Disclaimer: I wrote this when I was 12 to 13 in 2003. Harry Potter is hereby © to J.K. Rowling. Everything else is © to me, or its respective owners.

Chapter Seven: Hogsmeade

"Oh shut up!" Cho said, grinning.

"But it's true!" Harry said.

Cho hummed a tune quietly to him, then continued to run her fingers through his hair. They fell asleep minutes later.

Sunlight filtered through the dormitory. Harry opened his eyes groggily. He was still over come with sleep. Cho stirred and her brown eyes opened, and looked into his own. The scarlet curtain moved aside, to reveal a red haired and freckle-faced boy.

"Whoops! Am I interrupting anything?" Ron asked.

"Erm…No!" Harry and Cho answered quickly.

"Well…breakfast is going to start soon…and I know you forgot, or didn't even check the notice board, but today is the first Hogsmeade trip. So um…just…wear whatever…since it's Sunday…" Ron said nervously.

He closed the curtain, and Cho took out her wand and changed her uniform into an off-shoulder long bell sleeved peasant top in dark blue, and dark blue flare jeans with her black Vans®.

After Harry had changed, the two of them went downstairs into the common room. Hermione, Ron, Akira, Liam, Nick, Alicia, and Angela were all downstairs chatting animatedly with one another.

"So when's the bachelor and bachelorette parties?" Hermione asked.

"The what parties?" Ron asked.

"Oh…we forgot to tell you…Harry and I are engaged…" Cho said brightly.

Alicia and Angela clapped happily.

"Congratulations!" They cooed.

"Thanks…well…as for the parties, we've got to tell Tom, Whitney, Draco, and Alyssia." Cho answered.

"Very true. So when is it going to be?" Hermione wondered.

"Why not today? At Hogsmeade!" Cho suggested.

"Sounds great!" Akira and Hermione said in unison.

They all hurriedly rushed off to breakfast and found their four Slytherin friends just entering the hall. Cho pulled Whitney and Alyssia aside, and was talking so fast, but the girls must've understood her. When Cho finally stopped, Whitney and Alyssia screamed with joy.

"Really?!!" Whitney asked.

"Yeah. I'm serious. So will you both come? Hermione and Aki are coming. Then Harry can go with Tom, Draco, Ron, and Liam." Cho replied.

"Sounds perfect! We're going!" Alyssia said.

"Just tell Tom and Draco, alright?" Cho called after them, as they went to their house tables.

Breakfast had begun and quickly ended, and the group of ten rushed out the front doors and split up into groups of five. The girls went off to a tea shop, and the guys went to sit behind the Shrieking Shack, away from the people.

"So what should we do?" Liam asked.

"I dunno." Ron answered.

"Oh you both are really thick. You play strip poker!" Tom said sarcastically.

"WHAT?!" Ron and Liam exclaimed in surprise.

"Wow…you both are really thick. I was just joking…although I wouldn't mind a round when the girls get back…" Tom replied.

"Well…that wasn't funny…" Ron said.

"Oh lighten up! I was having a bit of fun…man, I'm thirsty…I could sure go for a butterbeer…" Tom said.

Draco took out his wand and gave it a flick and five mugs of butterbeer appeared.

"How'd you do that?" Ron asked, amazed.

"Honestly! I learned it from Alyssia…she's always summoning pumpkin juice in the common room…" Draco replied.

"Hey, Harry, you've been kind of quiet…what's on your mind?" Tom asked.

"Oh…um…nothing…" Harry lied.

He had been feeling his scar prickling for the past few minutes, the pain wasn't too bad, but he thought that he must be imagining it…

In the tea shop, Alyssia had turned Akira's tea into a large mug of butterbeer. The two of them were having a contest. Cho, Hermione, and Whitney watched interestedly.

"Alright, ready? Set. Go!" Alyssia cried.

Akira picked up her mug and started drinking it.

"Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug!" Whitney, Cho, and Hermione cheered.

Akira kept swallowing the butterbeer, and finally slammed the empty mug onto the table.

"Well…that's your fifth one…want to try again?" Alyssia asked.

"Oh…no…I think I'm gonna be sick…" Akira replied.

"Hey, Alyssia. You only drank three! Akira won." Hermione noted.

"Damn it!" Alyssia said loudly.

Several people looked around, and Alyssia laughed nervously. Cho sipped quietly at her tea. Hermione was talking to her at the same time.

"You know, we'll have more fun if we go find the guys…" Whitney said.

"Very true…but where would they be?" Cho wondered.

"We'll go look!" Alyssia said brightly.

They got up from their table and left a sickle each to pay for their tea, then went out the door.

The guys were talking, and lying on the grass, drinking butterbeer and staring up at the sky. Harry was half asleep. He heard several footsteps heard a pair stop right next to him. He looked up and saw Cho.

"Hi!" She said brightly.

"Great! Now we can play strip poker!" Tom shouted.

"What?!" The girls exclaimed.

"Yeah, 'Lyss. You should've heard him earlier…he was getting so excited about it…" Draco said.

Alyssia laughed.

"How do you play strip poker anyway?" Whitney asked.

"Um…" Tom answered.

"He doesn't know…" Draco said.

"I know Blackjack." Cho said.

"Then we'll play Strip Blackjack!" Tom cried. "And the rules, the loser gives the article of clothing to their boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, or fiancée."

"Haha…In your dreams!" Alyssia said.

Minutes later…

Each of them had cards in their hands. Tom was dealer.

"So Alyssia, you gonna hit or stay?" He asked.

"Hit me!" She replied.

"Ok!" Tom said, lightly hitting Alyssia in the arm.

"Hey! That's not what I meant!" Alyssia whined.

"I know that!"

He handed her another card.

"Anyone else? Hit or stay?" He asked.

"Stay." The others replied.

"Ok, flip your cards." He instructed.

They all turned their cards over.

"What's everyone got?" Tom asked.

"Seventeen." Cho replied.

"Nineteen." Harry said.

"Sixteen." Liam said.

"Fourteen." Akira said.

"Twenty." Draco replied.

"Eighteen." Ron and Hermione said.

"Thirteen." Alyssia cried.

"Ok, Alyssia, give Draco something…like your shirt or something…" Tom said gleefully.

"My shirt?! Hell no! Not in front of all you people!" Alyssia snapped.

She tossed a rubber band at Draco. Tom took everyone's cards and he gave them new cards. Everyone took their turn, and then flipped their cards over. Nick came walking over.

"Hey! What're you guys and girls up to?" He asked.

"We're playing Strip Blackjack." Draco answered.

"Ooh! Sounds like fun! Can I play too?" Nick asked.

"Sure…" Tom said.

He gave Nick his cards, and then he flipped them over. He was smiling. Hermione was pouting. Everyone made their call, and Hermione lost, and Nick won.

"Hermione! Come on! Give something to Ron!" Tom teased.

Hermione turned red and handed her shirt over.

"Now that's more like it!" Tom said.

Whitney elbowed him in the ribs, and Tom smiled and laughed. He gave them new cards…

"Cho! You lost!"

"Yeah…yeah…give something to Harry…" She muttered.

She tossed her shirt at him. But she also laughed at all of them. She had a strapless undershirt on underneath her blue peasant top.

"No fair, Cho!" Hermione complained.

They played several rounds, and drank butterbeer, and then they had to leave Hogsmeade. Everyone got their clothes back and put them on, then they walked back up to the castle.