A Harry Potter Fan Fiction
I don't own Harry Potter
Pre-Chapter Wind - Jake goes over the Halloween Dance with the group and Noel catches Severus and Malfoy together in a close atmosphere, sending her off in a storm feeling betrayed.
-A Bashapalooza -
Weeks past with the whole school buzzing in excitement about the Muggle Fairy Tale Halloween Bash. I was so busy with DADA group meetings, classes, and rehearsals that I didn't notice when morning of the Bash turns up. Dumbledore had canceled classes for the day so that everyone could get ready. Even Dumbledore himself had a costume for the Bash. A lot of the students have never even read any muggle stories, but thanks to Jake, the information packs really helped them. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, Neville, Luna, Pavati, Padma, Angelina, Katie, and Lavender were grouped together doing Alice in Wonderland. They wouldn't tell me who was who no matter how many times I would beg. It took me everything just to coax out what they were doing from Fred and Harry.
Flashback
"Hey Fred." I say sitting down in George's empty seat in the Great Hall after George had left with Lee on an errand for a Halloween prank. I knew it was an errand because I was watching them like a hawk the entire time waiting to strike on the one that stayed behind. Lucky for me that it was Fred, yes...very lucky for me.
"Morning Noel." Fred greets me. "What's up?"
"I was just talking to Hermione and I heard you were in her group for the Halloween bash, but she refused to tell me what you guys were going as." I pout, but at the same time I was staring him down like a hungry lioness does towards a nervous gazelle who knew it was trapped and about to become dinner.
"Yeah, it's a surprise."
"But you'll tell me right?" I lean into him. "Right?"
"I promised I wouldn't tell anyone what we were doing since our group made a pact to keep it secret." He gulps.
"So you wouldn't tell anyone, even me?" I ask before biting down on my lower lip. David once told me it drives a guy crazy because it draws attention to the lip area if they're not looking at it already.
"Hermione'll have my head like a character of ours would." His hand whips up to his mouth like he said too much.
"You can tell me. I wont tell anyone. I promise." Sure I wasn't being fair to Fred right now since I was basically using my womanly ways to pump information from him, but the twelve of them weren't being fair either. He looks at me with a torn look. I reach out to touch his hand and go in for the kill since I could tell victory was near. "Fred-"
"Damn! I gotta go." He says suddenly and jumps up to run out of the Great Hall. Damn! I was this close, THIS CLOSE! I was about to give up for the day until I spot Harry walking into the Great Hall.
"Hey Harry!" I call, jumping up to jog to him and flash him a radiant smile. "So Halloween-"
End of flashback
So I got what they were, but not who they were. In the end I had not held up my end of the deal with Jake so he had to ask Severus to be apart of our group himself via owl. Severus didn't reply, but Jake had his costume delivered to him this morning and it wasn't sent back so that was a good sign.
After a long bath, I begin to get ready for the Halloween Bash. The costume was better than the last one I had to say. It showed a tiny less leg and covered my arms elbow up. After putting my hair in two pigtails I slid on my white blouse and blue checkered dress that went to pinky length height. I pulled on a pair of blue knee high stockings and ruby red sparkly heels. I get an idea and come running out of the bathroom to rummage through my trunk until I find the bracelet that Harry had gotten me for my birthday. The idea was that the silver chain bracelet with small circle clear disk charms of red and gold attached to it would go good with my costume. I add red lipstick before walking downstairs and got very surprised by the sight before me. Fred and George looked like those guys from a pack of cards, Ginny was in a sparkling blue dress her hair straight smiling at Michael in sailor pants, boots and shirt, and a sword tied around his waist. Harry had a green top hat, lime green suit, blue shoes, and his hair charmed white. Ron had brown rabbit ears charmed onto his head with a red suit, orange bow tie, white dress shirt, and brown shoes. Neville had on a red jacket, dark red tie, yellow shirt, gray pants, glasses, a big gold pocket watch, and white bunny ears. Padma and Parvati had on a yellow sweatshirt, orange short shorts and an orange hat with a spinner on the top that was spinning on its own. Lavender had on a mouse tail, mouse ears, brown fingerless gloves, brown shoes, gray socks, and a brown t-shirt and shorts. The most shocking was Hermione in black shorts, black suspenders, purple and black stripped tank top, black boots, purple socks, black furry fingerless gloves, black cat ears, a stripped black and purple tail, black choker, and purple bell earrings. Her hair was in two bushy pigtails.
