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Chapter One

A Change of Plans

By

Jessie Dream

Hermione Weasley could honestly say that tonight was going to be a good night. After nineteen years, the wizarding world had finally captured all the remaining Death Eaters and to commemorate the joyous occasion, the Ministry of Magic was throwing a ball. Hermione was checking herself over in the mirror smiling, at her new high-neck, charcoal grey, nude and sleeveless, lace dress paired with a pair of diamond chandelier earrings. To make sure they were noticed she put her hair up in a tight side bun.

She was just applying her pink lip gloss when a disheveled Ronald came rushing in the room. She was just about to ask what the problem was when he bent over the toilet and emptied his lunch into the porcelain bowl. Concerned, and a little grossed out, she waited until he was done. She had been afraid that this would happen after a conversation she'd with Harry earlier when he'd said that Ginny was feeling ill.

Early that day, the four of them were supposed to meet for lunch. Hermione had been giving a stack of paperwork to fill out at the last minute, so she ended up working right through lunch. Harry was having a hard time getting a confession out of a murder suspect so he ended up working right through lunch as well.

It was a pretty good guess that they had contracted food poisoning which meant Ron wouldn't be going anywhere for the next twenty-four hours and neither was Hermione. She just couldn't leave him when he wasn't feeling well.

After flushing the foulness, Ron looked at his wife with tired eyes. "I'm sorry 'Mione. I had hoped that I wouldn't catch it." He said.

Smiling down at her husband Hermione reached up to take off her earrings only for his large hand to stop her.

"Absolutely not. I know what you're thinking and I'll be just fine by myself. It's important that you be there tonight, sweetheart. Besides you're all dressed up and it would be a shame to see such a pretty dress go to waste," he chuckled.

Nodding her head, she grabbed her purse and headed towards the living room just as green flames came to life. Out stepped Harry Potter from the fireplace wearing his fancy black dress robes.

After his eyes landed on Hermione he was positively blown away as she looked unquestionably stunning even after nineteen years, according to some of the guys he worked with Harry would have been an idiot to not have had a least harbored some sort of crush on his long time friend. To be honest Harry did, Harry realized his feeling for his long time friend in their six year when Dumbledore thought they had been dating he denied of course but a part of him wonder what could have been, but in the end he thought better of it why? because of Ron.

Harry had always been aware of Ronald's feeling for Hermione ever since fourth year when the Yule Ball had taken place and Ron had become extremely jealous of Viktor Krum. Krum had asked Hermione when Ron didn't have the bravery to ask her himself. Harry could still remember Ron's word choice that nearly got him hexed into the next week.

"If you ask me, he has a little more than friendship on his mind."

The look Hermione had given Ron would have made Voldemort quake and quiver with fear.

"You look very handsome, Harry." Hermione said bringing him from his thoughts.

He grinned at her compliment and thought of rubbing it in to Ron when he realized that he wasn't there.

Already knowing what Harry was going to ask, she explained that Ron also had food poising.

Worried about his friend, Harry thought of going to check on him when he noticed the time on the wall. It was nearly nine o'clock, meaning there was no time to check on anyone.

"Oh, wow! Is that the time? We'd better get going," he informed as he held out his arm for her to take. She took it with a kind smile as they walked together into the green flames, their destination being the Ministry of Magic.

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