Here's Chapter Fourteen! :)

Back at the Gryffindor Common Room everyone was cheering for Harry and Melissa. Melissa was sitting on Fred and George's shoulders while Harry was sitting on Seamus and Neville's shoulders.

"We knew you two wouldn't die," George said with a smile on his face.

"Lose a leg," Fred said.

"Or an arm," George added.

"Pack it in altogether," Fred said.

"Never," the twins shouted together.

"Go on guys give us the clue," Seamus said in an excited voice. "Open the eggs."

"Who wants us to open them," Harry asked everyone.

The Gryffindors cheered and Melissa spoke. "Do you want us to open them," again the Gryffindors cheered.

Harry and Melissa open their eggs and a loud earsplitting scream fills the room. Fred and George accidentally dropped Melissa as they covered their ears from the scream. Harry was dropped as well when Seamus and Neville covered their ears. They quickly closed the eggs and the screams stopped.

"What the bloody hell was that," Ron asked from the stairs leading up to the boys' dormitory.

Everyone turned in his direction and Fred spoke.

"Alright everyone go back to you knitting," Fred said. "This is gonna be uncomfortable enough without all you nosy sods listening in."

George helped Melissa to her feet and Neville helped Harry to his before joining the other Gryffindors. Ron came down the stairs and walked up to the twins.

"I reckon you'd have to be barking mad to put your own names in the goblet of fire," Ron said.

"Caught on have you," Harry said a little angrier than he intended.

"Took you long enough," Melissa told him.

"It wasn't just me who thought you two put your names the goblet," Ron told them. "Everyone was saying it behind your backs."

"Brilliant," Harry said with sarcasm in his voice. "That makes me feel loads better."

"Same here," Melissa said with sarcasm in her voice as well.

"At least I warned you guys about the dragons," Ron said.

"No you didn't," Harry told him.

"Yeah Hagrid warned us about them," Melissa said.

"Oh no no I did," Ron said. "Don't you remember? I told Ginny to tell you that Seamus told me that Parvati told Dean that Hagrid was looking for you. Seamus never actually told me anything so it was really me all along. I thought you two would be alright you know, after you figured that out."

"Ron who could possibly figure that out," Melissa asked him.

"That's completely mental," Harry said.

"Yeah it is isn't it," Ron said. "I suppose I was a bit distraught. So are we friends again?"

Harry and Melissa turned to each other and then back at Ron.

"Yes," Harry and Melissa answered together.

Harry and Melissa were so glad that things were back to normal. They were so happy that Ron was their friend again. Harry and Melissa were sitting with Ron, Hermione, Fred, and George at the Gryffindor table talking about the first task that Harry and Melissa had completed. Just then a small boy came up to Ron with a package in his hands.

"Parcel for you Mr. Weasley," the boy said.

"Thank you Nigel," Ron said as he took the package from him.

Nigel turns to Harry and then to Melissa with a smile on his face. Ron looks up and notices.

"Not now Nigel," Ron said in a quiet voice. Later. Go on."

Nigel lowers his head and walks away from the table. Everyone turns to Ron with raised eyebrows.

"I told him I'd get him Harry's and Melissa's autograph," Ron explained as he looked down at his parcel. "Oh look mum's sent me something," he unwrapped the parcel and opened it and the look of excitement vanished when he saw what was inside it. "Mum sent me a dress?"

Fred, George, and Melissa laughed.

"Well it does match your eyes," Harry told his friend with a chuckle.

"Does it come with a bonnet," Melissa asked. She then reached into the box and pulled out a small white piece of clothing with ruffles on it. "Ah ha!"

Fred and George couldn't contain their laughter and Melissa joined in.

"Shut up," Ron said. "Ginny this must be for you," Ron said as he walked up to his sister holding up the dress robes.

"I'm not wearing that it's ghastly," Ginny said with a disgusted look on her face.

Hermione started laughing and Ron turned to her.

"What are you on about," Ron asked.

"They're not for Ginny they're for you," Hermione said with a smile on her face. "They're dress robes."

"Dress robes," Ron asked with a confused expression on his face. "For what?"

Confused Gryffindors are sitting in the Great Hall. The four house tables have been pushed up against the walls and numerous chairs were set in the room. The girls sat on the right side while the boys sat across from them on the left. Mr. Filch was standing next to an old record player trying to tune it. Just then McGonagall walked into the center of the room.

"Now you are all probably wondering why I have called you here," McGonagall said. "So I'll get straight to the point. I called you here to talk to you about an upcoming event called the Yule Ball. The Yule Ball has been a tradition of the Triwizard Tournament since its inception. On Christmas Eve night, we and our guests gather in the Great Hall for well mannered frivolity. As representatives of the host school I expect each and every one of you to put your best foot forward, and I mean this literally because the Yule Ball is first and foremost a dance."

The boys all groan when they hear this but the girls talk excitedly amongst themselves.

"Silence," McGonagall said. When the room fell silent she continued. "The House of Godrick Gryffindor has commanded the respect of the wizard world for nearly ten centuries. I will not have you in the course of a single evening besmirching that name by behaving like a babbling, bumbling band of baboons."

