Set That Ball Rolling

When Harry throws himself into Tom Riddle's arms exclaiming, "Of course I'll go to the Valentine's ball with you!" it's not a pre-planned decision. It's also not how he'd wanted his Valentine's Day to go (or it was, but only in his innermost fantasies), but it was better than the alternative: a love-struck Romilda Vane. In hindsight, however, maybe that was a miscalculation.