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Chapter 6

The next morning passed without incident, and a quiet lunch at noon. Then, at three in the afternoon, Draco brought up the fact that Hermione had agreed to dinner in Britain with Harry and himself.

"Oh, yes! I almost forgot about that." And in the excitement of last night, she nearly had. But at the mention of a dinner, she frowned.

"What's the problem?" Draco asked, noticing her frown.

"I don't know what to wear."

Draco laughed. "Just get your friend to help you. In that aspect, she's a lot like Weaselette."

"Her name is Ginny! Can she come to the dinner as well?"

"Sure. She and Potter are dating, by the way. And Weaselbee is dating Lavender Brown."

Hermione's eyes darkened a little at this, but she lightened up at the prospect of seeing friends whom she had missed for almost a year.

"I'm going to call Meghana now. You should probably get ready, too. It's almost 6 o'clock in Britain." Hermione strode into her bedroom and picked up her cell phone. Or mobe-isle, like everyone else here called it. She scrolled down the contacts list until she found Meghana. Then she hit the call button.

Ring, ring. Ring, ring. Ring, Ri- "Hello?" Meghana's voice sounded tinny in the phone. "'Mione?"

"Hey, Meghana. And yes, it's Hermione. I need your help."

"What's up?"

"I'm going to dinner to meet some of my friends in Britain and I don't know what to wear!"

"Oh, is this the dinner Malfoy was talking about?"

"Yes, the very same."

"All right, I'll be over in a couple of minutes. I'll bring my kits, too. Prepare to be beautified!" And with that, Meghana hung up.

Hermione plopped down on the memory foam mattress to wait for the bell. In about a minute, she heard the CRACK! of someone apparating into the apartment.

She rushed into the sitting room, where Meghana was standing, with a mini pocketbook in her hand.

"This," she said gesturing to the pocketbook. "Is your 'kits'?"

"No…." Meghana paused as she opened the pocketbook and pulled out case after case of makeup, mascaras, and mirror sets. "These are my kits."

Hermione looked at Meghana and said, without any hint of amazement, "Undetectable Expansion Charm?"

"Yep." Meghana said, in the same tone.

They both giggled a little.

"Let's get started!" Meghana said enthusiastically. She pulled out another salwar, this time in a lilac purple, out of the pocketbook. "You'll be borrowing mine this time. Make sure to make that clear to your friends. Go put it on, and I'll start laying out the vanity."

While Hermione was changing, Meghana transformed the sitting room into a pretty powder room, complete with a mirror vanity and all makeup imaginable to mankind surrounding it.

Hermione walked back in, and gasped. "How the…"

Meghana grinned and put a finger to her lips. "Shhh. It's a secret. Now, let's see… Purple eye shadow, I think, and gold eyeliner. Red lipstick… mascara… pink blush… That should do the trick."

She started to apply the eye makeup first, with a strict instruction of, "Don't move." Then she brushed on some blush and put the lipstick on, too, being careful not to overdo it. For the final touch, she added some sparkly stuff she had found in the bottom of the case to her entire face, so that when she turned her head, her face sparkled.

"There! Now, for the hair."

"Wait, I want to decide what to do with my hair." Hermione interjected, after being unusually quiet this whole time. "Do you have any Sleekeazy's?"

"No, but I do have enriched coconut oil. And sandalwood powder. It will make you smell nice."

"All right, lets do that first."

Meghana dug into her pocketbook, and pulled out a green bottle that had the word Vatika on it. Then she pulled out a flip top container of Pond's sandalwood talc.

She opened the green bottle first, and squeezed some out onto her palm. Then she rubbed both palms together and started to massage it into Hermione's hair. She did that until her hair was tame enough to do anything with.

"Okay, now your hair is all smooth. What style would you like? Ringlet curls?" She held up a picture of a girl with small curls surrounding her face. "Clipped back? Jasmine?" She pointed to her own hair, which was clipped back with a bow and held up a string of jasmine.

