After lunch came History of Magic, which, in itself is pretty boring. Since it was the first day back, the students were given most of the afternoon off, thought the prefects and heads had a meeting. There it was announced that Hogwarts would be having a ball.

"To celebrate the New Year. Students from first to fourth year will be allowed to stay until 8 o'clock in the evening, those from fifth and sixth until 10, and the seventh years will be permitted to stay 'til midnight. This will give the leaving class a chance to relax before their graduation ball, which will be an extremely formal event. The heads will be planning the graduation ball, but I want all of you to plan the New Year's. So do with it as you wish – within limits, of course. You will meet to plan it every Sunday at 3:00 pm. You may use this time to begin. Good day." With that, Dumbledore exited the room, leaving behind several excited prefects and the head boy and head girl to begin their planning.

"Well, I think it should be a snow theme," a girl from Ravenclaw started. "You know, enchanted snow falling, everything white and glittery."

"I like that idea," said Hannah Abbot. "How about we have a masquerade ball?"

"Oh, that's original," drawled a younger Slytherin male.

"Well," piped up Parvati Patil, who had replaced Hermione as the female prefect for that year's Gryffindor, "let's add a twist then?"

"Have you anything in mind?" Harmony asked from the wall she was currently propped against.

"Well," supplied another Hufflepuff, "what if everyone gets all dressed up and stuff, but then when they exit they're common room, their appearance changes? Like facial features, hair and eye color, height, etc. Then, when it's their turn to leave, they all change back to they're original form?"

"For once I agree with a Hufflepuff," Draco drawled from another corner. "That's a good idea." Amusingly enough for the Slytherens, the Hufflepuff started to blush and mumbled a 'thank you'.

"So," the Head Girl started "now that we have that figured out, we still need music, food, decoration, publicity, a spell that would easily change a person's facial features, and a way to administer the spell on everyone attending the ball."

"Let's split up the jobs." Draco spoke once more in a commanding voice. "That way we all won't have to do as much work. Ravenclaws, you do music. Hufflepuffs, you're on decoration. Slytherins do food, and Gryffindors: publicity. Harmony and I will figure a way to work the spell." Harmony raised an eyebrow at having Malfoy volunteer her, but remained silent.

"We'll meet up here next Sunday at three like the Headmaster said to see how much progress we've made. We can also add some input on the different topics then. Alright?" the Head Boy asked.

They all agreed and broke off.

The next 2 weeks passed and before anyone knew, there were posters everywhere advertising the ball, False Witness, a newly popular band in the wizarding world, had been booked to play for New Year's Eve. Harmony and Draco could be found in the library daily, researching a spell that would disappear at different times and be applied easily to large groups of people. They had silently agreed, for the moment at least, to up aside their annoyance of each other to get this project done.

It was the hardest project Harmony had ever undertaken, even more difficult than finding information on Nicholas Flamel in her first year. At least then she would have settled for any piece of knowledge she could have gotten but now, she needed very specific details.

"Argh! This is impossible!" Harmony, frustrated at having gotten nowhere, shouted while slamming the book she was reading closed.

"Don't bug out Elderson; I would hate to have a raging female on my hands." Draco said, not raising his head out of his book: Charming Charms.

"All of these charms will either disappear at the same time, or can't be cast on more than 100 people." Harmony said, deciding to ignore his comment.

"Well, how about this?" Draco asked "Each teacher will be assigned to a different year, and the spell is cast on all of them then? Then when it's time to leave, their respective teacher will change them back."

"Draco, that's brilliant!" Harmony shouted, feeling quite relieved and bringing him into a huge hug.

She stayed there for a few seconds before she realized what she was doing.

'You're hugging Malfoy!'

Harmony slowly retracted her arms, muttered something about speaking to the teachers about the charm, and ran out of the library.

'She was blushing!' Draco thought smugly. 'I knew no one could resist my charm and good looks.' With that thought in mind, Draco followed Harmony out of the library.

It was Saturday, and the girls decided to go out to find dresses for the ball ahead of time. They decided to use Harmony's head privileges and go to the various dress shops around the area.

"Oooohh! Harmony look at this dress! And this other one! And oh! Look at this one it's so pretty!" Blaise's girly alter-ego had decided to take over for the afternoon while they went dress shopping.

They had gone through 2 shops already, and each dress that Harmony had tried on had either been too short, too revealing, or too frumpy. She was about to give up, and they agreed to go to one more shop before giving up. She was rummaging through the back of the shop when she saw it.

mysticallove: i totally agree. i spell how i spell, and if i make a mistake, meh. here's your update!

lil'rook: yea, sorry about making harry and ron die, but it had to happen! i know, its wierd having blaise as a girl, but im trying to make it work.

End o' chapter ramble: well, you may see parts of this from my old story. I wouldn't expect an update for a bit, again. I'm off to CHINA for a month! So I should write a lot then. I'll update when I get back, but its just a warning. Leave reviews/emails to make me happi! I'll see you all when I get back! Bai

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