Chapter 11: Finding Dates
With the Yule ball approaching, the Elementals had something else on their minds finding dates. They weren't very enthusiastic about it.
Harry, Ron, Samantha, and Bethany were walking in around the court yard.
"Why do they have to travel in packs?" Harry asked.
"You do realize were kinda traveling in one too right?" Samantha asked.
""Yes, but, it's kinda different right now." Ron replied.
"How so?" Bethany questioned.
"You're traveling with us, two boys." Ron clarified.
"That's not rude at all." Samantha commented.
"Hey guys!" they heard a voice call out to them.
They turned to see Dean running toward them.
"Hey Dean, what's up?" Samantha asked.
"Well, I was wondering if I could talk to you alone for a minute Bethany." He said.
"Okay." She replied following him to one of the corners of the court yard.
"What is it Dean?" Bethany asked.
"I was wondering if you would like to go to the ball with me, just as friends of course, but what do you say?" Dean asked nervously.
"I'd love to Dean." Bethany replied with a smile.
"You would? Thank you." Dean replied before giving her a hug and returning inside the castle.
Bethany went back to the group with a smile on her face.
"Well, what happened?" Samantha asked.
"He asked me to the ball." Bethany replied.
"Did you say yes?" Samantha asked.
"Yes, I did." Bethany answered.
"Okay, now the rest of us have to find dates." Samantha declared.
"Seriously how did he do that?" Ron whispered to Harry.
Harry just shrugged his shoulders.
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Later that day the Elementals were just sitting by the lake with the trio when they saw Viktor Krum passing by with a group of fan girls following after him.
The girls just rolled their eyes at this. Except Hermione who smiled at Krum when he looked her way.
"Seriously, what is up with you?" Amelia asked.
"Nothing." Hermione said before returning to her book.
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Later that day Harry, Ron, and Jimmy were walking around outside when they noticed a group of Bulgarian boys approach a group of Ravenclaw girls. They watched in disbelief and amazement as one of the boys asked the girls to the ball, and she said yes.
"Seriously, how do they do that?" Ron asked.
"Well, they act like gentlemen, I'll give them that." Jimmy replied.
"Hi boys." The Patil twins said in unison as they walked by.
Then Jimmy got an idea.
"Hey, Pavarti, Padma, wait up." He called to the twins.
"Yes?" They said in unison as they turned to face Jimmy.
"I was wondering if either of you have a date to the ball?" Jimmy asked.
"Well, I do, but I don't believe Pavarti does." Padma replied.
"Well then. Pavarti…" Jimmy said taking her hand. "Would you please go to the ball with me?" He asked.
Pavarti looked at her sister before looking back at Jimmy with a smile.
"Yes, I'd love to." She replied.
"Thank you." Jimmy said with a smile before returning to join Harry and Ron, who just looked shocked.
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A few days later the Elemental and bunch of the other Gryffindor students were sitting in Study Hall. So far Bethany and Jimmy have found dates for the Yule Ball, but the others haven't really had any luck yet.
"This is terrible…" Ron whispered. "At this rate we'll be the only ones without partners. Well, except for Neville of course."
"Yeah, but he could take himself." Harry commented.
Snape heard them and hit them both on the back of the head.
"For your information, Neville's already got somebody." Hermione stated.
Ron let out a sigh of defeat before friend passed a note in his direction.
"Get a move on before all the good ones are gone." It read.
Ron looked over in the twins' direction.
"How are you going with?" He whispered.
Fred took a piece of paper and threw it in Angelina's direction. She looked at him.
"Oh, Angelina, would you go to the ball with me?" He whispered while using hand gestures.
"To the ball?" She asked in the whisper. Fred nodded. "Yes, I will." Angelina replied.
Fred smiled and looked at Ron giving him the thumbs up sign. Unknowing to his friend this gave his twin an idea. He took a piece of paper crumbled it up and threw it in Samantha's direction. Samantha caught it with her right hand without looking up from her work. So George took another piece of paper and threw it in her direction. Once again Samantha caught it without looking up and dropped it onto the table. So George took one more piece of paper and threw it at her, but again she caught. Since this did not work, George got up and went to stand behind her.
