I know what your world's based on, "Mya said, smiling at Jet.

"I love this movie! Candy!" Jet screamed, running up to the door.

"Candy? Where?!" Ron said, looking around. Jet grabbed his hand and pulled him throught the door with her. Everyone else followed.

Ron's world was from teh muggle movie, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," and the world was the chocolate factory. Ron turned into Willy Wonka, the semi-mad candy inventor. Draco turned into Charlie Bucket, the poor blond kid. Jet turned into Veruca, the spoiled brat. Annie turned into Violet, the blueberry girl. Wood turned into Grandpa Joe, Charlie's grandpa. Noni, Blaise, and Harry turned into Oompa Loompas. Harry and Blaise were the original colors and Noni was pink. Mya, when she jumped in, screamed, "Let me be myself!" so all that happened to her was that she was wearing a dress made out of lollipops and a crown to match.

"Look Mya, I'm Veruca!" Jet said, dancing around.

"Who am I?" Ron asked her.

"You're Winky Wonka...." Jet stopped dancing and started to skip in a circle around him.

"Jet...it's Willy Wonka...." Mya corrected.

"Is it?" she stopped to think, "I like WInky Wonka better," she began to skip around him again.

"Where's the candy?!" Ron asked impatiently.

"Everywhere...." Jet said dreamily, now skipping around the gummy bear trees.

"I think this is more Jet's world than...." Before Draco could finish his thought, Ron was swimming in the chocolate river. Draco laughed, "Nevermind."

When they looked back to see where Jet was she was making snow angels in the coconut snow.

"If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em," Ronnie and Jet chanted dreamily, urging the rest of them to enjoy themselves. Everyone shrugged and ran to their candy of choice. Noni and Wood sat down together, leaning against a mushroom. They looked at each other.

"We always get the screwed up characters. I mean, look at me, I'M OLD!" Wood said.

"I know, and I'M PINK! I hate pink....I wish I weren't pink anymore!" Once she yelled that out, the world disappeared and they were back in the clearing, back as themselves. Jet and Ronnie were both swimming in the chocolate river before the world disappeared. They were still swimming when they realized they weren't in the world anymore. They felt around, running their hands through the grass, and started to cry like babies, jokingly.

"Oh, hush up, we'll go back another time," Blaise assured them.

Ronnie and Jet got off the grass and brushed off the dirt.

"Hey let's go into mine next. I think this could be fun," Noni said, walking up to a door with a mermaid on it that resembled her. She opened it and everyone jumped in. Her world was from the muggle movie, "The Little Mermaid." Noni turned into Ariel, the little mermaid. Wood turned into Triton, the little mermaid's dad, and the ruling king of the ocean. Blaise was Sebastian, the headstrong, yet loveable jamaican crab. Ron turned into Flounder, the little mermaid's guppy friend. Annie turned into Ursula, the evil sea wench/witch. Harry turned into one of Ursula's pet eels. Jet, Mya, and Draco all turned into merpeople. At first, Mya and Jet were having rouble getting used to their tails.

"Ron!" Jet screeched, "I'm moving my tail, but I'm not going anywhere!" She said, wriggling around.

He swam over to her.

Draco took Mya's hand and puller her along swimming in circles.

Jet grabbed Ron and pulled. She almost squeezed him too hard, but he was able to get her started.

"Hey! That looks like fun!" Jet said, grabbing Ron and chasing Mya and Draco around in their circle. Annie just sat on the floor. She was too upset to figure out how to use her tentacles. So her and Harry lounged around.

Fiona was playing with sea urchins and Wood was sitting in his throne. Blaise ran up to them.

"Guys! I don't think they realize that swimming around in circles could start a whirlpool, and who knows what could happen!" He panicked, waving his claws in the water.

Both Noni and Wood got up and swam over to them.

"Wait for me, mon!" Blaise screeched.

"Guys! Stop it!"

They couldn't hear them. Mya and Draco spotted them and grabbed their hands, pulling them into their makings of a whirlpool. It got so big that it pulled in Annie and Harry. Harry got scared and nearly electrocuted everyone, but the world disappeared before anything bad like that could happen. They landed back in the clearing. After all their dizzy spells faded they looked around at the remaining doors.

Noni spotted Wood's door. It had him with a "Robin Hood" hat on, "Robin Hood," being a muggle fairy tale movie.

"Let's go in that one," Mya said, pointing at Wood's door, "Remember that movie, Jet?"

"Ya, the one with the singing rooster!"

"Yup, and the drunken snake!"

They reminisced and jumped in. Everyone sort of laughed and jumped in after them. Like Mya and Jet had predicted, the world was taken out of the muggle movie, "Robin Hood." Wood turned into Robin, the fox who stole from the rich to give to the poor. Noni turned into Maid Marion, the lady fox who loved Robin. Ron turned into Little John, Robin's best friend and helper. Annie turned into Trigger, the stupid vulture. Harry turned into Prince John, the baby-like prince. Draco turned into Sir Hiss, the Prince's advisor. Blaise turned into Friar Tuck, the reverend. Mya turned into the eldest sibling girl bunny. Last, but not least, Jet turned into the baby girl bunny.

"Why are we animals? Oh yes, my dream is to be furry, run around, and to cough up hair balls," Wood said, sarcastically.

"Oh come on, it must be a subconcious dream to be a fox and to have a foxy girlfriend," Noni laughed.

"Oh, that's not a dream, that's a reality,"

"Ew! We can hear you, you know! Snakes have ears, too!" Draco said.

"They do?" Ronnie asked.

"What?" Draco joked, pretended he couldn't hear.

"Huh?" Ronnie was confused.

Blaise went to run his fingers through his hair, but realized he had none, "I'M BALD!"

Jet giggled, "Your head's shiny...."

Draco slithered around.

"Draco's the drunk snake!" Mya said jumping up and down and pointing.

"I am not drunk, missssy,"

"Ooooh, sexy...."

"Baby bunny present!" Ronnie said, picking upt Jet and cradling her.

"Hey! I'm not a baby!"

"Right....is baby ticklish?"

"Ronnie...." Ron started tickling her and she couldn't stop laughing. She dropped her bunny doll. Harry picked it up and hugged it. Jet started to cry, "MY bunny!"

"Harry, give the bunny back her bunny," Ron said, putting his free hand on his hip and tapping his foot.

"NO!"

"Yes, it's hers," Ron said, taking the bunny doll from Harry and giving it back to Jet. Jet stopped crying.

"Mommy!" Harry cried out, pulling on his ear and sucking on his thumb.

"Oh, shut-up you big baby," Annie said, hitting Harry onthe top of the head with her crossbow.

"Ow!"

"Hey, that was violence, why didn't the world disappear?"

"Because he deserved it!" Jet sniffled.

"Mhm....how about a game of bad mitton!"

"Nope, I'm out," Wood said. He disappeared.

"Wood?!" Noni screeched.

"He's probably in th clearing," Draco hissed.

"Ya, he said the "o" word," Mya added.

"Out?" Jet asked. She disappeared.

"Okay, everyone, at the count of sssseven...."

"Boo, why seven?"

"Becausssse, I wanted to get in a lasssst 'ssss'"

"Okay, three it is," They all counted to three and said, "out!" The world disappeared and they were back in the clearing. They now knew how to control leaving a world without injuring anyone.

They were starting to get bored of the doors, but they kept looking at them all, they only had a few left anyway.

"Hey, let's go in Annies, it looks freaky," Mya said.

"Ya, I mean, her hair's black....her hair's really bl...." Jet turned around to point at Annie's hair when she realized it wasn't blond anymore, "AH! The shadow monster took over your HAIR! Someone! Quick! Um...DUNK HER HEAD IN WATER!"

"Calm down, Harry died my hair," Annie said, calmly.

"HARRY! That symbolizes her veela...ness!" Jet smacked him.

"OW!"

"JET! I wanted him to. I don't want to be a veela anymore. I want to be...well...me..." She turned and walked into her world.

"I hope she knows what she's doing..." Jet said, following her. Everyone shrugged and just went in after them. Annie's world was from the muggle movie, "Alice in Wonderland," Annie being Alice, but with black hair. Noni turned into the Queen of Hearts and Wood turned into her little king. Blaise turned into The Cheschire Cat. Harry turned into the White Bunny. Ronnie turned into the Mad Hatter. Jet, Mya, and Draco all stayed as themselves, but were wearing tea dresses. Jet's dress was pink, Mya's dress was a pale yellow, and Draco's dress was peach.

"Bloody hell! Draco's wearing a dress," Ronnie laughed.

"Haha, like I'd really believe that...." He looked down, "I'M FRILLY!"

"I think it looks nice on you," Annie laughed.

"Ya, but peach isn't your color, your more a green...." After Jet said that, his dress turned forest green, "Yup, that's more like it," Jet laughed.

"It's still a dress!"

"I think you look sexy in anything," Mya said, winking at him.

"TOO MUCH INFO!" Jet said, closing her eyes and clamping her hands on her ears. Everyone laughed.

"I think we should play croquet," Fiona said, picking up a flamingo.

