Disclaimer: If I owned Harry Potter, Draco and Ginny would be together (Or Draco would be mine) so…since that's not the case, I obviously don't own it.
AN: Hope you all enjoy this chapter, I know the story's going pretty slow, but it'd be unlikely Draco and Ginny would get together quickly….
Chapter 8:
October 31st 7:00am
I've been up for two hours, that's how anxious I am for today. The others probably won't be ready to go down to breakfast for at least an hour, although if I'm lucky Ginny will show up in my room soon and go down early with me. She's going to the dance as friends with Zabini, she said she didn't want to go with a "date" because she'd have more fun if she could dance with all her friends and not have to worry about a guy getting jealous and ruining her night. That makes sense to me, but for me this night will be better because Ron's my date, not just my friend. I've been waiting a long time for Ron to finally see me as girlfriend material, and he finally has. Ginny talked us into doing the matching costumes idea; we narrowed it down to a few different ones, so we'll see which one looks the best. Harry asked Luna, shocked everyone pretty good, except Ginny. She seemed to already know it was going to happen. Sometimes I wonder if she's secretly a seer. Not that I believe much in Divination, but even Professor McGonagall has said there have been true seers, they're just far and few between. And with how intuitive she is on things like who'll be coupled up for the dance, it makes me wonder. Oh, there's a knock at my door, probably Ginny. I'll write more, later, maybe after the ball.
Love,
Hermione
October 31st 7:00am
Today's the ball, it should be fun. I decided to ask Blaise if he'd go with me, just as friends of course. Since he also didn't want to be held down by the responsibility of a date, he agreed. So we'll show up together, probably dance together at some point, and maybe sit at the same table. But we'll be free to do our own thing without having to worry that the other will get upset with us for not spending every moment with them. I think I'm going to go to the dance as a devil, I found a great costume. But if it doesn't look good when I try it on, I have some other ideas. Well, time to go see if 'Mione is up. I'm sure she is. She always gets up real early when she's nervous.
Love,
Ginny
October 31st 4:00pm
We just got back from Hogsmeade, talk about crowded. EVERYONE was in town today. At least it seemed that way. They were prepared though, instead of just having everyone crowd into the costume shop, they had signs directing everyone to a field nearby that had huge tents everywhere. The tents had all the costumes setup inside and changing rooms set up as well. It made things much less hectic. Me and 'Mione had already picked out a few costume ideas, so we just had to show one of the sales ladies the catalog pictures of the costumes we wanted and she could flick her wand and hand them over. It made things go a lot quicker. We got to do other things in town, since we had extra time waiting for everyone else. 'Mione was having a hard time deciding on which costume she liked best, she wouldn't show me any of them. Even though we got matching ones. Ginny insisted it'd be better if I saw her for the first time in her costume after she was completely made up. So Ginny kept going between our rooms and telling Hermione which ones were best. In the end we ended up getting the knight and princess set. I'm happy I got the knight instead of the prince. Ginny laughed so hard when she saw me in the prince costume that she started choking. But the knight is actually pretty cool. Ginny was the last person to finish shopping, since she spent so much time helping us. I thought Harry had gone shopping with Luna, but apparently Luna had the same idea as Gin, she didn't want Harry seeing her in costume till tonight. I still can't believe he asked Luna, she's so weird. I never thought he'd invite her as his date. Ginny said she knew it'd happen eventually. She scares me sometime with how often she's right. Oh, there's Harry. He went down to the kitchens for a snack while we play Wizards Chess. The girls are already getting ready. The ball doesn't start for 3 hours, why are they starting so soon!
-Ron
October 31st 4:00pm
Well, Hogsmeade sure was a pain today. Blaise and I went together to pick up our costumes. He convinced me to get a Devil costume. He was SO insistent. It turned out to look pretty good on me, so I gave in. I hope the ball tonight isn't too dull; I decided to bring Blaise's sister, Kira, as my 'date'. Since we're not really going as a couple we decided there was no reason to get costumes that matched or anything. I'm more like her escort. I wonder what Ginny will be going as. Blaise told me he was going as her escort, then not so subtly hinted that I should hang out with them. Maybe ask her to dance. Yeah. Like I need the overprotective weasel trying to rip me apart tonight. Although…it might be worth the risk. He'll be distracted by Granger anyways.
-Draco
October 31st 5:30pm
Today is the ball. Susan just picked out some great costumes. We're going to go as Cleopatra and Cesar. I think that's a great costume idea. The common room is so empty today. Harry and Ron said it's because all the girls disappeared upstairs no later than 4. And nobody has seen any of them since. I should probably give myself at least an hour to get ready. I don't want to be late picking up Susan, just because I messed up putting my costume on and had to start over. Although I will have Ginny's help, so I'm not too worried. She's the only girl who's not worried about any of the guys seeing her in her costume before the ball. So she agreed to come help the guys who needed it with their costumes. She's going to come up to our dorm at 6:30. I heard she's going to the ball with the Slytherin, Blaise Zabini. He's not too bad a guy, helped me with a potions essay once. But his best friend is none other than Draco Malfoy. I'm not worried about Ginny though, she can handle Malfoy. I mean she grew up with 6 older brothers, not any brothers either, Weasleys. She can handle anything.
-Neville
October 31st 6:30pm
Well, half an hour to go. I wonder how Luna looks. I bet her costume's great. She's so creative after all. I'm mostly ready. Just waiting my turn with Ginny. She's doing last minute touchups with our costumes. I'm going as a pirate. I think my costume looks good on me. Ginny said I should do the "Jack Sparrow Look", in other words….wear eyeliner. She's usually pretty good at this kind of stuff, so I'm going to trust her. Right now she's helping Ron with his costume. He's a knight. I'm next, then Neville. Neville is so nervous he put his costume on backwards the first time. It was pretty amusing. Ginny looks great. She's going as a devil….or would it be a she-devil. Her costume is beautiful. If Ron wasn't so distracted by his nervousness about his date with Hermione, he'd probably tell her that her outfit was inappropriate, and insist she changed. Although her costume isn't inappropriate, she just looks too good, and Ron wouldn't want all the guys staring at his sister. It's a good thing, because I don't really want to be present at yet another fight between those two about this ball. He flipped out when he found out that she'd asked Zabini to be her escort to the dance. They're just going as friends, and Blaise really isn't that bad a guy, despite his choice in best friends. Speaking of Malfoy, he's been kind of weird lately. We haven't had to deal with him and his lame insults nearly as much as usual. And when we were partnered in DADA the other day, we were actually being civil. I was almost enjoying being his partner. Wonder what's up with him.
-Harry
AN: Sorry it's not longer, I was going to write about what they wrote after the Ball in this chapter, but I just didn't feel like writing anymore today. So you'll have to wait till the next chapter. Sorry.
Hope you enjoyed it, please review….good or bad, I'd like to know what ya'll think. Thanx!