Same disclaimers as always folks. I own little to nothing in these stories. Now, let's move on to Chapter 2, shall we?
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Harry had just finished practice when Hermione burst in through the door to the Room of Requirements and jumped at Harry.
"We need something to cushion their fall!" Called Neville and several pillows appeared where Harry fell with Hermione on top of him.
"Thanks Nev that was a close one." Neville nodded and smiled, putting his drumsticks into his back pocket. "'Mione, what on earth has gotten into you?"
"Oh nothing, just missed you is all," she smiled and leant down and kissed him softly on the lips before climbing off of him and letting the others help Harry up.
"The girls are all getting the name and clothes together so I thought I'd come see how you guys were doing," Hermione said, standing against a now stable Harry.
"We just finished up and were gonna go over ideas for band names. Got any guys?"
Everyone was deep in thought until Ron snapped his head up and conjured a light bulb above his head. "How's about Gryffindor Pride?"
"Nah, too plain. What about Scarlet?" Neville threw in. Everyone shook their heads at this, including Nev.
Seamus decided to throw in his idea, "What about Silverfang?"
"I think Draco and his band are called that Shay," Ron said, looking across the room for ideas.
"Hmm… I have an idea, what about the Red Wraiths?" Harry said after finally coming out of his own little world.
"That's brilliant. Where'd ya get that from?" Dean asked, walking into the room.
"Not sure, I think I heard it in a class somewhere..." Harry said when Hermione cut in. "Wraiths are cloaked creatures that travel in places forgotten by the sun. Not vampires or dementors, but something along the lines of a magical Grim Reaper."
"Would have been first year DADA then," Neville said, polishing his drumsticks.
"Well, I got an idea for our outfits now, but you lot will have to wait!" Seamus said, grabbing Dean and walking from the room, smirking.
The rest of the Wraiths just shook their heads and followed him out, with Hermione and Harry brining up the rear.
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Silverfang had finished practice and were getting their outfits set up. The ball was a week away and things were going just as planned. Draco and Zabini were guitarists with Draco as lead vocals, Crabbe on the drums and Goyle playing the bass.
Draco, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Ron and Luna met up in the entrance hall and made their way to Hogsmeade for the last trip there before the ball. Draco and Ginny went off to the Three Broomsticks while Ron and Luna headed over to Honeydukes. Hermione went to the local bookstore while Harry disappeared into the post office.
Harry picked up a few fairly large parcels and shrunk them and placed them in his pocket and smiled before walking back out and walking into the bookstore that Hermione had gone into.
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Dumbledore was sitting at his desk, popping lemon drops like they were nothing but smarties. He smiled and opened his desk drawer to pluck out his wand. He waved it over the portrait in front of him and Harry appeared in it along side Hermione to his left, latched onto his waist and Ron standing to his right, smirking with his arms folded. Dumbledore waved his wand again and in golden letters on the bottom of the frame appeared the words 'The Golden Trio'. Dumbledore smiled broadly and levitated it over to the front of his office and hung it directly above his doorframe. The three who defeated Voldemort and brought peace to the Wizarding World, "May you always watch over Hogwarts and protect it from evil."
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Parvarti, Padma and Lavender were organizing the decorations for the great hall when Neville walked in and hugged Lavender from behind with Seamus and Dean following him and attaching themselves to Padma and Parvarti respectively.
"How's it going?" Neville asked the girls, looking down at the parchment which had everything listed on it.
"Yeah, we want a huge stage for when the Red Wraiths own everyone else!" Seamus exclaimed, a huge grin spreading across his face.
"It's all going fine, but we need a hand with the designs for the Battle of the Bands cup. Wanna give us a hand?"
Seamus shook his head but Dean quickly raced over to the parchment and picked up a pen and started drawing designs.
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Harry and the others returned to the castle, their purses much lighter than when they left. Draco headed toward the dungeons and bid goodbye to Ginny and the others. Luna disappeared toward the Ravenclaw dorms leaving Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny to head up to the Gryffindor dorm all by themselves.
Once Harry and Ron were in the boys' dorms with Neville, Seamus and Dean, Harry took the parcels out of his pocket and re-enlarged them.
"Alrighty boys, I got us a few presents for Christmas." He opened the parcels and took out a black magical guitar with bright red, dancing flames on it and handed it to Ron. He then took out another one that was of similar design but was a dark blue with white on it and handed it to Seamus. He passed a large box to Neville that had an entirely new drums kit in it and finally he took out his pitch black bass with a green lightning bolt running up it.
"Sweet!" Ron exclaimed, strumming a few notes before laying it on his bed. Seamus nodded his thanks and placed his beside his bed while Neville magically set up the drum kit and checked everything. He turned around and smiled to Harry before shrinking it again and putting it away in his bedside drawer.
"Ok then, tomorrow is Christmas Eve and the ball. We'll have one last rehearsal in the morning then go have a major snowball fight outside, k."
Everyone nodded and was about to go to bed when Dean suddenly remembered the outfits he and Seamus designed. "Guys! Here," Dean threw a parcel to each of the Red Wraiths' and lied back on his bed.
Harry opened his parcel to find a long, red cloak that had been stylishly torn up to show the wraith style cloak. Also it had a hood which was made to completely cover the face when worn.
"These are kick-ass!" Neville shouted, hi-fiving Seamus and shaking Dean's hand.
"Totally, we are bound to win tomorrow!" Ron stated, grinning madly. Harry just shook his head and thanked Dean for all his help before going to bed.
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Heya guys! This is gonna be a really short fic so I can get started on my really big one. Next chapter will be the last.