"Why do you get to pick? It is my world...." Annie said putting her hands on her hips.

"Cause I'm queen!"

"Ya, an ugly, fat one,"

Fiona threw the flamingo at her and the world disappeared.

They got up off the grass and brushed the dirt off their clothes once again.

"This is getting old," Blaise said.

"Ya, but look at it this way, we only have three left, one of them being yours," Wood said.

"YAY!" Blaise acted like a child.

"Let's go in mine next!" Mya said jumping in to her world. Everyone followed.

Her world was based on the muggle movie, "Aladdin." Mya turned into the Princess Jasmine. Draco turned into the street rat Aladdin who captured Jasmine's heart. Jet turned into the genie, but a pink, blond, and sexy girl version(she had platinum wrist cuffs). Ron turned into Aladdin's monkey, Abu. Noni turned into Jasmine's Tiger, Rajah. Wood turned into Jasmine's dad, the Sultan. Blaise turned into the evil royal visier, Jafar. Harry turned into Jafar's parrot, Iago. And last, Annie turned into the flying carpet. Mya and Draco landed on and elephant outside the castle of Agribah. Annie floated and Jet, Ronnie, and Harry landed on her. Blaise and Wood landed on a camel. The elephant, the camel, and Annie went into the castle. Annie followed the elephant and the camel into a room filled with pillows. The elephant and the camel knelt down so everyone could get off and left the room. Annie floated to the floor. Jet gave herself legs.

Mya picked up a pillow, "PILLOW FIGHT!" Everyone grabbed a pillow and ran around hitting eachother. Jet made herself really big and put on a pair of glasses and read over a scroll.

"These rules inform me that we are playing unfairly. There are smaller people here," She made everyone of equal size and shrunk down also, "Okay, let's play!" Everyone ran around and hit eachother with pillows. Ronnie went to hit Jet and pushed her skirt up by accident. If monkeys could blush, he would have.

"RONNIE!" She went to hit him really hard when the world disappeared.

"What happened?" Mya asked, "We were all having fun...."

"RONNIE PUSHED UP MY SKIRT!" Jet screeched.

"I-I didn't mean to...monkey hands are hard to use..." Ronnie was blushing.

"Great excuse," Noni laughed.

"All right, before this turns into something big, let's go into Draco's world," Wood said, trying to get this over with.

"Ooooh, Draco looks sexy in a toga..." Mya said as she jumped into the world with everyone.

Draco's world was based on the muggle movie, "Hercules." Draco turned into Hercules. Mya turned into his human love interest, Meg. Blaise turned into his flying horse, Pegasus. Noni turned into a female form of Hades. Harry turned into one of Hades' sidekicks, Pain, and Annie turned into the other, Panic. Wood turned into Hercules' trainer, Phil. Jet turned into the goddess of love, Aphrodite. Last, but not least, Ronnie turned into Zeus, the god of all gods and godesses, who was a player.

"Look I'm a godess!" Jet said out loud.

"I thought you were always a godess...." Ronnie said, looking into her eyes.

"Aw...." Noni said, pretending to be choked up. Jet went to yell at her, but Mya stopped her, "Don't start, I want a little time in this world,"

"Why's that?" Jet giggled. Mya blushed.

"YOU THINK DRACO'S HOT IN A TOGA!" Noni yelled out.

"NONI!" Mya jumped on Noni and the world disappeared before it got ugly. They landed back in the clearing.

"I was only kidding Mya," Noni said.

"I know, but I wasn't" Mya giggled.

"You think I'm hot in a toga?" Draco asked her, smirking.

"I always think your hot,"

"That's no new news, come on, let's go in my world," Blaise said, cutting them short. He was still jealous. Everyone laughed at him and followed him into his world.

Blaise's world was like a comic strip. Each one of them turned into a superhero.

They looked around at each other, but before they could say anything, a loud voice rung out.

"In Comic World, Introducing The Wind Master," Blaise floated up and back down, "Unblind Mind," Mya, "Macho Man," Draco, "Ms. Flex" Jet, "Ditto Man," Ronnie, "Speedy Feet," Wood, "Tigerfire," Fiona, "Stretch Girl," Annie, "and Slime Ball, " Harry, "Join forces to fight crime and the forces of EVIL!"

"Oooooh...." Jet said, "HA! I have a text bubble!" She giggled.

"Okay then.... Are we backwards or is it just me?" Draco asked.

"Blaise, is this a Japanese comic strip," Noni asked him.

"Ya, why?"

"Cuz, first of all, we have HUGE eyes, and Jet is pretty much PERMANTLY chibi...."

"What the hell is chibi," Mya asked.

"Cute and small, kind of, always happy or stressed out, it's hard to explain. Jet's the perfect example," Noni said, pointing at Jet who was sitting on a stool next to a video game and was paying it mindlessly, druling, "Not a big change from daily life..."

"Hey I hear that, that's not FAIR, you made me LOSE! AHHH!" Jet said, flailing her arms with stress bubbles over her head.

"All righty then....." Annie said.

They started walking along when Jet spotted a pet shop.

"Did any of you guys ever have a pet rock?" She asked, kind of out of the blue.

"Oh ya, I remember Bobbi!" Mya said, laughing.

"He was so big.... we had to leave him in France.... I miss him...."

"If you care about rocks, I wish I was a rock!" Ronnie said, turning into a rock and falling to the floor.

"Ronnie!" Jet screamed, running up to him, picking him up, and petting him, "What's wrong...."

"Nothing's wrong, Jet, he's a shapeshifter and if my theory's correct, he would also have special speech,"

"What's that?" Annie asked.

"The ability to change into anything and the ability to speak with anything...."

Ron turned back into himself.

"Ronnie!" Jet hugged him and they both lifted off the ground.

"Ha! We can fly!" Ron said, laughing.

"I should turn into a rock more often...." He turned back into a rock and started to fall. Harry caught him.

"He's stuck...." Harry said, turning over his hand and shaking it.

"Stop, let me. If my powers are what I think they are, I can fix it," Blaise said, taking in a deep breath. He pulled on Ron and blew on Harry's hand. He slowly unstuck.

"Blaise, I wouldn't be pulling that hard...." Fiona said.

"Don't worry, I got...." Ron flew off Harry's hand, "it...."

Wood ran and caught Ron and then ran back."

"Speedy feet!" Jet sqealed.

"Yup, incredible speed...." Fiona said, yawning, as if she already knew.

"I want skittles...." Jet said, referring to a muggle candy.

"Me, too," Mya said, said, closing her eyes.

"What are...." Draco was cut short by skittles falling from the sky, "oh, those are skittles...."

"SKITTLES!" Jet spun around and danced in the air with her mouth open, catching skittles in it.

Ron turned back into himself.

"Ronnie, try some!" Jet said, continuing to eat them. Ron joined her.

"Draco, wy don't you try one" Mya asked, catching one in her hand.

"Nah...."

"He won't....his dad's against everything that has to do with muggles....you know, he's a daddy's boy...." Harry shouldn't have said that.

"I...am...NOT!" Draco screamed, punching his hand into the table, he split it in half and it crumbled.

"Super strength...." Noni was getting bored.

A piece of the table had flown into Annie's hair. Harry went to get it out, but his hand got stuck. He gasped, putting his other hand to his mouth, which also got stuck. Annie got up and started to walk over to Jet and Ronnie who were playing with skittles. Harry tried to tell her his hand was stuck, but her hair stretched like elastic.

"Stretchy hair, who knew?" Fiona said, sitting on the floor.

"Oooooh! I know what Noni's power is! She's more smart than she was before!" Jet said, standing up and clapping.

"No..... and apparently you are!" Noni said sarcastically. Jet didn't catch her drift, but didn't think on it.

An odd looking bird started to waddle up to them.

"Aw man, a woozle bird...." Blaise said, disapointed.

"A what?" Everyone asked.

The bird looked at them all, cocked it's head to the side and quaked, "Karupkert!" and the world disappeared. They were finally back in the clearing and they were done with all the doors.

"What in BLOODY hell is a woozle bird, you crackhead!" Draco screamed.

"Mind your temper babe, we don't want you smashing anymore tables...." Mya said, fixing his hair.

"Nor do we want him starting a thunderstorm...." Noni added.

"What?" Draco asked.

"You have the almighty power of Thor, the thunder god....not just incredible strength.....Macho Man," Noni laughed.

"Blaise....why Macho Man...." Draco groaned.

"I thought it was a good name....and about the woozle bird, in my comic strips, the end box is always a woozle bird saying, 'Karupkert,' it's kind of my signature, or just a sign of an end...." Blaise added.

"Crackhead...." Draco rolled his eyes.

Chapter Seven

More to the Committee

Harry was sitting on the floor next to his bed. Ron was laying on it, throwing a hackysack up and catching it repeatedly. Annie and Jet had made them spend some quality time together. Their friendship had fallen apart since the twins had come into the picture. They just sat their in an awkward silence.

Annie, Jet, Noni, and Mya had all decided to go shopping for clothes to wear to their quadruple date later. Draco and Wood were hanging out in his office. Draco and Wood had grown to be good friends.

