Chapter 12: The Yule Ball
Dedicated to DevilDragon8, Amelia, and Bethany.
The day of the Yule Ball
"Samantha get back here!" Chelsea yelled as she, Bethany, and Amelia chased after their feisty leader.
"Don't let her get to the woods!" Amelia yelled.
Eventually the three girls ended up following the speedy girl outside and running into Harry and Ron.
"You guys…have…you…seen Samantha?" Bethany asked while trying to catch her breath.
"No, why?" Ron asked.
"Then why am I talking to you?" Bethany yelled before running toward the woods. Amelia and Chelsea quickly followed her.
"Sorry boys." Chelsea said as they ran by.
"We'll see you in a few hours." Amelia added.
Eventually the girls did catch Samantha, and she was not pleased. (AN: We'll leave it up to your imaginations how exactly they caught Samantha)
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A few hours later the girls were prepping for the ball, which didn't take as long as they thought, with the help of magic. While they were busy Jimmy enact the scheme he, Samantha, and Bethany had been working on.
"Hey Ron?" Jimmy said as the red headed wizard started pulling out his ancient family dress robes.
"Yes?" Ron asked not sounding pleased about what would soon happen.
"I have something for you." Jimmy said handing Ron a package, but he hesitated for a split second. "I can only give this to you if you promise not to make any comments about Samantha's appearance tonight." He stated.
"Okay, now what is it?" Ron asked taking the box.
"Just open it and see for yourself." Jimmy claimed.
So Ron opened the package and was surprised to see normal looking black and white dress robes.
"Wow, Jimmy, where, and how did you get these?" Ron asked.
"Well, that doesn't matter, what does matter is that you can't go to the ball in those old dress robes, you'll look like a dork." Jimmy stated.
"Gee, thanks a ton Jimmy." Ron stated gratefully.
"You're welcome." Jimmy replied.
So the boys started getting ready for the ball.
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Later the boys emerged from the dorm in their dress robes. Harry and Ron were wearing plain black and white dress robes, while Jimmy was wearing dark green pants and a dark green bowtie rather than black pants and white bowtie.
"Well, let's get going." Harry stated.
"Poor thing, probably in her room crying her eyes out." Ron stated.
"Who?" Jimmy asked.
"Hermione of course; why do you think she wouldn't tell us who she was going with?" Ron asked.
"Could it be because we annoyed her so much trying to get the answer out of her?" Jimmy asked.
"Nobody asked her. I would have taken her myself"
"How long do you think it will actually be before the girls show up?" Harry asked changing the subject.
"I don't know, getting ready shouldn't take too long with the help of magic." Jimmy replied.
"What was that about getting taking too long to get ready?" A familiar feminine voice asked. The boys turned to see the girls standing behind them in their Yule Ball outfits. Samantha was wearing a red strapless knee-length dress with a pair of black wedges; she kept her hair down and opted out of wearing jewelry. Chelsea was wearing a light blue strapless ankle-length dress that ruffled out at the waist, strappy silver sandal heels, silver tear drop dangle earrings, and a pearl necklace; her hair was curly and in a half up half down do held back by a pearl burette. Bethany was wearing a deep purple ankle-length scooped necked dress that had a folded over neck collar that flowed out and ruffled out at the bottom, purple medium length heels with straps, a silver necklace with a purple heart charm, and a silver bracelet with deep purple heart charms; her hair was curly in a half up half down do with her bangs out. Amelia was wearing a pin straight ankle-length short sleeved silver dress with A-line, white wedges, diamond studded earrings, and a silver necklace with a single white diamond; her hair was down and straight.
"Wow, you girls look beautiful." Harry stated.
"Thank you Harry." Chelsea replied.
Soon Dean and George arrived.
"Hello girls." Dean greeted.
"Wow Samantha, you look really…" George said.
"Don't say anything." Samantha interrupted.
"Well, should we go in then?" Dean asked.
"Yeah, let's go." Bethany replied.
"See you guys in there." Samantha said before she and Bethany headed toward the Great Hall with their dates.
Soon after Pavarti showed up.
"Hello Jimmy." She said.
"Hello Pavarti, you look very nice." Jimmy replied.
"Thank you." She replied.
"Well, should we be heading in then?" Jimmy asked taking Pavarti's arm. "See you guys in there." Jimmy said before he headed into the Great Hall with his date.
Less than second later the four remaining Gryffindors were approached by Professor McGonagall.
"There you are Potter, are you and Miss Aston ready?" She asked.
"Ready for what professor?" Harry asked.
"To dance of course, it's tradition that our three, or in this case four champions are the first to dance, surely I told you that?" She asked.
Harry shook his head.
"Well now you know. As for you Mr. Weasley you may proceed inside with Miss Bliss." She said to Ron.
So Ron went took Amelia and went into the Great Hall and Harry and Chelsea lined up with all the other champions and their dates. Harry noticed Cho with Cedric, and Chelsea could tell that he was jealous, but when she turned around that observation was ignored because she saw Hermione coming down.
