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Previously

Hermione waited for Ginny to change before heading to the Head's dorms to grab their brooms. Ginny had taken up the offer to have her broom in the Head's dorms for safekeeping gratefully. After Hermione changed, they headed down to the Quidditch pitch where Harry and Ron were waiting with a couple of others.

Chapter Thirty Seven

Naughty Girls

Flying had become something Hermione loved and she always looked forward to Quidditch. Today she was to try out for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. She was going out for the position of Chaser, along with Ginny and several others.

"Hey, Mione, Ginny," Harry called as he saw them walking onto the pitch. "You guys area little early. Tryouts don't start for another 15 minutes."

"Yeah, we know. We wanted to just fly for a little before they start."

Hermione and Ginny mounted their brooms and zoomed around the pitch. They hovered a little to watch who was coming out for the team. Harry, of course, already filled Seeker position. For Keeper, it seemed there was only Ron. The Creevey brothers were going out for Beaters; they had decided that they wanted to be the new Weasley twins- pranksters to the end as well as beaters on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. However, their legacy had yet to really start. There were a couple other people there, including the beaters from last year, but Hermione had never seen the brothers fly before, so she didn't know what the outcome would be. Along with Ginny and herself, there were only a total of five people going out for the position of chaser. Romilda Vane, who, even though she knew Harry was not remotely interested, seemed to still follow him around, and try to slip him love potions on occasions and was now here to try to join the team to be around him even more. There was a third year boy whose name she did not know and Demelza Robins who had been on the team the year before.

All of them knew that Harry was not likely to drop people from the year before so those going out for chaser, other than Ginny and Demelza, knew that it was really like there was only one open spot.

Harry blew on his whistle and the tryouts began.

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That night there was a huge party for the new Gryffindor team. The roster was as follows:

Seeker-Harry Potter

Chasers-Ginevra Weasley, Hermione Zabini, Demelza Robins

Beaters-Collin Creevey, Dennis Creevey

Keeper-Ronald Weasley

Hermione had been surprised at the Creevey brothers' ability to fly. She had been under the impression that they were just doing it for kicks, but they had genuinely wanted to be on the team. The rest of the team came as no surprise to anyone.

Looking around, Hermione felt like there was someone missing. She thought and wondered where Draco was. Then she remembered that he wasn't a Gryffindor. She got up and wandered over to the portrait hole. As she reached it she saw someone else who was inching ever so slightly towards the door, looking determined to leave inconspicuously. Ginny.

"Whatcha doing, Gin?" Hermione asked, coming up behind her.

Ginny jumped and spun around to face Hermione. "Nothin," she lied unconvincingly.

Hermione smiled. "Let's go find Draco and Blaise."

Ginny's face lit up and she hooked her arms with Hermione's and started skipping out of the portrait and down the hall. They checked the Head's Dorms first but there was no sign of either one of them. Ginny looked at Hermione questioningly.

"Where are they?"

"I think I know," Hermione said, dragging Ginny out of the room.

They traveled down several flights of stairs until they reached the dungeons. Instead of giving the wall the Slytherin password, Hermione gave it the password for the Head's Dorms. "Chaos". The wall slid open to reveal the Slytherin common room.

There were green leather couches in the center of the room, though they looked as though they had been pushed around by all the dancing bodies. Hermione saw that there were people on the couches. Some sitting, observing the festivities others making out. The pounding beat was making its way through Hermione's body, begging her to join it. She could tell it was doing the same thing to Ginny. She scanned the crowd again and saw Draco standing to the side, watching. Blaise was with him. She pointed them out to Ginny with a rather evil smile. She leaned over, whispering something in Ginny's ear, causing her to sprout an identical evil smile and nod. She started to move, but Hermione caught Ginny's arm.