Hermione was sitting in the library, doing and extra credit assignment. Blaise walked into the library, pretending he was getting a book.

"Oh, hey, Hermione, didn't expect to see you here," He said sarcastically.

"Haha, if you don't have anything important to say, please leave so I can finish my extra credit essay," She whispered, still writing.

"Hermione," he took her quill away, "You and I both know that you don't need extra credit...."

"But I enjoy it...." She said, holding out her hand, waiting for him to give her the quill back. Instead of giving it back as she expected, he put it in his pants pocket.

"Blaise, please give me back my quill...."

"Not until you say that you'll go to the Halloween ball with me," He said winking.

"I don't know, I thought I was going with Neville again, but he seems to fancy Ginny...." Hermione looked down. She was trying to forget about Neville and her breaking up.

"Then nothing's holding you back from going with me, now is there," He said, now standing behind her. This kind of made her feel uncomfortable. If it was someone else she would have said something, but it seemed harder for her to say something to Blaise.

"Emm..."

"See now, it shouldn't take you too long to think on that. I think you'll have to catch me to get your quill now...." He waved it in her face. She went to grab it, but he pulled it away before she could close her hand tightly around it.

"Blaise...." Blaise took off with her quill, and she of course chased after him. It wasn't like her to give in to that. She did have a spare quill in her bag. She chased Blaise around the library and finally cornered him, "Give me my quill, please,"

"Pretty please?"

"Pretty please with sprinkles,"

"Pretty please with sprinkles after going with Blaise to the Halloween ball?"

Hermione rolled her eyes.

"Yes or no quill,"

Hermione tried really hard not to, but she smirked.

"Ooooh, Hermione's amused. Score one for Blaise...." Blaise said raising an eyebrow. He did something, like turned an on switch in Hermione's hormones.

"Okay, pretty please with sprinkles, after going with Blaise to the Halloween ball, and a bonus butterbeer at the Boars Head," Hermione said, getting closer to him and grabbing his hand that the quill was in.

"Ooooh, bonus...." They got really close to kissing when the librarian came up to them.

"Excuse me, QUIET."

"Well you're awful loud for telling us to be quiet," Hermione said.

"Hermione! I'm taking away your library privileges for a week for that remark! And you boy, I haven't seen you around here before and I hope to not see you here anymore. That behavior is not appreciated here!" The librarian screeched, storming back to her desk. Hermione laughed, biting her lip.

"Hermione, I think I brought some bad side out of you...."

"Is that a bad thing?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Definitely not," He smirked.

Later on, Jet, Mya, Noni, and Annie all met up and got dressed together. The guys were already dressed and just hung out outside of Jet's dormitory door, where the girls had decided to change. They didn't dress up, but they dressed nicely. They even got Noni to put a jeans skirt on, but they had to let her wear her favorite suspenders. They did her hair in a pretty bun.

"They tie my look together," She used as an excuse. She was also wearing a really pretty forest green vintage shirt. It was Jet's, but the low neckline suited Noni's figure better. Noni had been wearing the black boots that Jet had her wear, but she secretly put her green converse on before they left.

Annie was wearing a very plain black dress, combat boots, and her hair was down. Mya wore a pink beaded halter, nice jeans, and high pink sandals, hair in elegant curls. Jet wore a short pleated heather gray skirt with pink accents, high-heeled "school-girl" shoes, and a pink cami with a see-through lace poncho over, hair down and wavy with pink silk scarf.

They finally walked out of the dormitory. The boys had been sitting on the floor. Throwing a ball around.

"Where's Ron?" Jet asked, sort of disapointed.

"Here," Draco put the ball down and it turned back into Ron. He looked dizzy and disheveled.

Jet shook her head, "You really need a different way of having a thrill, Ronnie...." She said, helping him up.

"You're my only thrill...." He smiled. Jet blushed and took his arm. They started walking to the portrait hall.

"Wow, that was cheezy...." Draco said.

Mya punched him in the chest, "Hey, but it was soooo cute. Why don't you say stuff like that to me?"

"Uh...."

"Just nod, Malfoy," Harry joked. Fiona hit him in the back of the head really hard, "Ow!"

"You're so gay, Harry,"

"What's that supposed to mean! Do I seem girly in any way? Do I possibly show affection to the same sex?" He said, getting upset.

"Um...She didn't mean it like that...." Wood assured him.

"Ooooh..." He went to fix his hair when his hand got stuck, "Oh no, my HAIR!"

Noni tilted her head back towards Wood's ear and covered her mouth, "Well, you gotta admit he's got some gay tendencies...."

When they got to Hogsmeade they decided to go to the restaurant behind the Boar's Head. The one they weren't allowed to go in before Wood was a teacher.

They went throught the Boar's Head, through intertwining hallways, and ended up in a dimly lit back room with candles that gave off the scent of warm cinnamin. There was a table set up with red leather love seats around it to sit in. Each couple grabbed a love seat and settled in. A waiter dressed in black and white bowed in.
"What shall I get you sirs and ma'ams?" He asked politely.

"How does a round of butterbeers sound?" Wood asked. Everyone nodded.

"Right away, sir" The waiter said, bowing out, the same way he came in.

"This looks expensive, Wood...." Ron said.

"Nah, it's on the Hogwart's tab. Dumbledore said we could have this to open out year as a Committee of Teams," Wood said, putting his arm around Fiona.

"Is there a catch?" Draco asked.

"Well, we do, sort of, have to talk about Committee stuff...."

"That doesn't sound that bad," Harry said cheerfully. Annie crossed her legs away from Harry and rolled her eyes.

"The rest of your party is here," The waiter said, peering in.

"The rest?" Mya asked.

"Oh ya, and we have to interview new people to....join...." Wood said, turning red and rubbing the back of his neck nervously.

"I knew it was too good to be true," Draco huffed.

"Shall I let them in?" The waiter asked them.

"Y-" He cleared his throat,"Yes,"

Their love seats squished closer together and the table got bigger. The students came in and filed around the open part of the table.

"Please sit," Noni said as chairs appeared. They all sat. The students were Blaise, Hermione, Pansy, and a mysterious manly figure. Jet looked straight at that mysterious boy. He was wearing a black hoody with the hood up, his face hidden by his long bangs.

"Do I know you?" She asked him.

Pansy interrupted her inquisition, "this is my boyfriend!"

"I am?" She elbowed him, "Oh yeah, I forgot...."

"What's this guys name?" Annie asked, eyeing him.

"Don't even think about it Delacour!" Pansy growled.

"Touchy!" Harry cattied back.

"Yes, and what's your name?" Jet asked again. She recognized his voice and demeanor as familiar, but couldn't pinoint him to a face or name.

"His name's...uh...JJ, ya, JJ!"

"JJ?" She elbowed him again. They shrugged it off.

"Okay, you lot, you're in. You'll be in a production with us in the Halloween Ball. the boys will have a vocal talent contest. We'll all have individual songs and then we'll all sing one together for pure entertainment.The group song is where the girls come in. They will be back-up dancers. Throughout, each girl, since we have an even girls to boys ratio, will introduce their paired boy. We can obviously see the pairs. All good?" Wood asked. Everyone nodded, "Good,"

That whole meeting they planned the Halloween Ball and alotted jobs (decorations and such). They distinquished they they would fugure out what sports they would recieve to captain and such at the next meeting.

"You know, Mya, that JJ kid is so familiar to me...." Jet said, as they walked to Care of Magical Creatures with Hagrid.

"I know and like JJ is his real name. What do you think they were playing at?"

"I know, like they honestly thought that we wouldn't notice. Their skit was so fake!"

Noni was going to be late, she was helping Wood restrain a bogart. Ronnie and Draco were waiting there for them.

"Hello," They said, sitting next to them. They were, all four of them, pretty early for class.

Hagrid came out of his hut to greet them, "Well, 'ello there!"

"Hello, Hagrid!" They all said, getting up.

"Oh, don' forget to call me professor durin' class...." He whispered. They nodded.

"What are we learning about today, H-...I mean....professor?" Draco asked, joking with him.

"Well...it's a surprise...You'll see soon enough...." More students started to come down in cliques, "All righ', let's get this show in the road...." Hagrid left them and walked around to the back of his hut. Both Ronnie and Draco held their girl tight.

"What's wrong, Ronnie?"

"NOT SO TIGHT!" Mya gasped. Draco loosened his hold on her.

"Hagrid's known for his....um...." Ron couldn't think of the word.

"Monstrous?" Draco asked.

"Ya, monstrous liking TO GET EVERYONE KILLED!" Ron screeched as Hagrid walked a bird out from behind his hut. It was a good three feet taller than him and Hagrid is half giant!

"Don' worry yourself, Ron, it's only a Malladora...."

"Ya, a close relative to Blaise's woozle bird," Draco laughed.

"Blaise has a woozle bird?! I'll have to talk with him about letting me borrow it for a lesson!" Hagrid said excitedly.

"A woozle bird is a real thing?!" Mya gasped.

"There's apparently a lo' I 'ave to teach you....best get started!" Hagrid said cheerfully, patting the Malladora. It purred.

