AN: If you haven't seen I've uped the rateing as of this chapter not because there is any sex or the like. There is a joke in this chapter that couldbe taken wrong. So on with the show and HAPPY NEW YEAR!


"Welcome to the first Quidditch game of the season;" Kris Smith a fourth year Gryffindor called out to the completely full stands, "Unity house in purple and black lead by Susan Bones has an edge on all of the houses with Harry Potter as their seeker and some of the best Quidditch players from the other houses. Slytherin will have a hard time trying to beat this team. Professor McGonagall would like me to remind Professors Black and Lupin you still have detention until your godson graduates. Professor Dumbledore would like to thank Unity house for last weekend's Aloha dance. Now on with the game…"

Padma came into the common room about a week after Unity's win in Quidditch with the largest smile on her face.

"What's up with you, Padma?" Mandy asked passing Padma on her way out of the dorms.

"My boyfriend is coming to Hogwarts tomorrow!" Padma said.

"Congrats, wait he doesn't go here?" Hermione asked.

"No he…graduated last year."

"Well, I can't wait to meet him," Mandy said, "I need to meet the boy who has made you so happy."

"He is so funny and has his own business that he owns with his brother. My sister and I re-meet them this summer and they just swept us off our feet." Padma said swooning.

"Well maybe you two should figure out what to go as for Halloween." Mandy said and gave her friend a hug.

"Will do, don't you have to get to a 'study session'?" Padma asked. Mandy looked at her watch and bid a hurried good-bye.

"Well I'm happy for you and can't wait to meet him." Hermione said with a strained smile.

"Now what is it, Hermes?" Padma asked sitting next to the girl who was slowly becoming her friend.

"It's nothing really." Hermione said.

"Right and I'm the queen of England, now out with it."

"Ok, I like someone but can't seem to get his attention and well I really want to go to the Halloween dance with him."

"Is it…"

"No… he is too much like my brother. It's…" Hermione whispered the name into Padma's ear.

"Him!"

Hermione nodded her head and said, "He's smart, funny, caring and someone I can see myself growing old with."

"I think we are going to need some help and I know just the girls." Padma said her eyes alight with delight. Later that night the girls convened into Hermione's and Pansy's room to plan out Hermione's plan of attack.

"What do you think they are doing in there?" Ron asked from where he was playing himself in chess.

"They're having an orgy." Draco said dully from his place in front of the fireplace.

"Really?"

"Are you sure you're a red head and don't dye your hair?"

"Yep, my pubes are even red."

"TMI, TMFI," Blasie yelled from the corner where he was looking at the plans for the next dance.

"Gross, Ron do you not think before you speak?" Terry asked looking up from the book he was reading. Harry walked into the common room with a raised eyebrow at Terry's question.

"Did I miss something here?" Harry asked dropping his books next to the nearest chair and sat down.

"I'll sum it up for you; orgy, hair dye, pubes, TMI." Blasie said trying to scrub the image from his eyes.

"You used sarcasm on Ron didn't you, Malfoy?" Harry asked tiredly.

"Yes, your point is?"

"Did Hermione not tell you about using puns, sarcasm or anything that is a play on words, around Ron?"

"No, should she have?"

"Yes, just don't we think he dyes his hair."

"I asked him if he did."

"Oh he gave you the pubes answer did he?"

"You heard that one before?"

"Yes, he's used it on Neville."

"This is so not how to start the weekend." Blaise said flopping onto a couch.

"Here, here, it should be started with lots of alcohol and a good party that takes all weekend to get over from or still has you hungover on Monday." Draco said with a smirk.

"That is the only way to spend a weekend." Harry said with a smile and closed his eyes.

"Well, Slytherin is having a party tonight…"Blaise said pointedly at Draco. They had a quick conversation through eye contact.

Blaise turned back to the room with a smirk and asked, "So who is up for it?"

"YOU WANT TO GET INTO HIS PANTS!" Pansy shrieked in delight.

"I do not want to get into his pants and it's a good thing that we placed a silencing charm on the door." Hermione said.

