Okay so I'm down to one story, I figured I'd get this chapter up, I'll update as much as possible but with the year ending I may not have Tooooo much time. Don't own HP la la la laaa
"Ginny, I uhm well see there was well you know, I met, well it was sort of-" Hermione babbled. "Just cut to the chase Hermione!" Ginny interrupted from where she was filing her nails on the window seat. "Idontloveronilovetheguyimetattheball!" Hermione slurred into one word. "Heh?" Ginny finally looked up, "English por favor?" She smirked. "Uh alright." She took a deep breath, "I do not love Ron, I love the guy I met at the Halloween ball, kissing Ron was like kissing my cousin, meeting that guy felt like swallowing oxygen for the first time, and Ron loves me and Ginny if you tell him I'll make your mothers anger pale in comparison!" She said sternly as Ginny's dropped jaw in disbelief.
"Are you sure?" Ginny asked uncertainly to Hermione who rolled her eyes. "Yes Ginny I'm sure, but I can't break up with Ron, I just can't! Not after he had liked me for so long and I wouldn't go out with him in fear of ruining our friendship afterwards! Gah! What do I doooo?" She flopped down onto her bed and looked at her best friend upside down.
"Well, first, we have to find your mystery man!" And with that closing statement Ginny skipped out of the room and into the head's common room. "Zabini." She scoffed. "Weasley. Granger." He didn't even move from the pictures his wand was flashing as he furrowed his brow, watching them over and over again.
Hermione followed Ginny; filing her nails, as she skipped up a set of stairs, and closer and closer to a stone gargoyle. "Licorice wand!" Ginny practically sang as she ascended the stairs, Hermione at her heels.
"Knock knock!" Ginny said sweetly, tapping on the door. "Enter." Dumbledore replied. "Hey there professor!" Ginny said enthusiastically sitting down in one of the chairs facing his desk, her legs swung over the arm. Hermione sitting cautiously next to her. "Hello professor." She greeted him politely. "Miss Granger." He regarded her warmly. "So what brings you, eh hm, uninvited to my office Ginny? And even more unusually, with a guest?"
Ginny smiled mischievously. "Well you remember the task you set for me at the beginning of the year right professor?" Dumbledore nodded. "Well…" She got up and whispered in his ear, throwing an occasional glance at Hermione, twiddling her thumbs looking nervously at the two ever so often. Dumbledore nodded his head and told her that would work wonderfully.
Ginny smiled again and led Hermione's confused state out of the office and back to her dorm; still filing away at her nails. "What was that?!?!?" Hermione demanded as they ascended the stairs. "Oh just giving our headmaster tips on how to run our school." Ginny and Hermione laughed and Blaise's head snapped up. "Was that the laugh?" He murmured looking for the source but the girls were already gone.
"Attention students!" Dumbledore called, waving his arms. "Thank you, now I am so happy you all had such wonderful times at the ball, truly heartwarming, truly. But an issue was brought to my attention. Many of you met new people, some claim to have fallen head over heels, but don't know who the person was!" A murmured assent reached Dumbledore who continued: "Well yes, I have found a solution, now all you must do is come see me or Professor McGonagall and tell us what table you were sitting at and what the person's mask color was." His eyes twinkling as always Dumbledore sat back down.
A flood of students rushed toward the head table and somehow Hermione was swept along, before she knew it she was standing in front of Albus Dumbledore. "Yes Miss Granger?" He asked holding a piece of parchment. "Uh well uhm yea, I sat at table 26, the boy I met had a silver mask." Dumbledore nodded and Hermione walked away feeling immensely ridiculous. Why do I have to go all goo goo over a stupid guy I don't even really know?!?? She thought angrily.
Sitting back down, Dumbledore stood up after about twenty minutes, "Alright is that everyone? Good, now my plan is, first I will find each person and send them a message saying that a special person they met at the ball wishes to contact them, I will not use names, you may do that yourselves, if the person gives me consent I will contact you and set up a kind of 'pen pal' system, you may reveal your identities but that is entirely up to you, judging by the amount of names I have I should be finished by noon tomorrow!"