"Ronnie...." Jet shrunk back.

"D-don't worry, I'll p-protect you...."

"That sounds assuring," Noni said, sitting down next to them, "Oh, cool, a Malladora,"

"Did you know woozle birds are real?" Mya asked her.

"Ya, why....you didn't?"

"Uh...no,"

"Your power is too smart!" Jet said, rubbing her head.

"Hey, what's your power?" Draco asked Jet.

"Oh...I don't know....I know I can fly, but, we all can...."

"Curing and agility...." Noni said.

"Oh, cool!" Ronnie said, fascinated.

"Wicked...." Jet was becoming more and more British everyday.

"All right, that's enough...." Fiona whispered, watching even more people come. They nodded.

Hermione, Blaise, Pansy, and the new kid all sat down by them.

"Hello, Drakkie!" Pansy said, cheerfully.

"Hi, Pansy...." Draco said, through gritted teeth.

"Oh, hi Maria," Pansy shot a glance at her, "did you do something different with your hair?"

"Uh....no" Mya mocked.

"Oh, 'cause...it looks flatter than normal...."

Mya's eyes turned bright yellow. Pansy slowly started to lift off the ground. 'JJ' pulled her back down. He looked right at Mya, his eyes shown red in the darkness of his hood. She knew those eyes....Jet musn't find out....

"C-cool it, JJ. Just havin' some clean fun...." She shrunk back by Draco. Mya was afraid of nothing except two things, one of them being demons.

Chapter Eight

Pooky

Everyone sat on the ground and stared up at the Malladora. Hagrid was beaming.

"All righ', now that yer all here, let's start out lesson," He said, patting the Malladora, " This is Pooky. She's a female, Dumbledore won't let me bring out the male, I mean, he's only five feet taller....But anyway...."

"Only five feet?" Ronnie said, gulping.

"Pooky here is very intelligent,"

Pooky stuck out her chest proudly, "Maw!"

"Malladora's are just as smar as humans, some smarter. They even have their own language. It is very distinct. Every word is only one syllable. Everyone understand so far?"

Everyone just stared up at Pooky.

"I'll take that as a yes," Hagrid laughed, "By the look on your faces, I can tell you don't nkow that they are harmless and are actually very gentle creatures. They would go out of their way to help a human, as a matter 'a fact. They have a sixth sense, one that detects danger before it comes," Everyone was relieved.

"As you can see, Pooky has a very large stomach. She is due to have baby Malladoras next week,"

"Yaw!" She squawked proudly.

"Malladoras have litters of around forty babies. If any of you wish to parent one, see me after class. It would count as extra credit," The extra credit got a big response from Hermione.

"You don't need it," Blaise moaned. She giggled.

"Ronnie, want a baby?" Jet asked him.

"What?!" He gulped.

"Oh, it'll be fun, Ronnie...."

"I'm s-sure of that...."

"Jet, I think you should elaborate on the species of the baby...." Noni suggested.

"What else can it be?!" Ronnie screeched.

"Chill, weasel, she means a Malladora baby," Draco assured him, laughing. Ronnie was relieved.

"Huh?" Jet didn't get what just happened.

"Don't mind it," Mya giggled.

"All righ', your dismissed," Hagrid said, waiting for them all to line up in front of him, but pretty much the whole class left. Jet, Ronnie, Mya, Draco, Noni, Hermione, Blaise, Pansy, and 'JJ,' all stayed.

"Okay, who are the pairs?" They pointed themselves out.

"My partner isn't present," Noni said.

"Okay, so that's five Malladoras with a family! Thanks for that!" Hagrid said.

"Tee Pow!" Pooky thanked them, bowing her long neck.

"That's thank you in Maladoranese," Hagrid told them.

"Fee Sha!" Noni said, waving.

"You know Maladoranese?" Hagrid asked, shocked.

"Ya, I picked it up while hanging out with friends, we had a little adventure," She winked at Jet and Mya. They giggled. The next few classes they were split up. Mya, Draco, and Noni had watched Jet and Ronnie walk off to Potions, well, Jert was sort of dragging him there. He really hated Snape.

Mya, Draco, and Noni walked together until they reached Transfiguration, Noni's destination.

"See you guys later," She said, walking into the classroom.

This period was Draco's free period, so, he walked Mya to Defense Against the Dark Arts.

"See ya later, babe. See ya, Wood," Draco said, walking away.

"Hey Wood, what's up?" Mya said, sitting in one of the front seats.

"Eh....I had a little trouble with some first years, but really now problems," he said, leaning on his desk.

As the class progressed, Mya grew more and more bored. She didn't mean to, she would have loved to be paying attention.

"I wish Draco was here. I would have hoped he would be in more of my classes..." She thought to herself, "But, ya know, that shouldn't stop me from seeing him...." Her eyes turned yellow. Draco fell from the ceiling. He was wrapped in a comforter, wearing nothing but his boxers.

Wood turned around and looked over his desk, "How nice of you to drop by, Draco," He laughed.

"What?" Draco yawned and stretched. He had obviously been sleeping. He got up off the floor, but left his comforter.

"Ya cold?" Blaise yelled from behing Mya, laughing. Hermione was hanging on him.

"Just a li-...." He looked around and finally realized he was in front of a classroom full of people in only his boxers.

"We can see," Blaise laughed harder. Hermione tried to surpress her giggles in Blaise's shoulder. He quickly grabbed up his comforter and wrapped himself in it.

"Okay, your dismissed," Wood said, shooing the class out.

"Bye, Wood," Mya said, quickly grabbing up her books and starting to run to the door.

"MYA!" Draco yelled, running after her, almost tripping on his comforter.

"What?" Mya asked, pretending she didn't know what happened.

"Get my clothes, please," Draco said, trying to be calm.

"Oh, but I think you look better this way," She smirked.

"Oh, no, it's bad enough you stole my clothes, but don't steal the smirk,"

"Oh well, I'll just have to keep smirking,"

"Wipe that smirk off, or I'll wipe it off for you...." Draco was now smirking.

"Oh, I'll take that challenge,"

Draco kissed her, "Now can I have my clothes,"

"Hmmm....let me think....no"

"Aw, come on!" Draco whined.

"Oh, all right," Mya's eyes went yellow and Draco's clothes flew down the hall.

They grabbed up the decorations and ran to the Great Hall.
"It's an hour to the ball and we have yet to decorate! I don't even have a costume yet!" Jet stressed.

"Cool it, we got magic on our side," Wood said, pulling out his wand.

Jet breathed in and out, "I am water, I am wind,"

"Yoga?" Mya laughed.

"Stress isn't good..." Jet moaned. Ronnie hugged her, "Stress gone,"

Everyone rolled their eyes.

"You know," Wood said, "We already have our costumes, you guys can go get yours, we'll get your outfits ready for the production,"

"Ya, go ahead, guys," Fiona said.

Everyone ran to Hogsmeade leaving Fiona and Wood.

"Alone time," Fiona smiled.

"Alone time...." Wood kissed her.

As they walked to Hogsmeade they thought of what they were going to be.

"Aaaah! What should we go as, Ronnie?" Jet screamed running to the Halloween store.

"JET! You are the water, you are wind....STRESS ISN'T GOOD!" Ronnie screamed, running after her.

"Draco, we should go as Hercules and Meg from your world," Mya giggled.

"Sure....I do kind of like wearing a toga...." Draco confessed.

"YES!" Mya was happy.

"Jacques...." Pansy whispered to 'JJ,' "Jacques, when are you revealing yourself?"

"I've got a plan....let's go get me that Phantom of the Opera mask," He said, pulling her into the Halloween store.

"I know what we should be. You should be a sexy vampiress and I should be Dracula," Blaise said to Hermione, pretending to drink her blood.

She giggled, "Feels good to me...."

"Ronnie! It's PERFECT!" Jet screamed, picking up a Tinkerbell and Peter Pan costume set.

"I am the water, I am the WIND," Ronnie wasn't too sure about the costume set.

"Oh come on, Ronnie. Please,"

"water...WIND....I don't know about tights....HUM" Ron tried to find his center.

"I think our yoga sessions are getting to your head....Ronnie, really though, please...."

"Happy Place, HUM"

"I'll give you a treat," She said, stepping closer.

"Like candy!" He found his happy place. It was outside and down a little (Honeydukes.)

"Oh, Ronnie-kins....um....I guess you could call it that," She giggled, stepping even closer yet.

"She means kisses, mate!" Draco called out from the other side of the store. Mya was holding up the different colored togas to his face to see which ones matched his eyes better.

"Well, that could work, too," Ronnie smirked.

"My smirk!"

"Oh, just let Ronnie kiss her, babe!" Mya said, holding more togas up to his face.

Ronnie blushed and kissed her.

Draco and Mya finally found a toga for each of them and purchased. They went to walk together outside. Jet and Ronnie ran out of the Halloween store.

"Where to?" Ronnie asked.

"Where do you think?" Jet laughed, "Race ya!" They raced to Honeydukes. Mya giggled. Draco smirked.

Pansy and 'JJ' were walking, Mya looked straight at him and saw herself trapped in cage of fire with Jet and two demons outside.