"Right, well when did we want to get the ball rolling on this operation, Chimaera?" Pansy asked.

"Tonight" Padma said.

"Well we have our work cut out for us, if we are going to make it to the Slytherin party on time." Pansy said pulling out her wand.

"Is this all you have, Potter?" Draco asked pulling clothes from Harry's closet.

"Yes"

"God this looks like a whale wore it during mating season." Draco held up what use to be a blue shirt that Draco could barely stretch between his arms it was so large.

"Damn near close to the truth there." Harry said.

"Do you own anything that doesn't look worst then what Weasley wears?"

"Just my school clothes and knock it off with Ron's family. You try living in a family with five kids before you."

"There is seven of them, good god man."

"Now you understand why Ron dresses the way he does."

"I don't understand why you dress like this." Draco said flopping on to his bed in defeat.

"My aunt and uncle didn't buy me new clothes, they just give me cast offs of my cousin's."

"I'm gathering up Pansy and we are taking you shopping. You need to spend some of the cash you have on yourself. Has no one told you, you will come into a grater inheritance of money on your seventeenth birthday?"

"No, and how do you know this?"

"Potter, your family is the richest family in the wizarding world. My family comes in third behind Black and Potter. You are using your account your parents set up for your schooling. Welcome to the world of wealth."

"How much are we talking about?" Harry asked dumbfounded.

"Some where near or in the billions," Draco said sitting up to look at Harry.

"Oh my god, add in the Black family fortune once Sirius dies…" Harry said as his jaw dropped.

"Harry and Draco are you ready yet?" Blaise asked through the door.

"No, Potter doesn't have any clothes." Draco said.

"Put him in something of yours."

"Good idea is Boot and Weasley ready."

"Terry is having the same problem with Ron."

"We are so taking the Gryffindor's on a shopping spree this weekend." Draco said as he dug through his closet.

"Well I'm off to help Terry, good luck."

Harry sat still stunned at Draco's words of how wealth he really was. He snapped out of it when a pair of black leather pants hit him in the face fallowed by a hunter green muscle shirt and combat boots.

"What is all this?"

"Your outfit for the night now hurry up and change." Draco said pointing at the bathroom door. Harry grabbed his clothes and changed quickly per Draco. Taking a look at himself in the mirror and thought 'Damn I look good for once.'

"Are you done, Potter?" Draco asked banging on the door.

"Yes," Harry said opening the door.

"I'm good," Draco said with a smirk and with out any warning attacked Harry's head.

"What the fuck Malfoy?" Harry asked straitening his glasses.

"Trust me on this one," Draco said.

"Malfoy, what do you think I've been doing all night?"

"Come on the others are ready." Draco said and left their room.

"What have I gotten myself into?" Harry asked himself and fallowed Draco.

"Pansy you are a genius with a wand!" Mandy said looking at Hermione.

"Naturally," Pansy said polishing her nails on her shirt.

"How do I look?" Hermione asked looking to each girls face.

"If this doesn't get his attention nothing will." Hannah said.

"Go take a look in a mirror," Padma said pointing to the bathroom. Hermione stood on shaky legs having been sitting for awhile and walked to the bathroom. Looking into the mirror she saw herself dressed in a chocolate colored tube dress with black sued gauchos, and chocolate brown knee high boots. Her make-up was dark smoky eyes and dark red lips.

"I look hot." Hermione said tracing her face on the mirror.

"Come on Hermione, the boys have already left." Padma said poking her head into the bathroom.

"I'm coming," Hermione said leaving the bathroom.

"Welcome to the Snake Pit." Draco shouted over the music. Harry, Terry and Ron's eyes went wide at the sight of the Slytherin common room. Harry and Ron traded looks and were dragged into the insanity.

The Slytherin common room was enlarged to hold four platforms with a person or two dancing atop. Green, blue, and sliver lights danced a crossed the writhing bodies on the dance floor. The dance floor was over an actual a snake pit. To the back of the room was a full bar with several Alumni students severing up drinks. Draco showed the group up a flight of stairs to a lounge that had a very Moroccan feel to it with low to the ground table's chairs or pillows to relax on.

