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THE BOY WITH THE PIERCING BLUE EYES

Chapter 30 – Party time (part 1)

The days before the Halloween-week were spent with much anxiety. The students, after the Quidditch match on Saturday, got to go to Hogsmeade on Sunday to buy their costumes and all the things they needed. Well, at least the third years and above. The younger students made long lists and asked others in their houses to purchase the items giving them a few extra galleons in exchange. The Creevey-brothers gain a small fortune by accepting a lot of lists from second year girls and spent all the money to buy sweets. Dean and Seamus came back with two bags of mysterious things that no one was allowed to see.

"Just… just our costumes." Seamus answered when Hermione questioned them.

Harry didn't buy much, instead spent the day with Ginny walking around while listening to her ranting.

"These black stockings are very pretty. And the patterns. So sexy, right? I've never had something like this before… I'm so excited! And these shoes go well with them, and how cheap they were! I was very surprised! I guess I'll have blisters on my legs. It's really hard to get used to high-heels… Why can't we wear normal shoes? I bet it was a wizard who designed it! But if he had to walk around all day in them, he wouldn't have thought about making them! Right? Harry, are you listening?"

"Yeah."

"You're daydreaming. What's with you?"

"Nothing, it's just hard to get into the mood when I don't even know if Marie will talk to me at all or not and when Cho is in the hospital."

"Harry." The girl came to a halt. "You don't have to worry about Cho. The Healers healed patients in even worse condition. And Marie…"

"Marie is different! You don't even know her! She's…" He sighed and sat down on a rock. "She's so contradictory…"

He kicked a few stones away.

"She's very sensitive and delicate like a porcelain doll you always have to take care of. Like a flower you always have to protect from those who wish to pick it up. On the other hand… she's so attractive, sensual that it makes me hot all over… and I can see the mischief in her eyes… and the desire… the passion that drives me crazy and… makes me want her. But I can't imagine how she will… react to my letter. The boy who she trusted in… her first love… the one with whom she lost her innocence… lied to her all along. How do I know that she won't despise me or something?"

"Harry." Ginny leaned closer with a smile on her face. "If she loves you, she won't detest you."

"You don't lie to the one you love."

"You didn't have a choice."

Ginny held his face in both hands and planted her lips on the boy's. Biting lightly then releasing them she slowly opened her eyes; it was obvious that she wanted to always remember the feeling.

"G-ginny?" Harry said and blushed like a shy little boy.

"You were so down… I hope you're feeling better now…"

"But… but…"

"Plus…" Ginny shrugged. "I was always curious… what it feels like to kiss you… "

That caused a small smile to appear on Harry's face too. Raising an eyebrow and shaking his head he gathered his strength and stood up from the rock he was sitting on. With a grin he circled his arm around her waist and that's how they continued walking around the town. Suddenly, he groped the girl's round bottom which made Ginny jump. Blushing like crazy, she wanted to hit the shameless boy, but he ducked in time and started running for his life. The girl started chasing after him laughing and they were lost in the crowd of students.

The Potions professor stepped into the staff room with a sigh, the daily exhaustion evident on his face.

"Tea?" Suddenly Remus said. He nodded in surprise and took the cup from the other man's extended hand.

It warmed his fingers and the steam seemed to calm his senses. Closing his eyes, the professor enjoyed the moment.

"This tea is marvelous, Remus." Professor Vector said after joining the other two with Sinistra. Snape just drank in silence.

There was something in Lupin's gaze that disturbed him. Does he know? Is he… angry? Just like at the beginning of the year when he's suspicion was unfounded. Did he notice the desire in his eyes when looking at Rowena? The passion tha…"

He was about to sigh again when Professor Vector touched his robes. He opened his eyes.

"What's this yellow feather?" The woman asked.

The Potions Master looked at the ceiling tiredly.

"You're growing feathers, Severus?" Lupin chuckled into his cup.

"No…" The professor sighed but now the other teachers were laughing too.

"Or maybe you're practicing Animagi too?"

"Do you think I would turn into a yellow songbird?" Severus answered feeling a bit insulted.

Remus only smiled peacefully, so Snape didn't take it seriously either.

"Nothing like that…" He said with a sigh. "The second year students kept turning into canaries during the last lesson. I had to take about hundred points from them…" A small smiled appeared on his face as he drank his tea.

"We might have been a little too easy on them…" Professor Sinistra sighed but everyone became silent when McGonagall rushed into the room. Her clothes had yellow feathers on it.

