I was standing quietly with Ginny Weasley, my best friend, who was openly flirting with Harry Potter, her brother's best friend. Since we were at a school function, all the teachers were around the room making sure we behaved ourselves. My mother had made me a beautiful periwinkle swing dress to wear for the event.
As I looked around the room, I saw many couples cutting a rug as a brass band played upbeat toons. While I had taken dance lessons over the summer, I was still a bit shy around men.
"Miss Granger, may I have the next spot on your dance card?"
"Mr. Malfoy, I didn't see you there. Why would you want to dance with me?"
"Well, Miss Granger, I think you are the bee's knees and I would like to take you for a spin around the floor."
"One dance, Mr. Malfoy."
He leads me to the main dance area as the song changed to an upbeat number. He was particularly light on his feet as we twirled around the dance floor.
As he returned me to my friends, we saw two students being lectured by a professor.
"That Zabini doesn't know where the best spots in this school are to neck and not get caught."
"And you do, Mr. Malfoy?"
"Are you calling me easy?"
"You implied it, Mr. Malfoy, not me. And I don't neck with just anyone. I want to feel like a princess first."
"Can I take you out for dinner next Hogsmeade trip then. Maybe after we could stroll back to the castle?"
"What about a chaperone? We cannot be left all alone together?"
"Well, how am I supposed to show you the best necking places if we have a chaperone?"
"It's a date."
I came to learn, the best places to neck included just inside the forbidden forest, under the seventh quidditch stand, and a forgotten broom closet on the seventh floor.