A/N --- GUESS WHAT?? =) ff.net is letting me post this chapter! And it is November 1, 2001!!!! My story's 1-month anniversary! And ya'll have given me…. *drum roll please*… a total of… 135 reviews!!!!! =) =) =) =) Thank you to all who have reviewed!! =) – also just for some Trivia… did ya'll know that yesterday for Halloween it was – first of all a full moon which is really rare on Halloween, AND it was a blue moon which is even rarer =) I think that is cool =) and also that it was suppose to be the end of the world at 12 midnight Halloween Night, cause the 7 sisters would be at its highest peak… anyways… =) Hope ya'll like this chapter (its not as long as it seems… most of it is reviews! =)
A/N – Hi, yes I got the next chapter out!!! YAY!!! LOL – yet, I can't get ff.net up…. Soo… maybe tomorrow the 22nd I'll get it out =) we'll see… =) – Okay, Now it is the 30th and FF.net won't let me sign in =( Beware… about half of this is Reviews… LOL =) --- Most of my A/N's are at the bottom, and they kindly say the reason for each day I was unable to post this beautifully written chapter =) hehe =)
Disclaimer – All I own is the wonderful PLOT! All rest is owned by Ms JKR =) so… that's about all =)
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"Did you get Snape to talk to Dumbledore?" Lavender asked.
"Yes, I believe that our plan will work, can you believe Dumbledore actually believes that we need to take more precautions?"
"I figured so much, he always cares about his student's safety even more than his own"
"Yea, Father always has said that was his weak-point"
"It always will be, so what do we got?"
"Well, since Dumbledore is canceling the Festival… and as long as McGonagall asks you… and Harry and Herm are NOT in the building…"
"Yes, of course McGonagall with ask ME to go tell them…"
"I wish that we had more though…"
"Of course you do Draco, you always want more, more, more!"
"Well this just seems too small of a feat… oh well, you are sure that Harry and Hermione will not be in the building?"
"Yes, they are outside on the steps talking" Lavender said grinning.
"Good, Good, and Ron doesn't know where they are?" Draco said smiling evily.
"I have kept him too busy to talk to them, and I plan to continue to do so, so if you don't mind, I have to get back to him."
"Of course… Of course…"
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Hermione was sitting out on the front steps of the school.
"Hey Herm," Harry said sitting down next to her.
"Hey Harry."
"We only have about an hour till we have to go get ready for the Fall Festival." Harry said.
"Yeah" Hermione smiled.
"So what are you doing out here?"
"Just thinking…"
"About?" Harry asked, and Hermione blushed.
"Nothing."
"Mhmm…"
"So what are you doing out here?" Hermione asked.
"Oh, just looking for you, Ron is out of the Hospital Wing, and he is going to go to the Fall Festival."
"That's great!! With who?" Hermione asked, Harry looked down at the ground.
"Well… Lavender."
"Lavender!?!?!?!?! Great Wizards, why would he do something like that? I mean she practically was going to kill him!" Hermione shouted.
"Calm down Herm, she won't try anything with all the people in the Great Hall."
"Its not like she can't sneak him out!"
"We'll keep an eye on him."
"He'll yell…"
"Only if he finds out," Harry said with a wink.
"Oh you are impossible Harry!"
"Yup!"
"Are you excited about the Festival?" Harry asked a moment later. Hermione, of course couldn't tell him that she really couldn't wait, and was hardly able to get to sleep last night because of her excitement, so she just said simply with a smile, "Of course I am Harry!"
"Good, it should be fun," Harry said placing an arm around her shoulders.
"Yes, it shall," Hermione agreed laying her head on his shoulder.
They continued talking for awhile, until about an hour later Harry glanced at his watch and said that they really needed to go get ready. So he and Hermione made their way up to the Gryffindor Common Room. To their surprise no one was there.
"My watch must be an hour behind or something…"
"Maybe they just started it earlier…"
"Yea, we must have gotten the wrong time…"
"Yeah, well come on lets hurry up and get ready!"
Hermione nodded and they both ran up to their dorms.
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Hermione glided down the stairs in an elegant blue dress robes, it was finally the Fall Festival! The whole school was attending this formal dance. The common room was still empty except for a grinning Harry.
"Hey Herm." He said coming up to admire her, "You look great."
"Thanks Harry, You look wonderful yourself!" She said eyeing him in his emerald green dress robes.
