A new year awaits

[Tim O'Maley]

Tim was a little nervous about tonight. He was going to be going to the ball with the Slytherin Quidditch Captain. He wondered what the night would be like.

He waited in the entrance hall. Where they had agreed to meet. He was a little early but that is only because he was worried he would be late. As he paced back and forth he fiddled with the cuffs on his dress robes, long black ones.

Maybe she isn't going to show? Maybe she didn't hear him when he told her the entrance hall?

In all of the years at hogwarts, Tim had never attended a ball. What if he made a fool of himself? Infront of the whole school?

[Brendan Makintyre]

Brendan entered the Entrance Hall beaming. He had actually washed up well.
His muscular physique didn't fit the already made Dress Robes so he had his made to fit him. They were long and black. His shirt was white and the buttons on it were black. His shoes were so shiney you could see yourself in them and the bottom of his coat nearly touched the floor. He had brushed his teeth really well and put a whitening potion on them so them gleamed pearly white. His hair was still the way it usually was, messy, and his eyes twinkled brighter than usual. His scar still existed but you couldn't see it under his hair.

He looked down the stairs and saw his friend Tim looking really nervous. He smiled to himself and walked down the steps and over to Tim.

"Eyy buddy. Lighten up, it's only a ball." He said putting his hand out to shake Tim's.

[Autumn Rowley]

Autumn walked slowly into the hall fearing no-one would talk to her and she would blend into the background. She wore silver high-heels with a flowy white dress that finished a little below her knees. She had her blonde hair down as always.

She stared at the vast hall, she saw some of the Gryffindor boys and smiled and waved and continued in the direction of the seats where she felt she would be sitting most of the night. She sighed as she walked past the boys and sat down.

[Lena Polienko]

Lena had hid herself in her dormitory for hours that day. She had so much to do! She washed her hair with every shampoo she and her dorm mates owned, then she had dried it, brushed it, put tons of products on it, put it in hot rollers and then finally was finished. It was a lot of work when you had naturally poofy and crazy hair.

As Lena approached the Entrance Hall from the dungeons, she could see Tim waiting for her. She bit her lip, which was a shade of ruby red for the occasion. Lena couldn’t wait to see people’s faces!

“Tim!” Lena said, walking up to him. She was wearing a knee-length green dress that left her pale shoulders rather bare. Lena turned to the person Tim had been talking too, who was surely in Tim’s year as well, and merely nodded to him.

[Tim O'Maley]

Tim waved to the Gryffindor girl. He knew her because she too was a 6th year Gryffindor.

Tim smiled as Lena approach them. "Hey." He said to her. Noticing that Brendan was standing beside him he thought it best to introduce them. "Lena this is Brendan. Brendan this is Lena."

[Brendan Makintyre]

Brendan also waved to the Gryffindor girl. She seemed nice enough that time in the Common Room.
When the Slytherin girl entered the Entrance Hall, Brendan, figured that must of been Tim's date. He thought it was very strange that a Slytherin and a Gryffindor were going to the ball together but he lived with it.

He turned to face Lena with his hands in his pockets, as he did so often, and said "Pleasure to meet you Lena."

Brendan moved backwards a little to let the two have their space.

"So what are you two going to be up to tonight?"

[Lena Polienko]

Lena didn’t say anything to Tim’s friend. Is he going to be sticking around us all night? She thought. The last thing she needed was for people to think she was going out with not one but two Gryffindors!
“Where’s your date?” Lena interrupted him a little more icily then she had intended. “If you don’t mind me asking, that is.”

[Brendan Makintyre]

Brendan raised his eyebrows at Lena.

What the hell is this girl on about. Me? A date? That's stupid.

"For your information I don't need a date, thank-you very much." He said irritatedly.

He walked over to Tim and got very close to his ear.

"Good Luck. You'll need it with this one." He whispered into Tim's ear and he turned around and entered the Great Hall without taking any notice of Lena.

[Tim O'Maley]

Tim gave a short laugh at Brendan. Tim looked back at Lena, he had no idea why he had asked the Slytherin Captain. This is so wrong. How can the Gryffindor be going out with a Slytherin it just wasn't natural? He thought to himself.

Tim looked at the large oak doors that lead into the Great Hall. He could here the music from within it. Tim began to walk in to the Great Hall but then realized that he was with Lena. He turned back and said "Ya coming?" To Lena.

[Lena Polienko]

Lena frowned a little as Tim’s friend walked off. She thought she had been rather nice, him being a Gryffindor and all.
“Yeah,” She said, entering the Great Hall. She suddenly felt very self-concious. Sure, her peers would be so shocked to see her with a Gryffindor, but it was a statement. Lena liked to surprise people and be the centre of everyone’s attention. She turned to Tim.
“This is really nice,” Lena said, glancing around the Great Hall. “I don’t suppose anyone here is as... different as we are.”

[Tim O'Maley]

"Hmm." Tim said blankly as he looked around the hall. He found Brendan sitting at an empty table, with some random girls. Tim went over to him and sat down.

"Sup?" He said to Brendan, completely forgetting Lena. The group of girls giggled around the two boys. Tim gave the girls a charming smile.

[Lena Polienko]

And people think I’m mean! Lena thought icily as she watched Tim simply walk away from her. What a complete jerk. This was a bad idea. Lena felt her eyes burn as she watched him sit down with that idiot friend of his. In reality, she wanted to go over there and kick him hard in the back with her high heals. But she was too much of a reputation to hold up.

I might as well have gone with a Hufflepuff! Lena thought as she watched him flirt with girls that weren’t half as pretty as Lena. Lena couldn’t understand him; he had seemed so shy and vulnerable when he had asked her in the Greenhouse. Had he just been using her for the sake of having a date?

Lena stormed away, almost knocking someone over as she did. She left the Great Hall, some people looking after her with puzzled expressions. She didn’t know where she was going; most likely to the girls bathroom to have some time to herself to plot the downfall of the male race. Or, maybe, just to fix her make-up.

[Tim O'Maley]

Tim watched as Lena stormed out of the ball. What the hell is that about?? He asked himself. Tim shrugged it off. He turned back to Brendan and the girls. "Meh, she was wierd." He said to Brendan.

Tim was now thinking it was a really bad idea to have asked the Slytherin Captain to the ball, they had only met once before. All well the night was still young and the music was still playing.

[Brendan Makintyre]

Brendan wasn't suprised that Tim dumped his date around two minutes in. Everyone knew that it wasn't going to work anyway. He nodded his head at Tim's remark.


"Oh well mate, plenty of fish in the sea." He said, looking around at the girls and putting his arm around one.

He picked up a glass of punch and skulled it. He leant back in his seat, his arm still around some random girl. He didn't know any of their names he just like the look of them.

"So what are you going to do now? Wait till the Wierd Sisters come I s'pose?"