"Why do you enjoy annoying me so much?"
Briar Lupin was sent away by her father to live as a muggle until she was 11, when her Hogwarts letter finally arrives and changes everything. Thrust into this world of Wizardry on her own, Briar meets the inf...
Snow was now falling heavily around Hogwarts which meant Christmas was approaching and the 5th year Gryffindor girl's dormitory was usually filled with Briar singing at the top of her lungs and putting tinsel wherever she could reach. But this year the dormitory remained undecorated and no singing ran through the room
Truthfully Briar was happy that the holiday season was approaching, but knowing that when she went home her godfather wouldn't be there waiting for her made it harder. Sirius, like her, always enjoyed Christmas and he had always been the person who would sing songs with her at 2am
On top of that she was dreading Professor Slughorn's upcoming Christmas party since she knew it would be a night full of other Slug Club members, such as Cormac, and ex-students of Slughorn's that he wanted to show off to his students
Cormac kept talking about how excited he was for them to go to the party together, but Briar was quite annoyed he hadn't actually asked her and had just assumed they would go together since they were dating. But at least she had a date unlike Harry who still didn't have one on the day of it
At least until that morning in Transfiguration, when Luna informed Ginny and Briar that Harry had asked her to go with him and the two girls were really happy
Sureenough, in no time at all the whole school seemed to knowthat Harry Potter was taking Luna Lovegood to Slughorn'sparty.
"You could've taken anyone!" they heard Ron saying at lunch "Anyone! And you chose Loony Lovegood?"
"Don't call her that, Ron," snapped Briar, pausing behindHarry on their way to join friends.
"I'm really glad you're takingher, Harry, she's so excited." Ginny added and the two girls headed off
When their classes ended for the day, Briar and Ginny had to get ready for the party and Briar settled on wearing a light blue satin belted mini dress
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And she paired it with a pair of black heels, and once Ginny was ready they headed down to the common room to meet their dates, before the 4 of them made their way through the dimly lit castle towards Slughorn's office, which had definitely been charmed to be bigger than the usual teacher's office
Luckily Briar spotted Luna and Harry there so she excused herself to talk to Luna and throughout the night she somehow managed to mostly successfully dodge Cormac, mainly by appearing interested in meeting Slughorn's old students
But when Eldred Worple excused himself to talk to Harry, and Cormac began to walk towards her Briar quickly ducked to the drinks table, poured herself a glass of wine and finished it almost instantly
"Damn," whistled the voice of Blaise Zabini "Rough night?"
"You can say that" Briar replied awkwardly and she glanced around in case any Slytherin girls were about to come over and call her names for talking to him, but she couldn't see any "No date?" she asked him
