The Slytherin Princess

𝓜𝓲𝓭𝓷𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓼𝔀𝓲𝓶𝓼

It was a week later and everything had settled down. My egg was still indeed missing, thanks to Tracey but Harry and I were working together to figure out his egg.
I was sat with Harry at the Gryffindor table for breakfast, telling him about how Viktor had come up last night and told me to listen to my egg under water to get the clue. I could have kissed him I was so excited to have any kind of lead, and I knew Karkaroff would not be pleased to know that Vik helped Harry and I, so I was very grateful.

"So do you want to meet up around 11pm tonight in the prefects bathroom? They have a bath in there we could use?", Harry asked and I agreed, watching curiously as a box dropped in front of Ron.

"Oh look, Mum sent me something!", Ron said happily as he opened the package.

He pulled out a bunch of horrible looking brown and orange fabric with ruffles.

"Mum sent me a dress?", he said in shock as we all began to chuckle.

"Well it does match our eyes. Is there bonnet? Ah-Ha!", Harry said as he pulled a bunch of white ruffles from the box and I gave him a nudge.

"Put those down Harry", he chuckled and looked over to Ginny, attracting a bit of attention now.

"Gin, these must be for you", he said.

"I'm not wearing that, its ghastly", she said quickly as Hermione giggled.

"What are you on about?", Ron asked Hermione nervously now as people watched on.

"They're not for Ginny... They're for you! Dress Robes", she said with a smile as the students around us began to laugh.

"Dress Robes? For what?", he asked, sitting back down while students continued to chuckle.

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All the Slytherins were gathered in the dance hall, ready for their turn of the 'dance lessons' they had to do leading up to the Yule Ball.

I already new about them, as Gryffindor's went first and Hermione told me all about how funny it was watching Ron dance with McGonagall.

We were sat girls on one side and boys on the other, listening as Snape spoke to us all in his usual, indifferent, monotone voice.

"The Yule Ball has been a tradition of the Triwizard Tournament since it's inception. On Christmas Eve night, we and our guests, gather in the great hall for a night of well mannered frivolity. As representatives of the host school, every student is expected to dance on the night"

He spoke a little more about dress code and how we were all to behave before waving us up to our feet and asking us to select a partner and make a circle on the floor.

I watched as Draco came straight over to me, bowing politely and kissing my hand, "May I have this dance?", he said with his usual smirk.

I chuckled back, "You may", as we stepped up to the circle, "Not that you or I really need practice with ballroom dancing... We have been doing it since we were 8", I laughed.

As the music began, as was second nature to most of the Slytherin's, we all began.

"I should probably let you know, Harry and I are meeting up tonight in the prefects bathroom to do some research on our egg", I said quickly, ready for a poor reaction.

"Why in the prefects bathroom?", he shot quickly.

"We have to listen to the egg under the water, apparently... And their is a big bath in the-"

"Potter is just trying to get you out of your clothes", he grumbled out as his hands on me tensed.

"No he isn't...", I said rolling my eyes, "Vik was the one that told me to listen to it under the water, so we are going to go and figure it out tonight so that we can get some kind of game plan", I sighed.