Disclaimer: Most of the characters belong to J.K. Rowling but with a few that I have created as well. The plot is one of my original ideas since this has sorta happened to me, not the entire story but most of it.
The Holiday Ball
by bloomingfelton
Chapter 2: A Marvelous Dress
"Hermione! Hermione, come back to earth." Fingers snapped in front of Hermione's face.
"Sorry, Danielle, what were you saying?" Hermione asked as she looked up to Danielle Carthier standing in front of a huge mirror holding up two beautiful dress robes in her hands.
"I was asking you which one you thought looks better? Brown or red?"
Hermione paused. The brown was not the same color as Danielle's beautiful straight Brown hair but the red looked wonderful.
"The red one. Definitely."
Two other girls giggled. "'Dat took 'vou very long to decide, Hermione. 'Vou seem to 've distracted," Gabrielle Delacour stated then giggled again.
"I guess I am a little excited for the ball," Hermione answered.
Hermione, Danielle Carthier, Molly Cline, and Gabrielle Delacour had been friends ever since their first year at Beaubaxtons. The four had been inseparable for years except when Gabby was taken to Hogwarts, another wizarding school, for the Triwizarding Tournament. But Gabby returned a month later with stories about how the Harry Potter had saved her from the merepeople and how Harry Potter escaped from the Dark Lord, Voldemort.
Ever since then, the four girls had been hooked on the "Potter Boys Craze." After learning about Harry Potter, the girls discovered that he had a brother, two years older, named Andrew. Andrew Potter was the ever-cocky beautiful boy that was always surrounded by millions of girls. He also had been nicknamed in numerous teen magazines as "the Sirius Black" of his generation and he definitely lived up to his title. On the other hand, Harry Potter surrounded himself with another group of people, his closest friends. They consisted of Ronald Weasley, Harry's best mate for life, Draco Malfoy, Neville Longbottom, and Pansy Parkinson. And then there was also Meredith Malfoy-Granger (Draco Malfoy's younger sister), Ginny Malfoy (Ronald Weasley's younger sister who married Draco Malfoy), and Luna Lovegood – all of which were a year younger than Harry.
This year, the four Beaubaxton girls were tremendously excited for the ball because it was rumored that the Potter family would finally be attending the Malfoy Holiday Ball. Every year, the Potter family was invited to the ball but could not go because of the threat of Voldemort. See, there was a prophecy containing the young Potter boys and Voldemort. It was supposively said that only Andrew and Harry Potter, together, could defeat Voldemort. And ever since the boys were born, Voldemort had been after them to kill them. Unfortunately for Voldemort, the boys were always protected by people who sacrificed their lives in order for the boys to survive. However, someway, Andrew and Harry ended the war and defeated Voldemort in September and were free to attend the party.
The other thing that made the girls even giddier was the fact that Hermione knew Harry Potter. Sort of. They had never met but she sort of knew him. Last year when Hermione's older brother, Jackson, was twenty-one and in the Order of the Phoenix, he was reintroduced to a pretty seventeen-year-old blonde-haired girl named Meredith Malfoy who happened to the younger sister of Harry Potter's mate, Draco Malfoy. Jackson had known Meredith before because of her parents annual ball, but for some reason they finally hit it off and were married before the end of the war and few weeks before Luke and Anne's wedding. Harry Potter, of course because he was friends with Meredith and had known Jackson while working in the Order, was invited to the wedding. Unfortunately he was unable to attend because of Voldemort.
In addition, this year's ball was going to be the biggest social event since the end of the war. Everyone who was anyone was coming and it was rumored that the Potter boys would be attending. So naturally, the four friends were shopping in a very expensive wizarding shop for their dress robes. The girls had the store all to themselves thanks to Mr. Delacour, who had immense power in France and happened to be a friend of the shopkeeper. So convincing the owner to leave the store open one night to only his daughter and her friends for a couple hours was no problem.
Pulling Hermione from her dream world, two girls dragged her to the dressing room. It was tradition for the girls to pick out dress robes for each other before a major social event and Hermione was, once again, last to have her dress robes picked out by her friends. Molly shoved Hermione into the dressing room and thrusted three dresses into her hands. Hermione quickly glanced at the dress robes before closing the curtain.
"Aren't they a tad revealing?" she questioned her friends.
Molly answered quickly, "Now Hermione, don't be a prune! Don't you trust our judgement?"
"Never," Hermione replied teasingly as Molly scoffed and closed the curtains to the dressing room.
Hermione looked at the first dress and easily guessed that Gabby had picked it out because she loved blue dresses. This one was a sparkly midnight blue v-neck dress robe. There was also a vibrant red strapped dress robe and a strapless satin silk dress robe. Of course, Hermione tried on all three. The first two did nothing for her figure. But the third, wow, she looked spectacular.
"Third time's the charm," Hermione called out to her friends.
"Oh, oh. Come out and show us!" Danielle giggled excitedly.
Hermione took a deep breath, turned her eyes away from her reflection in the green dress robe, and opened the curtain only to be met with stunned silence.
It was a few seconds before anyone said anything until Molly sighed in disbelief, "My god, Hermione, you will have to beat the boys off with a stick."
Hermione laughed. This was definitely the best dress she had ever worn in her lifetime.
"'Vou are definitely 'vuing 'vat dress robe. No questions avout 'vit," Fleur said immediately.
Quickly, Hermione changed out of the dress robe and made her way to purchase the robe with her friends.
This year, they all had marvelous dresses. It was going to be a fabulous Holiday Ball.