"I knew it J-Jacques! D-don't play the m-mind games with me!" Mya said, trying hard to stand up for herself.

"Well, it's fairly simply, pet, it's all in your memory, locked away....with your fears...."Jacques said, pulling down his hood.

"What are you talking about! She's not afraid of you! And if she was, why sould she be, you FRENCH BASTARD!" Draco screamed.

"I'm a demon, love, need to look it up?"

"D-demon? Is that all? Psh...." Draco tried to hide his fear.

"You know, demons can lock onto your fears and make them reality...." Jacques' eyes turned red. Draco was now in a tank that was slowly filling with water.

"Stop! NO! PLEASE!" Draco screamed, banging on the glass.

"I don't give mercy...." He growled under his breath.

"Jacques, that's DRAKKIE you're drowning!" Pansy squealed, tugging on his robes.

"Back off, bitch," He roared, shoving her back, not losing contact with Draco. The water was now up to his chin. He was crying. Mya had been trying to break the glass.

"M-Mya...." Draco gasped, "I love you....I'm so sorry I never told you....now it's too late...." The water rose over his head.

"NO!" Her eyes turned yellow and Jacques was thrown back, about ten feet further than Pansy. Draco fel to the floor, the tank of water disappeared. Mya fell to his side. She caressed his cheek. He had fainted.

"You'll pay for that...."

"Oh, will I? Maybe I'll just have to tell Jet you're here,"

"That's all, pet? "

"Hm...ore I can tell your dad you're trying to get 'the veela' back, the one that dumped you 'cause you friken SCARRED her, you....AH!" Mya was going to punch him, but she saw Jet and Ronnie coming out of Honeydukes, candy sticking out of anywhere they could fit it. She put his hood back on him with her mind and looked him straight in the eyes.

"You've been warned," She growled. He hissed.

"What happened to Draco?" Jet screeched, dropping candy and she ran over to him. Ron picked the pieces up as she dropped them. She didn't even notice Pansy out cold.

"Why he's drenched!" Jet said, taking off her jacket and putting it on him, "Well, Noni said I have curing powers, so, let's just see...."

"JET! Ixnay on the owerspay!" Mya screamed at her in pig latin.

Jet put her hands over Draco and closed her eyes. Her hands became flourescent and Draco dried off and began to cough, "There we go!" She said, brushing off her hands.

Everyone had bought their costumes and Draco was all right.

"Come on, Ron, get your kit on!" Jet said, running around.

"Tights...." He whined. She gave him those puppy dog eyes that no boyfriend could ever say no to, "Oh, all right...."

"Yay!" Jet said, picking up her wings, "Help me put these on?"

"Ya, sure," Ron said, nearly falling over as he pulled up the tights.

"Not too easy, is it?" Jet giggled.

"I dunno how ya do it...." Ron said, waddling over to her. She gave him her wings and turned around. The wings laced into her dress. All Ron had to do was pull the string in and out and tie it at the bottom of each wing. he tied each wing on slowly, but Jet was ticklish. She giggled the whole time. Ron's face was tinged with red.

Chapter Nine

The Halloween Ball

Everyone had settled and Dumbledore got up, "As you may know, the Committee of Teams is hosting today's ball once again," Everyone cheered, "Well, Professor Wood," Fiona giggled, "will introduce the first....activity, for lack of a better word...." Dumbledore said, passing the spotlight onto Wood, who was standing on a magically arranged stage made of the house tables.

"Okay, tonight we will be your entertainment. This ball, the boys from the Committee of Teams will have a vocal contest, at the end, you're the judge. The girls will compete next ball, but they will be part of the production. First, though, we will have a small costume contest, whoeer would like to join in, come up on stage...." Jet, Ronnie, Mya, Draco, Hermione, Blaise, Fiona and Wood stood on the stage, "No one else wants to be a part?" Fiona asked. Pansy pulled Jacques up the magically conjured stairs, "Okay," Wood shrugged, "whoever's name we hear the most of at the count of three will be the winner!"

Mya started to count,"One....Two....THREE!!"

"RON!" "DRACO!" It was a tie.

"Nice dress, mate," Ronnie laughed.

"What about you with your stockings? Training for the ballet?" Draco joked, smirking.

"Definite tie, everyone!" Jet said, before their joking could turn into a fight.

"All right, we're going to get ready for the production," Wood said.

Mya tapped the stereo with her wand and club music came pouring out of it, "You guys should be breakin' it out when we get back!" She threatened jokingly, "Oh, hey, this is my song!"

"Later, Mya," Jet pulled her off the stage.

"Aw, you ruin everything, I was gettin' my thing on," Mya laughed.

They all got ready and came back. Wood went on the stage, "All right, each one of us guys will sing solos, the girls will introduce us and dance to add to the song. Is everyone ready?"

"YA!" They screamed.

"Well, I didn't really hear that, maybe you could convince me better...."

"YA!!" They screamed louder.

"Now that was loud...." Wood laughed rubbing his ears, "Introducing...the lovely, the beautiful....Maria Diaz!"

Ronnie and Harry had to hold Draco back, "My girl..."

"He didn't mean it like that, mate...you should get out more...." Ronnie assured him.

Mya came on the stage.

"All right! Let's give it up for, my boo, Draco Malfoy!" Everyone cheered as Draco cam on stage. Mya went into a formation with Jet and Noni behind him. Hermione, Annie, and Pansy had rather not dance, so, they dealt with the backstage stuff.

Draco sang the muggle song, "Save Tonight," In tribute to Tony for Mya.

"All right, Draco," Jet clapped as she walked downstage," Now, I want you to say hey to mon amour, Ronald Weasley!" She ran back into formation with Mya and Noni.

Ronnie sang, "Bizarre Love Triangle."

"Let me hear you make some noise for RONNIE! YA! Next is Oliver, but you all know him as PROFESSOR WOOD!" Fiona said, going downstage to talk, and receding upstage and back into formation when Wood came up.

He sang, "One Week."

Annie came up on the stage to inroduce Harry, she came back down and Harry came up. He sang, "Smooth Criminal."

Next, Hermione came up to introduce Blaise. He went up and sang, "Everything You Want."

After him, Pansy was the last girl to introduce someone. She introduced Jacques, but she introduced him as "JJ," because it wasn't quite time for im to reveal himself to Jet, the plan was only starting to go underway.

Jacques sang, "Get Down Tonight," Jet became curious, but didn't really think on it.

"Oh that's charming, use the song that you two danced to on your first date!" Mya thought to herself. After he sang, Jet came downstage.

"Thanks, JJ, now we'll have the group production!" Jet said excitedly.

The girls partnered up in front of the stage and danced. Mya and Noni paired, Hermione and Annie paired, and Jet and Pansy paired. The boys started to sing "Bohemian Rhapsody."

Pansy decided to play with Jet's head, as was in the plan. Mya sensed some tension, so, she felt best to focus her attention on reading their minds.

"You know, Jet. I know a lot about you...and your....past...." She attempted to sound intimidating, but she failed.

"Ha ha, very funny....just dance, bitch," Jet said, stepping on her foot intentionally.

"Ouch! No, I'm serious!"

"I can cripple you, you know," Jet's eyes started to turn red. Mya's voice rung out in her head.

"Calm down, Jet, she's telling the truth...."

"All right...." her eyes were half red, half blue. She wasn't fully calm, "What do you know of my past, then....do tell," She almost hissed.

"Two words...." Pansy was enjoying this, "Jacques....Reparu,"

The music got faster.

Jet's eyes were completely red again, "How?!" Her face was tinged green, now. It seemed as if she was....growing fangs.

Pansy only shrunk back a little, but was determined to get her point across, "He's JJ,"

Jet roared, she shoved Pansy off her and went after Jacques.

"JET!" Noni and Mya ran up to her and held her back. Mya told Ronnie and Draco about Jacques with her mind in hopes that they would help restrain Jet. Instead, Ronnie grabbed him right when the song said:

"LET ME GO!...."

Jet broke loose of Noni and Mya. Ronnie and Jet were both taking turns punching him. Everyone thought it was part of the act. The song ended.

"Okay," Wood said, pulling Jet and Ron off Jacques. He walked with both of them downstage and put his arms around their shoulders, "The voting system's the same as when we voted for the costumes...." He squeezed Jet shoulder to make her eyes stop glowing red, her hair stop flying, her fangs to shrink to normal size, and her skin to turn porcelain white again. She did all these things, but was still hyperventhilating. Ronnies face was glowing red, the tips of his ears were so hot, that if you looked close enough, you could see steam rising from them.

The ball came to a close and everyone thought that the "production" was amazing.

"Why the hell were you two punching JJ?" Wood yelled at Jet and Ronnie as he slammed the door of his office.

"He's not JJ, he's Jacques...." Jet growled.

"Who's that?"

"That's what I'd like to know...." Ron said, crossing his arms, "All I got out of the whole thing was that JJ was Jacques and that he hurt Jet, but the rest....I've been wondering...."

"Jet, I have the right to give you detention if you don't tell me your motive....and Ron....if you don't know who he is....then why would you beat him up like that?"