The entire hall resumed eating but Hermione could barely get her soup into her mouth, she was just so excited! She craned her neck for the man she felt she had fallen in love with. There was just one problem…
"Hey Mione." Ron greeted her happily. "Hello!" She easily faked a chipper smile; she could hardly contain her excitement. "So are we still on for Hogsmeade today?" He asked, scooping mounds of food onto his plate.
"Uhm sure! But I told Ginny I'd catch up with her and the girls, do a bit of a shopping, you know! How about I meet with you at two thirty outside Madam Puddifoots?" Ron looked frazzled, he had never seen "his" Hermione so girlie, but there was a lot he didn't know. "Oh sure, sounds great! I'll get some time with Harry, Seamus, and Dean!"
Hermione kissed his cheek as she gathered her books together in her bag and swung them over her shoulder, most likely off to the library. Ron thought shrugging as he continued wolfing down his food as Harry sat down.
"Mm, nothing like a bit of time in the library to calm the nerves." Hermione muttered pulling a book off of the shelf nearest her, venturing to the very back of the library and sitting on one of the comfiest chairs, her head leaned against the slightly open window, blowing her hair in the breeze, her legs curled under her like a cats'. Opening the book Hermione immersed herself within its pages.
"God dammit, this shouldn't be this hard, ugh!" Hermione peeped her head over her book as she heard a guy curse somewhere near her, she recognized his voice. Standing up cautiously she walked to where she thought she had heard the voice, breaking into a brisk walk she still saw no one, finally hitting a run she stopped short as she found Draco Malfoy hitting Blaise Zabini upside the head with a book, who was sitting on the ground against the mystery section, his nose in a Sherlock Holmes book, surrounded by several other mystery novels, after chuckling at Draco's immaturity he continued reading, not noticing Hermione approaching, "Uh hi Blaise…" She greeted him awkwardly.
"Granger…" He nodded his head. Plopping down beside him she tore the book out of his hands as she looked at him. "Alright, we're living in the same dorm for the next year! Could we please just be civil and call each other by our first names? Please?" Smiling genuinely Hermione just looked at him.
He nodded his head, rolling his eyes and said: "Fine, G-Hermione…" Hermione smiled, "So whatcha reading?" Blaise held up the book. "Oh, Sherlock Holmes, muggle literature Blaise?" Blaise smirked. "Yeah, I guess it isnt all bad." Hermione grinned. "So have you always had an interest in mystery?" She asked.
Blaise turned to face her. "Well, we're being civil, but I don't want to tell you!" He grinned childishly. "Ha-ha alright, well I'll see you at the common room later then…" Hermione stood to leave and as she turned after the bookcase Blaise called after her. "Wait Hermione! I need your help…"
Hermione turned to look at him, for an ulterior motive, shrugging she sat down cross legged next to him. "What?" Blaise looked shy for the first time. "Well I need to find this girl I met at the ball…" He trailed off. "I'm figuring out ways to track her down, all very interesting, but not very helpful…" He gestured hopelessly towards the books.
Hermione picked up the nearest book, gently stroking the spine of it. "Well, I have an idea, kind of odd, but if you're willing to try…" Zabini brightened and nodded vigorously. "Alright well first" She swept her wand over the books all flying neatly back onto the correct shelves.
"Follow me!" She said brightly leading him into the restricted section. Blaise looked at her incredulously as Madam Pince didn't even try to stop her. "I'm allowed back here because I help Madam Pince organize the library sometimes..." Blaise just shook his head muttering: "Typical Gryffindor…" Hermione looked at him over her shoulder and kept walking until she abruptly reached a small dusty section.
