Chapter III – Dressing for the Ball

Harry and Ginny looked at each other and Ginny in Harry's body said, "You're right Neville, we do need to talk; you deserve to know what happened."

Harry in Ginny's body said, "But first, we need to find Parvati; she also deserves to know the truth."

Neville waited until they found Parvati. They got together in a corner of the common room and Neville said, "Everyone has been talking about you two sleeping together on the divan last night and sitting together all day. If you two have become a couple, where does that leave me and Parvati for the ball tonight?"

Parvati looked at Harry's body and said, "Harry, do you still want to go to the ball with me?"

Ginny's body spoke and said, "First you have to promise not to tell anyone what we're going to tell you. If you do, and this gets out, the twins could be expelled; and we'll be in trouble to. So do you both promise not to tell anyone?"

Neville and Parvati both promised; so from Ginny's body, Harry said, "I'm Harry, Ginny is in my body; the twins pulled a prank and it accidentally switched us into each other's bodies."

Ginny explained the entire story; but needless to say, neither Neville nor Parvati believed them.

Harry, in Ginny's body said, "Ask the twins or Hermione; tell them we explained it and they'll tell you it's true."

Parvati, still thinking it was Ginny talking said, "Hermione and your brothers would say whatever you wanted them to."

Finally, Ginny in Harry's body said, "Parvati, ask me something only Ginny would know; something Harry couldn't have a chance of getting right."

Harry in Ginny's body said, "Great idea, Neville, you ask me something Ginny couldn't possibly know."

Parvati thought for a minute, then said, "A few weeks ago, Ginny was in my room with me, Padma, Lavender, and Hermione. We were playing truth or dare and Ginny chose truth. What question did I ask Ginny and what was her answer?"

Harry's face got red and Ginny said, "I can't say it out loud, but I'll whisper it to you."

She took Parvati aside and after telling her something, Parvati said, "It really is you in Harry's body, oh my god."

Neville said, "My turn, I told Harry and nobody else the name of the girl I wanted to take to the ball but I was afraid to ask her. What's her name and why did I want to ask her?"

Harry in Ginny's body said, "Do you want me to say it out loud, or whisper to you."

Neville said, "Whisper, no offence girls, I don't want anyone to tell her I fancy her."

He took Neville aside and whispered, "Hannah Abbott from Hufflepuff; because next to you, she's best in our year in Herbology and you like to talk to her about it."

Neville said, "I'm satisfied, you two did switch bodies. So what does that mean for all of us and the ball?"

Harry said, "That's what we've been talking about all day. We thought of not telling you two about this; I was going to pretend to be Ginny and go with Neville and Ginny would pretend to be me and go with Parvati. But we decided it wouldn't be fair to you two; it would be a lie if we didn't let you know."

Ginny said, "Well as to the ball, Harry has to go or McGonagall will kill him; and right now, I'm in Harry's body. So, unless Hermione and the twins find a way to change us back in the next hour, I have to go as him.

The question is, who will be my date? Parvati, if you go with me you'll actually have a date with another girl. Then Harry and Neville, two boys, will be together; or both of them can just not go.

Parvati said, "Is there an alternative?"

Harry said, "Ginny and I go together; and you and Neville go together."

Ginny said, "That way, we all get to go, we'll have two boy-girl couples; and Harry and I will keep our problem between us."

Harry said, "We're sorry that you two got dragged into our problem; it's not even our fault, Fred and George pranked us and now all four of us are stuck in a bad situation."

Parvati said, "I don't think I can go with Ginny in Harry's body; I would know it's her and keep thinking all night that I'm dating another girl."

Neville said, "You would be dating another girl; and I'd be dating another boy, even if Harry does look like Ginny. That idea gives me the collywobbles."

Parvati said, "Then I guess I'll go with Neville; that is if you want to go with me Neville."

Neville said, "Sure Parvati, you're beautiful and you're a very nice person too."

