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Dedication: To my dear friend, Leah who designed the dresses for my use. She's awesome!

Chapter 13

Harry's POV

The party had started and everybody was at the Burrow downstairs in the living room. Everyone except the two people I really wanted to see one of my best friends and my girlfriend, but not my date. Ron fidgeted beside me obviously anxious about the night. I think he regretted setting me up with Luna, but as long as he's stubborn enough not to admit it I won't forgive him.

"Harry…I…do I look ok?" Ron stammered. Without even looking at him I grunted.

"C'mon please, this is really important to me." He quickly covered his mouth but the damaged had already been done. IMPORTANT TO HIM?! What is he on about? This was meant to be important to me until he had to go ruin it with his 'little-ronniekins-is-a-hero-because-he-saved-harry-from-going-to-the-party-without-a-date' charade. He made everyone think I couldn't get a date myself. I glared at him and he flinched.

"Ron, you're pushing it mate." I whispered this through clenched teeth and a smile. Luna was standing not far away talking to Neville. When my eyes raked over his expression I saw it in his eyes. It was the same look I saw in Ron's eyes when he was with hermione and in Hermione's eyes when she spoke to Ron. Luna's eyes also bore that very same thing. It's too bad Neville doesn't notice these things and even if he did he wouldn't have enough courage to say anything. I do hope things work out well for them in the end.

I slipped away from Ron when I thought he was distracted and I knew that Luna wouldn't miss me when she was around Neville. I walked into the kitchen and pulled up a seat. Charlie walked in with two empty glasses. He had a smile as wide as his face, but everything went sour when he saw me sitting there. He put on a rough voice hoping it would intimidate me.

"Fred and George have filled me in on what's been happening these holidays." I froze, not Charlie as well. "Bill won't be happy when he finds out either. You know he's always been extra protective of her, ever since she was born." Oh no, bill. "It's ok I made sure he wouldn't find out until after the party. I didn't think mum would want any black eyes in the pictures." He smiled wickedly and I finally knew what I was getting into, but it was worth it. "Just so you remember if you hurt her in any way possible then she has six older brothers that won't hesitate just because you are the boy who lived. Also I don't want to see you dancing with her until after we talk later. Got it." He scowled at me and then Mollie came in. his face lite up and kissed her on the cheek. Maybe he actually liked this one.

"We discussed this." She motioned towards me.

"I didn't say anything of the sort we were just having a man to man conversation. Weren't we Harry?" he looked menacing so I just agreed with him. "Come on Mollie."

She shook her head at him and then followed.

I let a breath go I hadn't realised I was holding. I opened the kitchen door an inch and saw the figures of Mollie and Charlie walking through he crowd. When they were far enough away I stepped out and stood in the corner of the room. I saw the figure of bill rise above everybody. As he stood on his chair he cleared his voice.

"hello everybody, welcome to the semi-formal party we decided to host because it was an excuse for mum to cook lots of food and we didn't have a better way to spend the last night of the holidays. Now that everyone is here…"

Molly interrupted him and whispered in his ear.

"Ok we are waiting on two people that will be down shortly. They are probably just being fashionably late…"

Molly interrupted again.

"Ok can everyone start to move outside into the backyard were the main party will be taking place. Watch out for gnomes because Fred and George really suck at de-gnoming the garden."

"Yeah well you'd be crap too if mum took your wand away that very day so you had to do it the muggle way."

"We were running around trying to knock them out with a pipe all day. I'd like to see you do that." Fred and George interrupted them and then everybody began moving out.

I moved out from my corner to look at the stairs where Luna and Neville were last. On the top of the stairs was Hermione. She was taking one step at a time and she looked amazing. Her hair was tamed and up in a bun like at the Yule ball. Light make up covered her face and made her brown eyes stand out. I could see the effect she was having on Ron.

Ron's POV

My palms were sweaty as usual when I was anywhere near Hermione. When she reached the bottom of the stairs my knees felt weak and I had to grab the wall for support. She was wearing a stunning deep red gown. Starting from the top her breasts were covered (although I wish they weren't…Ron that was horrible) by two thick strips which crossed over at the back. A waist band hugged her beautiful curves. At the back beneath the waist band an upside down pentagon was cut out. The red silk flowed to the floor and Hermione looked stunning. She linked arms with me and we headed outside.

I managed to stutter a jumble of words.

"You l…look b…b…beautiful."

A blush crept onto her cheeks and she smiled sweetly.

"Thank you Ronald."

Harry's POV

Then when Hermione reached the bottom I saw a flash of red on the top of the stairs. It was her hair, Ginny's hair. As soon as I saw her my mouth went dry and I gulped. She was mesmerising in her hip hugging dress that dropped to the floor. It was pale, pale red and complexion matched perfectly. I didn't know much about dresses but I would describe this one as being a strapless v-line but it had a strap. It was going from the back left to the top of her left breast then circulating her body and joining to the back on the right. It's hard to explain especially for me, but it looked damn good on her. No one had ever taken my breath away like she did then. She captured conservative and sexy in one perfect dress.