"He hurt Jet, that's all that mattered...."

"Oh, Ronnie...." Jet went to hug him.

Ronnie brushed her off, "Don't Ronnie me until I know who Jacques is," Ronnie said, trying to be serious.

"All right....I usded to go out with Jacques....As a matter of fact, not long before we left France. You can say....I suppose....that he was the reason I did...."

"What'd he do to you!" Ron yelled, his knuckles white with strain.

She pulled his blazer off her shoulders and said and incantation. Black marks, in the shape of hands, appeared on her shoulders.

"He's a...." Wood couldn't believe it.

"He's a what?!"

"Ya....he's a demon...."

The next day Ronnie and Jet were inseparable, Ronnie wouldn't leave her side. Jet enjoyed the attention. It was Saturday, so, they figured they'd sit in the common room and play wizard's chess.

"You beat me again, Ronnie!" Jet giggled, repairing the majority of her pieces with a simple spell.

Hermione ran up to them, out of breath, "Hey, did you guys....I still think that's totally barbaric...."

Jet laughed, "What were you going to say, Hermione?"

"Didn't you guys hear?" They looked at her blankly, but she went on, "Every other day....instead of Potions...."

"Yes!"

"Don't say yes yet, Ron, trust me on that....we have to take Physical Education...."

"Physical?...." Ron gulped.

"Quidditch, stretching, jumping, you name it, we're doing it...."

"Let me guess, and Snape's our instrucor," Ronnie laughed.

"No...." Hermione looked at Jet with a worried expression, "It's a new professor...Professor Reparu...."

"Jacques' teaching?!"

"No, Ronnie....his dad is...." Jet's eyes glowed red.

Mya found Noni and ran up to her in the hallway, "Noni!"

"I know, Mya," Noni said gravely.

"But of course!....Noni....poor Jet...." Mya sighed.

"I sent Hermione to tell her since we can exactly go into the Gryffindor Common Room...and quite frankly....I don't trust Harry all to well...."

Mya's eyes turned yellow for a few seconds.

"What is it?"

"Jet and Ronnie know....they're coming around the corner in...3...2...1...."

Jet and Ronnie came stomping around the corner.

"Oh, your good...." Noni gaped.

"Jet...." Mya watched Jet walk past, "JET!" She read her mind, "DON'T! JET!"

"What could he do to me? I'm not letting him scar me again!" She said, turning around for a short second.

"I'm going with her....no one's going to hurt Jet and get away with it....not as long as I care...." Ronnie said, staying as close as he could to the enraged Jet.

Jet stopped and looked at Ron, "Ronnie, I've never seen you like this...." She smirked, "I like it...."

He blushed.

"Come in Jacques...." The dark figure said from his chair at the desk.

"Yes, father...." Jacques said, walking to him.

"I've been having a bad feeling and I want you to steer me right...." His father leaned in towards the candlelight so that his gloomy face could be seen, "Do you still love Brigitte?"

"N-no...." He lied.

"Do not lie to me!" He stood up, fire in his eyes. HIs hand was engulfed in flame.

"Y-yes...." He confessed.

"Then we'll just have to persuade her...." He played with the fire in his hand, smiling maliciously.

"But...she has a boyfriend...."

"Are you doubting me?"

"No, father, never...." Jacques smirked in evil delight.

"Jet....I know what to do....I'm gonna turn into a demon, all right?" Ronnie said, brushing his hair out of his face.

She nodded and kissed him on the cheek. He changed into a demon and knocked on the door.

"WAIT! I gotta hide!.....CEILING!" Jet panicked, but flew up to the ceiling just in time.

"Benoit?" Jacques seemed to know the demon that Ronnie was pretending to be.

"I knew I knew that face....what an asshole....Benoit the gay....oh no....RONNIE!" Jet thought to herself, panicking. She, and few others, knew that Jacques was bisexual and had a fling with Benoit. Jet wished she was invisible so that she could follow him in. Before Ronnie went in with Jacques he turned to wink at Jet, but didn't see her. He looked right at her.

"I'm invisible!" She quickly flew into the office.

"Father, look who it is! Remember Benoit?"

"My fool of a son...." He growled, "That's not Benoit, that is an imposter! And sweet Brigitte has dropped by...." Jet felt as if someone was strangling her. The invisibility seemed to melt off her as she grew shorter of breath.

"Father, NO!" Jet fell to the ground and gasped for breath.

"Just a little demonic play...." He droaned. He looked at Ronnie. Ronnie writhed in pain as if someone were ringing him out. He turned back into himself.

"Weasley.....I should have known....." Jacques hissed.

Mya could feel their pain. She knew they were in trouble, "Noni, Jet and Ronnie, on the double!" Draco just happened to be walking by. Mya grabbed his hand and pulled him to the side.

"Shhh....we have to help Jet and Ronnie...." Mya whispered. She cracked open the office door and peered in, "JET!" They ran in. Mya ran over to Jet and helped her up. Noni kept her eye on Professor Reparu. Draco pulled Ronnie up by his sweater effortlessly.

"Thanks, mate,"

"Eh," Draco shrugged it off.
"Mya, its your turn...." Noni predicted, keeping her eye on Reparu.

Mya picked Reparu up with her mind and threw him out the window, "That was too easy...."

"NO! This isn't what was supposed to happen!" Jacques yelled, his eyes glowing red.

"Well maybe...." Draco pushed him up against the wall by his collar, "you need to back off a little, then you might just get what you want....or something akin....."

"Well aren't you gonna use your wand....scar me?" Jacques smirked.

"First of all....that's my smirk....second of all....I prefer my hands...." Draco punched him once and he was knocked out. Noni took the liberty of hanging him on the coat hook by his hood.

"That's it...." She brushed off her hands, "for now...." She walked out of the office. Everyone looked at each other, shrugged, and just followed silently.

It was curious that Reparu didn't come back into the window, that he didn't just rise back in. It was only obvious that he was a demon, and demon's have that power. In fact, it's the simplest of demonic powers. What could he be playing at? (rhetorical)

Chapter Ten

Odette and the Ring of Remir

Hermione and Blaise went to Hogsmeade's Ice Cream Parlour on a date. They both ordered banana splits, but barely touched them, unlike Jet and Ronnie. Jacques came sauntering in like he owned the place. He pretended to be ordering ice cream when he put the vendor to sleep. He looked at Hermione he had been watching him.

"sleep...." He hissed under his breath. She nodded off into her ice cream.

"Hermione?" Blaise picked up her head. She was snoring.

"Oh, Blaise...." Blaise turned around, "sleep...."

The next thing Blaise knew he was in the clearing. He got up and brushed himself off.

"What happened," He moaned, rubbing his head. He saw that his world's door had been opened. He knew that Jacques must have used him to get in. This wasn't good. In Blaise's comics, Jacques' double was their archenemy.

"How'd you....." Blaise asked immediately once Jacques landed back in the clearing.

"Oh, my dad has his sources....the Dark Crusader?" He chortled, "Is that the best you could do?" He shrugged, "Well, thank you, and au revoir!" He blinked and he was gone. Blaise had run to school, he forgot Hermione was sleeping in her ice cream. "MYA!" Was the first person he saw, "Jacques...Dark Crusader...." He tried to catch his breath.

"Slow down, don't hurt yourself....Jacques went into his world, came out with Night Eyes and Near Invinsibility...."

"What's his weakness, then?" Draco asked.

"Jet...."

They were all sitting in Wood's office, just talking about random stuff, mostly discussing Jacques and his newly found powers. Wood quickly put his hands in his pockets and felt around his jacket.

"What's wrong?" Noni asked.

"The Ring of Remir is missing...."
"What's that?" Jet asked, snuggling with Ronnie. He kissed her head, smelling her sweet-scented hair. (haha)

"It weilds great power, hwen in the wrong hands, the whole world, sizarding and muggle, would be doomed...." Noni said.

"RIGHT! And Dumbledore trusted me with it....I'm gonna get fired...."

Mya's eyes glowed yellow for a second, "No....you're not....but he does impress that you find who took it nd get it back....he says its in our hands...."

"We?" Draco asked.

"Ya, we were all standing in his office...."

Her prediction came true. They walked out of Dumbledore's office with their heads held high.

"He called us noble," Ronnie said, with an air of cockyness. Jet giggled.

"It's definitely Reparu...he stole it..." Jet's eyes glowed red.

"Come on, Jet, save it," Mya nudged her with her elbow. Her eyes turned back.

"Do a little dance, make a little love, GET DOWN TONIGHT!" Jet started to sing out of no where.

"Jet? Wasn't that your song with...."

"GET DOWN GET DOWN GET DOWN GET DOWN GET DOWN TONIGHT BABY!" She started to break dance.

"Oh, I'm a little tea pot, short and stout, here is my handle here is my spout...." Ronnie started to perform, too.

"What's wrong with you guys?" Wood asked, amused and scared at the same time.....mostly amused, of course.

"There in a...." Before Fiona could finish her sentence, she started to dance around Wood, "I love that Wood, I cannot lie, you other girls can't deny, when my Wood walks in with his oh so handsome face, and his warm love and embrace I got S-" Wood held his hand over her mouth, "FIONA!"

