It was the night for the Yule ball and Ann-Marie, Crystal and Alicia were opening the parcels for there dresses,

"ok, here goes nothing" said Crystal unwrapping her Parcel, she pulled out a long blue satin dress,

"Okay Alicia, your turn" said Ann, Alicia pulled out a sparkling purple dress.

"Okay Ann, your turn" said Crystal, Ann Opened her parcel and saw her dress, she was amazed at what she saw, suddenly a flash went of, Crystal had just taken a photo.

"What was that for?" asked Ann

"I promised your mum I would take a photo of you when you opened it so she could see your face" said Crystal, Ann-Marie pulled her dress out, she held it against herself as she looked in the mirror, it was beautiful, it was turquoise and went with her hair long red hair perfectly, it had a sort of corset style in the middle and a V neck with a trail of scrunched fabric spiralling up from the bottom of the skirt,

"Merlin, Ann, that's the most beautiful dress I've ever seen!" said Alicia "go put it on now! And then we'll do your make up s you don't spill anything" said Alicia pushing Ann-Marie through to the bathroom.

Ten minutes later she came out in a beautiful dress, was perfect fit and it complemented her shape so well, she looked stunning in it. While she had been getting changed Alicia and Crystal had been getting all the girls in Gyffindor to help her with her hair and make-up, the room was filled with girls in dresses,

"Okay so what shall we do with the hair?" asked Annabelle and the room burst with people talking and sorting her hair and make-up.

Meanwhile Alec and Mark were waiting outside the hall in their dress robes, Alec was looking particularly handsome.

"Honestly were are they?" asked Alec looking at his watch

"Well you know how girls are with their make-up," replied Mark, just then Crystal showed up in a blue dress, mark's heart skipped a beat as he saw her walk down the stairs towards her.

"Hi guy's, well don't you two look handsome!" said Crystal with a smiling face "so Mark shall we go in" Mark held his arm out and they linked arms, just before they walked in Crystal patted him on the shoulder and said "oh by the way Alec, just wait to Ann get's here, you've got something to look forward to" and with that she walked of, what did she mean by he had something to look forward to, suddenly a group of Gyffindor girls came down the stairs,

"Ok! Let her get through girl's, we didn't do all that work so you could cover it all up!" said Alicia, the girls went to each side to there was a line going through the middle, at the end of the line he saw Ann, she looked beautiful, She walked down the stairs the photographer taking seemed to take a lot more pictures of her than he did anybody else, she walked up to Alec, he grabbed her hand and kissed it

"I saw that in a film once and always wanted to do it" said Alec, suddenly Mcgonagall popped out of nowhere.

"Alec are… oh my goodness Ann! You look stunning! Turn around for me!" said Mcgonagall, Ann did as Mcgonagall wanted with a smile "My goodness Ann, if only your parents were here, they would love to see you like this! Okay then, Alec are you an Ann ready?"

"Ready for what" asked Alec

"The Champions and there partners have to do the first dance its tradition"

"Yes so wait out here for everyone else to go through and then you and Ann will go," said Mcgonagall. Alec and Ann went to talk to the other champions.

"Oh, Ann, Bonjour! You look Magnifique! My father would be proud that zee Daughter of 'Arry Potter would be so pretty, he vas quite close to your father" the champions and there partners talked amongst themselves for a while.

"Alright you may go in now" said Mcgonagall and they stood in front of the door lined up next to there partners waiting for the doors to open, Ann and Alec were at the back

"Nervous?" asked Ann

"A bit, you?" asked Alec

"Not really" the doors opened and they went through with a round of applause, they all walked in waving at everyone else, When Ann-Marie's friends saw her they all squealed for her, Ann couldn't really scream with excitement like them but she was on the inside.