Together

Chapter 15 – Ball Preparations

Hogsmede

Hermione/ Ginny/Luna/Neville/Millicent & Blaise

“Ok ... Um... so we go shop for our costumes and you girls go shop for yours.” Blaise said hoping, not to be dragged around by the girls.

“But I was thinking we should all go together. I mean, it is a costume ball, right? And since your going with Mill and Neville with Luna, I was thinking you should match.” Hermione explained to Blaise.

“Um … dude, she has a point!” Neville said.

“But shopping with chics is a nightmare. They take hours deciding which to buy and in the end they buy all of it.” Blaise whined.

“Fine, you can go shopping but yourself, Zabani, and you can look as bad as or even worse than my brother. But don’t you dare ask Mill to dance with you.” Ginny said pretending to be angry at Blaise.

“Yea, don’t you dare! Don’t you dare to even think about it” Mill supported Ginny’s response.

“Alright! Alright! Where do we meet?”

“Actually, we don’t. We all go together. The store is in muggle London, but the costumes are so good!” Hermione said cheerfully, her eyes sparkling with excitement.

“Um… muggle London?” Blaise asked, skeptically

“What is wrong with that?” Mill asked very angrily, “Well? What? Do you have a problem with muggles?”

“No no no!! Mill it’s not what you think… I mean I didn’t mean it like that! Have a little faith in me, woman! I just meant, well... Um... I don’t have muggle money.” he said, sheepishly.

“Oh you are so silly! Hermione and I sent a letter to Dumbledore and he sent one to Gringots, and they’ve sent each of us some money from our own accounts,” Luna explained “Hermione is keeping the money.”

“So can we go already?” Ginny asked excitement in her eyes and voice.

“Ok, but how?” Neville asked.

“Floo powder. We floo from honey dukes to my place! My parents have today off, and offered to give us a ride to the mall, and will later pick us up, so we don’t need to spend our money on a taxi.” Hermione explained to her friends, “we will have dinner with mom and dad, and leave for Hogwarts at 8 O’clock and we’ll be here by 10, since we are coming back by train. However, if you want we can stay for the weekend and leave on Sunday at 6 p.m, we can floo to honey dukes and walk to Hogwarts. That way we can have weekend in London and can just hang out and go sight-seeing, if you guys want.”

“Ok … I say we leave today at 8, and take our costumes here and then we can go back and spend the weekend with your family and go sight-seeing.” Ginny said.

“Why though? We can always magically send our stuff back here. Why go through all that trouble?” Luna asked.

“I have a better idea! I connected the fireplace in the dormitory to Hogsmede, so we can floo there anytime we want, but it is only the case, for the six of us, for our safety off course. So we floo to honey dukes from your place and then we floo here, I’m working on connecting our fireplace to yours, Dumbledore says, since its outside the wizardry world, its gonna be harder to connect and that I would some stuff from there to make it work, so maybe I can fix it by Sunday, for future times. Anyways we can floo and leave our stuff here and floo back for the weekend.” Blaise said.

“Oh that’s great! We’ll do that! Saves us 2 hours, and we won’t get tired.” Hermione said, finalizing their plan “Let get going.”

The six teenagers flooed to honey dukes, and from there to Hermione’s home, where Hermione’s parents were waiting for them to arrive.

“Hello, Pumpkin!” Mr. Granger said, hugging Hermione.

“Hi dad, hi mom” Hermione said, as her father let her go, so he can talk to the two boys.

“Hello, Mr. Granger, Ms.Granger” the other five said.

“Hello Kids, and how many times do I have to tell you, to call either Jane or Mom.” Hugging each one of the kids.

“Are you ready?” Mr. Granger asked.

“Yes!”

“Let’s go then”

Mr. Granger drove them to the mall, and the six teens thanked him and promised to meet him at five o’ clock sharp, right at the front door. With that, Mr. Granger drove away, and the six teens entered the mall. Neville, Luna, Ginny, Millicent and Blaise were totally mesmerized by the place, so amazed.

“You guys might want to close your mouths; normal muggles don’t look like that when they walk in here. And you definitely don’t want to stand out.” Hermione told the other five, amused at the expressions. “Come on, lets go this way”, leading the way, into a gothic boutique.

