Golden | h.p

25| Date swap

It was the morning of Christmas Eve and Diana Bennett was harshly woken up by a pillow thrown at her by Hermione Granger.

"Seriously?!" Diana asked and she sat up in her bed.

"Morning, sleepyhead" Hermione smiled. "It's the day of the Yule Ball" Hermione beamed. "Don't think I know that? My goodness, Hermione, let me sleep" Diana groaned as she went to lie back down but Hermione snatched her pillow from under Diana's head.

"Hermione, I will hurt you" Diana muttered. "Like you'd ever. Now get up! I told Ginny I'd help her with her hair" Hermione told Diana. "The ball is tonight. We have time" Diana said as she tried to close her eyes but ended up letting out a gasp as someone jumped on top of her.

Out of instinct Diana shoved the person off of her. "Bitch!" Ginny said as she got up off the floor. "Don't jump on me and expect me to not push you" Diana told her. Hermione burst out laughing, "Ginny isn't very patient, as you see".

"I'll help you with your hair and whatever but later" Diana told the redhead. "Now" Ginny said and crossed her arms. "No" Diana said, Hermione sat on the edge of her bed and waited for the show.

Ginny crossed her arms over her chest and stood up straight. Ginny was thirteen and only 5'2 but she always managed to find a way to scare people or simply get what she wanted. Something she learned from living with only brothers all her life.

"Funny how you think I can't get what I want" Ginny let out a slight chuckle.

"I am going to scream in about five seconds if you don't get your lazy ass up and out of bed to help me" Ginny said. Diana raised an eyebrow and turned to Hermione, who shrugged and looked away.

Ginny counted from five to one and then let out a scream. Hermione and Diana covered their ears. "Just get up! This isn't going to stop" Hermione advised Diana. "Alright! Alright!" Diana said and stood up. Ginny stopped screaming and had a smirk on her face.

Harry and Ron burst into the room and stumbled over each other.

"Bloody hell. What was that? Are you guys okay?" Ron asked. "Who's being murdered?" Harry asked and looked around for a dead body of some sort. "No one. Your sister is just a psycho, Ron" Diana said. Ron let out a laugh, "you told her 'no', didn't you?".

"Oh, yeah, you never tell her no" Harry told Diana. Hermione nodded. Ginny had a smug look on her face and nodded.

"Well I didn't know she was a fucking banshee" Diana said and signaled to Ginny, who still had a smug expression on her face.

"I can be, when I want something" Ginny said. "Baby, I'm a nightmare dressed like a day dream" she told Diana. The golden trio nodded at Ginny's words.

"I see that. Now, you two out" Diana said and pointed to Ron and Harry. "You two, wait for me in the common room" she then told Ginny and Hermione. The four left the room without saying a word.

"You three of you could really get it along" Ron told the girls. "How so?" Ginny asked as she plopped herself down on the common room couch. "You three are terrifying" Harry and Ron said in unison, earning a glare from the girls. "Point proven" Ron said as he sat down opposite of his sister.

Meanwhile upstairs in Hermione and Diana's dorm, Diana was about to get in the shower. The second the water hit her, she went into a sort of state of mind.

"You may kiss the bride, brother" Kol told Klaus. "Don't tell me what to do" Klaus laughed a bit before pulling Caroline into a kiss. Suddenly Caroline's maid of honor, Bonnie Bennett, had collapsed. "Mom!" Diana shouted as she stood up from her seat and rushed over to her mom.

"What happened?" Caroline said as she rushed over to her best friend. "Sh- she just collapsed" Elena said as she made her way over. "Caroline, your blood" Klaus suggested. Caroline bit her wrist and put it to Bonnie's mouth. Elena put her hand to Bonnie's neck. "She has a very weak pulse" Elena told them.

Diana felt hands on her shoulders and when she looked up she saw Josie. "Come one" Josie said and helped her up. "Our mom and aunt Elena will figure this out. Your mom will be fine" Lizzie said. Diana nodded and walked over to her friends. When she turned around she saw Damon, Elena, Caroline, and Klaus surrounding Bonnie.

Diana gasped as the water from the shower got too hot. Diana didn't think it through before she muttered some spell and watched the water turned to ice. "Holy shit" Diana said as she then defrosted the water.

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It was now an hour before the Yule Ball. "You look amazing, Hermione" Diana told her best friend as she spun around in her Periwinkle dress. "Thank you. Why haven't you gotten ready yet?" Hermione asked.

"Because, I'm not going to the dance" Diana said slowly. "What?!" Hermione said in disbelief. "Don't worry, Hermione. I got Ron another date" Diana told her, earning a pillow to the face. "You promised me you'd go" Hermione whined.

"I can't skip out on my aunt's wedding. I'm sorry" Diana said, Hermione's expression softened. "Only because it's your aunt" Hermione said. "But, Ron? Who's gonna be his date?" Hermione asked. "One of my only Hufflepuff friends" Diana said.

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"Em! Emily!" Diana said as she rushed up to the Hufflepuff. "Hey, what's up?" Emily Hale asked. "I need a favor from you. Like a huge favor" Diana said, Emily raised an eyebrow. "You know Ron Weasley, right?" Diana asked. "Yeah... why?" Emily asked. "I need you to goto the Yule Ball with him" Diana said and held her breath.

"The dance is tomorrow! Are you kidding me?!" Emily asked. "Please, Em. My aunt Caroline's wedding is tomorrow and I can't skip it, but I promised Ron I'd be his date and I can't leave him handing" Diana said rather quickly.

Emily let out a sigh as she saw how desperate her friend was. "Alright, fine. But you now have to lend me your dress since I wasn't planning on going i never went dress shopping" Emily said. "Thank you" Diana said and hugged her. "Meet me outside the Gryffindor common room and I'll give you the dress, jewelry, and shoes".

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Ron waited anxiously as he paced around the boy's dorm. "I've got hideous dress robes" Ron whined, Harry didn't know what to say to that. There was a knocked at the door and Harry leaped to opened the door, Ron flipped him off.

"Diana? What are you-" Harry asked but Diana pushed him out of the way. "Here" she said and handed Ron a box. "What is this?" Ron asked as he took the box. "Open it" Diana said as she sat down on the edge of his bed.

Ron opened the box to reveal a suit and tie, "normal dress robes" as Ron would say. "Bloody hell, Diana. Where did you get this?" Ron asked as he examined it. "I asked a friend to ask her uncle if I could borrow a suit for my friend. Luckily Elijah is easy going and had more than enough suits. This was the only one that seemed like it'd fit you" Diana answered.

"You just saved me" Ron said. "Diana, why aren't you dressed? The dance starts soon" Harry pointed out. "I'm not going. But, Ron you have a date. I made sure of it. Now I have to go before Lizzie kills me" Diana said and rushed out of the room.

Diana made it to her dorm room and slammed the door shut. "Fifty three minutes" Diana muttered. She then shut her eyes and chanted the teleportation spell. She only opened her eyes when she heard, "Oh thank god. I was going to kill you if you didn't make it".