Mya's eyes turned yellow, but before she could get anything, she started to sing and dance, "To the windoooooooow to the wall....."

Draco was adept in fighting off mind control, thanks to his dad. He was the only one left, besides Wood, who was pretending to be a part.

"....It's Christmas in Kilarney, with all of the folks at home....." He was doing an Irish jig that he used to do for his family on Christmas. (that thing you told me about, kitty) Jet stopped dancing. Fiona stopped dancing after Jet. Wood stopped dancing after Fiona. Mya stopped dancing after Wood. Ronnie stopped dancing....but kept singing.

"I'm a little tea pot!"

Jacques appeared out of nowhere, "Why aren't you joining the fun?" He asked Draco.

"Not my spot of tea...."

Jet walked up to Jacques and just stared at him longingly.

"Oh....your sick...." Draco knew she wouldn't do that.

"Oh I can be worse...." Jet went to kiss him.

"You're gonna wish you hadn't done that...." Draco warned.

Ronnie's Jet's-kissing-another-guy senses were tingling. He snapped out of his "Tea Pot" transe.

"MINE!" He yelled running and pushing Jacques on the floor. Everyone snapped out of their transes.

"EW!" Jet hugged Ronnie, "Thank you..." Jacques glowered at the picture of them hugging. He blinked and disappeared.

"I'm a little tea pot!"

"JACQUES!"

"Oh no, I just fancy that...." Ronnie laughed.

"Let's not deal with the ring just yet....I have a surprise everyone," Wood summoned Hermione, Blaise, Annie, Harry, Pansy and Jacques and blindfolded everyone magically.

"Draco, I want you to keep Jacques out of our minds," Wood said sternly.

"Um....okay...."

"Okay, everyone touch the portkey!" Everyone fuddled around trying to find it. Wood swished his wand again. Everyone's hand flew to the Portkey. Ron was far away, so he flew with his hand. THey all disappeared. When they reappeared, they were somewhere else. Wood magically took off their blindfolds.

"I know what this is!" Fiona said, smiling.

"Well, of course you do!" Jet said, looking around, "What is it?"

"Our own House!" Mya said, after reading Fiona's mind.

"Okay, that mind reading thing's just a little disturbing,"

"Sorry," Mya giggled.

"Our own house...." Ronnie stopped to daydream.

"RONNIE! Woah! I didn't know you thought like that...." Mya screeched, semi-disgusted.

"Oooooooh! What was Ronnie thinking?!" Ronnie blushed. Mya grabbed Jet's hand and transfered her thoughts to her.

"RONNIE!"

"Sorry, Jet...." He looked down, embarassed.

Jet pushed him on the couch and made out with him. He wasn't expecting that, but he didn't mind it one bit. Everyone just kind of turned around and pretended they didn't know that they were making out. Jacques watched them maliciously. Jet started to float off of Ron.

"JACQUES! PUT ME DOWN!" Jet yelled.

"Ya, Jacques put her down....right here," Ronnie held out his arms as if she were going to fall any second.

"Ya, come on, Jacques," Annie mocked.

"Annie!" Jet felt insulted.

Annie walked over to Jacques and kissed him.

"JACQUES! That's gross, you pervert!" Harry was disgusted.

"Excusez-moi, queer, she's doing it to me for your information,"

"What do you mean by queer, you MALADROIT....IGNORAMUS!"

"Oooooh, hope your cock's as big as your vocabulary," Annie mocked.

"Damn girl, you need some attitude adjustment...." Mya said all up in her face.

"Ya, Annie....please...." Jet put her hands over her eyes.

"STOP CALL ME THAT! The names ODETTE!"

"What?"

"I'm not a veela, stupid, and I'm not your sister....thank GOD for that...."

"Your a ......"

"DEMON, Delacour, GET THE PICTURE?"

"Are you PMSing or is that your personality?" Fiona catted.

"Oh, snap...." Mya said.

"You better stop while your ahead...." Annie said, flashing a ruby red ring on her finger.

"The ring of Remir...." Wood gasped.

"Oh, yes, and I can do a lot of things with this....:" Wood floated off the floor and was by Jet.

"Hello, Wood, isn't the view lovely?" She joked.

"Oh yes, and from down there too...you should really hold onto your skirt...."

"Oh!" She pulled her skirt up, "How's that?!"

Ronnie stared open-mouthed.

"Catching flies Weasley?" Jacques joked. Ronnie glared at him.

Later on that day, once Jacques and Odette had blinked away, the Committee of Teams decided to start to take advantage of their own new house.

"Hey, what should we call ourselves?" Harry asked, throwing himself backwards into a lounge chair.

"Slytheravendoruffs!" Jet tried, giggling.

"Um...no..." Ron laughed.

"Ya, Committee of Teams House is sort of boring, isn't it...." Wood thought.

"Ya....how about....no...that won't work...." Blaise tried.

"Well, why don't we think of our animal first...." Mya suggested.

"Ya, that's smart, that'll help us think of the name," Draco said.

"How about a hippogriff, like our old pal Buckbeak?" Hermione suggested, smiling at Harry. Blaise shot a jealous look at him.

"That could work," Harry smiled, thinking about his godfather.

"That bloody bird..." Draco scowled.

"Draco, you've got to admit it was awful stupid of you to insult it after Hagrid had warned the whole class," Ron half-laughed, remembering their first Care of Magical Creature's lesson with Hagrid as their professor.

Draco shrugged.

"Let's not use a hippogriff, to easy to confuse it with Gryffindor, or even Hufflepuff," Mya said.

"Right..." Noni said.

"What about a stag?" Harry asked, remembering his patronus, and then his father's animagus.

"Brilliant...." Ron said.

"Not quite..." Noni said, she knew what it was to be, but she thought it best for them to think it up on their own.

"I've got it!" Hermione screeched, standing up, "Our animal should be a wolf and we should call ourselves...."

"Wolvensoir..." Jet interrupted.

"Not exactly what I was thinking, but I like it..." Hermione smiled.

"Good job thinking up the animal, Hermione. That's not half bad, Jet. I like that extra French twist you put to it. So the fifth house, outside Slytherin, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw, is Wolvensoir," Wood declared.

"What does swer mean?" Ronnie asked.

"Soir," Jet corrected, "Means night in French,"

"Oh, I get it,"

"Finally, I thought you'd never figure it out!" Noni said relieved.

"Hey, that's not very nice!" Ron said, offended.

"No, I didn't mean.... oh, nevermind,"

The next day, Sunday, Harry got a letter. Hedwig flew out of the Wolvensoir common room, where everyone had been stumbling down to, still in their pajamas.

"Nice hair guys," Harry said as they all sat down.

"What are you doing up so early," Ron yawned.

"Early? It's nearly eleven," Harry laughed.

"Whatchya got there, Harry?" Blaise asked.

"It's a letter from Sirius Black," Noni said, bored.

"You've really got to cut that out," Blaise said.

"Oh, hush," Noni said, "Go ahead, Harry, read it aloud,"

Harry read:

Dear Harry,

Oh, it's been so long! I just wanted you to know that Dumbledore has decided to let me come to Hogwarts again. I'm a free man now, and Buckbeak is a free....whatever he is. Dumbledore said he has a job for me, wonder what it is, but we'll know in soon time. He said that Buckbeak could be a good help around there, too. Oh, I can't wait to walk through those doors again, and this time, as a free man!

And another thing before I bring this letter to a close, Harry, you no longer have to bother with those Durleys. You and I have a home waiting for us when the summer holidays commence. I'm so delighted and hope that you are, too.

See you soon,

Your Godfather,

Sirius Black

"Harry, that's wonderful!" Hermione exclaimed.

"I know..." Harry daydreamed.

"Wait there's more," Noni said, "Go on, Harry, don't keep us waiting!" She rushed.

"Oh, yes, Professor Lupin also sent me a letter telling me that he's found a society where he's welcome,"

"And where's that? The Society of Werewolves?" Draco laughed.

"Actually, yes. It's not far from my new summer home,"

"That really is brilliant, Harry," Ron said, happy for him.

"Oh, yes, brilliant...." Jet said, falling asleep on Ron's shoulder.

When they all 'woke up' and got bathed and clothed, they went down to Hogsmeade.

"Brunch at the Boar's Head, on me!" Wood said, opening the door, "Ladies first,"

"Thanks," They said.

When they all settled at the table, Madame Rosmerta came up to them.

"And what should I get you dears?" She asked them.

"A round of butterbeers?" Wood asked them.

They nodded.

"All right the usually round and the brunch special for the lot," Wood said.

"You got it," She said, bustling over to the kitchen.

They enjoyed their brunch and butterbeers and decided to walk around outside.

Jacques and Odette were walking arm in arm.

"Don't make eye contact," Jet whispered.

"Well, well, if it isn't the Committee of Teams...." Jacques said, his voice cold and sharp.

"Bonjour, my sister, nice day for a stroll?" Odette cackled.

"You are not my sister!" Jet's eyes turned red, her hair flying. She still refused to make any sort of contact with them.