“ …. Uh… this place reminds of Knockturn Alley!” Blaise said “but a welcoming Knockturn Alley.”

“Yea …it’s scary-looking and a little spooky but at the same time very warm and welcoming. Does that make sense?” Mill asked.

“No but I agree too. That is why I brought us here, actually. It gives me Goosebumps, but I like it! It’s exciting. Besides it is not like other costume shops, you can mix and match. Do you like it?” Hermione asked Luna, Ginny & Neville.

“Yes” the three replied together.

“Well then, let the fun begin”

With that they began the search for their perfect outfit. They kept trying on different costumes, but in the end they all had their dream costumes.



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Hermione  Vampire Bride



A beautiful black tubic puffed gown, the corseted area that hugged her curved figure, had four tiny diamond sewed on it, forming a diamond shape. The skirt of the gown, had curved layers, and on each end of the curves a black rose was sewed on. The black dress stood out on her ivory skin and her skin in the beautiful gown, they complimented each other perfectly.



The masked veil she chose was perfect for the dress; it was a mask with veil sewed to it, giving it the bridal look, but at the same time giving her the cover of not being recognized. The mask was black, but it was outlined by a silver braiding on the edges, and formed a diamond in the centre, the silver braiding was also used to outline the eyes’ area. From centre, where the diamond shaped was located, one end of each of the two bow-shaped beadings was sewed while the other ends were sewed on the each corner of the mask. The veil was sewed to the bottom of the mask. To give the mask a finishing touch, the designed had sewed five feathers, dark turquoise leading to black.

She chose a black high-heel sandal that had small black diamonds and tiny white one sewed to it, in rectangular and flower shapes, giving it a soft, delicate touch and on each pair, at the back, just above the area hugging her ankles, a black bow was sewed.

To finish off her costume she chose a black multilayered collar-style necklace that would hug her ivory neck, making it and her neck stand out, and a black pair of chandelier earrings. As for hair and make-up, she was going to use a hot-red lipstick, a little bit of glitter to use on her neck area, her arms, since the dress was sleeveless, and on the skin area between her necklace and the corseted-top of her dress of to make her ivory skin glitter under the light. She decided to use some black, silver and glitter eye shadow for her eyes, and use little bit of blush. She also bought a black nail polish. She also bought a package of glitter-diamond hairclips so she should use it on the day of the ball.







Luna  Princess



A beautiful black and cyan tubic, mermaid-style silky dress that hugged her figure and brought out her eyes and her white skin; it was mostly black. On the chest-line a cyan-turquoise bow was sewed on the black silk. At the bottom when the dress flew to shape the mermaid tail, there was a cut, coming up to her right knee, but it wasn’t the type that revealed skin, inside the cut was another layer, the cyan-turquoise layer. The turquoise-cyan silk was topped by a lacey turquoise-cyan fabric, giving the dress a gothic-chic and classy touch.



Hermione had told her that she could borrow her turquoise jewelry set. The necklace and the earring’s pendant were the shape of a giant rain drop. She chose a titanium tiara, it looked almost real and not to blingy. She would were a soft turquoise/cyan eye shadow with a little bit of lip-gloss, watermelon. She was going to put some glitter on her skin too.



She was also going to burrow a black gorgeous, yet simple pair of high-heel sandals from Hermione. And to finish up her costume, she chose an elegant blue and white half-face masquerade mask that finished with gold glitter and gold colored braiding around the edges.



Ginny  Fairy

A turquoise mermaid style halter dress, with sparkled-lace layers. The ankle length dress, hugging her girly curves brought out the colors of her eyes. The dress was so delicate and beautiful, that Ginny had said, if she doesn’t find the right guy, she’ll marry it and live her happily ever after with the dress. To match the silver and sparkly stuff on the lace layer, she chose a pair of silver, sparkly pumps.



She would be wearing a light amount of Turquoise eye shadow, mixed with silver and glitter shadow to bring out her; after all they wouldn’t be wearing their masks all the time. She was going to use glitter on her skin like her other two friends, and she would use a light gloss for her lips.



She also got lucky and after hours of looking, she was ecstatic to have found the perfect wings matching her costume; half silver, half turquoise, with silver designs on the turquoise half and turquoise designs on the silver half. And to finish up her costume, she chose an elegant silver and white half-face masquerade mask that finished with silver glitter and silver colored braiding around the edges.