Whipping a book off the shelf, Hermione grinned as her eyes scanned the first page. "Here." She said roughly handing him the enormous book. "WHAT IS THIS?!?!?" He demanded, dropping the book on the floor. "Blaise!" She shrieked. "Pick that up! Books don't belong on the floor!" Shaking her head she picked it up with one arm and slung it into his arms.
"Now I'll carry this one." She said sweetly as she pulled a smaller book off the shelf. Pushing the gates to the restricted section back open she led him to where she had been reading just a short while ago.
Blaise looked hesitant as she lounged back in the chair, cracking open the book. "This one is about figuring out a person's identity, your book is about ways to track them down. We should probably read my book first then try to get through your book, okay?" Hermione looked so chipper Blaise nearly wanted to throw the books up in the air and forget about it.
Looking over her shoulder, Blaise saw diagrams and strange words he had never seen. Hermione felt Blaise looking over her shoulder and felt increasingly weird, so leaning back and pushing him slightly she waved her wand over the text, making it appear in front of their eyes out of the book.
Suddenly he started to understand as she snapped the book shut. "Its noon! Oh man Gin's gonna kill me! Uhm same time same place tomorrow?" Blaise mutely nodded his head as Hermione ran out of the library.
"Well if this mystery chick thing doesn't work out, you and Granger make such the adorable couple." Draco mimed gagging. Blaise eyed him wearily as his best friend stepped out of the shadows. "Spying on your best mate? What happened couldn't find anything better to do?" Draco smirked. "As a matter of fact I did find Pansy… which is why is came running back to the library, only to find you and the Mudblood leaning over a book together."
Blaise shoved him roughly as he stood up, tossing the books into his bag. "Shove off Draco; Her-Granger is just helping me out, since you wouldnt." Without another word Blaise shoved past Malfoy and back to the common room for the rest of the day as Draco called: "Well sorry! For having a life!"
"Ginny I'm so sorry, I was helpin' Blaise with this thing in the library and I guess we lost track of time!" Hermione jumbled her words together as they were checked out by Filch to go to Hogsmeade that Saturday afternoon.
Ginny smiled as she nodded understandingly and met up with Luna, Lavender, and Parvati. "So what to do ladies?" Hermione asked as they linked arms and walked down the street. "Ooh, how about Honeydukes?" Luna recommended, gesturing to the bright shop.
The girls nodded as they headed inside. "Mm, yum! These chocolate snitches are so good!" Hermione passed one to Lavender who nibbled on it as they walked from the store to the Three Broomsticks. Ordering butterbeers all around Lavender asked Hermione: "So why were you late?" Hermione pressed her fingers against each other as she nodded nonchalantly, "Oh I was just helping Blaise with some research is all." Taking a swig of her butterbeer. "Blaise? Like Zabini? No way!" She squealed. "He is like the second hottest guy in the school!" Hermione smiled as she just shook her head. "It was just research; I'm still perfectly happy with Ronald…" She looked dreamily into space as she thought about the guy she had met at the ball. And Luna laughed; "Oh she is head over heels!" the girls laughed as Hermione stood up to go meet Ron outside Madam Puddifoots.
"Hey Mione!" Ron greeted her happily taking her hand as they stepped inside the pink café. Sitting down at a table near the window they engaged in normal conversation, they hands still linked around the sugar bowl. Hermione wasn't paying much attention but she knew Ron was as he looked admiringly at her at some points. "What can I getcha dears?" Madam Puddifoot asked grinning. "Uhm I'll just have a regular coffee, same for you Ron?" Ron nodded as Puddifoot walked away. "So I'm having a lot of fun Hermione." Ron said rubbing her hand gently. "Me too Ron, me too…" They spent the rest of the day looking at the shops and talking occasionally.
Finally they ended up in front of her common room as Ron kissed her goodnight. Hermione touched the spot on her cheek and tried to feel happy or jittery, but she only felt tired. "Good night Blaise!" She said waving as he went to his room, and she did the same to her own.