"Oh, isn't that a pity...."

"You guys, now would be a good time to run...." Noni said, grabbing Wood's hand.

"Oh, you know-it-all!" Jacques yelled. Noni flew back.

Mya's eyes turned yellow, "Get out of my mind!" Jacques screamed holding his head and falling to his knees, trying hard to push her out. Her mind was to powerful.

"Stop!" He yelled.

"How does it feel?" She growled. "How does it feel for your fears to come to mind, clearer than the day!"

"NO! JET! Don't do it....I love you...."

"That's ENOUGH!" Jet went on fire. Ronnie flipped out.

"JET!"

"Don't worry, Ron, Jet's a firestarter," Noni told him, limping back to the group.

"A what?!" Ron squealed.

"Oh, sister, why harm those who love you. All he wants is to love you, he never wanted to HURT you," Odette cackled.

Mya's eyes turned back to their natural moonshine. Jacques had pushed her out of his head. Draco fell to her side.

"Come on, Jet, kill me. Kill me like you killed your brother!"

Her fire went out. She fell to the floor and began to cry.
"Oh that's just peachy, Jacques! Bring up what you REALLY did. She didn't do it, you killed him,"

"Oh, so it seems, but it was her fire that engulfed him and her fire that exfixiated him and then killed him!"

"But you intentionally HURT her to get her to fire up. You did it to get her to kill her brother...."

"Lovely conclusion, Noni, very good. You're smarter than you look....quite...."

"Why did you kill him anyway!" Jet cried.

"Why did I? He only reminded you that I am a demon...the bugger kept you from coming BACK!"

"I would have never come back if someone paid me!"

"Is that so, sister. So it seemed....until I reminded you of when he saved your life and nearly lost his...." Odette reminded her.

"How DARE you call me SISTER!" Jet went up in fire again. Odette stepped back, fear filling her face.

"Jet! NO!" Ronnie yelled out, running to her. She turned around and when she saw him, her flame turned to cold smoke.

"AH!" Jacques yelled. Jet and Ronnie flew away from each other, crashing to the ground, "STOP! I won't have it!"

"You must, Jacques, it was never meant to be...." Hermione said softly out from behind Blaise.

"WHO ASKED YOU, MUDBLOOD!"

"I am SICK of being called that, you know!" Hermione cast rictusempra on him, walking closer, quickly.

"Hermione!" Harry yelled. She hadn't heard him.

"I could very well cast the death spell....but I don't even think that you're worth that!" She pointed her wand at him, her hand steady, her face stone.

"Jacques, let's talk about this over some tea," Jet hissed, slowly getting up.

"Yes, anything," He said, stumbling over to her.

"He's mental, he is," Ron said.

"Hermione!" Blaise ran over to her.

"Oh, how precious...Uh," Odette was not at all amused, Blaise flew over by Ron and crashed into the ground.

"That is quite enough!" Wood said, "How dare you act in such away, and in front of a professor, nonetheless.

Odette and Jacques both held out their hands and Wood rose into the air, "And that changes it because," They both said. Wood was thrown so far, he landed on the front lawn of the Shrieking Shack. Noni started to cry.

"Oh, no, he's not...." Mya said.

"Yes he is...." Noni cried.

Mya told Jet with her mind.

"You two killed him!" Jet screamed.

And, but no other than Cornelius Fudge walked out of the Boar's Head with Rosmerta crying at his side.

"And we saw...." He said grimly.

"It's to Azkaban, the both of you!" Noni cried.

Chapter Eleven

Malladora Babies

Noni sat in the gardens with Jet and Mya by her sides. They comforted her the best they could, but no one could mend her broken heart. Her face was streaked with her mascara. She wasn't crying anymore, she had cried her maximum. It was as if her eyes had dried out. Hermione was picking at a bush, feeling out of place. Harry, Ron, Draco, and Blaise all slumped over to them.

"Hermione, let's leave them to it...." Blaise said, holding out his hand, she took his hand and walked away with him, watching their friends as they faded in the distance.

Hermione knew Wood, but not as well as everyone else had. She was always too caught up in her studies to listen to Wood carry on about his Quidditch. Harry and Ron knew him better. Wood was Harry's mentor in Quidditch and Ron just loved to listen in on his Quidditch secrets, since Ron fancied the game himself. Jet and Mya felt Noni's pain. The empty aching in the pit of their hearts. Noni had lost that person who really understood her. The one that was always there. The one....she couldn't think about it anymore....it just hurt her more to think on what he'd done for her.

Harry pat Jet on the shoulder, "May I?" He gestured to Noni.

"Oh, yes....here...." Jet got up and walked over to Ronnie. All Ron could think to do was to hug her and never let her go.

Harry sat down next to Noni and took her hand. Noni looked into his eyes. A warm feeling swept over her, "H-Harry...."

"Shhhh....I'm here for you...." Noni embraced him, crying into his chest. He rubbed her back, silent tears rolling off his rosy cheeks.

Draco grabbed Mya's hands and pulled her up from beside Noni. They tip-toed out of the gardens, hand in hand. Mya looked back once, but felt it was safe to leave Noni in Harry's protection.

Jet looked up at Ronnie, "I think we should leave them alone....they need some time to themselves...." She said, her eyes glossy with sadness. He nodded and they followed the blurry figures of Mya and Draco, which were already approaching the steps back into the castle.

It was now in the end of November. Professor Reparu had been made the Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher. The Physical Education period had been made into a study hall until further notice. They went to breakfast, that fifteenth of December, and waited for Dumbledore to speak. The Committe had not been able to put together a ball last month because they did not have a supervisor to keep their thing running. Dumbledore had assured them that the new Physical Education Teacher that he was going to hire would be the supervisor for them and the Committee could come out of their two weeks hiatus.

Dumbledore stood up and outstretched his arms, "Students, I am pleased to inform you that we have been able to hire a new Physical Education Teacher....Professor Delacour!"

"FLEUR!" Jet screamed out, standing up and waving to her cousin. Fleur saw her and smiled at her. Ron pulled her back down.

"People are staring, love...." He was tinged red.

After breakfast, Harry walked up to Noni. It seemed like forever, the time it took him to reach her. He kept thinking about what he was going to say. He wanted to impress her. He only could hope that his words would come as easily as his love for her had. He tapped her on the shoulder.

"Oh, hello, Harry," She looked at him. His face seemed to give her comfort.

"I've been thinking about this a long time...." He started, probably not the best opener, but he was nervous. He had the right to be casual.

She was glowing. She had a funny feeling as of what he was going to ask her.

"I was wondering if you wanted to take our strong relationship to the next level....I mean....since...." He started out well, but then he started to ruin it.

She interrupted him before it got any worse.

"I-I'd like to be your girlfriend," She blushed. He smiled out of relief, brushing his hair ouf of his face.

They had all gotten their Malladora babies in November, when Pooky gave birth to her litter. They had yet to name them.

"Ronnie, what should we name our baby Malladora?" Jet asked, looking down at the bird in her arms. It's green eyes were wandering.

"Well, she's a cute little thing....you should name her...."

"Um....well, since it's almost Christmas....and her eyes are green....Let's name her Noel, after Christmas,"

"I like it," Ronnie smiled.

Dumbledore had allowed them to bring their baby Malladoras to their classes because Hagrid kept telling him, "But sir, you can' leave them alone for too long!" Noel sat in front of Jet on her desk, playing with Ronnie's roll of parchment.

"No no, Noel, daddy needs that," Jet shook her finger in her face and took the roll of parchment. Noel started to cry.

"It's all right, mum," Ronnie laughed, "It's not like I use it anyway,"

"All right, here you go Noel," Jet gave it back. Noel stopped crying and resumed ripping the parchment to shreds. They were in Charms with Professor Flitwick. Jet, Ronnie, Mya, Draco, Blaise, Hermione, Noni, and Harry all had this class together. Draco and Mya came in with, their Malladora perched on Draco's head.

Draco looked up, "I would normally shoo a bird who was messing up my hair, but she's too cute," Draco laughed, his soft side showing.

"What did you name yours?" Jet asked Mya.

"Dora.... I know it's so unoriginal, but I like that name," She said, sitting down next to her friend.

Fiona walked in with Harry. They became parents together because their original pairs were unavailable and, they had grown to fancy each other.

"Quit it! HAROLD!" Fiona yelled at her Malladora.

"You name it after Harry?" Ronnie laughed.

"Why not?" Harry asked, sort of offended.

Ron shrugged and turned his head away from Harry so that he wouldn't see him laughing.

Blaise and Hermione came running in, Hermione after Blaise, "BLAISE! It's a baby....he can't hurt you! I think it's darling how fast he learned to fly!" It was true, their Malladora took after Hermione's knack for learning fast. He flew in over Blaise's head. Blaise clamped his hands down on his head as if he was afraid the bird was going to scratch him up or something, "REALLY, Blaise!" Hermione yelled, holding out her arms for the bird to come to her. The malladora flew over to Hermione and landed in her arms. It purred, "That's my Pippin...." Hermione baby talked to it.

Professor Flitwick came in and started the class.