Chamille waited for a few moments to see if the Quidditch players were ever going to appear.
She realized then that there was no Quidditch practice. The famous Harry Potter had lied to her. Susan (and her mother) were right…he was a useless loser. Her first instinct was to go up to her room and cry. Then, she had a better idea. Chammi would go to the Great Hall, to the ball, and confront him. Normally she wasn't big on confrontations……………but, hey, desperate times call for desperate measures.
She changed into her dress robes. What wonderful dress robes they were. Purple and black, emblazoned with black and white flowers down the back and at the bottom. How she had looked forward to dancing with Harry in these!
Chamille headed for the ball.
Chammi marched into the Great Hall and screamed, "HARRY POTTER!"
The Weird Sisters stopped playing.
Everyone stopped dancing.
They all looked at her.
Harry left a questioning Cho behind and slowly walked to Chamille.
She grabbed his arm, told the band to continue, and took him out of the Great Hall.
"So, what happened to your 'Quidditch practice'?" she asked in a sweet but sarcastic tone.
"well……..it got……ummmm…..cancelled?" he replied lamely.
"Out with it, Potter. I know you lied to me!" she practically screamed.
"Yeah, we'd like to know that, too!" chimed in Susan, who along with Hannah, had just walked up to them. Neither of them had seen Harry and Cho, and also believed there was Quidditch practice. (Chamille had told them.)
"Well, okay, Chamille………it's a long story." Harry proceeded to tell them how he lied to her because he wanted to go with Cho.
"Great, Harry, just great…….you're a really big jerk, you know that?" Chammi walked away.
Sarah and Hannah caught up with her and talked to her for a bit, but then went back to their dates. Chamille decided to stay; she had nothing else better to do.
She danced with herself, then with her friends, then her friends and their dates.
Just then, The Weird Sisters started playing a slow dance.
Chamille proceeded to walk about halfway out of the ball. She had no one to dance with, and Sarah and Hannah had boyfriends.
A boy in dark, very dark, emerald dress robes stopped her.
"Can I have this dance?"