Disclaimer; All of the stuff in this story belongs to J.K Rowling, and the stuff that I made up is mine.

By the way this writing is By Katherine, or pretty.little.happy.princess.

Hope you enjoy it!

That night during dinner, the students were all shocked to see that Dumbledore had graced them all with his presence.

"Good evening all, I hope you are well. I am here to give you a special announcement," Dumbledore paused, and looked into the audience, he looked into all of their tired and stressed faces and knew that this surprise was well deserved.

"Students, I wish to announce a ball, but not just any type of ball, a masquerade, oh and by the way, you cannot go with a date. Thank-you students, and just one more thing, the ball is for sixth and seventh years only, sorry to disappoint the rest of you. Goodnight and sleep tight." And with that Professor Dumbledore exited the Great Hall and set out for the astronomy tower, as he had recently heard that the teacher was feeling a tad bit ill.

Later that night the girls were sitting in their dormitory having little conversations, about the most random things, until the topic of the ball came up.

"I don't know what I'm going to wear, oh and who I'm going to dance with there, oh I'm just so revvedabout this, don't you think Kat?" Ellie asked.She was truly excited about the ballthis time, because she didn't have to take a date.

"What? Oh yeah the ball, I'm sure it will be good fun." Kat recited as if it was a rehearsed sentence that she had been practicing for several minutes.

"Oh Kat, what's wrong? You should be excited, like Lily, Emma and I." Ellie said with a kick in her voice, but as she said it, she realized that she was the only one bouncing off the walls in joy.

"Ellie, I know you're really pumped for the ball, but that's only because the guy that you're infatuated with is not infatuated with another person, do you get my drift?" Kat spoke with a hint of sarcasm in her voice; Ellie and Lily were both giving her looks of total and utter confusion.

"But I'm not infatuated with anyone at the moment."

"Whatever."

"I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're ranting on about." Lily stated with that same look of confusion in her green eyes.

"Well then you obviously haven't seen the skank that Andy Lee's been hanging around. You know you would think that he could see through little miss prissy's act." Kat said

All of the girls looked at her with great pity.

"Oh Kat, I'm so sorry, I wish I could help." Lily stopped, she knew that there was something she could do, but it involved her doing something she wouldn't normally do.

"Don't worry Kat, I'll sort it out. Just hang in there." And with that Lily got up from her bed and headed out for the boys dormitories.

"I wonder what she's planning. Seriously Kat you have got to calm down and just relax, I'm sure that everything will work out once Lily does whatever it is that she is planning." Emma said, trying to sound comforting, although she knew that the circumstances were part her fault, because of her and Hamish, which made Andy feel like he needed a girl too.

"He'll never like me though, I'm so stupid." Katherine shouted dramatically.

"Oh would you stop being such a drama queen? First of all never say never, oh never mind that, I said it three times. Secondly you are not stupid; you are indeed one of the smartest girls in this school." Ellie said comfortingly, she hated to see any of her friends hurting, and she hated it when people were over-dramatic.

The heated topic of the ball, and the girls' guys, had become too much for them so they decided just to head off to bed, but Emma couldn't get over the fact that Lily still hadn't come back. She wondered what she could be doing.

As Lily walked up the stairs she was trying to find a certain dormitory, the dormitory belonging to none other than James Potter. She was lucky these stairs weren't bewitched, like the ones to the girl's dorms. She hated that she had to do this, but she hated seeing Kat in such a horrible state. Lily looked back on how many emotional problems her friends had gone through. Ellie had lost her boyfriend, Greg, after much trouble with trust, only to find out that all of the lies had been about protecting his brother's true identity. Then there was Emma, all of her and troubles with Sirius, Ellie also couldn't get her act together. Oh, and there was Kat who cried for hours when her fish, Elmo, died.

She pondered on how pathetic they all were.

Then she found it, dormitory 12, Potter's dorm.

She knocked on the door, and waited. She began to hear some grunting noises from the other side. The she hear Remus' voice.

"Who is it?"

"It's Lily, I need to speak to James, I mean Potter." Lily said sounding a bit nervous.

From the other side of the door she heard a few bits of sentences.

"James, she wants you." Someone said, and then another said, "Who wants him?" Then finally Remus answered. "James, it's Lily!"

Suddenly the door opened, to reveal James with his scruffy hair, and his cowboy pajamas on.

"Well, well lily. Have we come over for a night cap?"

"Nice pajamas." She laughed, "And no Potter, I'm not here for a night cap, that's just silly. I'm not here to talk to you, I'm here more or less, to talk about Kat, and Andy."

"What about them? I heard that they aren't together anymore. Isn't he going out with Leanne the skank? Or is that just a rumor?"