"What big step in Transfiguration?! Just let me know where they got those cookies!"

"Calm down, Minerva." Dumbledore said as he entered the room with Lamerin, both of them smiling. "In these dark days, let the students enjoy themselves a bit. Can I have some more?" He eyed the plate in Lamerin's hand.

"Of course, you can have it all, Headmaster." The boy said and handed him the plate full of cookies. Dumbledore accepted it with a smile and went to the side of the room.

"Good afternoon." Lamerin greeted everyone then quietly nodded to his father. "Hi!"

Pride filled Severus, just like always, when seeing his son. The boy took a few cookies from his pocket and offered some to everyone.

"What exactly are these?"

"I'll show you."

He ate one and turned into a big yellow canary. Everyone around him started laughing, except his father, who paled somewhat.

"Don't tell me you're the twins' distributor here?"

The bird tickled its own wing and with a pop turned back into a human.

"No, of course not. I only got a package from them."

"I'll never accept anything from you from now on." Severus said in a dark tone.

"I'd never play tricks on you. I even got the Oops-Floo-Powder out from the bowl next to the fireplace."

"Oops… Floo-Powder?" Remus asked, sounding surprised.

"Yeah."

"Why is it called that?"

"'Oops, you're in trouble if you played this trick on your parents' It was originally Fred's idea. It looks just like normal Floo powder, but you can't use it to travel. There'll be flames and you'll get really smoky. If you use too much it might burn all your hair…"

Snape shivered as he tried to imagine himself bald.

"But the Ministry was interested… the Magical Inventions section or something…"

"They'll be punished?" Severus asked with bright eyes.

"No, on the contrary. The Ministry wants to use it as a Tool of Child Protection."

When he saw the teachers blinking in confusion, Lamerin continued his explanation.

"This way even if small children try using it they won't be transported to who knows where."

"Very true!"

"They can make a fortune with this."

"Yes." Lamerin nodded.

Soon the other teachers arrived for an afternoon tea. Rowena came too, but no one looked at her with as much admiration as Severus.

The woman went to the shelf and took two thick books from it. Her porcelain looking skin contrasted well with the blue robes she was wearing. Her hair was in a bun with a few lock left hanging. The light clothes hid her slim body well. When she saw them, with a sweet smile, made her way towards them.

"Hello." She greeted happily.

Severus felt embarrassed and looked down with a smile on his face.

"You seem very happy about something." Sinistra commented.

"Oh yes!" Rowena nodded. "My costume will be ready this weekend! I'm so happy! We never had anything like this in Durmstang. We only had marches with torches… very boring. I'm really looking forward to Friday!"

She stepped to Severus, who was putting his cup on the desk thinking that no matter what she wore he'll love it. In fact, clothes aren't that important…

Rowena took his hands and looked into his eyes with barely kept desire.

"Dance with me!" She begged. "Dance with me on Friday!"

Severus smiled.

"It's been quite some time since I last danced…" He began quietly, but when he saw the disappointment on her face, he continued. "But… it's not something one can forget."

Her eyes brightened which warmed Severus' heart and he squeezed her hands lightly.

Even though he could feel the people around them were surprised, he thought it wasn't necessary to hide it anymore.

Remus is always hugging his woman when she's around… And the fact that Stainthorp's heart broke into a million pieces like a mirror didn't bother him much.

He was a little afraid of Remus' reaction however the man only smiled while drinking his tea. A small, relieved sigh left his lips and he touched the woman's locks with his long fingers.

He hoped that she could feel what he felt because he found it really hard to voice what was in his heart. In the last eighteen years this is the first time he felt love flare up in him. Back then, it was hard with Sarah too at first…

Sarah…

For a moment he could see the image of his beloved wife as she danced under the oak tree next to their house… she was spinning around with her arms held out… her long hair and skirt billowing in the soft autumn breeze… smiling, laughing…

"Severus?" Rowena looked at him not knowing what happened.

The Potions Master realized that he was daydreaming. Looking around he saw that everyone was laughing at the headmaster who turned into the canary, so he used this opportunity to hug the woman. So he could see her again… so he could feel her again…

"I'm sorry…" He said quietly.

Harry put on his comfortable trainers. Under a colorful vest he had a long-sleeved white shirt that looked good with his ripped jeans. With his bag on one shoulder he looked like a Muggle boy going to school. With slightly wet fingers he tried to do something with his hair with little to no success.