"Okay, Lets go…" Hermione said after a few seconds, "We are already late enough! We don't want to make that great of an entrance now do we?"
Harry grinned and was about to open his mouth when Hermione cut him off.
"Oh lets just go Harry" Hermione said taking his arm and dragging him through the portrait hole.
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Though they didn't want to make too big of an entrance, they made an entrance bigger than they had ever imagined.
Nobody was wearing fancy dress robes, no elegant hairstyles, they all had on plain black school robes and the house tables were out, not against the wall.
When the two walked in all heads turned towards them, a couple whispered wildly to each other, and some laughed, yet most stayed quiet. Hermione's checks flushed and became edgy when the whisperings got louder, and more people were laughing or just looking at them funny, most of the 1st and 2nd years stayed quiet, not thinking it was right to laugh at Harry Potter. Ron came running up to them giving them a weird look.
"Umm… didn't anyone tell you that the ball was off? Professor McGonagall came in and told us."
Harry seized his two best friends by the arm and pulled them out of the Great Hall.
"Didn't she send anyone to tell us?" Hermione asked fretfully.
"Of course you dunderhead! Lavender, I suppose she just couldn't find you two!"
"Nonsense, we were just outside sitting on the steps talking… there was no way she could've missed us!" Hermione argued.
"She probably just didn't look outside! You guys weren't even SUPPOSE TO BE OUTSIDE!" Ron snapped.
"And when did you start following the rules??" Hermione snapped back.
"Did she say she couldn't find us?" Harry interrupted.
"No, she didn't mention anything."
"Then she probably didn't even look." Hermione stated.
"I bet she did find you guys, and… and… you just wanted more attention so you came dressed up so that people would notice you better!" Ron yelled angrily.
"Ron, stop being stupid, you know Harry and I, don't want attention, and we certainly didn't want to be the victims of Malfoy's new jokes!" Hermione clamored back.
They continued bickering back and forth until Harry stepped in noticing the look of desire to kill on both of his friends' faces.
"Back off you two, come on Ron, you know we wouldn't do this on purpose, and maybe you are right, maybe she didn't find us."
"Harry!! You know very well we weren't in a difficult place to find!! And after what she did to Ron, you never know!" Hermione snapped.
"Hermione, You know I don't support Lavender in any way, shape, nor form, but maybe that is what happened, you never know. Well I am going to go back and change, and maybe just skip supper, I am not too hungry anyway and quite frankly I don't want to put up with the Malfoy remarks."
"Yea, I suppose I'll do the same," Hermione sighed.
"Well I got to get back in there, Lavender is saving my seat."
Hermione groaned and was about to open her mouth when Harry clamped a hand over it.
"See you in the dorm later Ron," He said dragging the now struggling Hermione down the hall.
Ron forced a laugh and re-entered the once again loud chattering Great Hall to find that Lavender was gone. And much to his despise, Malfoy was too. Ron doubled back and set out to find them.
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A few minutes later, Harry and Hermione were back outside sitting on the steps that they had been only minutes before.
"We are going to have a fun time Monday, aren't we?"
"What makes you say that?" Hermione asked.
"Well… think about the first class we have…"
"Oh! Potions." Hermione groaned
"Yea, talk about unlucky…"
"Yea… Ohhh… I really don't think I can stand one more joke from Malfoy. It was probably him and Laven… oh… you don't think Ron… I hope that Ron isn't mad at me…"
"No… he isn't mad at you." Harry said putting an arm around her shoulders making her move closer to him.
"I hope not, I mean, he is one of my closest friends, and I couldn't stand him being mad at me again." She said laying her head down on Harry's shoulder.
"I mean in our 3rd year I could barely stand him being mad at me." Hermione continued, her eyes getting watery from the memories.
"Herm," Harry said turning her towards him, "Its okay, he was just mad for that time being, I mean he laughed before he went into the Great Hall, you have nothing to worry about."
"I suppose you are right." Hermione sighed.
"And don't worry, If you ever get in another fight with Ron, you'll still have one of your best friends there for you." Harry said smiling.
"Thanks Harry,"
"Sure"
"You know I will be there for you too, cause I know it was hard for you when Ron wouldn't talk to you in the 4th year."
"I know you will" Harry said smiling.