"What? You're so confusing Potter, look I'll just get straight to the point, you're a very influential person." Lily said, but James interrupted her.

"Thank you." James said smirking.

"Shut you're pie hole and listen. I want you to convince Andy that Kat is the one for him, and that he should break up with skank. Ok?"

"Ok fine, but if I do this then will you go out with me?" James asked; although he was feeling a bit rejected considering that Lily had come here to talk about someone else, not about them.

'No, just do this for Kat and I'll say thank you. I've got to go; I'll see you tomorrow. Oh yeah and if you don't do this for me then, I hope you enjoy the sound of me not speaking to you ever again, because that's what will happen." Lily left leaving James standing in the doorway in his cowboy pajamas, wondering if that conversation had ever really taken place.

The very next day all of the Slytherins woke to a shock. There seemed to be owls flying in from every direction, and each and every one of the students received a letter from there parents detailing how important it would be for them to marry the right person and how important getting good connections would be know.

"Hey Jesse, did you get the letter?"

"Yes Claudia, why?"

"Well, it all just seems kind of confusing, you know why would they send this now" Claudia stated, with a touch of confusion in her voice.

"Claudia, they probably all managed to find out about the spell Dumbledore is going to cast on the hall."

"What spell? I never heard him mention it."

"Ok, well a true masquerade ball is always totally secret, so that means that no one is going to know who anyone else is. And obviously in our parents' eyes, this means that they think we will not know whom we are going to dance with. And Claudia the spell also makes those who are meant to be together will become attracted to each other. I guess it is probably the old mans way of trying to stop all of the horrible emotional torment that we all experience." Jesse said, feeling very high and mighty that she had actually figured this out for herself.

"Oh and that's probably also why he said that we can't bring dates as well. I get it now." Claudia said slowly.

"Well that's good for you." Jesse said sarcastically.

After all of the commotion, they left the common room and headed off for breakfast, but not before bumping into the Marauders, quite literally.
"Hey you, watch it!" Shouted a shocked Sirius, no one bumped into him and got away with it.

They just ignored Sirius and moved on, dismissing his amusing claims.

"Listen, I'm not finished with you yet, in fact, I haven't even started yet." Sirius yelled in a harsh tone.

"Ok then, I'm so sorry that I breached your precious little circle of space, I promise to be more careful next time." Claudia said with a sarcastic voice that made her sound like a stereotypic witch.

"Fine then, but if you say that again then I promise that I will castrate you then avada your ass." Sirius threatened.

Jesse and Claudia looked a little bit taken aback by this sudden display of hatred, but all the same they said fine and moved on.

"So James, why are we trying to find Andy Lee?" Remus asked.
"Because I promised Evans that I would do this for her, and so we have to find him. End of story, I think I see him now."

"Hey Andy, do you know me? Yeah you probably do, so I'll get onto what I wanted to say." James said very quickly, Kat likes you and obviously you're blind to that, otherwise you wouldn't be going out with the queen of the skanks. Secondly, you need to talk to Kat and sort this out because otherwise I will be breaking a promise, are we understood?"James was rambling,almost sounding like acommentator at a horse race

"Yes, but why do you care so much? It's not as if you really care about anyone other than yourself." Andy said,

"Oh, I don't? Do I?Well, you don't know me very well then do you. And I care because Kat is a good person, and Emma, Kat's friend, is my cousin, and Evans is also her friend. So I think that gives me pretty good grounds to care."

Soon after this the Marauders left to go to their own table just and sat down, just about ready to eat there breakfast when Sirius noticed something.

"Where's Emma?"

"Obviously not here." Remus replied. They had to go through this yesterday and now again today.

"Oh if she's with that Hamish bloke again, I swear, I'll blow my head, this is just getting ridiculous." Sirius said angrily.

But then straight after he said this he saw Emma walking in, not with Hamish, but with Ellie instead.

Sirius felt a rush of great happiness flow all over him as he prepared a spot for her next to him.

As the girls approached Sirius got a hint of what they were talking about.

"So what happened to you and Hamish?" Ellie asked.

"Oh that was only a one time thing, you know just a bit of fun." And with that Emma looked over to Sirius, and saw that he did not have another bimbo on his arm, this made her feel that same rush of relief and happiness that Sirius had just minutes before.

"Hi Sirius, is that spot taken?" Emma asked.

"No, I was saving it just for you."

A full twenty-four hours later and it seemed as if nothing much had changed, well actually when she thought about it lots had changed, but not all of it was bad.

A/N I hope that you like my chapter, because it is my first in the round robin.

Please review, and vote on who you think the cutest couple will be.

Thanks for reading

Katherine. (aka. pretty.little.happy.princess)