Ginny said, "Now that we settled that, I have a favor to ask of you Parvati; actually two favors. First, you can't tell anyone the real reason we switched dates, not even Padma."

Parvati asked, "So what do we tell people; they're bound to ask?"

Harry said, "I'll take the blame; tell them it's my fault. Tell anyone that asks that because I stayed with the Weasleys last summer, I started to fancy Ginny, and I finally got the nerve to tell her just this week. Tell them I asked you and Neville to do us a favor and go together so I could take Ginny."

Parvati said, "But Harry, all the girls will hate you; a lot of them still think you cheated to get into the tournament. They'll think you're even more rotten for doing that to me."

Harry said, "I can live with that, I'm sort of used to people thinking badly of me. As long as nobody blames you, Neville, or Ginny, it will be okay. It will be less embarrassing than telling everyone Ginny and I switched bodies."

Parvati said, "Okay, I don't think it's fair to you; but, if that's what you want. Ginny, what other favor do you want from me?"

She said, "Harry will need help getting my hair done nice, getting makeup on, and getting into my dress. I don't think he can do it by himself; and I don't want everyone to think I can't either.

Hermione will help him, but I think he'll need more than just her; I don't want my body looking like a disaster for the ball."

Harry said, "Yes, please Parvati. I have no idea how to do a girl's hair or makeup; but I figure I can put a dress on by myself."

Parvati giggled and said, "I doubt it Harry; it's not just a dress, it's a formal gown and all the accessories. Do you think you'll pick the proper knickers, shoes, earrings, necklace, bracelets, and other matching items on your own?"

Ginny said, "I really don't have much in the way of fancy shoes and knickers to choose from; and I don't have any jewelry to worry about."

Parvati said, "I have plenty of shoes and jewelry; I'll make sure to pick out something nice so Harry, I mean so you, will look fabulous.

Harry groaned and said, "So that means you will help me?"

Parvati said, "Sure Harry, and other girls will want to stick in their own two pence too; even though they won't know it's you. They all like Ginny and will want to help her."

Harry said, "I just hope all you girls won't be running around in your knickers while I'm getting ready; I may be in Ginny's body, but I still have a boy's mind in here."

Parvati said, "Well, I won't and I'm sure Hermione won't either because we know who you are; but since we can't tell anyone else, I think you're going to see not just knickers, but a lot of uncovered girl parts."

It was after four when Hermione and the twins returned from the library. She said, "We couldn't find another copy; so I won't be able to change you back. At least not now, but starting tomorrow we'll keep looking and trying."

Harry said, "Why not just try doing the spell again?"

Hermione said, "I told you, the spell was not meant to be reversed; so I can't tell what kind of effect doing it over with the same two souls will have. We really should ask Dumbledore to check this."

Ginny said, "Fred and George could be expelled for going into the restricted section and then casting a dark curse on other students. I think we should wait until you're sure there's nothing else you can do.

Besides, they said they thought it was supposed to reverse itself after an hour. You said the last word was reverse after one, even if its one week instead of one hour; at least Fred and George won't be in trouble. As angry as I am with them; I don't want them expelled."

Hermione said, "It's your bodies if you don't mind being each other. Now it's time for us to start getting ready if we have to help Harry too. Ginny, boys don't need as much time; but you might want to shower before all the other boys get there."

Hermione and Parvati took Harry up the girls' side, and Parvati said to him, "Get Ginny's kit, and go to the showers. I'll come and tell her roommates that our fourth-year loo is packed with everyone getting ready at the same time. Since there are only three of you going to the ball, I'll ask if they would mind me showering in the third-year loo.

Harry, you try to keep your eyes, I mean Ginny's eyes, off me while I shower and dress."

Harry said, "I'll try; Ginny gave me a whole routine for her hair, shampoo, detangling conditioner, drying and brushing. That and just showering will keep me busy; you girls sure have a complicated time getting ready, boys just shower and comb their hair."

Hermione laughed and said, "You don't even bother to comb your hair."