Fred and George snickered when she said this. As McGonagall continued to talk George took out a small piece of parchment and wrote something down on it. He then tapped it with his wand when he made sure know one was looking and it soared over everyone's head and it fell into Melissa's lap. Melissa looked down at the piece of parchment with a confused expression and she unfolded it. The words, "Try saying that five times fast, from George," were written on it.

Melissa chuckled and she looked across the room to where Fred and George were. They gave her a smile which she returned. She then turned back to McGonagall and continued to listen to her.

"To dance," McGonagall said. "Is to let the body breath," McGonagall started to say but was interuptted by Fred and George laughing.

"Ugh those two are so rude," Hermione said.

Melissa put a hand over her mouth to try and stop herself from laughing to loud.

"Alright you two that's quite enough," McGonagall said glaring at the Weasley twins.

"Sorry Professor," the twins said trying to calm down.

"This is so boring," Ron said to Harry.

"Mr. Weasley," McGonagall said as she walked over to Ron. "Will you join me?"

Before Ron could answer she grabbed his arm and she pulled him to his feet and out to the center of the room.

"Now place your right hand on my waist," McGonagall instructed.

"Where," Ron said completely shocked that she had asked him to do that.

"My waist," McGonagall repeated.

Ron places his hand on McGonagall's waist but as he does so one of the boys whistles. The students laugh and Ron turns to glare at the boys.

"Now bend your arm," McGonagall said. "That's right. Mr. Filch if you would so kindly start the music."

Mr. Filch turns on the record player and the two start to move across the dance floor while McGonagall counts out the steps. Harry turned to the Weasley twins and spoke.

"Oi you two are never going to let him forget this are you," Harry asked.

"Never," the Weasley twins said with grins on their faces.

"Everybody come together," McGonagall said.

The girls instantly get to their feet while the boys remain seated.

"Boys on your feet," McGonagall said a little more firm this time.

Neville is the first to stand and soon the other boys get to their feet as well.

The next day arrives and nervous students approach their fellow classmates to ask them to the ball. Melissa was so glad that she didn't have to ask anyone because she already had a boyfriend. Harry, Ron, and Hermione however weren't as lucky to already be with someone. Harry and Ron were trying desperately to find a date but they had no luck. Hermione however, seemed to have beat the boys at getting a date.

Everyone was in study hall finishing up their homework. Harry was sitting in between Ron and Hermione and Melissa was sitting across from them in between Fred and George.

"This is mad," Ron said to Harry in a quiet voice. "At this rate, we'll be the only ones in our year without dates."

Just as he said this Snape walked passed Ron and slapped him upside the head.

"Well us and Neville," Ron said after he made sure Snape was far enough away.

"It might interest you to know that Neville's already got someone," Hermione told him in a quiet voice.

Ron groaned. "Now I'm really depressed."

Fred tossed Ron a note and he looked down and read it. The note said, "Get a move on or all the good ones will have gone."

Ron looked up at Fred and he spoke in a quiet voice. "Who are you going with," Ron asked his brother.

Fred thought for a moment then he crumbled up a piece of parchment into a ball and he threw it and it hit the back of Angelina's head. Melissa and George snickered as Angelina turned to Fred.

"What," Angelina whispered.

"Do you," Fred said pointing to her. "Want to go to the ball," Fred said as he made a dancing motion with his arms. "With me," he finished pointing to himself.

George snorted and Melissa placed a hand over her mouth so she wouldn't burst out laughing. A smile appeared on Angelina's face and she spoke in a whisper.

"With you," Angelina asked. "Yeah."

Fred turned to Ron and he gave him a wink. Melissa couldn't help it she let out a laugh and Snape walked behind her and slapped her upside the head with a folder. Harry chuckled as Snape walked away. Melissa threw a piece of parchment at her brother and it hit him in the head.

"Well Hermione you're a girl," Ron whispered to her.

"Oh well spotted Ron," Hermione said glaring at him.

"Come on it's one thing for a bloke to show up alone but for a girl it's just sad," Ron told her.

"Well I won't be going alone because believe or not someone has already asked me," Hermione said as she got up from her seat and handed her folder to Snape. She then walked back over to get her books and she turned to Ron and spoke in an angry voice. "And I said yes!"

"Bloody hell," Ron said as he watched Hermione leave the room. "What's her problem? I was offering to take her."

"If that's how you ask girls out no wonder you don't have a date," George told him in a quiet voice.

"Shut up George," Ron said. He then turned to Harry. "Look we've just got to grit our teeth and do it," Ron told him. Snape rolled his eyes and he pulled up the sleeves of his robes and started to make his way over to them. "Tonight when we get back to the Common Room, we'll both have partners. Agreed," Ron asked Harry.

"Agreed," Harry said. But just as he agreed Snape came up behind them and he pushed their heads forward almost smacking their heads against the table.

Yay the Yule Ball is in the next chapter! I'll try and have it up soon. :)