I only told Ginny about the kiss. About how when he kissed me I hadn't even thought about how it was Draco Malfoy, the boy who I had hated for so many years, he was Draco, the boy with the blond hair and blue eyes which made me feel totally exposed. About how his hands left red-hot tingling patches on my back and about how I was unable to find the words to say exactly how I had felt. Lying on the grass, pressed close against his body.

She didn't interrupt when I told her, she didn't look at me as though I was some sort of freak. She just smiled and nodded every so often. It reminded me why she was my best friend. Looking back it was also the moment I realized that her and Harry would be together forever. In the end she was the only one who never blamed me. She was Ron's sister, she should have hated me, but she never did.

The fact of who my date was didn't really stay secret for long. The next few days before the prom I was asked the same questions "Is it true?" Yes. "Did McGonagall tell you to do it?" No. "Are you dating?" I don't know.

As it happens I had no idea as to whether Draco and I were dating. I had seen him in class, and he was still smiling at me or winking at me in the corridor. But since the kiss we hadn't spoken.

He had walked me back up to the castle, kissed me (against the wall) goodnight and we had walked off in opposite directions. But after that I found it hard to believe it had really happened.

GINNY'S POV

Hermione and I were sat on her bed. She had spent the last 20 minutes getting gradually more and more freaked out about her moment with Malfoy. She looked up at me and said, "Do you think he changed his mind?" she looked in a state of panic. I shook my head and took her hand "Mione, you have to calm down. Tomorrow you are going to walk into the great hall looking better than anyone else and whether Draco Malfoy wants to or not he is going to fall in love with you. I have seen the way he looks at you, trust me, he hasn't changed his mind."

She looked down then looked up at me and gave me a bone-crushing hug. Then she lent over the side of the bed and pulled out a blue box.

HERMIONE'S POV

I passed the box across to her and smiled as she opened it. Inside she would have found two small silver tiaras, nearly identical except for the colour of the centre diamond. Hers was pink mine was clear. She smiled at me and said "this must have cost you a fortune!"

I grinned "but it's prom. We have to look our best" I said and thought to myself 'not to mention how well it will go with Harry's ring.'