"Uh… Samantha?" He asked.
"What do you want?" She demanded turning to face the Weasley twin.
"I was wondering if you would like to come to the Yule Ball with me." He stated.
"If I say yes, will you leave me alone?" She asked.
"Yes." George replied.
"Then fine." Samantha replied before going back to her work.
George gave Ron a mischievous smile before Fred got up and joined him. The twins turned in their work to Snape and left.
Ron then looked at Hermione next to him.
"Hermione, you're a girl." Ron stated.
"Really, that's an interesting observation." Hermione replied.
"Come with me?" Ron asked, only to be wacked by Snape again. "It's one thing for a bloke to not have a date, but for a girl…" Ron went on.
Hermione looked hurt by this.
"Not cool Ron." Chelsea whispered.
"I won't be going alone because someone's asked me." Hermione said before getting up to hand her work to Snape.
"And I said yes." Hermione said returning to the table, only to storm out of the room.
"Seriously, Ron, you shouldn't have said that." Amelia stated.
The Elementals all got up and handed their work to Snape before leaving.
When they exited the hall Samantha felt someone grab her arm, she instinctively flipped the stranger. Then she realized what she did.
"Oh my God, I'm sorry, it was a reflex, you shouldn't grab me like that I really don't like being touched." Then Samantha looked and saw who her assailant was, it was Malfoy. "Oh, it's you; then I'm not sorry at all." She declared before rejoining the others and walking back to the common room.
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Later Harry was heading to the owlry. Samantha decided to follow him since she was still technically his bodyguard. When they got there they ran into Cho.
"Harry!" Cho said in shock having almost run right into him.
"Cho!" Harry replied.
"Well, then, I'll wait for you at the bottom of the stairs Harry." Samantha said.
A few minutes later Samantha saw Cho coming down. She looked very guilty about something. Then a few minutes later Harry came down.
"Well, did you ask her?" Samantha questioned.
"Yeah." Harry replied.
"Well…?" Samantha went on.
Harry just shook his head.
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A couple of hours later, Harry, Hermione, and Samantha were in the common room sitting on the couches.
"Don't worry Harry at least you tried." Hermione stated.
"Yeah, and you did it before someone pressured you into doing so, which is more than I can say about other guys who like a specific girl." Samantha added.
Their conversation was interrupted by a group of people entering the common room. They turned to see Chelsea, Amelia, Jimmy, and Ginny, along with other students.
"It's okay Ron, it doesn't matter." Ginny said reassuringly.
"What happened?" Harry asked as they sat Ron down on the couch.
"He just asked Fleur Delacour out." Chelsea stated.
"What did she say?" Samantha asked.
"No of course." Hermione said.
Ron shook his head.
"She said yes?!" Hermione said covering her mouth in shock.
"Don't be ridiculous, there they were walking; you know how I like it when they walk, and then it just sort of slipped out." Ron said.
"Actually, he sort of shouted at her." Ginny stated.
"It was quite scary." Amelia added.
"So what did you do?" Harry asked.
"What else, I ran for it. I'm just not cut out for this Harry, what am I going to do?" Ron asked.
Chelsea heard the whole thing and went over Amelia and whispered something to her. Amelia nodded at what she said. The two approached Harry.
"So, still no dates to the Yule Ball Harry?" Chelsea asked.
"No, are you here just to mock me and Ron about it?" He asked.
"No, we have a solution." Amelia replied.
"Okay, what is it?" Harry asked.
"Just ask us, we don't have dates and neither do you two. We can all go as friends." Amelia suggested.
"That's actually a good idea." Harry commented.
So, I'll go with you and Amelia can go with Ron?' Chelsea suggested.
"Yes, that sounds like a good idea." Harry replied.
"Then it's all settled." Chelsea replied.
"Excellent, now we all have dates to the Yule Ball." Amelia thought.
Meanwhile the anti-Dumbledore trio was scheming. It involved pulling their money together and doing some shopping in Hogsmade before the ball.
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Hello, again. So everyone has a date for the Yule Ball, and what will the anti-Dumbledore trio do? Please read and review! See you in the next chapter!