Dean had an original Westham football jersey on that he wore proudly like he was a member of the team. Seamus, being a half-blood himself, wore Muggle clothes too. However, Neville found it strange that the ripped jeans showed Harry's underwear.

"Harry, why are you wearing pants with holes? I'll give you one tha…"

"You know, it's Muggle fashion." Harry interrupted.

"Isn't your bottom cold?"

"No, in fact, the ventilation is much better." He winked while the others started laughing.

"Why aren't you wearing anything more comfortable?" Dean asked.

"More comfortable than this?" Neville looked at himself. "This is considered 'comfortable' among wizards."

Though he had no robes on, he looked like usual.

"I just hope that Professor Dareling will wear something daring." Seamus begged looking up at the ceiling.

"Let's go have some breakfast." Ron advised while putting on his prefect badge.

As soon as reaching the corridor they noticed the change in the school. The jack-o'-lanterns were nothing compared to the colorful students. Instead of the black school uniform they were wearing multicolored clothes and Harry felt like he was on a crowded Muggle street.

The Muggle-born students all wore fashionable clothes so it was easy to recognize them. Those who came from magical families, bowing down to their weakness, wore bolder clothes.

"How do we look?" The Patil-twins asked Goldstein in the great hall.

They were dressed the same, wearing blue skinny jeans and yellow turtlenecks.

The prefect boy didn't even try to hide his desire.

"If you wear something this good on Friday night, then I'm not worried."

"Seamus, what costume are you going to wear?" Hermione asked the boy who, as Ron said, still hid the things they bought in Hogsmeade.

"My birthday suit, if you ask again." Finnigan murmured.

Hermione didn't say anything, the day she entered the boys' room and saw Seamus naked still fresh in her mind.

"Harry, what about you?" Hannah asked from the table next to theirs. "Do you know what you're going to wear?"

"Yeah, but nothing special. I'm trying to come up with something using my stuff. I only need a potion and a little help from Neville and Professor Sprout.

"Won't you tell us what it is?"

"Then it wouldn't be a surprise now, would it?"

"We never put lanterns… here." Snape murmured when he saw the smiling faces on the Slytherin corridors.

"Really?" Rowena looked at him innocently. "They look really good here… in the darkness…"

The Potions Master couldn't look away from the offending decoration. He didn't want to let the woman win again just because of how she looked at him. No. There won't be lanterns on his corridors. No lanterns, no confetti, no… no jack-o'-lanterns. No. This is the Slytherin for Merlin's sake!

"You want to take them down? It's so beautiful."

NO. They can't stay.

"Come on!" The woman caught his arm. "We haven't decorated the Hufflepuff corridors yet!"

"What?" He said, visibly suffering. "God no…" He sighed as they joined Remus and Professor Flitwick to put more Halloween decoration on the walls and armors.

"You haven't told me what you going to wear yet."

"Nothing."

"Oh. You're going to be naked? That'll be interesting…"

"I meant." Severus coughed. "…that I'm not going to wear a costume, just a dress robes."

"Is there a reason for that?" The woman stroked a pumpkin.

"Not really… But… the last time I let myself be persuaded to wear a costume it went badly for both me and Lucius Malfoy."

"You wore the same costume?"

"Unfortunately…" Snape sighed.

"When did this happen?"

"More than twenty years ago…"

Rowena chuckled as she levitated mistletoe to be directly above them.

"Oh, you have to kiss under the mistletoe!" Professor Flitwick commented when he saw them.

"Come on!" Rowena encouraged him with a mischievous smile.

"Very funny…" Snape said with pretended anger and gave her such a brief kiss that she almost fell over wanting to get more. "I don't need mistletoe to kiss you…"

"You don't?"

"I don't."

"We'll see."

They teased each other for so long that they didn't notice the corridor was finished.

"And Lamerin?" Rowena asked with a smile. "Is he going to wear a costume?"

Snape sighed.

"Yes. He's going to be a vampire."

The others chuckled.

"I couldn't talk him out of it."

"Oh, come on, Severus!" Lupin joined the conversation. "I'm sure he's going to be a pretty vampire."

"Probably…"

I can't believe how fast I finished this chapter (half chapter), can you? But I like this chappy. It's quite funny, don't you think? I hope the next part will be ready soon, though that's a bit harder to translate.

I guess it's obvious what it's going to be about, so I don't have anything to add.

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