"And I am sorry for being such a dunderhead in our 1st year, and so secretive in our 3rd year…
"Come off it Herm, our 1st year, that was 5 years ago, we are 16 now, not 11. And our 3rd year, that was 3 years ago, when we were 13, and I think Ron and I owe you an apology more than you do us for that one at least. And in 1st year, you were nowhere near a dunderhead!"
"Well, you never kept a secret from us, and I kept a big one,"
"Hermione, we've been through this, come on, let's not go blundering through all the bad things we have done! Cause I could keep this conversation rolling for quite some time."
"I doubt you could, your too good of a guy to do that many things!" Hermione said blushing a little.
"Mhmm… And I could, I mean all the times I… wait… I already said lets not recall the bad past!" Harry said
"Yea, I suppose you are right, and we have apologized so many times already for those things."
"Exactly" Harry said breaking into a smile.
"So, Harry, you don't hate me for anything do you?"
"No, silly, why would I hate you?" Harry said laughing slightly.
"I don't know, something I did to you, that I don't remember, or realize… or…"
"No, of course not," Harry interrupted, "if there was something that bad that you did, I wouldn't be sitting here right now trying to get your mind off what… are you hungry? Want to go back to the Great hall?"
"Nah, I am fine, let's just sit here, okay?" Hermione said laughing at Harry's Freudian Slip.
"Sure…"
Harry looked Herm, her eyes were dry now and she was smiling a bit, She looked so beautiful, even though her eyes were a little red, her cheeks were a light pink from crying, and the cold. A weird feeling came into his stomach, it was happening more often when he was around her, and before he could stop himself… he pulled Hermione closer to him, their lips meeting for the first time…
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A/N – Okay, this chapter I believe is a little teeny bit shorter than most or is it a teeny bit longer? Its probably the same =) , BUT I made them have their first kiss. (Dracona, yes I know it's the 13th chapter, and yes, I know that you would be much farther a long by now =) hehehe – so no comment about that…). hehe – okay… yes I did that just because I am soooooooo sorry about only having 13 chapters out and it is the 21st of October. So in reality I should have 21 out. But we all know how fanfic.net went down, and if it didn't I would probably of forced myself to keep adding a new chapter every day =) But it gave me a break – anyways.
THANKS. TO ALL WHO REVIEWED!! – Beware, I thanked a lot of people cause FF.net wont let me update… these are the people who reviewed from like the 18th – today (26th)
Hp'sgirl – Thank you SOOO much for reviewing! =) glad that you like it… yes, it is hard to find good h/hrs any more =( that's why I started one… but… personally I don't think it is that good =) but Ya'll seem to, so I am still writing it =) hehe.
Ohimesama_Shinigami – Sadly, I don't have a school house to get points taken from… so therefore I don't have to listen to your idle threats =) hehe… anyways – sorry I am sort hyper right now.. and ff.net is down… so I can't read or post any chapters… so… yea….. =)
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Marie14000 – Yes, it would be funny for Draco to marry Lavender =) but I really already have someone for both of them… Hey!! That actually gives me an idea… *grabs a sheet of paper to write it down* Thanks =) you just made me think of something… well sorta… and it would have to come after Hogwarts, so maybe a sequel? =)
Hermione A.G. Potter – They are getting together… yes, their relationship is finally getting started more =) and now we have to think of more to happen =) LOL =) yea, Hermione and Harry do spend a lot of time together don't they? I mean, they are like always together =)
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Rachel – Yes, I am glad that ff.net is sorta up now =) course I have been reading Mummy fics.. don't know why =) just saw The Mummy and The Mummy Returns last weekend again.. so I decided that I wanted to read some fanfics of it =) but currently it is down AGAIN.. it best be up soon!! I want to read more HP fics too!! =)
Tina – Glad you like it =) I will TRY to get the next chapter out tomorrow…. But I dunno… things haven't been going as planned lately =) – the latest I hope will be the 23rd... cause then I'll be exactly 10 behind!! =) – if that makes any sense…
Dracona – Yes, Dracona one of my many favorite reviews.. hehe =) (many being all of course! =)) LOL interesting... okay… I am seriously thinking about either making Draco good, or… Ginny evil… hmm… actually just thought of that… ANYWAYS =) Glad that you won't stop reading if they don't get together, *phew* hehe =) – that's a load off MY mind *Grins*
