~*Harry Potter and Practical Magic*~

Chapter 5 – The Surprise Party

A couple of weeks past, and Harry only thought about the prediction once or twice. He was too busy with homework, quidditch, friends, and Hermione' Sweet 16 surprise party to worry about it.

Harry couldn't think of ONE thing to get Hermione. He could get her a book? But that has no real sentimental meaning, he wanted to get somethinf to really impress her. But what could that be? OH! He had it now…

On September 19th, Hermione seemed to be more bubbly and happier then usual. Of corse everyone knew why, she was turning 16. An age when you feel more like an adult (A/N: hey! I do! Hehe). All day long she seemed to be dropping hints about her birthday, but everyone just played it off as if it was just another day.

While Hermione was in the library studying, thinking no one cared about her or her birthday, all the Gryiffindor's helped Harry, Ron, and Isabella set up. There were streamer's, and balloons of pink, purple and blue everywhere. There was also a big sign that hang from the ceiling that said "Happy Birthday Mione!" They also had some of the house elves bring up some refreshments, snacks, and a cake shaped like a book that read "Happy Sweet 16 Hermione" and was blue with purple trimming, and pink writing. Everything looked fantastic in Harry's point of view, until he heard a yell coming from the back of him.

"What is HE doing here!" Ron shouted. Harry turned around and saw Ron, Samantha, and Draco in the entrance way of the common room.

"He's my friend, Ron! And don't ever yell at me again!" Samantha shouted back, her light brown eyes seemed to be turning darker.

"Samantha, do you really think that HERMIONE would want him to be here?" Ron asked.

"Why not? It's not like he hasn't be a prick to her lately! If you haven't noticed, they seem to be getting along fine." Samantha said. Ron shook his head.

"He doesn't know the password, does he?" Harry asked. Samantha shook her head.

"I put a deafing spell on him while I gave it to the fat lady." Samantha replied. Harry turned to Ron.

"It'll be okay, Ron." He said. Ron 'hmph' and walked over to Isabell, who was hanging up a set of streamers. Harry turned to Draco.

"It's nice of you to come." He said. Draco nodded. Then him and Samantha went over to the table with the cake and laid there presents down by the others. Harry looked at his watch, and it read "6:00pm". He then wistled, and got everyone's attention.

"Okay! She should be her in a few seconds. Is everyone ready?" he asked. Everyone cheered, then it got queit when they heard a muffed voice saying the password (Samantha covered Draco's ears). Then in walked Hermione, and everyone shouted, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY HERMIONE!" and the song to Geri Halliwell's "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster" came on. All Hermione could do was slowy walk in with his eyes wide with tears, and a hand pressed to her cheek. Samantha and Isabella then came running up.

"Happy Birthday, Herm." She said, giving her a huge hug. Isabella gave her one too. Hermione wiped away the tears that were streaming down her face.

"I thought no one cared." She said, Samantha laughed.

"Are you crazy?" she asked, with a smile. Hermione shrugged her shoulders.

"I JUST might be." She said. Isabella laughed, then turned and found Harry just gazing after them.

"Well, this was all of Harry's idea." She said. Hermione tilted her head a bit, and then looked around the room for him. She found him standing over by the table, neaty folding the napkins. Hermione excused herself from the girls, and walked up behind him.


"Hello Harry." She said, Harry jumped alittle bit, then turned around, and found him staring down into Hermione's big chocolate brown eyes.

"Hey Hermione, Happy Birthday." He said. Hermione then pulled him into a embrace, a very warm embrace. Harry took in her peaches and cream (A/N: I need it cause you know that I'm a feind…uh, yeah) sent. They then, reluctintly, let go of one another.

"Sam and Isabella told me that this was all your doing…" she said, with a misevious smile. Harry blushed, and grined.

"Yeah, yeah…So, how do you like it?" he asked. Hermione took his hand.

"I love it. It's really nice." She said, looking around. Suddenly, they heard the "AWWW'S" of Ron, Isabella, Samantha, Draco, and Ginny. Harry and Hermione blushed, and Hermione dropped his hand.

"Okay, Okay…Let's open presents now!" Harry shouted across the room. Everyone then came scrambling over. Hermione smiled, as she took a present that had sliver wrapping, with a pink bow.

"That's mine!" Samantha said. Hermione nodded, and tore off the wrapping. Hermione found inside a flat Moon and Stars ½ gold and sliver candle holder.

"Oh, Sam…It's beautiful. It must have costed you so much!" Hermione said, giving her a big hug.

"You're my best friend Herm. And I knew you'd like it." She said. Hermione thanked her, then picked up the next present. It was red with a white bow.

