"'I went to Hogsmeade and all I got was this lousy quill pen!'" I read aloud, fingering the cheap quill from the little village's gift shop. Well, it was cheaply manufactured, but the price was a bit expensive. I laughed, though, at how the magic world was attempting to imitate the muggle world with things like this.
"Nice quill pen, isn't it?" Draco smiled at me, taking it from my hands. "You want it?"
I shook my head. "I have plenty already."
"But this one is special," Draco urged me. "Come on, I'll get it for you." He dragged me over to the check-out counter and bought it for me, and we laughed the whole while. I reached to take the plastic bag from his hand, but he held up his other to stop me.
"Kiss me first," he commanded me, and I obliged.
I used that quill pen for the next two weeks on all my assignments, until it broke when I pressed on the parchment too hard, one day. I told myself that I would have to buy Draco something in retaliation, but the next trip to Hogsmeade wasn't for another week. So I waited.
On the next trip, I visited the bookstore first. But the whole time I was looking through all of the books, I was thinking of Hogsmeade's gift shop and the quill pen and Draco. It wasn't until I left the store that I realized I didn't even know which books I had bought. And I didn't even care, shockingly enough!
I made a beeline for the gift shop, nearly running straight into Draco in the process. He grinned at me and slid an arm around my waist. "What's the rush, darling?" he questioned me, a feigned quizzical expression on his face.
"I think that I have to get you a present from the gift shop," I informed him, taking his hand and nearly running through the door of the shop. We spent a good hour looking at everything and trying on silly hats and t-shirts. In the end, I bought him a necktie that read "I went to Hogsmeade and all I got was this lousy tie!" We both laughed more than we ever had in a whole week, much less a day.
Draco wore the tie to school with his uniform on Monday. Snape looked like he wanted to hit him, but, being Snape, he didn't give Draco a detention for violation of the dress code. He just gritted his teeth and looked really annoyed.
For the rest of the days we went to Hogsmeade that year, Draco and I took turns buying each other random gift shop merchandise that all said a variation of the phrase somewhere on them. On Christmas I was decked out in a "lousy" Hogsmeade t-shirt, a hat, socks, anklet, necklace, and earrings. Draco was dressed similarly, and everyone else commented on how silly we both looked. But we matched, and I liked that. It was fun.
At the end of the school year, on the last day of our seventh year at Hogwarts, Draco took me to the library for one last look at the place. And it was there that he knelt down in front of me, right next to the books on Transfiguration, and opened a box that read "I went to Hogsmeade and all I got was this lousy ring box". Except that he had crossed out "lousy" and written "highly romantic".
I was laughing as I said yes, and he laughed as he shouted to the library, "I'm getting married to the best girl in the whole wide world!" And we both were laughing as he picked me up bridal-style and carried me onto the scarlet train as we left Hogwarts forever.
I went to Hogsmeade, and all I got was Draco... all I got was everything.