"This place is awesome." Terry said taking a seat on a pillow.

"Thanks well I'm off to find some entertainment for the night." Blasie said with a cheeky smile and left.

"Friday night has officially begun." Draco said to Harry as he walked over to the lounges bar.

"Its good to be young and beautiful," Pansy yelled to the girls from where they were dancing in the center of the dance floor.

"You can say that again." Mandy said and was pulled away to dance with a seventh year.

"I may be engaged but I'm not dead yet, come on Ron lets go find some girls to dance with." Terry said leaving with Ron to the dance floor.

"You and I alone again," Harry said toasting to Draco and taking a sip of his toxic green drink and sputtered,

"What the hell is this?"

"Absinthe or the green fairy," Draco said and asked with a smirk, "What you don't like it?"

"I don't drink much," Harry said setting the glass down.

"I've never seen such a pretty girl here before, what is your name beautiful?" Blasie whispered into the ear of a lone girl dancing in the middle of the floor and placed his hands on her waist.

"My name is Hermes." Hermione said.

"No, your name is Aphrodite." Blasie said and spun Hermione around.

"Blasie?" Hermione asked shocked.

"Hermione, well this is a pleasant surprise." Blasie said with a devilish smile.

"What do you mean?"

"Come on I'll tell you once we get up to the lounge." Blasie said pulling Hermione through the crowd.

"…No, have you ever danced around naked singing to a song on the radio?" Harry asked.

"Yes, which do you like better beach or the mountains?" Draco asked.

"Beach, late nights or early mornings?"

"Late nights, enough of this lets go dance." Draco said and got up. He held out his hand to Harry and they left to dance the night away. They passed Blaise and some girl on their way to the dance floor.

"What did you mean down there on the dance floor?" Hermione asked turning to face Blasie.

"Hermione, I have had a crush on you since fourth year, after I saw you on the grand stairs looking like a princess. I knew in that moment that I wanted to get to know you not as a Gryffindor and know-it-all but as just Hermione Jane Granger." Blasie said and gave her hands that he was holding a kiss on the back of them.

"Why didn't you tell me before now?" Hermione said with tears in her eyes.

"The war, I didn't want to show support for either side. By openly courting you I would have been marked a dead man in my house, or so I thought. In reality I might have helped my house mates join the right side. So Hermione Jane Granger will you have me?" Blasie said softly looking into her eyes.

"Yes," Hermione said almost shyly. Blaise placed a chased kiss upon her lips and said, "Thank you," Kissing her again deeply this time. Hermione warped her arms around his neck and was lost in the kiss.

"You know my middle name?"

"Yes, Hermione Jane." Blasie said kissing her forehead.

"Come on everyone!" Padma said running ahead of the group with her sister into the town of Hogsmeade. The Unity house made there way through the crowds of milling students to a bran new shop. Harry, Ron and Hermione stopped dead in their tracks upon seeing the store front.

Weasley Wizard Wheezes

"They are opening up a shop here?" Ron asked in amazement.

"It looks like it. Let's go in." Terry said from beside Hermione. The group made their way inside to find that this store was larger than the one in Diagon Alley. The group split up to meet up at the front desk where they found the Patil Twins snogging with two red heads.

"Well, that answers that question." Mandy said dryly setting her items down on the counter. The two sets of twins looked up at them. The Patil Twins gave the group sheepish smiles and hopped down from where they were sitting to snog their boyfriends.

"So how can we help you?" Fred said smoothing down his hair.

"When were you going to tell us that you were opening up a shop here in Hogsmeade?" Ron asked.

"We sent Ginny a letter," George said

"Didn't you hear it from her?" Fred asked.

"No, school is a little different since we have gotten back from summer hols." Ron said.

"What do you mean by different?" George asked as Fred was called away to help a customer.