"That's from us, Hermione." Ron said, pointing to him and Ginny. Hermione opened it, and it reviled a book called "Initiation in the Great Pyrimid" and was about the rite and rituals of Anchient Egypt. Ron and Ginny knew how much Hermione loved Anchient Egypt.

"Oh you guys! This is wonderful! I can't wait to read it!" She exclaimed, and giving Ginny a hug then Ron.

"Don't mention it Hermione. Just…Promise not to talk about it all the time." Ron said. Hermione smiled.

"I promise." She said, the returned to the table. She then picked up a present that was black with yellow moons and stars on it, with a yellow ribbon. Draco raised his hand.

"That would be from me." He said. Hermione laughed.

"I never would have expected you to get me a present, Draco." Hermione said, then ripped of the paper. And saw a very beautiful gold and purple Pentacle flask. Hermione was flabbergasted.

"Oh wow, Draco. This is amazing. It must have costed a fortune." Hermione said, tracing the outline of the star. Harry felt like he was burning inside. How dare he get something so…remarkable!

"Actually…It only costed 3 galleons." He said. Hermione rolled her eyes.

"Thanks for clearing that up." She said, then continued to open her presents. She got from her parents Kylie Mingoue's new CD. She got from Lavender a 8oz Pure Lavender Lotion in a blue glass bottle. She got from Isabella an Hindu Henna Kit, and Hindu Body Jewels. She got from Parvati Morning Star incense, 'less smoke and more scent' and a pair of baby blue pj's with swirls of sparkling purple circles.It was a tank-top and pant set. She got from Seamus a book on Astrology. She got from Dean a metalic blue CD case, and she got from Neville a green frog on a lily pad floating candle. She then looked around for her last present…Harry's.

"Harry? Where's your present?" She asked, her face saddening. Harry thought for a moment.

"Oh yeah! Accio Hermione's Gift!" he shouted, and a few seconds later, a little box wrapped in sparkly emerald green paper with little stars on it. There was a gold ribbon wrapped around it. Hermione carefully tore away the paper, and opened a little white box. What was inside made her gasp.

"Oh my god…" She trailed off.

Harry got her the most spectaclar gift. It was a Moon Gazer fine sliver pentdent over 1 1/8 diameter. It also had a star in it, surrounded by little stars, and in the middle of the big star, was a Sibirean Emerald Crystal. It hung from a sterling sliver neckalce. Hermione took it out of the box, and held it up for everyone to see. Everyone 'oooh'd' and 'ahhh'd'. (A/N: If you want to see the pentdent here's the website: http://store5.yimg.com/I/capricornslair_1681_16685705)

"Harry…You," she paused, then looked at him. "You really shouldn't have." She said. Haryr shrugged.

"You mean a lot to me, Mione. And I wanted to get you something that showed you that." He said. Hermione walked over to him, and gave him a long hug. When the seperated, Hermione had tears on her face. Harry wiped them away. Hermione sniffed.

"Thank-you, Harry. This means so much to me." She said, and huge grins grew on their faces. Isabella then shouted.

"Let's play a game!"

"What?"

"Spin the Bottle?"

"No!"

"7 Minutes in Heaven?"

"God no!"

"Wizards chest?"

"That wouldn't be fun playing with you Ron! You'd win all the time!

"What about Truth or Dare?" Isabella asked. Everyone seemed to agree, so they all gathered around the couch and chairs.

"Who's first?" Ginny asked.

"Isabella. It was her idea." Hermione said. Isabella looked around for her first victim.

"Samantha!" she shouthed. Samantha sighed, playing Truth or Dare with her sister was something she always tried to avoid.

"Truth." She said. Isabella smiled wickedly.

"Truth. Do you like Draco?" She asked. Samantha looked horrified. She hid her hands in her face, and blushed a deep crimison…Draco was sitting right next to her!

"ess." Was all they heard. Isabella shook her head.

"Wha?" she asked.

"ESS!" Samantha said louder. Isaballe rolled her eyes, and walked over to her, and removed her hands from her face.

"WHAT!" She she shouted.

"Maybe…" Samantha said, looking down at her lap. Isabella dropped her hands, and placed them on her hips.

"Samantha…" she scowlded. Samantha groaned.

"YES! FINE! I like Draco!" she turned to Draco. "Draco, I like you!" she then turned back to Isabella. "There, are you satisfied?!" she shouted at her. Isabella smiled, and noddedly widly. She then walked back over and sat next to Ron, while she sat back on the couch placing a hand over her eyes. Draco put his arm around her, and she removed her hand, and they smiled at each other.

"Okay, Sam, your turn." Seamus said. Samantha broke her gaze from Draco, and glared evily at her sister.

"ISABELLA!" she exclaimed. Hermione shook her head.

