The Fatal Enchantment

Yule Ball

Third Person's P.O.V.:-

Ronald changed into the dress robes sent by his mother. It was frilly, had laces, and was scarlet red in color. It had a white frilly bonnet and a black bow. Harry's, Neville's, Dean's and Seamus's on the other hand were a crisp white shirt, with black trousers, a black tuxedo, with a black neck bow, and black robes. Seamus and Neville had already left. So had Dean, who had asked out Fay Dunbar... Only Harry and Ron were left in the dorm. Ronald examined his dress robes as he made disgusting faces.
"Bloody hell! Bloody hell! Bloody..." he muttered as he stopped seeing Harry in his dress robes. "What are those, what are those?" he asked. Harry gave him a stop being dumb Ron look.
"My dress robes" he replied with a duh tone in his voice.
"Well, they're alright. No lace. No dodgy little collar" Ron muttered, who always found the monetary status of his family a sensitive and sore topic. He knew he was not chided by Harry's twin sister Alexia for his family's financial status, but rather for his jerky behavior. And lately he'd been getting the cold shoulder from her and Hermione.
"Well yours are more traditional" Harry reasoned out with Ron.
"Traditional? They're ancient!" exclaimed Ron as he argued with Harry over his dress robes. "They belong to my great aunt Tessie." He even sniffed the armpits of his dress. "They even smell of my great aunt Tessie. Murder me Harry."
"I don't know of me, but I'm sure Lexi will if you beg her to..." Harry replied taking his friend and going down the stairs. The topic soon changed to Alexia and Hermione.
The entrance hall strange, full of people wearing different colors instead of the usual mass of black. Harry and Ron discussed about the two girls. Harry though was trying his best to avoid the topic, since one of them was actually his twin sister, and the other was like a sister to him.
"Poor kids, bet they're alone in their rooms, crying out. Though one can come alone due to her privileges." Ron said.
"Who?" asked Harry.
"Hermione and Alexia of course." Ron said like it was obvious. "Come on Harry, why wouldn't they tell us if they had dates!"
"Because for Alexia I would go all brother protective mode and as for Hermione, we'd take the mickey out of her!" Harry said.
"Nobody asked them. I would have taken one of them myself, if they hadn't been so proud." Ron said. They were met by the Patil twins who greeted them, as McGonagall came and told Harry that he had to dance with Pavarti along with the other champions as soon as dinner was over. Harry was not shocked, after all Alexia had told him about it earlier.
Suddenly the door opened and the two most beautiful girls descended the stairs of the Entrance Hall. One of them wore a pink periwinkle dress robes, as she was smiling shyly. The other had tamed curly hair, pinned at the back, in her on shoulder mermaid cut lilac dress robes as she descended the stairs.
"They're beautiful." muttered Pavarti. Harry turned along with Ron and Padma and they were shocked to see the girls were Hermione and Alexia. Two Dumstrang boys, one of them, Viktor Krum and the other none other than Viktor's best friend Andrei Poliakoff came up to the girls and took their wrists kissing at the back, as Hermione smile shyly, and Alexia smiled like a coy and seductive vixen. Harry could not believe his eyes, to see his sister had got a date with a boy older than her, and Hermione had got a date with Viktor Krum. Ronald was shocked beyond words.
After dinner, Flitwick took his orchestra and began to conduct the music, as the champions began their dance. Soon Andrei pulled Alexia to the floor, as did Neville with Ginny, Dumbledore with McGonagall, Hagrid with Madame Maxime and Karkaroff with Professor Sinistra. Soon the boys joined in the revelry. Though Ron sat in a corner ignoring his date, as Padma sulked. He glared at Viktor who was dancing away with Hermione. Meanwhile, Barty in his guise as Moody glared at Andrei. He never knew that Alexia had got herself a date with an older boy, a boy of age at that. He wanted to cut them short. So he limped all the way to the floor, seeing the squib Argus Filch dancing with his pet cat Mrs. Norris, and the Malfoy boy dancing with Parkinson, Diggory dancing with the Ravenclaw girl Chang, and Fleur Delacour dancing with the Ravenclaw boy Roger Davies. He even saw Viktor Krum, dancing with Hermione Granger, a mudblood in his opinion. Beside him was the Poliakoff boy dancing away with Alexia.
"May I cut, and have a dance with my assistant Mr. Poliakoff." said Barty.
"Of course sir." said Andrei as he left Alexia's hand kissing her wrist and bowed and stepped aside to a corner. Barty took Alexia's shoulder blade and entwined his hands with her other hand as he slow danced with her. Alexia looked at Barty as she smiled slyly back to him. Barty though, was angry.
"I see you're dating a boy older than you. Could have told me." He said.
"You never asked." Alexia sassed. "Why sir, are you jealous?" she mocked him. "Do I smell something burning? Ah! I didn't know steam could come out of such a lovely specimen in front of me."
"Quit with the flirting and the sexual innuendos Alexia." Barty snapped at her. "I wanted a dance with you. I thought that you would have the sense to go with someone your age, or younger. So that you can control. But I never knew you were for older boys."
"And whom do you think I'd gone with?" Alexia said.
"Someone like, the Weasley twins if you must go for older boys, or someone of your age like Zabini, Nott, or Longbottom, or even Boot. Even the lepercheun Finnigan!" he said. He grunted as he stared at Alexia who as suppressing a laugh. "Am I saying something funny Miss Potter!"
"Of course not sir" she said.
"Well, you will be punished. And I shall arrange the punishment." He said. with that he bowed to Alexia and grunted as he limped the way to the corner. Alexia was soon joined by Andrei who brought her drinks as they went to hang out with Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott, Damieno Pike, Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, Daniel Urquart, the Greengrass sisters, Mandy Brocklehurst, Tracey Davies, and Millicent Bulstrode, Viktor Krum and Hermione Granger. Meanwhile Severus looked from Alexia to Moody and so did Harry and Dumbledore.