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Chapter 3
Two weeks had passed and Liz still hadn't spoken to Draco. He felt bad that he had made her upset, but really he could care less about the little Weasel. If this is what he had to deal with, getting the silent treatment, so that Liz wouldn't hang around with the rift raft then he would be fine.
Liz had tried to speak with Ginny several times during that time but she seemed to be avoiding her. This made Liz even more upset, because she knew the only reason Ginny was avoiding her was Draco.
It was the first Hogsmeade weekend and even though Liz had no one to hang out with she decided to go anyway since she had never been, unlike the majority of the students. She walked out of the castle and saw a flash of red in the sunlight. It was Ginny.
Liz slipped through the crowd until she was right behind Ginny. She grabbed Ginny by the shoulder. "Hey Gin"
Ginny startled, screamed and tried to run forward but as Liz was holding her shoulder she just fell back onto her butt. Liz leaned over to help her up. "Oh ...hey" Ginny said when she realized who it was. She brushed the dirt off her jeans and kept walking.
"Stop ignoring me Gin, the only reason you are doing this is because of Draco, and you shouldn't."Liz said in a hope to stop her.
"Why?" Ginny said annoyed but keep walking.
"Because, if you stop talking to me then Draco will have won." Liz said quickly.
Ginny finally stopped and turning to Liz,"Look I don't want to come between you guys. I-"
"But you won't." She cut in."Draco is stubborn but who I hang out with is not going to make him stop being my cousin. Don't worry he will just have to deal with it. Please, Gin just let me hang out with you. Don't worry about him I will fix it."
"Okay ... if you're sure."
"I'm positive, so what are we going to do today?"Liz said with a dazzling smile.
"Well," Ginny said as she began to walk again. "I thought it would be fun to have a huge party for Christmas. So I was going to start making plans, and now you can help me. I have already talked to Professor Dumbledore about it and he has okayed it. Now we just have to think of some fun things to do."
"Sounds awesome!"Liz exclaimed.
"Good, well I figured we could go to this little restaurant called Shake It Up, they have the best food and their ice cream is to die for."Gin said.
"Sounds good let's go!"
They worked their way through the crowds of students and turned on to a smaller street past some small clothing stores to the restaurant. The walls were very bright and everything was splattered with different colored paints. Liz was surprised to see that not that many people were there. From Ginny ranting over it the whole way here she expected it to be a hot hangout.
"So, Gin, any reason why hardly any people are here?" Liz said sounding confused.
"Not many people know about, not many students come down this side road."
"Oh."
The waiter seated them and they began to look through the menus. The first half of the menu had a lot of different soups and hamburgers and fries, but the second half of the menu was all desserts Ice cream on warm brownies dripped with fudge and caramel. Chocolate shakes. Strawberry shakes. Tons of different kinds of ice cream like mint chocolate chip, cookie dough, double chocolate and peanut butter chocolate.
Liz and Ginny ended up getting a huge ice cream with brownies and chocolate and caramel to split and chocolate shakes. When they finished what they could eat they began to talk about the party. Ginny pulled out a notebook.
"So I was thinking that a ball wo-"
Liz cut in "Really? Like a ball where you dress up in gowns and get your hair done and like...Wow a ball that is so hot!"
Ginny started speaking again when she finally stopped laughing "Yea, but that is the fun for the girls so I figured we should have something fun for the guys too."
"We should have like some big party with bands and games and dancing and stuff. Maybe we can have two days and the first day like Christmas Eve we can have the party and then on Christmas we can have the ball."
"That sounds good."Gin said. "Do you know any bands we could have come? I know of the Weird Sisters. What else can we do that day?"
"Oh my gosh, I know a ton of bands we can talk to, and we can have tables set up with hot chocolate and other Christmas foods. We could have a singing contest within the school and whoever wins could win a big basket full prizes."Liz said. "And maybe we can like have a kind of auction thing and auction off some of the girls of Hogwarts for a day. That would make it fun for the guys." She said giggling.
