A/N: I do not own Harry Potter or any related characters. Jillian is, however, my own creation.
This is for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Assignment #7
Performing Arts: Styles in Ballet
Task #4 Contemporary Ballet: Contemporary ballets may include mime and acting, and are usually set to music. Write about a house party.
Word count: 661
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Hannah whispered as her and Susan made their way through the hall.
"For the last time, yes, it's a brilliant idea. I don't know why no one ever thought about it before," she replied. They reached the door of their house and played the rhythm to open the door.
"Hannah! Susan! Did you get them?" a first year asked running over to the older girls. Susan and Hannah had just started their fourth year.
"Did you ever doubt us?" Hannah asked with a smile pulling several dozen party hats from her bag.
"We can't have a party without hats."
"Exactly, these are the fun kind too, they change the color of your hair when you're wearing one," Susan added.
"What you three doing?" The girls froze.
"Um, hi Cedric, we were...just...um..." Cedric looked at the party hats in the first year's hands and then at the other girls.
"You three are planning a party?"
"Well, yes, a Hufflepuff party, just our house, to celebrate you becoming champion, we were going to invite you, but you're a prefect and we figured..."
"I would tell on you?" Hannah nodded.
"No, you've got it wrong, girls. I think a party is just what our house needs! Something to rally behind, other than me of course." He flashed Susan a smile.
"What else do we need?"
"Music, we can get the food from the kitchens, the house elves won't mind."
"What about decorations?"
"Jillian's taking care of them," Hannah answered. Jillian Montgomery was a fifth year. Cedric nodded.
"I've got an idea for the music," he stated. "When are we having this party?"
"This weekend, Saturday, starting at 7, that way none of us will miss class or be too tired to finish our homework," Susan answered. Not that many of the hardworking Hufflepuffs usually left their homework until the last minute, unless they got sidetracked by some other project.
"Perfect, meet me here at six-thirty, we'll get it all set up."
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"Do you see Cedric yet?"
"No, here, help me hang these streamers, I think I have them crooked."
"Look, I made a balloon with our house crest on it," Jillian stated inflating it and letting it drift to the ceiling. Suddenly the four girls heard a loud noise, a booming beat. They turned to the doorway. Cedric was holding a large black rectangular thing, which is where the music was coming from.
"What's that?"
"It's a muggle device called a boom box, I borrowed it from one of the muggle-born girls in Ravenclaw. They showed me how to make it run on magic."
"Wow, cool, set it over there in the corner, everyone else should be coming in soon." While Hannah set out the refreshments, Susan and Jillian finished decorating, which included several large poster of Cedric. People slowly started trickling into the common room, Hannah was sure she saw a few people from other houses, but let them stay.
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"What is the meaning of this!" The girls looked up. Professor Sprout was standing in the doorway. The music was so loud they could barely hear her. The decorations seemed to have taken on a life of their own and multiplied covering the whole room in crepe paper and balloons. The was a large crowd of students dancing wildly.
"Um, hi Professor...we wanted to throw a party for Cedric," Hannah answered looking at the floor.
"It might have gotten a little out of hand?" Susan whispered.
"A little?"
"A lot?"
"That's more like it, now, girls, there is a very important lesson to be learned here. Don't throw a wild house party and forget to invite your Head of House! Now, do I smell pumpkin punch?"
"Right this way, Professor," Susan said after a moment.
"Don't forget girls, those who created the party also have to clean it up," she added laughing and joining a group of students at the refreshment table.