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The Space of Princess (Shall we dance?)

It was the day of the annual Yule Ball and the school was abuzz with anticipation. Hermione and Sillenna had refused to let the guys see their dresses or give them even a hint of what they looked like except to tell them what color tie and cummerbund to get. The teachers had let the upperclassmen out of their classes early so they could get ready for the Ball. Hermione, Sillenna, Melanie, and Julie were all in their room getting ready. Hermione had found a spell that would temporally disguise the marks on Sillenna's back, and Julie had agreed to do the other girls hair when they had found out she spent her summers working in her mother's salon. She did Hermione's hair in a big bun with small ringlets framing her face and two gorgeous butterfly clips wrapped around her bun so that their wings touched at the tips. She took the two front pieces of Sillenna's hair and twisted them back with a delicate silver chain to set off her silver flecks and clipped them together with a small sparkling clip. After thanking her a millions times over and over the girls set down to doing their makeup. Halfway through doing her makeup, Sillenna happened to look up at Hermione. Her eyes grew wide.

"Uh, Mione…" she said.

"Yeah?"

"You have a big smear of eye shadow all over your neck."

"WHAT?" Hermione exclaimed as she began frantically wiping it off. "That would have been major embarrassing."

"That's what I'm here for." Sillenna said with a smile.

"Thanks." Hermione smiled back and they went back to their makeup. Sometime later when they were all done and had put on their dresses and checked their makeup and hair half a dozen times Sillenna exclaimed; "Well I think I'm finally ready."

"Me too." Hermione said checking the mirror one last time. The two girls headed down the stairs together, squeezing each other's hands for support. When they came in view of the common room, they saw a whole gang of Gryffindor boys waiting on their dates. They scanned the room and found Harry and Ron talking nervously to some other guys by the fireplace. One of the boys they were talking to caught sight of the girls and nudged Harry and Ron. At the sight of the two girls their eyes nearly popped out of their head and their jaws hit the floor with a thud. Somehow they managed to stumble over to the girls without falling.

"Wow." Harry said looking Sillenna up and down.

"Bloody hell, Hermione, you look amazing!" Ron exclaimed making Hermione turn deep red.

"You look good too Ron." She replied. Sillenna simply smiled at Harry warmly.

"Looks like we're the first ones down." She said looking around the common room.

"Yeah." Ron replied following her gaze.

"Shall we?" Harry asked offering his arm.

"We shall." Sillenna said taking it. The two couples left the common room and walked slowly through the halls enjoying the quiet and each other's company. When they got to the Great Hall, they found a table and sat talking quietly and admiring the decorations. Over the next ten to fifteen minutes everyone trickled into the room and found a place to sit. One of the teachers got up and said a few words but Sillenna was too preoccupied with her own thoughts to pay attention. When the music started Sillenna jumped nervously.

"You ok?" Harry asked

"Yeah, just scared the hebejebes out of me." She said with a laugh. Harry looked from her to the dance floor, back to her. He stood up and offered his hand.

"Would you like to dance?" he asked.

"I'd love to." She said taking his hand and allowing herself to be guided out onto the dance floor. As they moved around the room, Sillenna felt herself slowly melt into Harry's arms. She felt so perfect here. As if reading her thoughts, Harry pulled her in tighter.

"You smell good." He whispered and she chuckled softly.

"So do you." She whispered back. After dancing for a while, Sillenna looked over and noticed that Hermione was having trouble getting Ron to dance with her. She motioned for Harry to follow her and headed in their direction.

"Ron dance with the girl." Harry said. Ron just mumbled incoherently under his breath.

"Well if you won't…" Sillenna puffed out her chest and said in a deep voice. "…I will." She swaggered over to Hermione and asked in her fake masculine voice. "Would ya like to dance?" Hermione giggled and began batting her eye lashes at Sillenna.

"Oh, I'd LOOVE to!" she giggled. The two began dancing around with Sillenna acting like an over buff male and Hermione giggling and batting her eyes some more. Everyone around them burst into laughter at the sight of the two. After a bit of this Ron walked up to the couple and tapped Sillenna on the shoulder.

"May I cut in?" he asked and Sillenna nodded. To everyone's surprise, Ron grabbed Sillenna instead of Hermione and began twirling her around the room. The stunned look on Hermione's face only called everyone to burst into further laughter. Ron stopped dancing with Sillenna and walked over to Hermione and wrapped her up in a hug.

"Sorry, Mione." He said. "I couldn't resist."

"I'll forgive you, IF you dance with me!" Hermione said.

"Alright." Ron said and allowed himself to be dragged onto the dance floor. The rest of the dance was a dream come true. Everyone was dancing and having a great time and Draco only smirked at them half the time. As the dance came to a close and everyone filtered out of the Great Hall, the four friends headed to their table in the front of the room to gather their things.

"I hope you all enjoyed yourselves." They turned to find their headmaster smiling kindly at them.

"Oh, very much." Sillenna said. Dumbledore began chatting happily with them when Lupin came over and congratulated Hermione and Sillenna for the best dancing duo he'd seen all night making them all laugh again.

"Well we better you young people get to bed." Dumbledore said. The others looked around and noticed that the last of the other students were heading out the door. Only a few seconds after they had disappeared out of sight the group still in the Great Hall heard screams and running feat. Without even thinking, they all rushed toward the door, ready to do battle, but before they could get there, the cause of the screams came to them. A small yellow and orange, clarinet shaped creature with reptilian shaped legs that were yellow and skinny like a chicken's came waddling through the door. The larger end was apparently the mouth and it was full of hundreds of tiny tentacles. (Think Alice in Wonderland) Everyone froze at the sight of the weird creature.

"What in the world?" Ron asked looking to Dumbledore and Hermione for an answer.

"I'm not sure Mr. Weasly." Dumbledore responded shocking everyone present. Hermione indicated that she had no idea.

"It's a Hignoria." They all turned to see a pale Sillenna staring at the creature with a stunned look on her face.

"A what?" Ron asked but she never got to answer for it seemed that the sound of it's name motivated the creature to act and it raced across the floor toward Sillenna, launched itself through the air, and attached itself to her throat.

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