2nd May 1999

DRACO'S POV

Well we finally made it to the day that Hermione and I had been planning since September. I was stood in the middle of the newly transformed great hall with Professor McGonagall, Hermione and Blaise whom both seemed to be rather proud of the hard work they'd put into turning the hall into a ballroom over the last few hours. "Well I must say the hall looks beautiful." Hermione beamed up at the headmistress and placed her hand in mine. "Let's say 50 points for the two of you for all your hard work and 30 for Mr Zabini here for helping you out today." And with that she gilded out the room.

"Granger you might want to start getting ready, you've only got 2 hours until the party starts. I mean Pansy started getting ready at 3, that's 2 hours already!"

"Looking beautiful isn't easy you know Blaise." Hermione giggled.

"It is for you, you're naturally beautiful." I said smirking at the girl I love.

"Ugh get a room." I punched Blaise in the arm at his mimic of being sick and turned my back to him.

"Well I best be off I need to get ready." Hermione pushed herself onto her tip toes and kissed me lightly, she waved at Blaise and then skipped out the hall and up the grand stair case.

"Come on let's go see how the food is coming along."

HERMIONE'S POV

"Are you sure about this Gin?" I said raising an eyebrow at her. "It's quite revealing." I'd thought it would have been a good idea if me and Ginny picked each others dresses but now it didn't seem like such a good idea. I looked at myself in the long mirror, the tight red dress did look beautiful but it wasn't me. Ginny had picked out a long tight red dress with spaghetti straps as well as having off shoulder straps, the top was v-lined and topped with red lace and a lovely gold belt made from beads.

I turned to face Ginny with a pout. "Can we just swap dresses?" I'd picked her out a dark blue dress, the skirt was wide and the top fully covered her collar bones (unlike mine) with two think straps and a lovely silver belt.

"No, plus the boys will also have to swap so no." She looked at herself in the mirror, she tucked a lose strand of hair behind her ear and turned to look at me. "So you ready?"

"I guess." I grumbled, "Can I please tie my hair up?" I said still annoyed that Ginny was being so strict about this.

"No now come on the boys will be waiting for us." She grabbed my hand and let me out of the room and into the empty common room. We walked towards the great hall hearing echoes of laughter flooding the halls surrounding us.

"Wow Hermione you look...wow." Draco, Harry and Ron all stood at the bottom of the stairs in muggle suits. I had insisted on the ball was muggle themed in hopes of capturing my once lost hope of prom.

"Have I left the great Draco Malfoy speechless?" I teased as I hopped down the steps carefully trying not to fall because of my heels.

"Ah so you think I'm great do you?" I jumped down the last step and punched him lightly on the arm. "You look beautiful." He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me into a kiss.

"Wow Mione, déjà vu or what?" Came a voice from behind me with a chuckle. I spun around in Draco's arms to see Ginny trying to straighten Harry's dark blue tie which matched her dress.

"You look beautiful Mione." Came another voice from next to Harry.

"Eyes elsewhere Weasley." Draco spat over my shoulder. Ron dropped his head in shame and shuffled his feet awkwardly, I turned back around to Draco and gave him a disapproving look. "I still think you should have worn green." He smirked, then turned his head to Ginny.

"Nah red is so much better than green." She shot back, "You know red suits you Draco." she let out a laugh as she pointed to his tie.

"Come on guys you're missing the party!" I jumped and spun around to find Blaise and Pansy had walked over to us from the great hall. "Oh and McGonagall is looking for you, she wants to make a speech." Pansy nodded her head in the direction of the hall where they could see an anxious McGonagall darting over the hall in search for them.

"Well come on then! We've got a dance to enjoy!" I grabbed Draco's hand and pulled him into the hall; the others following closely.

It didn't take long before McGonagall ushered Harry, Ron and I up to the long table at the top of the hall so that she could make her speech. "Silence! Silence! Thank you, please may you all have a seat. Now before I begin I would like to say a big thank you to our head boy and girl, Mr Draco Malfoy and Miss Hermione Granger for planning such a lovely event." She broke off and started to clap which took a moment for people to join in probably because they didn't want to clap an ex-death eater on the year anniversary of the battle. "I would also like to thank Mr Harry Potter and Mr Ronald Weasley for coming back to Hogwarts for this evenings event, and also the Minister of Magic for attending." Once again she began to clap and then turned to Harry.

"Do I have to?" He moaned at her, she gave him a stern look to which he stood up and walked to the podium for his speech. "Um hello everyone, as you probably know I'm Harry Potter and um." he looked at me and Ron over his shoulder for support, I smiled at him and gave him a thumbs up. "When McGonagall asked me to make a speech today about everything I really didn't want to... I still don't but now I know what to say." He took a deep breath and looked back over his shoulder. "If it wasn't for the two most amazing people behind me I would have died in my first year of school, Hermione and Ron sacrificed their lives for me over and over again and for that I will never be able to repay them. Your friends and family may have sacrificed their lives so that future generations can live safely but they won't we forgotten and they will always be treasured. So I want to say thank you," He turned back to us. "you're the best friends anyone could ever ask for and I love you both so much." I jumped of my chair and gave Harry a big hug, everyone around us burst into applaud.

"I love you Harry."

"I love you too Mione but don't let Draco hear us." I pulled out of our hug and looked over his shoulder, Draco was sat staring at the floor not really engaging in conversation with Ginny, Blaise and Pansy. "Go get him." He laughed squeezing my shoulder.