Harry said, "I try, but it won't stay combed."

When Harry got to the girls' loo, Ginny's roommates were already there, Mary Jameson was naked wiping herself with a towel, Harry assumed she had just stepped out of the shower stall. He looked away, but he was a fourteen-year-old boy who had never seen a naked girl, and his mind kept drawing him back to glance at her.

Sara White was standing in front of a mirror brushing her wet hair. She was wrapped in a towel that barely covered her bum and as Harry looked at her, she bent over the sink and her entire bum and quim was exposed.

Harry had never seen a girl's quim or breasts before. His cousin Dudley once claimed to have Muggle magazines with pictures of naked girls; but when Harry expressed interest in seeing them, Dudley said a Ponce like Harry wouldn't want to see them anyway.

Despite his plans not to look, with two girls exposing their parts, Harry's hormones were going full blast, and he kept glanced from one girl to another.

He decided he needed to get in the shower stall before the girls noticed him looking and would think it was Ginny that was interested in ogling their bodies.

He took off the robe he was wearing, hung it on a hook, and adjusted the water temperature. He just pulled the curtain closed when he heard Parvati say, "Do you mind if I shower here, the fourth-year loo is packed."

Both girls said no, they didn't mind, and Harry heard Parvati turn on the shower in the next stall. He began shampooing Ginny's long hair, then put the detangling conditioner on as she had told him, and finally rinsed thoroughly.

Now he took her body wash and a thing she told him was a purple body poof that exfoliated her skin, whatever that means, and he started at her shoulders to wash her body. The shoulders and back went well, but when he got to the point where he had to rub her breasts, he had a problem.

Ginny only had small breasts, but as he rubbed the poof over them, despite promising Ginny he wouldn't, he looked down at them. He noticed that warm feeling he had felt before start deep inside just below Ginny's navel. Her breasts felt so soft and smooth he kept feeling them until he noticed her nipples stiffened as he rubbed them. He was fascinated and continued for a few minutes as the warm feeling continued to grow.

Then he realized he was enjoying this, and Ginny had specifically said, "You better not enjoy yourself as you touch my parts" so, feeling guilty, he moved his hands off her breasts and washed her lower abdomen and her bum. Her bum was small and firm and he realized he had squeezed it as he washed it. He thought, "I'm in trouble now, if I enjoyed rubbing her breasts and her bum, what will it be like washing her quim."

He had to do it, she told him it is important for a girl to keep her quim clean or she could develop a number of problems like a U.T.I.. He sighed, got his hand soaped up, and began washing between her legs.

The warm feeling that had started to fade came back stronger than ever; it felt like he was wanking as a boy and was almost there. He felt guilty, but couldn't stop himself; then suddenly he felt her body stiffen, the warm feeling spread all through her body and he started to moan, but forced himself to keep quiet.

When the feeling faded, he hurriedly finished washing her legs and turned off the water. He knew he had done just what Ginny told him not to do, enjoy touching her; he felt so guilty and he thought, "I can never tell Ginny or mention this to anyone."

He started drying off and heard Parvati say, "Ginny, are you done showering? I'll start on your hair if you're ready; come here by the mirror."

Sara was working on Mary's hair, so Harry wrapped the towel around Ginny's body and went in front of the mirror. Parvati had dried off and had her robe on; but the other two girls were still wrapped only in towels. Every time Parvati saw Harry glance over at one of the semi-naked girls, she pinched him; but all that did was make him get sneakier at shifting his eyes without turning his head.

Parvati used a spell to quickly dry Ginny's hair, then began to braid it in a complicated double braid pattern when Hermione arrived. She said, "Oh Ginny, if Parvati is already started on you, I'll go back to our loo; Lavender said she'll work on my hair. Parvati, when you finish Ginny, come back and I'll work on your hair."

Ginny, in Harry's body, undressed, put on his robe, got his kit, and a clean pair of boxers, then headed to the fourth-year boys' shower. She found all four of Harry's roommates there; Dean and Seamus were naked, wiping off after just coming out of the shower.