"We're in a new house at Hogwarts and we can sit where ever we want in the great hall during meals." Harry said with a smile as he saw Hermione nestle down into Blaise's arms as he wandered off to go find what trouble Draco was getting into.

"Maybe we should go back to school. It seams like it is more fun now." George said to the group.

"Oi what is this?" Fred asked as he came back and saw Hermione all cozy with Blaise.

"I'd like you to meet my new boyfriend Blaise." Hermione said with a blush.

"How long has that been going on?" George asked.

"Just last night, you treat me as if I'm your little sister."

"You kind of are. Now Blaise you'll be given the talk when all the brothers are together." George said with an evil smile.

"Yes, sir," Blaise said with eyes wide.

"Now has anything happened on the ferret watch?" Fred asked.

"No, not yet what is the pool up to now?" Ron asked.

"What is ferret watch?" Blaise asked.

"It's a pool Fred and George started after the Cho incident. We, as in the house of Gryffindor, sat down one night and put together a list of likely people for Harry to hook up with. It had both men and women on it until recently when Harry came out, but at the top of the men's list has always been Draco. So we code named each and everyone person on the list like my sister Ginny was code named fireball, Draco's is ferret." Ron said.

"How do you get in on this pool?" Blaise asked with a smile.

"Well…" Fred started.

"There you are Harry," Draco said rounding a corner of the store.

"I was looking for you," Harry said with a smile.

"Well, let me go find Pansy and we can make you into the hottest person next to me, of course." Draco said with a smile.

"Of course," Harry said as he fallowed Draco to where Pansy was looking at prank pastries with Ron, Blasie and Hermione.

"Hey Pansy do you want to do a make over?" Draco asked bounding up to Pansy like a puppy dog.

"Who is it for?" Pansy asked.

"Harry and Ron," Draco smiled over at Ron who had gone white after hearing his name.

"Thank God, no offence boys but you two look like shit," Pansy said looking the boys over with a critical eye.

"How eloquent, Pansy?" Draco drawled.

"Why thank you; would you like to come a long Hermione?" Pansy asked.

"Someone needs to keep you two from buying them a complete wardrobe full of green and sliver for these two." Hermione said.

"That is where I take my exit, sorry boys but I've been with Draco and Pansy once before on a shopping spree and well I'll I have to say is good luck." Blasie said, kissed Hermione on the cheek, and hightailed it out of the store as fast as he could.

"He's no fun." Pansy pouted and steered the boys to the first store.

"So who are you going with to the dance?" Ron asked Harry three days after their adventure in shopping with Pansy and Draco.

"No one, would it be in bad taste to go as Voldemort?" Harry asked tapping his quill against his chin.

"Is this a trick question?" Ron asked confused. Hermione walked into the common room chatting with Blasie.

"Hermione, would it be in bad taste for me to go as Voldemort to the dance?" Harry asked.

"You aren't serious, are you?" Hermione asked.

"Completely," Harry said.

"Yes it is in poor taste to go as him." Hermione said going blotchy.

"Do you need a Death Eater?" Blaise asked. Hermione smacked him upside the head.

"Ouch, what was that for?" Blaise asked.

"For encouraging him." Hermione said and stomped off to her room.

"Thanks a lot wonder boy." Blaise said and ran over to Hermione's door. Ron walked left the dorm still confused and passed Mandy, Padma, Hannah and Susan on his way out. Padma broke away from the group of girls to sit next to Harry.

"Hello, Harry," Padma said with a smile.

"Hi, Padma, so what are you and George going as for the dance?" Harry said turning to face her.

"Well we are going as the four seasons with my sister and Fred."

"That's cool, which season are you going to be?"

"That is a surprise. So what about you? Date? Costume?"

"I don't have a date and Hermione said no to my only idea."

"What was your idea?"

"Voldemort," Harry said with a cheeky grin.

"You wouldn't, would you?"

"Yes, now I'm at a blank."

"Well you could be prince charming to Hannah, Susan and Mandy?"

"Thanks for the idea but I don't want to give people the wrong impression." Harry said blushing.

