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Hermione looked down at the floor, eyes unraveling the burgundy threads if the carpet, feeling as though her brain was weighing down in her head, a dead weight that still managed to make the world go hazy and fill her mind with the noise of a thousand heavy metal concerts, though the room was silent.

She felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Lavender with a worried expression in her eyes. "Hermione, forget about him, he's just a stupid ferret." Lavendar reassured softly, giving Hermione a slight smile. He really was stupid, and now that she thought about it, she was being stupid too. She had every reason in the world to be happy. She had two amazing parents who cared for her more than any material possession, lived in a wonderful home, had the opportunity to receive some of the most amazing schooling on the face of the planet, and the greatest, most wonderful friends she could ask for. She was the smartest witch of her year, and she was Head Girl, the highest honor a student could have. Her life really was marvelous, so why on Earth was she crying over the fact that some idiot guy had called her ugly and other stupid things? 'Oh right, because he was her friend- or at least supposed to be.'

"Hermione are you ok?" asked a very worried Ginny.

"No." Hermione pouted, looking up at Ginny as if the library had been blown the smithereens. "I mean my toe nails don't have any nail polish on them. How on Earth do you expect me to be ok?" Hermione looked around and laughed at the looks of sheer confusion on everyone's face. Slowly, Ginny began to smile, and it spread as if it were contagious. Hermione watched the smile grow until every girl in the room was grinning so broadly one might think it was raining Orlando Blooms. Then the real sleepover began.

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Everyone was laughing, some laughing so hard they fell off their pillows and onto the carpeted floor. A few of the girls had gotten all of Hermione's bed things from her bedroom and brought them down and passed them around for everyone to sit on, which was much more comfortable than the floor. Every pillow Hermione owned, as well as all of her blankets, sheets, and quilts, was lying on the floor. Hermione noticed that the different girls had tended to pick their house colors, and that quite a few of the girls from other houses (except Slytherin of course) had shown up.

After an hilarious hour of playing truth or dare (which had resulted in Ginny having to sneak up to the seventh year boys dorm and stealing a pair of each of the boys boxers, Lavender running to the Slytherin Dorms and back in her underwear, Padma and Hannah working together to find Theodore Nott's owl in the Owlery and tying it up to the handles of the doors of the Great Hall, Parvati pole dancing, Susan painting a moustache on five sleeping portraits with Permanent Magic Proof Non Removable Ink, Lisa and Mandy letting off a dozen dung bombs in Snape's classroom, and Hermione skinny dipping in the Great Lake), and doing everyone's makeovers and two very scary movies that had been magically projected on the wall causing all the girls to scream like they were the ones getting their heads chopped off, the room became silent again

"It's about time they fell asleep" said a yawning Harry, who was now stashing ways his invisibility cloak.

"I know, and that last movie was bloody scary, do you know how hard it was not to scream at times?" Ron whispered.

"Yeah I know, I have the finger marks on my arm from where you where squeezing it. Thanks for that by the way." Harry whispered as they made their way across the Head's Common room.

"Though it was definitely worth it mate." Ron said. "Merlin, I never would have guessed Parvati could pole dance that well." He whistled softly.

"Ron!" Harry scolded quietly. Ron simply shrugged his shoulders.

"How much do you think Hermione will hate us for making her room a complete disaster?" asked Ron.

"Probably a lot."

"Wicked." Ron said causing Harry to have to stifle a laugh so not to wake the girls.

"You know some of these girls are rather ugly sleepers." Ron observed as they passed Mandy Brocklehurst, who was snoring rather loudly.

"Shut up." Harry told him as they reached the stairs that led up to Hermione's dorm. They slowly made their way up the stairs, as silently as possible when Ron stepped on a creaky stair.

"Wuzzgonon?" Lisa asked groggily before falling down into her soft pillow and going promptly back asleep seeing as no one was awake.

"Be careful!" Harry whispered

"Sorry"

They soon reached the top of the stairs and slowly opened the door.

"Oh this is going to be fun." They said, looking at one another with large grins on their faces and rather mischievous glints in their eyes.