She looked around at the girls surrounding them and their clothes. Then she waved her wand over their plain jeans and tees which were instantly transformed. Ginny's jeans had become a very tight and low and her tee had been cut off right below her breasts, showing a lot of stomach. the sleeve had lengthened, slightly baggy against her thin arms as they fell to her wrists. Hermione's jeans had become a little looser and now hung on her hips. They had also ripped themselves in so many places it seemed they were baring more skin than they covered. Her tee had turned into a skin tight, low cut, leather halter. It showed off her cleavage and much of her lower abdomen. She put the tip of her wand in the middle of her scalp and sharply brought it up. As she did so, red streaks bloomed from the front pieces of her hair, framing her face in red then black. Ginny nodded appreciatively. They started to implement their plan once finished.

Dancing their way to the middle of the crowd, they then worked their ways over to the side of the room where Draco and Blaise stood. They didn't look at them or go to the edge of the floor, but stayed in the thick of things. A new song started, one neither girl recognized, but it was good for grinding. They smirked evil at each other and started to grind, moving to the beat. Guys around them stopped to stare. One or two tried to join in or pull the girls apart, but to no avail. When enough people were stopped, two boys standing on the sideline glanced over at the crowd of unmoving people. There seemed to be two girls in the center of it.

Draco looked at Blaise, who nodded. They made their way over to the crowd and stepped through easily. The sight before them made the boys shiver. It was easily one of the hottest things either one had ever seen. Two girls were dancing together, grinding into one another, sometimes drawing apart, or turning to be back to back. They were both rather sweaty and their stomachs were glistening. Black hair with red streaks hung over one face while scarlet hair was whipped across the other, making it impossible to identify either girl. The two split apart, still dancing and apparently unaware as to the effects of their dancing, particularly on the male population.

The red head slid her hands down her stomach and snapped her head to the left, making her sweaty hair whip her face. As she moved her hands and arms above her head, moving her hair with her, Blaise spotted something- two things, to be exact. The first was a black mark on the inside of her wrist. The second was the tattoo on the lower back. His mouth dropped open. It was Ginny. Ginny was dancing like that. He looked at the other girl and it hit him. If Ginny was here, so was…

As all of this was happening, the girl with black and red hair crouched, and, in a very fast, seamless movement, put her knees to the floor and bent backwards, touching her head to the ground. As soon as she did this, she came forward and thrust her backside into the air, straightening her legs. She soon followed it up, flipping her hair back. Draco saw the tattoo on her back and neck. He smirked and thought.

Draco started moving to the beat then moved behind Hermione, putting his hands on her hips and moving their bodies closer together. Blaise looked to Draco, but couldn't see him, then looked at Hermione, who had just spun around and found Draco smirking at her, she smirked back. He shook his head and went to join Ginny.

He caught her hands in the air and said, "Hello, gorgeous." She grinned to herself then pressed her ass against him, causing him to loose his smugness and any following train of thought. Hermione and Draco's legs were interlocked and they were pressed against each other, kissing passionately as they danced.

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A while later, the four of them were sitting on one of the couches, talking when Draco noticed the beads on Hermione's wrist.

"What's that?"

"What's what?"

"The thing on your wrist?"

"Oh, they're warrior beads from Indonesia. Rei gave them to me as a late congratulatory gift."

Draco raised his eyebrows, secretly wondering if there had ever really been something between the two of them. He just couldn't shake the feeling.

Meanwhile, Hermione was hoping that no one would ask if something had ever happened between them. She didn't know what she would say. Would she deny it? Say that it hadn't happened? Somehow, to her, it seemed like that would be saying that she didn't trust her friends- which she did, implicitly. But for the moment she was safe.

No one saw the crow that had made its way into the common room and was now watching Hermione and Draco snuggle. If it could have, it would have sighed in resignation before flying off out a window.

A/N: Sorry this took so long, but there was a little writer's block then my internet was screwy. And I've heard that they're starting to delete stories where the author replies to reviews. Does anyone know if that is true? And just to let you all know, I'm working on a story about Harry returning to Godric's Hollow and there is a possibility of me writing a Phantom of the Opera one, if I get ticked off at the ending enough the next time I see it. We'll see, what do you think about that?

Kat