Chapter 4 An Afternoon And Evening With Friends.
On arrival at the common room Hermione ran to her dormitory and grabbed a stack of CD's and her portable HI-FI system. She returned to the common "what's that ?", asked a puzzled Ron, "wow 'Mione I thought all that stuff didn't work here", added Harry. "It doesn't normally but I know a way to get it working magically". She pointed wand at the HI-FI and said "musika, de muscik, music". The sound of soundtrack to the stage musical of Saturday Night Fever filled the air.
"Let's play truth or dare", said Luna, "Ok", everyone replied. "Harry, truth or dare ?", asked Luna, "truth", replied Harry, "ok who are you planning on taking to the ball at Halloween ?", "Parvati", said Harry turning red Parvati blushed. "Pavarti truth or dare ?", asked Dean, "truth", said Parvati "is it true that you fancy one of use boys here ?", "yes", she replied, "who is it ?", questioned Neville "Harry", said Parvati blushing harder than ever. 'Brilliant' Harry thought to himself, she does like me and she's gorgeous – so beautiful. "Luna, truth or dare ?", asked Seamus "dare", said Luna giggling, "I dare you to kiss every boy here, and go and snog the first Slytherin you see" said Susan, "Ok then", Luna told the gang. So Luna went and kissed each boy in turn and when it was Ron's turn she grabbed him and snogged him, Ron turned bright red and when Luna finished breathed 'wow', everyone laughed at him. "Hermione truth or dare ?", asked Justin, "truth", replied Hermione "ok if you had to sleep with one of us to save the population of the planet who would it be " asked Seamus, "err, none of you sorry I just don't fancy anyone of you". "Oh come on 'Mione we're talking about if you had too", piped up Ernie Macmillan, "oh, ok Harry then", said Hermione giggling and turning red.
.The game continued for the next hour until Hermione said, "let's play another game called consequences". "What's that ?", everyone asked, Hermione explained to everyone how to play consequences and they all thought that sounded fun so they decided to play that instead.
After 10 minutes everyone had a story ready to read. Hermione cleared her throat and begun to read "Parvati met Seamus at the Qudditch Stadium, and she said to him "do you wanna feel my buns", and he said to her "that's boring I know a place more exciting than this", and the consequence was the mile high club had 2 new members, and the newspaper headline said "Oh what a night". "Ha, ha, ha", everyone giggled "ha, ha, ha, the mile high club that's brilliant", giggled Hermione, Justin, Dean, and Harry. "ha, ha, ha". "What's the mile high club ?", asked the others, Dean giggled and explained what it was, "wow, ha, ha, ha, didn't know the Muggles were like that", breathed Ginny.
Ron was next and he read, "Hannah met Michael in Honeydukes sweet shop. She said to him "do you wanna taste my sugar ?", and he said to her "I love you lets get it on", the consequence was they ended up with 50 children, and the newspaper headline said "couple breaks magical record". "Ha, ha, ha", everyone laughed even more. By the time everyone had finished reading their stories it was time to get ready for bowling and dinner. "Thanks for coming everyone this is turning into the most fun birthday ever", said Hermione, "ok meet me in the great hall in an hour for dinner and we will all eat together at Gryffindor table".
Everyone hurried off to get ready for dinner and bowling. Hermione decided they should be casual and comfortable for bowling so all the Gryffindor girls dressed in jeans, t-shirts or blouses and trainers. Parvati then French plaited everyone's hair, Lavender painted everyone's nails, and Ginny applied everyone's make-up. They went to the common room to meet the Gryffindor boys. The boys were also wearing Jeans, t-shirts, and trainers. Dean had his West Ham shirt on, and Harry had on a Rugby shirt. Seamus was wearing an Ireland cricket top (his dad is a Muggle), and Ron and Neville had on Qudditch tops. Hermione had decided to wear her new Liverpool shirt, Parvati had a yellow t- shirt on, Ginny a blue and white stripped top, and Lavender a purple t- shirt. They all headed to the great hall together where they were met by their friends from Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.
They all walked into the great hall together, and sat down at the Gryffindor table ready for dinner. 5 minutes later the starters appeared at the 4 house tables – there was a choice of prawn cocktail, melon with fruit coulis, soup, or bacon and Stilton salad. "Yum", said Harry helping himself to prawns. They talked and laughed as they ate, not noticing Draco watching them from the Slytherin table as he ate his own starter. After half an hour the main courses appeared on the tables – there was a choice of chicken cacciatore, lobster with roasted vegetables, roast beef with Yorkshire pudding or a vegetarian nut roast. "mmm," exclaimed Ron, "I'm starving", everyone laughed as Ron helped himself to a bit off everything. After another hour the puddings appeared on the table , there was a choice off profiteroles with chocolate sauce, lemon torte, strawberry cheesecake, raspberry sorbet and vanilla ice-cream. "Delicious, all my favourites" said Susan helping herself to torte and sorbet. Once they had finished eating it was time to head into Hogesmeade and go bowling.
When everyone had finished eating they made their way into Hogesmeade where they headed to the bowling alley. When they got there Hermione pressed the buzzer on the door, "hello it's Miss Granger with 23 school friends I've hired the place for the evening. "Ah, welcome Miss Granger come in". The door clicked and everyone went in. When the door the shut the person behind the bowling alley counter spotted Harry, "what luck, what an honour, its Harry Potter". "Yes, we know", responded the students "he's at school with us and he's our friend and to us he's just Harry". "Yes I'm nothing special ", laughed Harry, "besides today is Hermione's day".
They divided into the 3 teams of 7, "Ok, the team with the highest score wins it's that simple". They spent the next 3 hours bowling and in the end team A won – they clocked up an impressive 900 points, team C were not far behind they came second with 890 points, and team B got 880 points.
After bowling they had a rest with a drink of butter bear and an ice-cream each. The conversation turned to the Halloween ball, "who are you going with 'Mione", asked Luna, "I don't know yet, I want to wait and see who my secret admirer is". "Can you imagine if it's a Slytherin", giggled Molly, "ew, gross hope not" said Padma "although some of them are good looking, but so arrogant", added Parvati. "What about you Harry", asked Terry, "I'll ask the person now if you like before I forget if you like". "Parvati, will you do me the honour of going to the Halloween ball with me ?", asked Harry "I'd love to Harry", replied Parvati. By the end of the evening everyone had a partner for the ball except for Hermione.
Hermione had decided to find out who her secret admirer was first before arranging any dates for the ball, and Mandy was going with her steady boyfriend (a Ravenclaw who was not part of their friendship group). At 11:30 they headed back to Hogworts together, and headed back to their common rooms to bed, although Hermione waited outside the great hall for her secret admirer to turn up.
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