"Wrong impression please there are betting pools all over the school wondering if you are gay or not." Padma said with a smirk.

"What!" Harry squawked.

"The largest pot right now from what I heard is in Slytherin house at one million, two hundred twenty-seven thousands, eight hundred thirty-two Galleons, seven Sickles, and twenty-eight Knuts."

"Just about my sexual orientation?"

"Yep, and well I lost money in my house betting pool."

"What do you mean?"

"There is an unwritten rule about betting pools about you, if you live or are good friends with him you can't get in because you'll know the out come before you let the cat out of the bag. I have to go Harry, I would ask Draco to the dance if it was me." Padma said with a wave and caught up with the other girls. Harry sat in a disbelief of what he was told for a great length of time. He was snapped out of his coma like state when Draco sat down next to him.

"What's cookin' good lookin'?" Draco asked.

"I think I will never look at the student body of Hogwarts the same way again." Harry said and placed his head in his hands.

"I haven't been able too since my third year when I couldn't sleep and wondered into the great hall at two in the morning to find an orgy going on hosted by the Weasley Twins." Draco said patting Harry on the back.

"I really did not need to know that." Harry mumbled into his hands and sat up.

"Well tell papa Draco what has your panties in a bunch."

"I'm not wearing any," Harry said with a cheeky smile.

"You digress,"

"Well Padma let me in that most of the school is betting on weather or not I'm gay."

"Really, you and I have another thing in common then."

"You too,"

"Me two,"

"Good God, ok another topic Halloween dance, who are you going with and what are you going as?"

"Well, I talked to Blaise who is still groveling at Hermione's door about your costume idea and I'm in agreement with Hermione that it would be in very poor taste. The funny thing is I could see your godfathers and the loon Dumbledore laughing at that."

"Now it's your turn to digress,"

"I'm going with no one but I have an idea for a costume if your intressted."

"Are you asking me to the dance Mr. Malfoy?"

"I think I am Mr. Potter," Draco got down on one knee and asked, "Will you Harry Potter go to the Halloween dance with me?"

Before Harry had a chance to answer Ron, Pansy and Terry walked into the room and stopped dead in their tracks at seeing the scene before them.

"What the hell is going on here?" Ron shouted.

"Yes," Harry said and left the room with out answering Ron's question. Draco smirked to the group and left to his room.

"Did he just do what I think he just did?" Terry asked confused. Pansy nodded her head and breezed by Blasie to get into her room. Terry and Ron took seats at the planning table as Terry conjured a bottle of whiskey.

"What the hell happened to you guys?" Justin asked coming into the common room and seeing Ron and Terry with a half empty bottle of whiskey.

"We think that Draco just proposed to Harry." Ron said braking into tears.

"Hand over that bottle." Justin said taking a seat with Terry and Ron. Two bottles of whiskey, three bottles of vodka, and a half empty bottle of absinthe later saw the boys passed out on the floor from slipping from their chairs.

"Ron wake up!" Hermione yelled. Ron sat up smacking his head into the table with a loud thud.

"Ouch, what was that for Hermione?" Ron asked moving out from under the table.

"Why are you drunk?" Hermione said with her arms folded to resemble Molly Weasley.

"Draco proposed to Harry."

"What!"

"We saw Draco on bended knee and everything."

"Did you hear him ask Harry?"

"No, but Harry said yes!"

"I'm off to find Draco, love." Blaise said and gave Hermione a kiss on the cheek.

"I need a drink," Hermione said and sat down in a chair.

By the night of the Halloween dance the whole school knew about Draco's proposal but couldn't find Harry or Draco to confirm the rumor. Hermione was making last minute touches to the great hall when Harry walked in.

"Where have you been?" Hermione asked the minute she saw him.

"I've been planning with Draco." Harry said with a bright smile.

"And you aren't including your friends in on the planning? You are a malicious boy you are, Harry." Hermione said and slapped his face. She left the great hall in a huff.

"What did I do?" Harry asked to no one as he rubbed his sore cheek. He left to go back to the common room to get dressed.