"Hermione?" I ask, really shocked.
"I look good? I'm supposed to be the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland." She says warily. "Harry's the Mad Hatter, Ron's the March Hare, Fred's the King of Hearts, George's the Knave of Hearts, Neville's the White Rabbit, you'll see later that Luna is Alice, Pavati and Padma are Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Angelina's the Queen of Hearts, Katie's the Duchess, and Lavender's the Doormouse."
"You look great. But who are Ginny and Michael?"
"Ginny is Ariel from The Little Mermaid, and Michael is Derek. I hear that they got Dumbledore to play King Triton, and Michael convinced your friends to ambush Pansy to be Ursula. I don't really approve of that, but Michael would do anything for her I think and your friends just wanted an excuse to play a few Halloween pranks. You look good too by the way."
"Wow. You know I'd have thought that Fred and George would be Tweedledum and Tweedledee because they love making mischief."
"Me too, but Pavati and Padma wanted to be them. Bill and Charlie arrived today and are getting ready in Dumbledore's office." I shrug and absent mindedly reach up to touch her cat ears. They felt so life like and warm.
"WOW! Your cat ears are like really soft. You make such a cute Cheshire cat Hermione."
"You make a very cute Dorothy Noel."
"Now hug each other." Fred suggests with a grin on his face and I stop touching Hermione's ears. See, mischief.
"Don't be a pervert. I have to go, but I'll see you all later." I say exiting the Common Room to go to the Great Hall. While setting up I hear the Great Hall beginning to fill up. There was no reason to be nervous. I take a peak out of the curtains and a few things catch my attention. Severus was there face all green in witch robes and hat carrying a broomstick next to McGonagall in a puffy pink gown, gold crown, and her hair was different from the usual tight bun. Right now it was loose and charmed red. It looked nice for an older woman's hair. It made me a little happy to see Severus beside her because I have been avoiding him since I saw him cheating on me with Malfoy. Then the Slytherins catch my eyes. They looked beyond furious. Malfoy's gelled down blond hair now long and curled while he was wearing a cute green dress that stopped just above his knees. Surprisingly he had good looking clean shaven legs. I think he shaves them because he thinks he'll fly faster on a broom in the air if he did. Crabbe, Goyle, and Blaise's arms and legs were covered in brown fur while each of them was wearing something different. Crabbe was wearing a powdered blue flowery Sunday dress and a sun hat. Goyle was wearing a diaper and red and blues stripped t –shirt with a pacifier in his mouth. Blaise was the only one not looking furious but bemused while wearing a business suit and smoking pipe in his mouth. Malfoy was tugging at the dress, but it seemed to be charmed on and didn't want to come off. They must have been Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Dumbledore was practically naked waist up and his legs was transfigured into a blue merman tail. He was carrying a golden trident and wore a gold crown on his head. Students passing him either turned bright red or walked away quickly to erupt in laughter. I was having a hard time to control myself from laughing out loud. I go back to where the group was waiting for me because it was almost time to start.
"Nervous?" Derek asks, wearing a black furry t-shirt, black furry pants, black shoes, black furry gloves, black tail, and a dog collar.