Millicent & Blaise  Pirate



Millicent being Millicent, the outgoing, adventurous one, too adventurous for some one raised in pureblood household, had surprised everyone, even Blaise, when she had announced, she wanted to be Pirate, so she didn’t have to choose a dress, because they were all pretty. However, that didn’t stop her from choosing a costume that would make her look feminine.



And so no one had any idea on how to react to what she had pulled on them, when she walked out dress in mini off-shoulder, black pirate dress with a halter leopard-designed vest sewed to the corseted top, gothic tights, knee-length shiny leather boots and black pirate hat. It was such Slytheriny choice. It would’ve been sluty had it not been Millicent who wore it. The Girl made the most sluty outfits look classy. And although most pirates don’t wear masks, she insisted on getting one; a black one with a black, silver diamond-like and dark-turquoise beading decorations.



Blaise chose a pair of black pirate-pants, a pair of black leather boots, that came up to his knees. A yellow-creamy pirate blouse, toped by a dark-brown leather vest, a red & brown belt. A red pirate scarf of his head and his eye-patch. He looked really good, but no where near as sexy as his girlfriend. And he told her, if she wore that outfit, she would wear a robe on top, because he didn’t any “bastard” eying at his girl. To which Millicent replied “afraid of a little of competition, are you?” and giving Blaise a perfect reason to go on a sour-mood on them all.



Neville  Black Knight



He chose the costume no one expected to ever see him in or ever imagined him to be in; nice little Neville, dressed as the black knight! Black pants, leather hiking boots, black blouse, and a half black/black grey dressy robe on top with a white lion designed on the chest area, and finally a black robe tied at his neck, bellowing as he walked by. He also wore a pair of black leather gloves and on his black belt hanged a dagger and sword. He looked absolutely dashing in the costume.



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After paying for their costumes, make-up, other beauty products, hair products, and perfumes, they decided to just hang out in the mall, check out all the stores. After all they still had two hours left to five o’clock and although Hermione has said, they can call her dad to pick them up early, they had insisted on staying, each of them wanting check out different stores.

The girls had fallen in love with not only the beauty shop, but surprisingly, surprising not only Hermione but the boys too, with the boutiques, and toy stores for kids.

“Oh my god! Look at this one! I can’t believe they make these for children,” Millicent cooed, adoring the baby-suit in her hands. “And the shoes are sooooooo small and adorable”.

“Didn’t you notice to baby section in the costume shop? They have an entire section just for kids and children” Hermione told her friend, amused by her reaction. “Besides don’t wizards have stores for their kids?”

“We do! But not like this!” she said “hey, wait can we back and you can show me their baby costumes? Please!”

“Dear Merlin, Help Us! She has lost her mind!” Blaise said, sarcastically.

Millicent ignored him, as Hermione led them back to the shop; the store people welcomed them happily. When Hermione asked for the baby section, the lady led them their happily and she couldn’t hold her laughter when she saw Millicent’s awed reaction.

They spend the next hour there, checking out all the baby costumes; baby vampires, baby witches/wizards, baby tigers, animal costumes, gothic costumes and their props. Although they would not admit it, the boys have come to like the baby outfits too.

It was time to go, her dad would be picking them up in five minutes, as the were heading back to the front of the mall, all very tired and spent, they were discussing their plan for their weekend.

“Tomorrow morning, we’ll get up early and finish all of our homework, so we can have Sunday to ourselves” Ginny said.

“Yea, I agree with Ginny. We can even preview for the next chapter for Monday, for another impressing period.” Millicent said, “We will probably be done by noon, if we work at our best.”

They all agreed. They all talked Mr. Granger as they got into his car. When they got home, after greeting Mrs. Granger who told them that Professor Dumbledore had flooed in and had connected their fireplace to their dormitory already, they flooed to the Heads dormitory, left their stuff in each of their personal rooms, got their school stuff and flooed back to the Granger Residence, for supper and their weekend.



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I have put the link to their costumes below. I made these sets on Polyvore account and will use my account in the future for any visuals. PLEASE REVIEW.

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Links to the Costumes: (Sets made by me on my Polyvore account)



Entire Collection, View Each Set for All the Costumes

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