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The sound of music and laughter was flowing thick and fast through the walls of the youth centre. After what seemed like months of debate, the Hogwarts students decided that a muggle venue was best suited to the occasion.
The theme for this years Christmas party was "muggles," which the wizards and witches hoped would demonstrate unity between all people in the troubled times in which they were living.
Most of the sixth year students were now happily dancing the night away with the exception of a few slytherin pure blood maniacs, and Severus Snape who had not even been invited.
A few people had mentioned, although nothing was confirmed, that when Snape learned about the party from which he had been excluded, his eyes had begun to water. This was quickly masked however with a sneer and a promise that he would never associate himself with "mudbloods" and "muggles."
James Potter laughed jovially as his best friend drunkenly attempted to dance in the pair of ski boots he had come wearing.
Sirius, unfortunately had no concept of muggle attire, and was dressed rather bizarrely.
It had to be said that the boots were the most alarming item, but his kilt and poncho was enough to make Lily Evans laugh outright at him, something that she would usually have tried to refrain from.
"More Vodka James?" Remus handed him a shot glass.
"Why yes, indeed," James replied doing an uncanny impression of the headmaster, Dumbledore.
Remus laughed an unusually loud laugh and staggered off to join Sirius who was now failing to pull of the moonwalk.
James looked bleary eyed around at the dancing drunks, all of whom, in James' opinion looked like real prats.
At that moment, Sirius staggered over, a very pretty girl whom James had never met, on him arm. She giggled and blushed when she noticed James looking at her.
"James, this is...Juniper, Juniper this is...Juniper, and James...I'm Sirius," he mumbled drunkenly imploring James to acknowledge the girl now attempting to pull him back to the dance floor.
"Geroff..." He mumbled nudging the girl away from him, who tripped and fell onto the floor where she stayed wailing in time to the song.
"Tonight," Sirius gestured melodramatically,"...is the night of luurve."
James merely chuckled at his friend's behaviour. Sirius slid an arm round James's shoulders.
"Look at all the people. Even Peter's taking a swine...heeheee...sorry! Shine, to a girly!" Sirius had suddenly come over all giggly.
James looked over to where Sirius was pointing, and noted Peter chatting to a girl. He was swaying his hips from side to side, trying to look "sexy."
James resolved to tease him about it in the morning and took a picture using the camera on the side for good measure.
James was also beginning to feel a bit giddy, the various glasses of punch and shots of unidentifiable drinks was catching up on him. He glanced sideways at Sirius who was eating the face off of yet another girl, whom James had never seen.
Octavius Jones had now walked over and started to pull James over to the dance floor. As confident as James was, he was not yet drunk enough to dance.
He knew he had no rhythm but did not want everyone else in the year to know that the most popular boy in school could not dance.
Octavius sensed James's hesitation because he handed him yet another drink which James drunk without thought.
The effect was almost immediate. The world started to spin, the floor was on the ceiling...people were walking on the ceiling, all of them in another realm.
The music was pulsating through the room, separate from the gangs of teenagers who were all dancing in time.
James realised with an urge of excitement that no one else could see him. He began to dance, swaying his arms in time to the music, bopping his head to the beat and stamping his feet, a little out of time, but who cared? No one could see him.
James sensed that people were looking in his direction, but to him they seemed blind to his actions, out of touch with his reality.
Urged on by his newfound confidence, James's dancing became more elaborate. His arms doing small flicks and his feet turning this way and that, more and more quickly. His torso and hips now joined his erratic movements and his voice found itself singing with the music.
Sirius had detatched himself from a girl whose name he did not know and looked around the room. He chuckled appretiatively at James's dancing and helped himself to another shot.
Again the effects were instantaneous and he staggered over to join his friend who was now attempting "the worm" on the floor with the result that every person in the room was now staring with intense amusement.
Mistletoe was hanging in bunches over the hall, which meant that soon the other people on the dance floor had distracted themselves with the person standing next to them.
More drinks were being poured and soon the teenagers were all too drunk to care about James and Sirius's dancing and within half an hour, most of the occupants of the hall were lying on the floor, dead to the world or kissing whoever was in arms of reach.
Only James seemed to be the only one left dancing, the effects of the alcohol not quite worn off yet.
As he danced, he watched with amusement his friends drunkenly kissing people that they would regret in the morning. His eyes rested on Remus, his quietest friend.
He chuckled to himself that it was always the quiet ones he had to watch. Remus was usually so reserved and sensible when it came to girls. Not tonight however.
Remus was kissing and entwined in the arms of a very pretty girl, with brilliant long hair.
James stared. He knew that girl. And he knew his friend knew that he knew that girl and that girl knew that he knew her that he knew her.
In his drunken confusion, James concluded that the matter could only be settled by biting his friend's head off.
No head, no kissing; he concluded serious and launched himself on his unsuspecting friend.
Remus did not have time to react. He found himself torn from a current state of bliss, to a considerable amount of pain. He lashed out blindly, hitting a solid object and hearing it yelp. He left to his feet and looked down.
Lily Evans was lying, drunkenly at the foot of a chair. James was scrawling around on the floor still punching wildly at a jacket left by someone.
Remus reached up and felt his neck which was now throbbing with pain. He concluded, rather wearily, that his best friend had just bit him.
As for the reason, he had no idea. The next thing he knew, he was falling into darkness.
The students awoke the next morning to find themselves lying on a dusty floor littered with streamers and empty bottles. Odd couples found themselves lying in uncompromising positions that they had no idea of how they'd got into.
From outside the hall came sounds of vomiting people and groans of pain.
Remus lifted his head and immediately regretted it. His head was pounding and for some reason his neck felt very sore, but had no recollection as to why.
James sat up looking around equally confused. He also had no idea what had happened the night before. He pulled himself shakily to his feet and glanced around at the people on the floor.
Remus and Sirius looked dead, and his eyes rested for a moment on the stunningly pretty Lily Evans, who was sleeping peacefully. James smiled to himself, despite the urge he had to throw up.
He staggered over towards the table littered with Polaroid's. He laughed slightly at the picture of Peter's outrageous attempts at flirting. The movement of the pictures illuminated his hips swaying and battered his eyelids.
His eyes scanned the various pictures of kissing couples, all of whom would not remember each other this morning. His eyes found a picture of someone dancing.
Intrigued by the hideousness of the movements and confident look on the man's face, he raised the picture to his own eye level, and realised with a thrill of horror that the man on the picture was in fact him.
He tore the picture into as many fragments as he could manage and stashed them into his back pocket.
This was a secret, he thought grimly, that he would take to the grave.
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