"Why would I be nervous? There's nothing to be nervous about. Let's do this." I say, watching the curtains magically open themselves up. I snap on my headphones and run out on stage followed by David. David was dressed in silver tin suit with his hair in a spiked and tipped metallic silver. Jake took a Potion to make himself to look like an older man in a navy blue suit, a big head floating by his head copying his face expressions. Richie charmed his body to look like a lions body that stood on two feet with his hair long and golden. Drew was in a ragged dark green long sleeved shirt with straw sticking out of the waist and arm holes and a pair of jeans. We receive a thunderous applause from the rest of the school. "I'm Dorothy your mc and lead singer. That's Scarecrow on the acoustics, Toto on the base, Cowardly Lion on the drums, Wizard on the keyboard, and Tin Man on vocals. We are Heaven's Little Devils following the yellow brick road all the way from Kansas." I point out each of the guys as they take their places on the stage. When they are ready, we start up the first song.
"Thank you! You've been a great audience." I run off breathless, sweaty, and tired after charming the equipment to play itself. "Thirsty." I down a huge jug of pumpkin juice.
"Not bad Noels." Jake says, clapping my back in approval. "You did great." The guys nod in agreement.
"So did you." I tell them.
"Now go and enjoy the dance. You earned it."
"Yeah. We'll talk later so have a good time and be careful out there." David says.
"You're just saying that so you can go back to making out with that fourth year girl from Ravenclaw." I say to David, but end up walking out to the table where Ron and Hermione were sitting with Bill and Charlie. I snigger at the sulky waves that was flowing off of Charlie in heaps.
"Don't laugh at me." Charlie moans. He was in a Swedish dress with a basket of breadcrumbs at his side.
"You must be Gretel." I smile.
"Yeah, it sucks having the short end of the stick."
"At least you don't look like him." I point at Malfoy. He was glaring at anyone near him like he was daring them to laugh at him.
"How is that better? It's obvious he looks cuter than me because he's blonde." I double over in laughter. Charlie Weasley just called Draco Malfoy cute.
"Cuteness aside," I say after catching my breath. "from the looks of it at least you can take your costume off while he can't."
"No I can't. Bill charmed it on after I tried to back out. We didn't get the costumes until we got here." Charlie whines. "Malfoy's dress is prettier than mine. If I was stuck in that dress then I think it would not have been as bad as this. Stop laughing Noel!"
"Then stop digging your own grave with comments about how cute Malfoy is and how his dress is prettier than yours because I think it's more of the fact that you're both in dresses in general that makes this situation hilarious. Stop whining and try to enjoy it."
"He's been doing this all night. You'd think with him being older than the rest of us he'd be more mature, but all night whine whine whine." Ron groans. "I asked Hermione to charm him a muzzle, but she refused."
"At least you look like a dude. Albeit a weird bunny dude, but still a dude."
"See what I mean!" I look around and see Severus watching us. He sends me a 'What did I do wrong?' look. I send him a 'You know what you did. I shouldn't have to tell you.' look. He motions at the dress as if to say 'I'm wearing the damn humiliating costume aren't I? Doesn't it make up for whatever happened? You haven't seen me in ages. Noel….' I roll my eyes as if to say 'You wore that so you could crash the Bash and no it does not make up for what happened. You should have known I've been busy planning this awesomeness and don't Noel me!'
"Why are you rolling your eyes?" Bill asks and I turn to him.
"Oh nothing. Where's everyone?" I ask.
"Well Cho came over to ask Harry to dance. Ginny and Michael are probably snogging-" Ron starts.
"Snogging?" I ask interrupting him.
"Kissing…making out." Hermione says.
"Why didn't he just say that?" I ask. Hermione just shrugs.
"Fred and George are trying to spike the punch with firewhiskey with Richie and Drew playing look out."
"I'm just glad they're focused on the punch instead of something else because when a pair of twin pranksters meets another pair of twin pranksters the surrounding radius around them should be in a constant state of alert at what they will or have already planned." Hermione says.
"Meaning if my Brothers continue hanging out with your twins then it might be the end of the sane world as we know it." Ron says. It wasn't the destructive force of twins times two fact that I was focussed on, but the fact that Harry's with her...that sucked because I wanted to dance too.