"Gosh, this coming together quickly. It's probably better with two heads. Sorry for avoiding you."
"It's ok."
"Well let's see if we can get Zonkos to give us some stuff and we can put candy and maybe a money prize with the basket too."
'Well after that is there anywhere that we could look at dresses. I want to look at some ideas."Liz said.
"Of course."Gin said and they headed off to Zonkos.
Unknown to them Draco had heard all their plans and was furious that he hadn't kept the Weasley from his cousin.
Ginny and Liz were having a great time. Liz was glad that she and Ginny had worked things out. Otherwise, she would have spent her weekend alone again.
Gin and Liz went to several different stores trying to get donations for the basket. Several stores gave them gift certificates to their stores and Zonkos gave them quite a good amount of joke stuff. They had also run into Ginny's brothers Fred and George who said not only would they donate their products, they would be there to be judges.
The last place that the girls headed to was X and O, the dress shop. The girls talked to the manager about the contest. The manager agreed that as long as the girls hung their posters around the school then they would definitely be willing to grant them a large amount of money for the prize.
They decided to try on some dresses to get an idea for the ball. Ginny tried on a bunch of dresses although she knew she never could afford any of them.
They both tried on dresses no one would wear in their right mind. They tried on dresses that made them look like movie stars and dresses that made them look like they should be on a runway rather than a small town in England. They began to tire and decided to try on one last dress and call it quits.
The last dress Ginny tried on she absolutely fell in love with. The dress was copper colored. It had jeweled designs all along the top and down to the waist. It flowed out from the waist and was bunched at certain spots. The back had a small corseted section to it. It looked amazing with her hair and fair skin.
At the same time Liz tried on a dress that was the most amazing dress she had ever seen. It was a deep purple strapless gown. It was fitted until the waist where it flowed out in a big circle. Jewels decorated the waist. The whole thing just looked spectacular with her long hip length blonde locks and her pale silver gray eyes.
"Okay are you ready Gin?" Liz asked somewhat breathless.
"Yea."Gin said with the same tone.
"Ready. One...Two...Three!"
They both stepped out of the dressing room and saw each other.
"Oh my gosh that dress is gorgeous Liz! You have to get that. That is perfect for you." Ginny said excitedly.
"Gin thanks. Wow you dress is amazing, you have to get it. We will be the best looking girls at Hogwarts, not that we weren't before!" She said spinning around and saw Ginny's disappointed face. "What is it Gin?"
"I can't get this dress. I could never afford this." Gin said.
"Don't worry I'll get it." Liz said with a smile.
"No, I can't let you do that. It is too much money."
"Consider it your early Christmas present."
"Are you sure?" Gin said.
"Yes! I'm positive."
"No other presents thought, okay" Ginny said with a strict look on her face.
"Okay, sure whatever you say Gin." she said with a sincere voice but her eyes held a playful glint.
Liz bought the dresses and had them delivered to the school. They stepped out into the cold evening air and began to head back to Hogwarts.
Once there Liz went with Ginny to the Gryffindor common room. They put everything in Ginny's room and headed down stairs to relax. They were sitting on the couch talking to Hermione when the portrait opened and Harry and Ron walked in freshly showered after Quidditch practice.
Liz elbowed Ginny. "That's the boy!"
"What? No way. That's not possible."
"Who is he?"
"Harry Potter."
Ron headed over and sat next to Hermione. Though neither Hermione nor Ron would admit it everyone knew they liked each other and knew it was only a matter of time until they got together.
Harry passed by Ginny saying hi, and sat on Liz's other side.
"Hey... Elizabeth right?"Harry said grinning.
"Yea" Liz said blushing.
"Elizabeth like Malfoy's cousin?"Ron said finally taking his eyes off Hermione's now blushing face.
"Yes, Ron." Ginny said looking at Ron fiercely.