"She looks beautiful." Chelsea said with a smile.
"Yeah she does." Harry said looking at Cho, but then he realized that Chelsea was talking about somebody else. So he turned around to see Hermione in a pink short sleeved dress that ruffled out at the bottom; she wore pink flower earrings and her hair was pinned up to the side. Chelsea was right she did look beautiful. What surprised him even more was that she was approached by Viktor Krum.
"Hermione's with Krum?" Harry said in shock.
"Yeah, she told us about it like a week ago." Chelsea replied as Hermione passed by with a smile on her face waving at her two friends.
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The four champions and their dates entered the Great Hall. Everybody clapped for them. In Chelsea's opinion it was kinda embarrassing getting this kind of attention but she tried to keep smiling. Once they were on the dance floor she knew what she had to do to get through all of it.
"Harry, take my waist." Chelsea whispered.
Then the music started playing. It felt a little strange at first, neither of them could get the steps exactly right, but Chelsea managed to smile about it.
"Neither of us can get it exactly right, but it is kind of funny." She thought.
Pretty soon many other couples were walking onto the dance floor including Jimmy and Pavarti, Fred and Angelina, Bethany and Dean, Neville and Ginny, and Ron and Amelia; Ron didn't seem too happy about it though. In fact, it looked like Amelia had to drag him to the dance floor.
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George tried to ask Samantha to dance, but Samantha really didn't like to dance.
"Then what should we do?" George asked.
"We could prank Malfoy." Samantha suggested.
"Okay, how should we prank them?" George asked, not being able to turn down an opportunity to pull a prank.
"We could pull a Muggle prank and use water balloons." Samantha stated.
"Water Balloons?" George questioned.
"Yeah, you take rubber balloons and fill them with water or sometimes even slime and tie them up and throw them at people, and the burst open on them." Samantha explained.
"Well, let's get to work." George stated.
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Later a band called Weird Sister made an appearance at the ball. Everyone was on the dance floor enjoying the rock music, including Hermione who was still dancing with Krum.
"Well, I guess he just wasn't going to the library to look at books." Harry stated.
"They're taking this way too seriously." Amelia whispered to Chelsea who nodded in agreement.
A few minutes later she approached the friends with a smile on her face.
"Hot in here isn't it?" She asked.
"Yeah." Chelsea replied bitterly.
"Really hot." Amelia replied just a bitterly.
"Viktor's going to get drinks, would you care to join us?" Hermione asked.
"No I would not like to join you and Viktor." Ron replied irritably.
"What's gotten into you?" Hermione asked, surprised by Ron's behavior.
"You're fraternizing with the enemy." Ron stated.
"Enemy; who was it wanting his autograph? Besides, the whole point of this tournament is international magical cooperation, to make friends." Hermione stated.
"It looks like he's got more than friendship on his mind." Ron replied.
Chelsea and Amelia didn't want to know how bad this was going to get. When they got outside they saw George and Samantha who were laughing hysterically.
"What did you guys do?" Amelia asked.
"We just pulled an awesome prank on Malfoy." George stated.
"With water balloons." Samantha added.
"You threw water balloons at him?" Chelsea asked in shock.
"Yup." Samantha replied.
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George said goodnight to Samantha and headed back to Gryffindor tower. So the remaining three girls hung out on the staircase.
They saw Hermione and Ron heading toward them, and Hermione did not look happy.
"Next time there's a ball pucker up the courage to ask me before somebody else, and not as a last resort!" Hermione yelled.
"That, that could never happen because…Harry." Ron said noticing their friend return, attempting to change the subject.
"Where have you been? Never mind off to bed, both of you!" Hermione yelled at both of them.
Both boys headed up the stairs.
"They get scary when they get older." Ron stated.
"Ron, you spoiled everything!" Hermione yelled to him, and with that both boys vanished from sight.
Hermione sat on the stairs and started crying. The girls went over and sat with her trying their best to comfort her.
Chelsea, Amelia, sorry I made your dates leave." Hermione said sadly.
"Don't worry about it Hermione." Chelsea replied.
"Yeah, Ron and Harry are our friends, but they didn't act like very good dates, they hardly paid attention to us." Amelia commented.
"Hey girls." Bethany said approaching her friends.
"Hey, where's Dean?" Chelsea asked.
"He decided to head up to bed." Bethany replied. "What's wrong Hermione?" She asked noticing her friend was crying.
"Ron was being an asshole." Samantha stated.
"Oh." Bethany replied.
"You know what; maybe we should all head up to bed." Chelsea suggested.
"Yeah, we've all had a long night." Bethany stated.
So the girls helped Hermione up and made their way back to the dorm.
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Well, finally the Yule Ball chapter is complete. We've been looking forward to writing this chapter for a long time, so, YAAAAAAAAAAAY! Chapter 13 is coming soon, so keep your eyes peeled, and please write reviews. See you in the next chapter!