"HEY NEVILLE! HEY HEY HEY HEY!" I call and he looks at me. "YOU WANT TO DANCE?"
"I'M WAITING FOR HANNAH TO COME BACK FROM THE BATHROOM SO WE COULD GO OUT FOR A WALK. SHE SHOULD BE BACK SOON." Neville calls back, flustered.
"SAVE ME A DANCE THEN WHEN YOU RETURN." I call with a quick wink, which makes him even more flustered. I want to dance with someone right now! Malfoy walks away from talking to Severus to our table as if he was caught in some weird magic pull by my thoughts.
"What do you want ferret?" Ron asks, glaring and smiling at him at the same time. His face looked hilarious.
"I came to ask if you wanted to dance Noel?" He asks, ignoring Ron, and holds up a hand to me. Hermione looks at me shocked except I wasn't looking at her, I was looking at him. He wasn't smirking or glaring at all. He looked almost normal besides fact that he was wearing a dress at the moment.
"Well...one dance with you won't kill me." I say, taking his hand and let him lead me out to the floor as the current song ends with the next one turning out to be a slow one. "So, why did you come over to ask me to dance Malfoy?" I ask.
"Because I wanted to mess with you."
"Really? What's the point in dancing with me then? If you want to mess with me then man up and just do it. Don't hide behind this facade of us dancing to do it."
"I'm not here to mess with you Dumbledore. I'm here to extend and olive branch of friendship with you. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity one would say."
"Why would you offer me an olive branch for?"
"To mess with you of course." He grins, irritating me.
"I'm this close to smacking you up the side of the head if you don't cut to the chase here Malfoy." I warn him.
"Alright then. I asked you to dance with me because I needed an excuse to get you alone to talk to you about Sev and that night during dinner when you stumbled into our meeting." Great, first he steals my Godfather and now he steals my nickname for him.
"I'm here, so talk."
"Sev wants his Goddaughter back. He thinks the only reason you haven't been stopping by is because you think I'm there and you hate me." He told Malfoy I was his Goddaughter? What else has he told him?
"With good reason. You've been nothing but a jerk since I've met you."
"In public. I act like a jerk in public just like Sev does, but when you get us alone and away from the other Slytherins we're pretty normal. Anyway, he seems to think if we became friends then maybe you'd return to visiting him again."
"So you want to be friends because Sev asked you to? Why should I believe anything you're saying right now?"
"Believe me or don't believe me. I doesn't matter to me and Sev will see that I at least did what he asked so he'll stop constantly bringing you up whenever I go to see him."
"I know why he wants us to be friends, but why are you considering to be my friend? Are you ill? Did you come down with something? This dress must getting to your head isn't it since you wouldn't be suggesting something as disgusting as us being friends in a normal tone like this in a public place with no one holding your life on the line if it wasn't the case. You must be ill. Should I get Pomfrey?"
"Nothing wrong with me. We can still hate each other, but treat each other like close acquaintances during our visits with Sev. Just think about it because he really wants you to visit again and I want to see how he acts around you. I promise I'll be good. Like now see. We're having a neutral conversation and not calling each other names or yelling at each other at all."
"We are. This is kinda weird."
"I kinda feel the same way. Maybe I'll go steal candy from a second year to feel like a Malfoy again later. This dress is getting to me since it's making me feel generously right now by helping out Sev with his little Goddaughter problem and saving some kid from tooth decay."
"Poor unsuspecting second year and those evil tooth decay being saved by the superhero Malfoy in a dress." I laugh and he laughs too. "So you're really okay with being normal with me in private?"
"Is that so surprising?"
"I can't seem to wrap my head around it because you don't seem like a person who'd do anything without getting something in return, so what is your angle?"
"Well-" He starts when Harry shows up beside us with a livid look on his face. "-this." He says when Harry practically yanks me away from Malfoy.
"What are you doing Malfoy?" Harry asks.