She couldn't help noticing their members, Dean's slightly larger than Harry's, and Seamus' just a little smaller. Both pulled on boxers and went to the mirror to comb their hair, while Ron and Neville pulled off their boxers to get into the shower.

Neville glanced over, knowing it was her in Harry's body, he tried to keep turned away without attracting the attention of the other boys by acting suspiciously; she only got a quick glance at his member, which was about the same size as Harry's. But Ron stood facing her, she hadn't seen him naked for nearly four years when he was eleven and very small, now she saw his member had grown and was also about the same size as Harry's.

Looking at naked boys, her mind was making Harry's member get stiff; and to keep the boys from noticing, she turned away.

Ron however went over to her and said, "Harry, the twins and Hermione wouldn't tell me what is going on between you and Ginny; as her brother, I think if you started to fancy her, you should be man enough to tell me."

Dean and Seamus had left to go get dressed and Neville was in the shower with the water running. Ginny said to Ron, "It's really embarrassing and will get Fred and George in big trouble if any of the teachers find out."

Ron said, "You know I won't tell anyone; you told Hermione, why don't you trust me?"

Ginny said, "Hermione found out by accident; and it's not that we don't trust you, but you'll get really mad."

Ron said, "Why, did you and Ginny do something together? Were you snogging her?"

Harry's face got red and Ron said, "Did you do more than snog her? I'll beat the crap out of you if you did anything to Ginny."

She said, "Ron, I am Ginny; the twins wanted to prank us; but they used some sort of curse that made me and Harry switch bodies. They don't know how to switch us back and Hermione went over the spell to see if she can find a way to reverse it, but so far, no luck.

For now, I'm going to the ball as Harry and he's going as me; that's why we asked Neville and Parvati to switch dates, it wasn't right to make Parvati go with me and Neville go with Harry."

Ron was red to the ears and said, "Don't give me a line of dragon dung Harry; be a man and tell me the truth."

Ginny said, "I knew you wouldn't believe me but it's the truth, I'm Ginny in Harry's body. By the way, you might want to cover up; you're standing naked in front of your sister."

Neville came from the shower, quickly wrapped himself in a towel, and said, "Its true Ron; Ginny and Harry explained it to me and Parvati when they asked us to switch dates. We both tested them with questions because we didn't believe them either.

Go ahead and ask her something only Ginny would know and Harry couldn't guess."

Ron said, "When Ginny was seven and I was eight, Fred and George pranked both of us. What did they do; and what did Ginny do to get back at them?"

Ginny said, "They turned our hair green the day we were to go to Aunt Muriel's; she blamed us instead of them. I used Muriel's wand to vanish their clothes and when she saw them naked, she blamed us again."

Ron gasped, then realizing it was really Ginny in Harry's body, he put his hands over his member and yelled, "Ginny, how could you come into the boys shower knowing all of us were naked in here?"

She said, "Look at me, this is Harry's body; what do you think would happen if I walked like this into the girls' shower, assuming I could even get up the girls' stairs. And do you want Harry in my body to be showering naked in here with you, Neville, Seamus, and Dean.

We both knew it wasn't an ideal situation; but couldn't figure any other way to keep it secret."

Ron said, "Why don't both of you just not go to the ball?"

She said, "You know McGonagall insists that Harry, as a champion, has to go and has to do the opening dance with his date. She would kill him if he didn't show up; and kill Fred and George if we had to explain to her why Harry didn't show. Do you have a better idea of how to handle the situation?"

Ron just stood with his mouth open until Ginny said, "Neither do we. Now I have to shower and get Harry's body ready to go to the ball."

She took off Harry's boxers and got into the shower.

Ron yelled to her, "Don't look at Harry's member or dare touch it."

Ginny yelled back, "Ron, you're such a prat. How do I wash without touching it; besides, I've already had to touch it three times since last night to cop a wazz."

