Chapter 7: Gown Shopping

A MONTH LATER

"... and remember in order to go to Hogsmeade you must have a permission slip from you parent or guardian, well have fun." Dumbledore finished up his afternoon speech, every one was eager to go to Hogsmeade, especially Ginny.

"Hermione!" Ginny yelled. "Hurry up we don't have all day."

"Actually we do." I laughed.

"I know your not the biggest shopper but come on, we get to try on formals!"

"I'm just joking, oh crap, I forgot my purse in my dorm. Come with me."

"What, why does she get to know where you live and I don't?" Ron protested.

"Because, she's a girl and your not."

"But I'm your boyfriend."

"Sorry Ron, but she'd rather let me in and that's that." Ginny rubbed it in.

"Fine, come on Harry."

"Now look what you've done, he'll be gripey all day." Harry whined.

"He'll get over it," I grabbed Ginny and headed off to my dorm.

"I can't believe your going to let me in your room, this is so awesome."

"Okay drama queen, calm down."

"I'm not a drama queen."

"Ya you are."

"Okay, maybe I am, all well."

"Gin, you have to promise not to tell any one where I live or the password, if anyone does find out I'll hunt you down."

"Relax Hermy I won't tell any one."

"Don't call me that."

"Fine."

"Alright here we are." I paused. "Chocolate Eagles."

"Ha, that's so cute," Ginny laughed at the picture.

"Come on Gin, don't you want to hurry so we can try on dresses."

"Oh yeah." Ginny jumped in and was in awe of the room. "Damn girl you're living life sweet."

"Tell me about it."

"Oooh, let me check out the bathroom." I slowly walked after her, I was just about in there when she screamed.

"Ginny, why are you."

"Geeze you ever hear of knocking?" Malfoy walked out into the living area in a towel. Ginny's face was as red as her hair.

"Sorry Malfoy, we didn't know you were in here." I said.

"What's she doing in here anyways?"

"I forgot my purse, we had to come back and get it."

"She's not supposed to be in here. All well now I can have some one over."

"You're not bringing one of you stupid friends in here."

"Want to make a bet?"

"Not particularly."

"Blaise would love to see this place, yes I like that idea."

"Whatever, come on Ginny." I took a hold of her arm and went into my room shutting the door behind me.

"Damn, did you see his abs?"

"Ginny!" I squealed. "How can you think that, he's Malfoy."

"Ya, but he's a hot Malfoy."

"I can't believe you're saying that." I grabbed my purse off my bed. "Come on let's go before you start googling his goodies."

"I'm sure that's hot too."

"Ginny!"

"What?"

"Okay, we're changing the password so you can't come in at night." I opened my door and almost ran into a half-dressed smirking Malfoy. "Geez Malfoy, what are you doing?"

"What I do best, eavesdropping."

"Move out of the way." He stepped aside. "Ginny, come on."

Ginny blushed and quickly ran out of the room, I gave a now-look-what-you've-done look to Malfoy before I left.

"Oh my gosh, I can't believe he heard me say that."

"That's what you get for thinking that."

"I didn't think he'd be listening, now I'll never be able to look him in the eyes again."

"Why would you do that anyway?"

"I don't know."

"Come on, every one's gone already."

Once we got to Hogsmeade we looked around until a dress shop. The store was loaded with Hogwarts students, mostly girls. We picked through a few and started trying them on.

We must have tried on about twenty dresses before Ginny thought it was the right one. Ginny got a blue and red one and I got a dark green one After we picked our dresses we paid for them and headed for the shoe store. Ginny picked clear high heels and I had silver white heels that laced up my leg.

Three hours later we had all our shopping done and our purses were a lot lighter. Ron and Harry told us they were meeting Fred and George at the joke shop to compare their products with the competitions. "Gin, Mione, about time you show up!" Fred announced walking over to us with a handful of candy. "Try this, it's just come out on the market." He reached in his pocket and pulled out a bag.

"Like we really take sweets from you two."

"Then try these," George held up pink toffees.

"Really, do you think we're stupid." Ginny rolled her eyes.

"It makes things pink tinted," Fred popped one in his mouth.

"Maybe you perfer blue," George held out some blue and stuck a green one in his mouth.

"Thanks but no thanks I've learned not to take candy from either of you."

"You could feed them to that git Malfoy." Ron said.

"I know something just perfect for ole Malfoy." George dug into his packback, Fred keeping a watchful eye before digging his hands in also.

"Not that, this."

"Are you sure."

"Definitely."

"This'll be good."

"Alright here yougo Hermione, on the house." Fred handed me a bag of chocolates, I raised my eyebrow.

"And exactly what is this going to do so I can be forewarned."

"You'll find out," George grinned.

The six of us continued talking for a while until we decided it was time to leave.

"Hermione, don't forget okay." The twins called.

"I won't." I yelled back. "That was enjoyable."

"Ya it was," Ron said taking my hand in his.

"I can't believe you bought all that stuff."

"Don't worry, most of it isn't for us." Harry said.

"I see, who's it for then?"

"You'll see."

"So 'Mione," Ginny grinned. "Can I stay with you tonight?"

"Why?"

"So we can hang out, we never get to talk anymore, please!" Ginny gave me the puppy dog look.

"Not the puppy dog face."

"Please."

"Fine," I gave in.

"Yes!"

"How about I stay the night instead of her." Ron grinned.

"I can't let a boy in my room."

"What about Malfoy?"

"Well he lives there I can't really help that."

"See you tomorrow," I gave Ron a goodnight kiss. We finally made it back to Hogwarts.

"Bye," he said gloomily.

"See you 'Mione." Harry waved. I watched them walked down the corridor and out of sight.

"Alright, lets go. I can't wait to put this stuff down."