"Umm.. Keep the jasmine, and you can twist it around the bun which I'm going to do."

"All right." Meghana stepped back as Hermione turned towards the mirror and pulled her hair up and began to twist and braid it in various places, occasionally reaching for the comb, until she finished with an elegant bun.

"Okay, now pin in the jasmine."

Meghana picked up the sweet smelling strand of flowers and a handful of bobby pins. She held one between her teeth and began to twist it around the bun, and poking the pins in when she needed them to hold a place.

Finally, her look was complete, with the gold eyeliner bringing out the embroidery in the dress, and the ends of the strand of jasmine hanging out of her bun. To complete the look of perfection, Meghana scooped up a gold necklace from the side table and hooked it around her bare neck.

"There, now you look like a desi girl."
Hermione smiled and thanked Meghana for all the help.

"Oh, it was nothing. Wait." She cast a water-repelling charm around her eyes. "Can't have you messing up your makeup with tears. Gotta look good for your dinner date with Dra- I mean, your friends!"

"What did you say?" asked Hermione suspiciously, narrowing her eyes.

"Me? I didn't say anything… Oh, would you look at the time! Gotta go! Hasta luego, amiga!" Meghana hastily waved her wand and packed all her things in a second, then disappeared with a crack like a bullet.

"Hmmm…" Hermione mused. "Now, all there's left to do is wait!"

DM/HG

Harry Potter, the great and famous Harry Potter, was sitting in front of the TV waiting for his live-in girlfriend to come down the stairs.

"Ginnyyyyyy, would you please hurry up? Malfoy wanted us to be there in 15 minutes!"

"Harry, can't you see that I'm trying? You can't rush perfection!"

"And you can't miss reservations either!"
"We're eating at a buffet!"

"That happens to be highly popular!"

"Whatever, Harry! Just give me 5 minutes more!"

"All right, but I'm coming in to see where you are!"

"Fine!"

Harry walked into the bedroom, and saw that Ginny looked like she was ready, and was only digging through her enormous closet of clothes for a pair of shoes that would match her dress.

She was wearing light makeup and a tight blue dress that hugged all the right places. The dress stopped right before her knees and had a silver belt buckle with a black belt around her waist.

"Should I wear tights?" Ginny asked.

"No you shouldn't." Harry said, looking with adoration at his girlfriend.

"I'll go get them now, then." Ginny teased, eyes sparkling. "Oh, I'm just teasing. Could you change the color of these shoes to this exact silver? I've been trying for a while now."

"Sure, Gin." Harry flicked his wand at the shoes and they immediately turned the shade of silver that the belt buckle was.

"Thanks, Harry."

"No problem, can we leave now? I don't want to apparate there it's in a street filled with muggles."

"Okay, then can't we Floo?"

"No, no connection anywhere near."

"All right, let's get walking then." Ginny didn't look very happy at the prospect of letting her perfectly done self face the outside world.

"Oh, come on, it won't be that bad."

"But, I worked for an hour on this!" she said, gesturing to herself.

"Here, come here for a moment." Harry paused and let Ginny walk over to him. He leaned in close and gently pressed his lips to hers. After about a minute, they broke apart, Ginny's face considerably happier. "And I'll cast the Impervius Charm as well! You'll be fine."

"All right, let's go." Ginny picked up her blue alligator skin clutch and walked out of the bedroom.

Harry followed suit and smiled internally at their kiss, and her readiness to see her best friend again. He was excited too; he had not seen Hermione in a very long time. And Malfoy was worth seeing too.

What a coincidence, Harry thought. That in the whole, huge country of India, Malfoy would manage to get in the same town, same building, and same flat as Hermione!

A/N: Hope that this was long and good enough for you guys, felt the need to include some Harry/Ginny action in there… Reviews really do help guys, a disappointing reaction to my previous chapter, but that's okay. REVIEW PLEASE!

P.S. I've decided to make updating every other day, under normal circumstances. The end product is better with two days worth of work instead of one.