As a new event the Headmaster, and also Lockhart, had decided to hold a one-time Valentine's dance in the school. It was only with the students of Hogwarts and each house was going to get some sort of special treatment that would fit each of the house's standards. First, the special treatment will happen in the house's common rooms and then a little while after dinner the dance will begin. Thankfully you don't have to participate in the event as you are a teacher at the school. You only had to supervise the dance. Unfortunately for you, you had never packed any kind of formal clothing, so you had to head out to London on the weekend before and go buy something fitting. The Headmaster lets you use his flow powder to travel to the city. 

Since you only needed some nice clothes you didn't even bother going into a magic store as it was just clothing you needed on this trip. Soon enough after walking through the streets of the busy city, you saw a building that had some very nice dresses and suits in the windows so you walked in hoping to find something fitting for the event. As I moved through the isles I saw a bunch of red and pink dresses that would fit the dance. I couldn't pick something too sexy as it is an event meant for students so I went with one that was formal enough and still screamed Valentine's day. 

After I grabbed the dress I found some pink flats that would fit well with the dress. Soon I paid for my things and decided to go to a cafe in Digon Alley to get a nice latte before heading back to the ministry to flow powder back to Hogwarts. 

It was the night of the dance and I had just finished my last class early. I put away my papers and cleaned the classroom before heading back to my quarters and started to get ready. I quickly had a shower before dinner and put my hair up in a braid so then my hair would be wavy for the dance. After that, I headed back down to the great hall and quietly ate dinner as the students chatted and seemed genuinely happy about what the night might bring them. I was happy too because all the other teachers had chilled out a bit and were having nice conversations with each other. Truly though I only felt that way toward Severus. He seemed a lot more at ease and wasn't staring at the students in a grumpy and bitter state. I did have a bit of an attraction to him as he is the perfect example of dark and mysterious, so you can't blame me. I also kind of hoped that he would notice during the dance so my dress will hopefully make that happen tonight. 

After Dumbledore made his announcement and let everyone leave to get ready for the dance I went back to my quarters and got ready. I threw on my dress and started doing my makeup. I went with just a nice slight pink eyebrow and blush along with a light red lip gloss. As soon as I was done with that I took my hair out of the braid and curled the last bit of it with my hair curler. I decided to pull out a small amount of my hair from behind the hair that I could make into bangs and tied it back leaving those pieces of hair hanging beside my face. I looked a bit like a young teenager trying to be cute, but it did compliant my cheekbones and jawline making it look a bit sexier. I felt content with my looks and started making my way to the great hall that was now decorated with pink and red decor. 

I walked through the doors looking around at the place and admiring it. All the teachers were already there and about a quarter of the students were as well. I walked up to the group of chatting professors and greeted them kindly. Within like 30 seconds they all complimented me on my dress and I thanked them greatly. I knew they would as it was their job, yet some of them seemed shocked by my looks for tonight. It was a little informal, but still, I was one of the youngest professors here so it did make sense that I wanted something more fitting for the era we were in. I stayed around them listening and joining in their conversation at times until Lockhart started talking in the centre of the hall surrounded by students. Surprisingly enough the speech Lockhart had planned wasn't too bad and I wasn't annoyed by him at the moment. That was until he started walking over with his eyes locked on me. I quickly started to walk around some of the students to lose him, but after a minute he caught up to me and started talking his normal crap.

"May I say, Miss, you do look very nice tonight." He smiled while placing his hands into his pockets.

"Thank you, Lockhart." I tried to look like I was preoccupied, but it didn't seem to work. Thankfully the only thing that he went on about was how happy he was with the decorations and the vibe of the event he planned. I tried not to pay any attention to what he was saying and nodded now and then until I spotted Severus who had just walked into the hall. I smiled lightly and said my goodbye to Lockhart before I started walking over to him. He did seem like he wasn't happy to be there, but I knew talking to someone might make him feel better. I made my way through the students and finally saw a clear path towards him right before Dumbledore placed a hand on my shoulder and started talking to me and ended up walking me over to the food and drink tables. I sighed to myself glancing back at him when Albus wasn't looking. 

I did enjoy talking to the Headmaster though so it wasn't as tedious as talking to Lockhart, I did seem to lose track of time and found out that the teachers had planned for us all to go to the shrunken heads to get some drinks afterwards. I thanked him for the invite and glanced around to see if I could find Severus. I did find him pretty easily as many people weren't wearing much black. I noticed right away that he was already looking at me before I saw him. He seemed like he was very locked onto me so I smiled at him and waved lightly breaking him out of the trance he seemed to be in while watching me. I finished my conversation with Dumbledore and headed over to him not letting anyone stop me this time. I ended up making it over to him and started to have a nice conversation with him that wasn't about being angry at students or work. During the time we were talking to seemed a bit distracted or rather that he was trying to not look at me too much. I smirked slightly when I noticed this and decided to ask him for the next slow dance. He blushed a bit in the weird way that he does and soon he placed his hand in mine and slowly walked us over to the dance floor.