"We were dancing, unlike what you were doing with Chang over there. It looked more like waddling to me. Noel here looked bored and ravishing so I asked her to dance. Don't get mad because I got to her first Potter." Malfoy smirks, back to his royal assness mode. I feel my sides shaking with laughter and I was grinning because it was true. Harry just glares at him. "What? No comeback? What luck, luck that you'll need it for tomorrow's Quidditch match. Good evening Noel." Malfoy leaves with a swish of his dress, making me giggle. Harry turns on me, still glaring, and my grin fades off my face. I was in for it now because Harry had his 'you're in for it now' face on, so I ready myself for the explosion.
"What were you doing?" Harry asks, still holding my wrist. I twist it out of his vice grip and massage it. Man that hurt. "It looked like you were being friends with that thing."
"I wasn't. We were just dancing, that's all."
"You know I was pretty sure you weren't an insane person, but you proved me wrong since you weren't dancing with just any Slytherin but Draco Malfoy of all Slytherins."
"Harry, I think you need to walk away from me right now or you'll end up saying something you'll regret." I tell him.
"And what if I won't?"
"Then I'll go."
"I'll just follow you then."
"Why?"
"Because I want answers."
"I told you-"
"You didn't tell me anything I believed." I shake my head at him before walking off of the dance floor when he follows me to grab my wrist to make me stop. "I want the truth."
"Let me go."
"Not until you tell me what's going on with you and Malfoy and why I caught you two chumming it up on the dance floor."
"There's nothing to be telling you because there is no Malfoy and I. It was just a dance and I don't have to tell you every aspect of my life."
"You'd tell Fred so why not me?"
"Not this again. Sure I tell Fred a lot of things since we hang out a lot, but that's because he wouldn't get pissed if I dances with another guy. I don't see him getting all heated up now. See, this is why I talk to him more because you get all heated up because of your jealousy of who I consider close to me."
"I'm not jealous right now."
"You so are or you wouldn't be this angry with me."
"I'm not angry or jealous about anyone concerning you because I have Cho. Why would I need to feel jealous over you for?"
"I don't know, you tell me."
"I'm not jealous this time." He insists.
"Then what is it this time? Tell me because I don't know what you want from me anymore."
"I want you to be my friend."
"I am your friend."
"Well it doesn't seem that way with you grinding all over on Malfoy."
"I wasn't grinding on Malfoy, we were just dancing and talking. That's all." Hello? This was Draco Malfoy in drag. Anyone would find the situation hilarious.
"Really? Because it seemed like you two are a lot closer than I've seen. So what is it? Have you and Malfoy been having fun behind my back? Do you fancy him? Are you secretly seeing him on the side? Meeting up with him in secret corners of Hogwarts and having a laugh about me are you?" Harry asks angrily. I gasp at his accusations and take a step back. I could not believe he was accusing me of doing all those things with MALFOY.
"Walk away right now." I wrench my arm from him. "You're making yourself look like a complete idiot so walk away or I might just slap you."
"Then you'll just have to slap me because seeing you dancing with Malfoy is driving me insane."
"It didn't mean anything. You know I hate him."
"Do I? I used to think you hated Snape before finding out I was wrong about that. So you know what, I will walk away. That way I can free up your evening to go off dancing with whichever damn Slytherin you want. It's none of my business and I don't care." He stalks off, leaving me reeling in his exit. What? How did this end up being my fault when all Malfoy and I did was dance and talk?
I enter the Common Room hours later to find David sitting on one of the armchairs in front of the fire, surprisingly not with a girl.
"Noel." He starts, taking in my upset appearance. "What happened? Are you okay?"
"I really-I really don't want to talk about it right now." He motions for me to come to him, which I do when I go to sit on his lap.
"What can I do to help? You know I'd do anything to help because you're my precious little Sister." David says, hugging me.
"You're doing a lot just by looking after me, like always."
"Still, I want to beat whichever creep in that hurt you."
"I know you do."
"What are you going to do then?"
"I don't know what just yet, but it's probably something I should have done before." And why didn't I? It's because there's three strikes in baseball.