Luna found me at the time that Ginny linked arms with Neville. I knew she didn't like him and he didn't like her in that way. That didn't stop the feeling of jealousy. I heard Luna's small voice.

"It will work out in the end."

"Sorry what?"

"Nothing."

We kept on moving outside with the small crowd.

The backyard of the burrow was laid out with a table that would seat everybody. As you could tell it was very long. Around the edge of the garden, gnomes had been stunned and set up for decoration. It looked amazing compared to usual. The music was set up outside and everybody was walking arm in arm, or hand in hand, with their couples. Some started mingling and socialising while others began moving towards the large table. It was where the food was located.

Luna dragged me over to the food table placing me next to Hermione and her next to Neville. Ginny sat on the other side of Neville and Ron on the other side of Hermione. I wasn't in the mood for food so I sat there listening to Luna talk constantly to Neville and I could tell he was catching onto her every word. Ron and Hermione sat in content silence holding hands and occasionally blushing but still smiling like there was no tomorrow.

"Hey Harry, do you want to swap seats with me?"

Ginny's POV

I sat there bored with not much of an appetite. Counting on my fingers I recalled the couples here today. Hermione and Ron were together. Neville and Luna were together, even if they didn't know it yet. Even Charlie, the biggest bachelor ever, had bought someone. Sure Harry and I were together, but we weren't together. Right?

"Hey Harry, do you want to swap seats with me?"

I shot up in my seat and turned to Neville with wide eyes. He was slowly getting up in his seat to swap with Harry until someone coughed. There was Charlie in his suit like dress robes glaring at Neville.

"You should go dance with Ginny, Neville." He gave poor Neville a death stare and I shot him back one. It said back-off-or-else. He then smiled sweetly and pointed to the middle of the yard where my mother and father were smiling and laughing. He knew she was everyone's weakness. She looked so happy and nobody wanted to ruin the night in times like these.

"Come on Neville." I grabbed Neville's hand grudgingly and led him away from the table.

Harry's POV

Ginny just left with her hand enclosed in Neville's and Charlie gave me one more look before walking away. I tried to remember the plan that I had made in my mind. As I thought about it I realised it wasn't very well planned out. So many things could go wrong and it was more of an idea then a plan. It was all I had though so I was resorting to it.

"Luna, I'm just going to go to the toilet. Ok?"

"Yes of course Harry. Good luck."

"Huh?"

"Nothing I said, see you later."

What was all that about? Luna can surely freak you out sometimes. Whatever just happened slipped my mind as I crept into the house towards the upstairs bathroom. Once I was in the bathroom I quickly whipped out my invisibility cloak and covered me with it. I slipped out of the bathroom and headed up the next set of stairs towards Ron's room. Inside it was like a bombshell hit. He had been messing everything up since he asked Hermione to the party. I picked up the blanket and the basket that was hiding underneath it.

Once outside again, I headed straight for the broom shed. I had to dodge the dancers and the jolly, celebrating, abundance of people. I reached for my Firebolt then searched for Ginny. My angel was standing with Neville, Tonks and Lupin. They were just talking and he needed to somehow get her away from everyone else.

Ginny's POV

I was standing next to Tonks and Lupin who couldn't keep his eyes off her. I would catch him absentmindedly gazing over in her direction and up and down her body. She would just smile and blush and continue her conversation with Neville.

Just then Hedwig caught me by surprise when she landed on my shoulder and started nibbling affectionately on my ear. I knew that this was her way to tell me she wanted food but I couldn't understand why she couldn't go hunting. Just then it hit me. HARRY!

"Hedwig, I'm in the middle of a party. I can feed you later." I tried to act nonchalant and I thought it was working. Just as suddenly as Hedwig came Luna appeared behind.

"Feed her now, I think she would enjoy some of the food your mother made." Luna seemed to know something but she wouldn't let on so I went with it.

"Yes…I'm sure she would. Please excuse me."

I headed for the end of the food table with Hedwig on my shoulders.

Harry's POV

After sending Hedwig off I ran to the food table hoping she would get the message. I saw Ginny heading for the table looking around for something. I walked up behind her and whispered in her ear.

"You look so cute when you're confused." She gasped but kept walking trying to be casual and not suspicious. "so what's going to happen is you are going to come under the coat when no one is watching, so send Hedwig on her way, she's too obvious." She let go of my snowy owl and jumped under the coat before anyone saw.

She embraced me in a hug so warm and heartfelt I couldn't let go. Then I remembered my 'idea'. We mounted the broom and I kicked off.

Before we could get a meter into the air someone screamed and I realised we were uncovered. All of the Weasley brothers turned in our direction and came running. I lowered the broom to the ground knowing we'd been busted.

Hey guys. I have the pictures Leah drew of the dresses and I want to show you but I don't know how to put them on the site. I have them on my computer but how to put them on the site? Your help would be much appreciated. :)