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When they return from hols, they arrive to the news that Hogwarts is restarting the tradition of the Yule Ball- after a fashion. It's open to everyone (they claim for inclusiveness, but a headcount of the older students suggests a more practical reason) and the professors seem to be treating it as a sort of Hogwarts wide bonding event. At least, they keep stressing how it's about "school unity" and suggesting that students branch outside their normal friend groups. Even the Heads of Houses are reluctantly suggesting their students should interact more with the other Houses. Alli ignores the whole spiel for the important things: there's a party! Dates and dancing and food and merriment! She is so in.
The next time she meets up with her friends, she's grinning maniacally. "Sooo? We're going, right? Oh man, I need to find a date, don't I? And an outfit! Merlin's apples this is going to be great."
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witch_please
metamorphmaga
"Waaaaaaait, date! You got a date!" Jenny exclaims. "What? Come on, tell us!"
witch_please
"I stopped him right before Quidditch practice! I hinted about the Yule Ball and he totally missed it. So then I laughed at him in my head and just asked him and he said yes and I have a hot date!"
chanuphis
"I got an unsigned owl asking me to the ball," Miranda says. "But I sent back a polite refusal. Even if I were going to take a date I wouldn't want to take one who I didn't know who they were."
parental_guidance
"I'm actually surprised it's only one," Emma mentions. "I mean, you're famous."
chanuphis
"...Two other people also asked me the usual way but it didn't seem as remarkable."
chanuphis
"It wouldn't matter, I'm not going to dance and I'm not going to bring a date. It'd just maybe affect how I phrased that if someone interesting asked."
slythervivian
Vivian is disinclined to be too obvious. She can check in with Karen later.
witch_please
"Is there someone interesting?" Alli asks curiously. "Are we, hah, going to to wind up fighting over Quidditch players? Cause you're wicked famous and I need warning, if we're doing that."
chanuphis
"I do not anticipate overlap in our interests. Nobody's particularly caught my eye. Maybe I'm a late bloomer."
parental_guidance
"Me neither," Emma chimes in, "and, uh, we're only third years? I think that makes us kinda normal bloomers."
slythervivian
Gossiping about boys is not Vivian's thing, and everyone knows it, so she's perfectly comfortable sitting out of the rest of Alli and Jenny's chattering about cute boys. But once the meal is over, she follows Karen until she can catch her separately.
"Hey. You all right?"
"Hey. You all right?"
slythervivian
"She-" Vivian almost says "is kind of going with you, isn't she, just as friends?" but that seems way too much like salt in the wound and she stops herself. "-wouldn't do that to you," she settles on instead. "She's not that mean. She's not like Alli with her weird need for a cute date."
planetarium
"I don't mean for her to just be alone forever, or anything," Karen murmurs.
slythervivian
"I didn't think you did," Vivian hastens to assure her. "She's just a good friend." She pats Karen's shoulder. "As long as you don't pine forever, or anything."
She tries to make it sound like a gentle joke. But she's a tiny bit (a lot) invested in the answer, so she hopes she actually managed.
She tries to make it sound like a gentle joke. But she's a tiny bit (a lot) invested in the answer, so she hopes she actually managed.
planetarium
"I, well, forever's a long time." Snort. "She probably doesn't want me alone forever either."
slythervivian
"Like I said. Good friend." Then, feeling like the 'friend' thing is maybe rubbing it in more, she changes tack. Karen looks so sad. Vivian misses her smile. "Is there anything I can do? A hug or something?"