Neville said, "Ron, quit yelling at her; Ginny and Harry are already embarrassed enough about this. Now, I have to go get dressed; you better shower and get ready too."

In the shower, Ginny quickly shampooed Harry's hair thinking how easy he had it compared to her. Then she started to wash his body with plain soap; she would have to remember to tell him about body washes for men being better for the skin.

Eventually she got to his member, which was half-stiff after seeing the naked boys. Again, she wondered about how her thoughts as a girl seeing naked boys caused Harry's boy's body to react when it normally wouldn't have by him seeing other boys. She washed his member and it quickly stiffened totally, as it had been last night the first time she touched it.

Touching it felt good, but different from the felling she got as a girl thinking about boys. All the feeling was in it, not in her center body.

She knew her brothers all wanked and had even seen them doing it out by the pond when they didn't know she was there. She wondered if Harry wanked, then thought; sure he did, he's a fourteen-year old boy.

After her mom had given her sex talk, she had masturbated herself to an orgasm a couple of times as most girls had at one time or another; she thought about Harry as she did it. She wondered what girl Harry thought about while doing it; she hoped it was her, not Hermione, or some other girl.

Now she wondered what it felt like for a boy.

She knew she shouldn't, but also knew, if they ever figured how to reverse the curse, she would never get another chance, so she continued to rub Harry's member until her knees got weak and she felt the contraction in his bollocks and member. She shot thick white fluid onto the shower floor; but she was disappointed that, though it felt good, it was over so fast.

She figured it was over too fast because she didn't do it right, and decided, if they didn't switch back before she got the chance, she would try again slower. She finished showering and found Ron waiting for her.

He said, "We have to talk about this more, but now, we have to get dressed and get to the common room before our dates." Because Dean and Seamus were there, Ron didn't get the chance to talk with Ginny as they stood around the common room waiting.

Parvati did Ginny's hair so the two braids went around the sides of her head and made it look like she had a red crown on with a few curly strands hanging in strategic places. Parvati left to get her hair done and Hermione returned to help Harry get into Ginny's ball dress properly.

Ginny said, "I thought you were doing Parvati's hair."

Hermione already had her gown on, and her hair done up in a bun; she said, "Lavender offered to do Parvati's hair so I could get back here to help you."

Hermione finished with him, and he was just heading down to meet Ginny when Parvati came back with dressy shoes that matched her gown, and a complete set of matching jade necklace, bracelet, and earrings. The green jade went well with Ginny's gown and red hair. All the girls, and Harry, were now ready and went together to meet their dates.

As they came down the stairs, one at a time, the boys all rave about each girl, until Harry came down. All the boys except Ron said she was beautiful; Ron simply said, "Har … Ah Ginny, can we talk for a moment."

They went into a corner and Ron hissed out, "Why didn't you tell me what happened; you better be respectful of Ginny's body while you're in it, and even when you're switched back."

Harry said, "That's exactly why we didn't tell you; we both knew you would act crazy."

Ron said, "You're in my little sister's body, you just washed her naked body in the shower; I think I'm entitled to worry about that."

Harry said, "Well, you can take out your anger on your brothers; because Ginny and I didn't want this, they did it to us. Do you think I want to be stuck in a girl's body; or Ginny want to be stuck in mine?

By the way, since you know, I assume Ginny told you about it. Did you yell at her for being in the boys' shower with the guys; or are you just going to take it out on me?"

Ron's mouth hung open and he finally got out, "Yes I did yell at her, and you just better watch what you do with Ginny's body."

Ron turned and walked out the door to meet his date Padma who was in Ravenclaw. Ginny came over and said, "Did Ron lay into you about respecting my body?"

Harry said, "Yeah, like I planned all this just to molest you."

Ginny said, "Yeah, he's a big prat; he started on me but I tore into him and walked away before he could really get started.

Let's go to the ball and try to enjoy it as much as we can in this condition."