741
They're not for Ginny.
742
They're for you.
743
- Dress robes.
- Dress robes? For what?
744
The Yule Ball...
745
...has been a tradition
of the Triwizard Tournament...
746
...since its inception1.
747
On Christmas Eve night,
we and our guests...
748
...gather in the Great Hall...
749
...for a night of well-mannered frivolity2.
750
As representatives of the host school...
751
...I expect each and every one of you
to put your best foot forward.
752
And I mean this literally3, because...
753
...the Yule Ball is, first and foremost...
754
...a dance.
755
Silence!
756
The house of Godric Gryffindor
has commanded the respect...
757
...of the wizard world
for nearly 10 centuries.
758
I will not have you, in the course of
a single evening, besmirching4 that name...
759
...by behaving like a babbling,
bumbling band of baboons5.
760
Try saying that five times fast, huh?