Chapter 4: TOGA! TOGA!
It was a hot day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Professor Slughorn was teaching them all to make cooling potions to help with the extreme heat of the day. However, Severus Snape was not listening to a single word this buffoon was telling them. Severus already knew way too much about potions to be bothered by him today. For today, Snape had something else on his mind. What might that be you ask? Well it was his birthday of course!
Yes indeed, Snape's birthday. Even the heat of the day couldn't bother him on his special day. He loved his birthday. Most of the time Bella and him spent the day underneath the tree by the lake snogging. It was a tradition in his eyes and he was really looking forward to it.
Snape's attention was drawn only for a moment when that stupid Potter boy's potion blew up in his and that god awful Sirius Black's face. Instead of being scared that their faces were going to melt off, they were merely rolling on the floor with laughter. Fools.
Soon, however, potions was indeed over, and Snape and Bella headed out of the classroom discussing about how they were one day going to take over the world. It was lunch and Snape and Bella headed for the Great Hall to have sandwiches. They loved sandwiches. Especially ones with Dijon mustard. They both loved Dijon mustard. Why they like Dijon mustard you ask? Well I'll let your imaginations figure that one out.
Bella and Snape were sitting with their good friends Narcissa and Macnaire. Randomly, Bella said something that made milk come out of Severus's' nose.
"Snape dearest," Bella began nicely, "I think this year instead of our usual snogging, we should throw a toga party." Snape's reaction was, well, not what anyone expected. Like I said earlier, milk came out of his nose.
"BUT WE ALWAYS SNOG!" Snape yelled so that the whole Great Hall stopped and starred at the Slytherin table. Snape couldn't believe it. It just wasn't possible! How could he not have a birthday where they didn't snog! It was unreal! He was just about to tell Bella this, when Macnaire cut in.
"Look. A toga party would liven things up. I mean come on, who hasn't wanted to go to a toga party?" He looked around for encouragement. Luckily, all of the Slytherins are obsessed with toga parties. So they naturally all nodded in agreement.
"Then it's settled then." Narcissa said smiling and pushing her long blonde hair over her shoulder, "We will have a toga party here in the Great Hall at 7:00."
And with that, all of the Slytherins got up and left. Unknown to all of the Slytherins, word of the party started to spread throughout the school like wildfire. This may have been because of a certain marauder, by the name of James Potter, hiding underneath the table of the Slytherins, trying to get away from McGonagall. He overheard the whole thing and decided that it just wouldn't be fair of Severus to not have the biggest bash of the century in his honor. James went and told his good friends Sirius and Remus all about the party and the three of them told everyone in the common room, all the paintings, ghosts, even some of the owls, if they would sit still and listen long enough. By seven o'clock, word was out to everyone and slowly but surely all of the school was dressed in togas and heading to the Great Hall.
Back in the Slytherin dormitories, Snape was trying to choose between two identical looking bed sheets to use as a toga. One was a slightly off white color while the other one was Egyptian cotton. He decided to go with the Egyptian cotton ones because they just felt so darn nice on his chest.
"And now for the final touch" He thought to himself, "A green wreath to go on top of my head." He placed it lovingly on top of his head and proceeded to check himself out in the mirror. He was so darn sexy.
He met up with the rest of the Slytherins in the Great Hall and proceeded to party. Bella wanted to get him a present to commence his birthday. She had bought him a snake, a beautiful long sleek snake. The only problem was that the snake would only respond to them if they said 'snake'. Snape decided to name his treasured snake after himself, he named the snake: Super Sexy Snape Snake.
Snape was break dancing with Bella and Narcissa, when suddenly they heard people entering the Great Hall.
DAMN IT ALL! Thought Snape suddenly to himself , "It's that no good Potter and his lousy friends." However, it was getting worse, not only was it Potter and Black, but soon Hufflepuffs were showing up and wait! No that couldn't be! IT IS! Snape thought suddenly to himself. Horrific flashes passed Snape's mind and he felt like he was going to scream. It was professor Slughorn, himself, in a toga.
After about ten minutes, the whole school had gathered in the Great Hall and everyone was dancing with each other in togas. Even some of the paintings came wearing togas. The ghosts all sat towards the entry way marveling at the young students and their togas.
Sirius Black and James Potter were dancing with roughly 17 girls, all wearing togas. Remus was making out with some random girl in the corner. Snape himself was getting slightly tipsy. He was drinking some of the punch, but that's not right. There is no alcohol in punch…is there?
Suddenly Bella came over with extremely rosy cheeks and was singing happy birthday, badly i might add, to Snape. She hiccupped and started making out with the birthday boy.
Snape pushed her off and looked at her. She was completely and totally smashed. What was going on? Suddenly from across the room he saw Sirius and James laughing and pulling out two very large bottles of Firewhiskey. They proceeded to pour it into the punch. They quietly snuck off as if nothing happened and proceed to make out with two girls from Ravenclaw.
Anger jetted through Snape like a lightening bolt. How on earth could they do this on his birthday! They didn't even like each other! But the more he was looking at Bella's longing look to make out with him, the more he started to reconsider. Perhaps, this wasn't such a bad thing after all.
The party was in full swing by the time it hit midnight. Everyone was slightly tipsy and happily dancing away with everyone around them. The highlight of the evening was when Snape and Professor Slughorn decided to show off their superior break dancing skills. They were just about to spin on their heads, when the door to the Great Hall banged open and there stood Professor McGonagall and the headmaster himself.
From somewhere in the back, he heard Sirius and James whisper to each other, "BUSTED!"
McGonagall looked as if she was ready to start handing out suspensions. No one was moving. Professor Dumbledore, however, was looking very confused. It took a few seconds for Severus to realize that Professor Dumbledore was not wearing robes. He was in fact wearing disco dancing clothing. He was looking around at all of the students wearing togas with a slight smile on his face.
Professor McGonagall was yelling at all of the students when suddenly Dumbledore silenced her with his wand and asked all of the students very calmly, "You mean to tell us that this isn't the Gryffindor disco?"
All of the students merely starred when suddenly Sirius shouted from the back of the room, "No this isn't the disco. That was last month. THIS month is Snivellus's birthday bash and it's a toga themed party."
Dumbledore smiled and said to them all, "Well then. LET'S PARTY ON SHALL WE!"
All of the students were stunned but parted as Dumbledore started up the music again and began to dance with Professor Slughorn. It was indeed the oddest thing any of them had ever seen. Many of the students that night wondered how Dumbledore knew about the party, many of them came up with the same conclusion: Dumbledore never sleeps.
The party went on and Severus got in his snogging time with his beloved Bella. Severus quietly left at around 5:30 in the morning and headed back to the Slytherin common room. Severus passed many people either passed out on the floor or making out with people in random corridors. Snape fell asleep in his bed early in the morning while still wearing his toga. It was after all rather fun wearing a toga.
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