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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."
witch_please
witch_please
"Okay but none of us are Gryffindors! I'm branching out!" She grins. "What about their Beater?"
metamorphmaga
Jenny giggles. "That's the older one, silly! He's a sixth year and toootally snogging the blonde girl in chess club. The other Beater's- I think a fourth year? And totally cute, see?" She swaps her face out.
slythervivian
Vivian sighs jealously. "I know it's odd, but it must be nice to be able to just... change," she says. "It's so much harder if I want to change something."
metamorphmaga
"Sorry, sorry!" Jenny laughs apologetically as her face turns back. "I'm back," she says, nudging Alli, who still has her eyes covered. "Change something like what, Viv?"
slythervivian
Vivian shrugs shyly. "I've been thinking about dyeing my hair." She pulls at a strand of it. "It's so... bland," she says, sounding displeased.
planetarium
"Well, you could mix up a dye with student ingredients, if you got a recipe," Karen points out. "...You couldn't necessarily use any possible dye if you have to go among Muggles like that but you could do blue or something."
slythervivian
Vivian abruptly looks very interested. "What kinds of recipes are there?" she asks. "I just thought, colors, but- Muggle dye lasts for months, are potions faster? I could try so many things!"
planetarium
"The only potions for hair I actually know about are the ones that straighten mine out enough to drag a comb through, but there's lots of colors and I think you can make them not last for months if you want to make lots of potions?"
parental_guidance
"My mum's given me a couple books on hair potions and stuff like that. She, um, has weird ideas about presents sometimes. I'll bring them to dinner too."
metamorphmaga
"I would!" Jenny chirps. "If I can find someone, I mean, but it's just a dance, it'll be fun."
parental_guidance
Emma likes her classmates just fine, but there's no one she'd call Particularly Special and just the idea of asking someone herself makes her insides clench up in terror. "If someone asked me, maybe," she says doubtfully.
witch_please
Alli shrugs. "Good enough. 'sides, I'll probably mostly be hanging out with you lot anyway." She scoots next to Miranda and Karen and makes innocent eyes at them. "So! Any cute Ravenclaws I should meet?"