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"You want to do what?" Zabini exclaimed with indignation.

"I want to plan the first dance for Halloween." Hermione replied affronted, it was a perfectly good idea!

"Granger, you do realize that Halloween is three weeks away?" Hermione rolled her eyes and nodded. Of course she knew!

"You really have gone daft then!" Zabini exclaimed. Hermione ignored him and pulled out a piece of parchment drawing up a calendar.

"Zabini, there is such thing as prefects and magic. Three weeks is plenty of time." Zabini stared at her like she was that three headed dog fluffy.

"How do you think we can book a group with only three weeks notice? What about publicity? We still haven't confirmed with McGonagall!" Hermione rolled her eyes again. Did Zabini believe that she wouldn't have thought of all of this before. Merlin, just because she had been researching most of the time the past two week didn't mean she had neglected her head duties.

"First I already have a list of student DJs and bands that we will audition along with the prefects, who will vote. I've already had the date and the dance approved by McGonagall, and once we have a theme of some sort we can create invitations and mail them out to students." Zabini gaped at her for a minute but quickly recovered.

"Bloody hell, Granger, do you have no life?" Hermione looked away- without Harry and Ron who occupied most of her time; she really didn't have much of a life. Maybe if Ginny had been in her year things would have been different, but then again, with the DA starting back up again maybe she would have more to do than school work, head duties and research. Still it was a bit of a sore spot.

"Zabini, what ideas do you have for the bloody dance." Zabini lifted an eyebrow but said nothing more.

"Well if it's a Halloween dance maybe a sort of costume party?" Hermione nodded eagerly.

"Yes and maybe we could require everyone to keep their identities secret until a certain time, that way it would promote interhouse unity." Zabini snorted.

"Granger, how would we know who our dates were if we had masks charmed to hide the wearer's identity?" Hermione's expression fell.

"Well, I still think it would be fun to make it a masquerade."

"Do you want to create a theme for the costumes?" Hermione nodded.

"That would be good, and more uniform." They both sat silently for a while.

"We could choose a time period. That way it would be broad enough for there to be a variety of costumes, but specific enough for uniformity." Hermione nodded enthusiastically.

"The time periods that I think are our choices are Ancient Civilization, Roman Empire, Medieval period, and Renaissance." Zabini leaned back on the couch thoughtfully.

"Renaissance doesn't have that much variety. So it should be one of the other three." He said. Hermione crossed Renaissance off the list.

"I think Medieval may be a bit cliché and we don't want the dance to be that formal." She said crossing off medieval as well, "So we have Roman Empire, and Ancient Civilization."

"I think we should do Roman Empire. People know more about that time period." Zabini said.

"Plus decorations will be simple." Hermione added smiling, "Now all that's left are the invitations." Zabini nodded and took out a piece of parchment. He transfigured it into a scroll that had elegant Romanesque columns bordering the edges. It read:

You are cordially invited to Hogwarts' first Halloween Masquerade Dance.

This year's theme will be the Era of the Roman Empire, and all costumes must relate to this theme. The costumes, however, are not required to be formal.

The event will take place in the Great Hall Halloween night. It will begin at eight and end at eleven.

We hope to see you there.

"Is that sufficient Granger?" Hermione thought for a moment and flicked her wand adding students under fourth year would be required to return to their dorms by nine thirty, and then nodded.

"Perfect." Zabini picked up the parchment and tucked it into his pocket.

"I'll replicate them and send them tonight so the students will get them with their breakfast." Hermione rolled her eyes once more. Did Zabini really think the school had that many owls?

"Zabini, if you replicate them, I know a charm that will place them by each students plate in the morning." Zabini shrugged and replicated the invitations that were now neatly stacked to an impressive height on the coffee table, before walking to his room without a word. Hermione sat on the couch and began her homework, all the while thinking of who she would be. She would have to buy a costume in Hogsmeade next weekend… darn! She had to write to Gladrags so that there would be costumes to buy! She quickly wrote the letter and ran to the owlery sending it off with a small brown owl. When she returned her dormitory, she was unpleasantly surprised to find Malfoy back in her common room with Zabini.

"Out snogging Longbottom Granger?" Malfoy drawled not looking up from the book he was reading. Why was he always there? Didn't he have other friends?

"Why the sudden interest in my love life Malfoy?" Hermione snapped back, grabbing her stuff and sitting in the red chair and began writing her essay for transfiguration. Malfoy shrugged.

"Well your boyfriends Potty and Weasel aren't here, and I have to know who's the next poor bloke to take interest in such a prude." She angrily slammed her book shut and headed to her room.

She needed to get rid of Malfoy. Zabini wasn't so bad on his own, but it seemed that every time Malfoy was around he got worse. Plus Malfoy wasn't exactly a bundle of daisies himself. It was like they were trying to get rid of her…. That made sense! They wanted her to resign her position as head girl! She'd be damned before she gave up the position she worked so hard for. A plan started to formulate in her head. They would regret the day they tried to make her resign!

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