Anime – FF.net sure is taking a long time to go back to normal, I can't post this yet, and I wrote it on the 18th… Yes =) this is the Fall Festival, didn't go as well as I wanted it to… but… well… lets just say it sounded better in my head than it does on paper =) Yes, all those match-ups make me shudder as well – especially Ron and Hermione. *shivers* that's just plain scary =) though when I read the series again, I can tell that Ron does seem to sorta like Herm, like he always is the one to stand up for her and all…
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H/H lover – Jeez, a little demanding are we? =) "Finish now" =) I'll finish in dear old time.. but who knows when that will be? =) I don't, I am just writing and seeing where the stories takes itself =) should be interesting, no? =)
Yay!!! 127 reviews!!! Okay... ya'll are GREAT =) I can't believe I have over 100 reviews!! That's cool!! =) each review I get I am always excited =) – and I haven't gotten a bad review yet!! – other than some when they say it is getting a little slow, or if I use a word too much, but I don't consider them mean reviews or anything – they are helpful =) so I just wanted to thank ya'll for all the support ya'll have given me since I wrote this first chapter (Can you believe it has been a Month almost already?? November 1st will be a month since I posted the first chapter, and I already have 127 reviews!!!! =))
Okay.. yes it is now October 27th and ff.net is STILL DOWN!!! – well its up, just can't upload – I got 2 new reviews… so THANK YA'LL FOR REVIEWING! =)
Saiyan Battle – Thanks =) I loved your review! =) I am not sure if ff.net lets you post fanfics on other sites, though I doubt it, it makes me feel really special that you want this up on your site or something =) that's cool =) thank you SOOOO much for reviewing! =)
Lynette – I will probably get quite a few chapters up after ff.net lets you upload! I haven't written anymore, cause I want to hear what ya'll have to say about this chapter before I write the next… cause that is a big factor =) yes, Ron really doesn't have much sense does he? =) The story just sorta came to that… -- Ya'll do know that this story was just going to have Herm and Harry get together like the 2nd chapter, Ron and Lavender get together, and Draco and Ginny together… that was it... but… as you can see – things didn't go as planned =)
Okay it's now October 30, 2001 AND Fanfiction.net won't let you sign in to update… SO… here are the kind reviewers who have reviewed since then =)
BLaCk_iCe – Glad you liked it =) I have written anymore cause I like to have reviews to go off of… but this is 13 chapters now =) that's good... even though if I kept up with I originally wanted to do, it should be like chapter 30!! =)
Ziyal – Glad you loved it, Hey, you should write a H/Hr fic, it'd probably be good! =) tell me if you write one, cause I would love to read it =) Yea, that's what I said to myself like when I wanted to write a H/Hr, that was like before the 4th book came out, so finally I decided to try it =) So I hope you find time! =)
Verity – Don't worry, reviews NEVER distract me from my writing =) hehe the more the merrier, the more reviews, the more I write… and the quicker… I liked your review, I love nice reviews! =) Thanks a lot for reading/reviewing! =)
Bad lily girl – Okay, thanks for offering advice, but I really don't get what you mean, could you please elaborate =) hehe what don't I explain? I really am interested to know, cause I usually think that I don't make many confusing chapters, cause I write stuff so that I can understand them, and I can't understand things very easily =) so usually mine are pretty easily read… but please tell me what I did wrong! =) I know that chapter 4 when it came out was pretty confusing =) but… I corrected as much as I thought needed to be corrected and some of the explanations are meant to be not understood! =)
TheDiginonKasiem – Chapter 13 has been written since October 18th =) lol yes, H/Hr forever! Or at least for how long JKR will let us have them together =( =) Keep coming back!! And Reviewing! =) =) =)
Jacks – Yes, we all are lazy and forget to sign in every once in awhile! =) I know I am – thanks for reviewing though! =) What plan?? Oh… My very weird plan that sounded better in my head then on paper! THAT plan =) its all above =) hehe
Okay – that is all the reviews for today… HOPEFULLY TOMORROW On Halloween they'll give us all a treat and let us upload new chapters! =) That's 135 reviews!! In about a month… that's great!! =)
Yes – isn't it weird reading A/N that like all are written on different dates? =) well it is November 1st =) Hermione's Crush's 1 month anniversary! =) A special thanks to all my reviewers who have stayed with this story since the beginning!
The 2 main reviewers that I want to thank are Dracona and Eyez4George! – Y'all are the main reviewers that I can recall off the top of my head that have been reading my stories for a long time and kept coming back, and coming back, and coming back! =) Eyez4George since chapter 1! And Dracona I think was Chapter 3! =)