Ron looked at Ginny deciding whether it was worth it. Deciding it wasn't, he leaned back and started talking with Hermione.
Liz and Ginny headed to Ginny's room soon after that. Liz had decided to stay with Ginny for a little while so she wouldn't have to deal with Draco. Ginny luckily had her own room since last year. She had never gotten along with her class members and was in most of the seventh year classes anyway so she asked Dumbledore for her own room. He had said yes, surprising Ginny.
"I can't believe the boy I ran into was Harry Potter."
"I think it's so crazy. I've known Harry forever. He has been best friends with Ron since they got to Hogwarts."
"So, is he great?"
"He is pretty fantastic. I had a crush on him for years." Liz's face changes to a oh no look, "But don't worry he is like my brother."
"Thank goodness."
"You guys would be such a cute couple."
They both squeal and talk more about boys.
The month flew by quickly and soon it was time to announce the festivities to the school. Dumbledore told the school at breakfast at the beginning of November.
"I have some exciting news. Two of your fellow classmates, Ms. Weasley and Ms. Jordan have organized a great number of festivities for the coming Christmas season. I'm sure you all with greatly enjoy yourselves."
The only thing Ginny and Liz had yet to organize was the auction which was to take place in two weeks. Ginny and Liz began asking many girls. Finally at the end of the week they came up with a list of ten girls. The girls were Ginny, Liz, Hermione, Cho Chang, Blaise, Millicent, Pansy, Padma, Pavarti, and Jenna a pretty 5th year from Hufflepuff.
Liz decided to try to stay in Draco's room from now on, plus she wanted to make up with Draco she had missed him the past couple of weeks.
Liz headed down towards her and Draco's private room. She made her way to her bedroom without any sign of Draco. "That's good" she thought "now I have time to think of what to say."
Just as she was about to flop on her bed Draco waltzed in.
"What, are you tired of the filthy mu-"before he could finish Liz already had a hand over his mouth.
"Don't ever call Ginny that!" She said furiously.
Draco pulled her hand away. "I told you we don't mix with them. Look what it does, it turns you soft." he dropped her hand. "They are not worth it. You shouldn't hang around them."
"Draco, why does this matter so much. Your father isn't around to watch your actions anymore and I don't want you watching mine," she screamed. "God why can't you just live your own live and not his? Why can't you be who I know you are? Why Draco? Why?"
"Because I am not who you think I am! This is the real me and it always will be okay."
"Fine!" she yelled. "You are everything Ginny said you were. No matter what she said though I always defended you!" the tears were flowing rapidly down her cheeks and onto her shirt leaving little droplets. "Draco how could I have ever believed in you" and with that she fled from the room.
"God," Draco said "What have I done?"
Liz ran down the corridors, tears soaking her face. She rounded the corner and smacked right into Harry again. She got up and tried to run around him but he caught her by the arm.
"Liz what is wrong?" He asked with his green eyes filled with concern.
She shook her head.
"Is it Draco?"
Her head shot up and she tried to mask the true answer. "No", but her eyes betrayed her.
"If you had asked me, I could have told you he was a git."
Liz gave a small giggle.
"Don't worry come on I'll bring you to Ginny's room and you can tell me all about it." he said as he put his arm around her and guided her along.
They finally got into to the hall to Ginny's room and Liz began to walk toward the portrait when Harry called her.
"Liz!"
"Yes"
"Are you sure you are okay?"
"Yes, thanks Harry"
"And Liz would you go to the ball with me?" he asked much smoother then he had with Cho.
"Sure Harry, I'd love to."
They both turned away grinning and headed off to bed.
A/N: sooo tell me what you think! Review pretty please with sugar on top. And if you want to see what the dresses look like:
i64./albums/h191/Hotredhead/dress3.jpg (Liz's dress)
i64./albums/h191/Hotredhead/dress2.jpg (Ginny's dress)
i64./albums/h191/Hotredhead/dress.jpg (Ginny's dress)