"Are you ready to rock Hogwarts?" the lead singer of the Enchanting Toads the hottest band in the wizarding world at the moment. The screams of the students shook dust from the highest rafters in Hogwarts. Harry and Draco were dancing in the middle of the crowed. Harry was dressed as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in hooker make-up, purple vest like corset, Speedos, fishnets, and black platform pumps. His hair had been primed to look like an afro. Draco was in gold short-shorts and gold boxing shoes. He had been given a fake tan and his hair had been cut in a bowl cut.

After a few songs they took a brake to stand off to the side in the great hall when Hermione and Blaise came up to them. Hermione was dressed as Tinker bell in a green halter top, skirt and kitten heels. Her hair was magically shorten and had green streaks in it. Blaise was dressed as Peter Pan in an Army green tunic, dark green tights, and brown male dance shoes.

"Nice look, Blaise." Draco said trying hard not to laugh at his friend's costume.

"Shut it, Draco." Blaise said through his teeth.

"You look great, Honey." Hermione said.

"You look amazing Hermione." Harry said.

"Thanks about this afternoon, I'm sorry. Draco set me straight after he saw your face." Hermione said going red.

"It's ok, we aren't even dating." Harry said.

"Who thought of your costume idea?"

"Surprisingly Draco,"

"How do you know of The Rocky Horror Picture Show?" Hermione asked shocked.

"My cousin who lives in America took me to go see it at a midnight showing, when I was visiting right after the Quidditch World Cup." Draco said.

"You got to go to a midnight showing, not fair!" Hermione said and pouted.

"You're a Rocky Horror fan?" Draco asked.

"Yes,"

"Who thought of your costumes, Hermione?" Harry asked.

"I did, after that day when you asked about your first idea." Hermione said with an evil grin as Ron walked up dressed as a Roman legionnaire.

"Who are you suppose to be?" Blasie asked.

"Mark Antony," Ron said with a bow.

"Where's Cleopatra?" Hermione asked with a giggle.

"She's dancing with Creaser." Ron said dead-paned. Just then Terry and Pansy walked up to the group. Terry was dressed the same as Ron except he wore a red cape. Pansy had dyed her bland hair to black and straighten it. She wore a white linen dress with gold and amethyst headdress, necklace, armlet, and anklet.

"Wow, Pansy." Draco said and kissed his friend on the cheek.

"Thanks Draco." Pansy said.

"What made you come up with this idea?" Hermione asked as Blasie and Harry went off to get drinks.

"The whole school knows Terry is off limits and Ron asked me to go with him back at the Snake Pit, so Terry came up with the idea of the three of us going together as one of the most famous love triangles in the world." Pansy said. The group was soon joined by the rest of the house except for Padma. Hannah, Mandy, and Susan all went as Disney Princesses. Hannah was Sleeping Beauty. Mandy as Cinderella and she had real glass slippers. Susan went as Snow White. Their Prince charming was Justin. He was dressed to the nines with tights. Which Blaise looked relived that he also wasn't suffering in the dratted things.

The group found a table near the stage where they could watch the show and claimed it as theirs, making sure to leave four empty chairs for Padma. Most of the night people came and went telling the group about how good the dance was. Padma and her group showed up around ten to show off their costumes. Padma was dress in a white dress that had the look of real snow; her hair was a mass of icicles. George was dressed in gold silk shirt that looked like a summer sun with black pants. His face had been decorated with gold foil. Parvati wore a dress of real spring flowers. Fred was dressed in black pants and had a shoulder strap of fall leaves that were also weaved into his hair. They didn't stay long as there was more dancing to do.

Near the end of the night found Harry, Pansy, Draco, Ron, Blaise, and Hermione dancing atop their table unable to hear Professor McGonagall yell at them to get off the table. The dance ended with a fireworks display set off by the Weasley Twins. Draco leaned over and kissed Harry gently on the mouth. Draco gave Harry a quick smile and hopped down off the table leaving the Great Hall.