"Sorry, Sam, you can't dare your darer." She said. Samantha sighed, that's all she wanted to do was get her sister back…but wait, there was Ron…

"Okay, Ron. Truth or Dare?" she asked. Ron gulped.

"Errm…D-Dare." He said. Samantha smiled.

"I dare you to give a hickey to Isabella." She smiled triumpantly, as everyone 'ooooh'd'. Ron looked like he was going to die, and Isabella smiled happily. He then turned to Isabella.

"I've never done this before." He whispered. Isabella smiled reasurringly.

"I find that hard to believe, Mr. Weasly." She said. Ron smiled, and then he leaned into Isabella's neck, and started kissing it. Isabella laughed when Ron started to suck. A few minutes later, Ron moved away and there was a medium sized red mark on her neck. Everyone cheered and whooped, and Ron and Isabella had a look of satisfactory on her face.

"Okay, your turn Ron." Hermione laughed. Ron cocked his head, and looked at her.

"You think that's funny, Miss Birthday Girl? Well, Harry, Truth or Dare?" he asked. Harry got a bad feeling in his stomach.

"Dare?" he asked with uncertinly. Ron rubbed his hands together.

"You and Hermione have to go into the Girl's Dormitory and make-out for 10 minutes!" Ron shouted. Why not kill to birds with one stone, he thought. Everyone laughed, and cheered. Except for Harry and Hermione, who were turning a deep crimson

"Go on then." Lavender said.

Harry and Hermione slowly walked up to the girls dormitory, Harry let her in first. After he got in, he shut the door. Hermione crossed the room and sat on her bed, Harry followed.

"So this is the girls dorm?" he asked, looking around. Hermione nodded.

"Yeah." She said. After about 1 minute of absolute silence, Hermione spoke.

"We don't have to do this, you know." Harry looked at her, then looked at his feet.

"Then…how are we going to make it look like we did?" Harry asked.

Hermione looked him up and down, then snapped her fingers.

"You…you, can wear your shirt inside out, and mess up your hair alittle bit more." Hermione said.

Harry took off his shirt, and Hermione found herself staring at his muscles. Quidditch did him justic. Then, he put his shirt back on, and did up his hair.

"How's this?" Harry said.

"F-fine…" Hermione managed to choke out. Harry then put a finger to his lips, then nodded.

"Well…You can smeer your lipstick alittle, and…uh…pull down your hair." Harry replied. Hermione's hair was up in a pony-tail.

"Like this?" Hermione wipped her mouth, only a fad of light pink was left. She then let down her hair, and her loose curls tumbled down her shoulders. Harry stared at her.

"Y-y-yeah…" he managed to say.

A few minutes later, then existed the room, and walked down the stairs to find everyone was scattered around everywhere listening to "Happy Birthday Sweet 16". Ron and Isabella were over by the punch bowl getting drinks. Harry and Hermione walked up to them.

"Well?" Harry asked. Ron turned around, then realized what Harry meant by "well".

"OH YEAH! How was it?" he asked. Harry looked at him disbelievingly.

"Great…" Harry replied in a 'what the hell?' voice. Ron smiled, and punched his arm.

"Great!" he said, then him and Isabella walked off to the chairs. Harry and Hermione then looked at each other, and shook there heads, and walked over to where Draco and Samantha were seated.

That night, Harry tossed and turned again. He was dreaming of walking up a ladder and finding a door with boards crisscrossing it, then it opened and Hermione was lying on the floor, almost dead. Then he heard a cruel and vicious laugh, and saw green.

Harry woke-up in bed, clutching his scar, trying not to yell. He didn't want to wake up his friends, and Hermione who was lying next to him, her arm drapped across his chest, and snuggled up next to him. But he manged to wake her up anyways. She sat up, her eyes groggy from sleep, and her hair strewed about the place.

"Harry?" she whispered. "Are you alright?" she asked. Harry nodded.

"Yeah…I just have a bit of a headache." He said. Hermione smiled, and laied back down, on her side, facing Harry.

"I had a good time last night Harry, thanks again." She said, brushing away his bangs. When her hand came in contact with his scar, it seemed to cool down, and Harry smiled in relift.

"Your welcome, Mione." He said. Hermione giggled.

"I like that nick name." She said. Harry chuckled.

"Good, cause I plan on calling you that a lot." He said. Hermione smiled, and closed her eyes, falling into a deep slumber.

"Will you ever be mine?" Harry asked, running a hand down through her hair, then drapped his arm over her waist, and fell asleep soon after that.

Well, that was a really fun chapter to write! And that pentdent, it is REALLY pretty eh? Anyways, again, I don't know when I'll have the next chapter out. Sometimes the idea's just *POP* into my head, and sometimes I need to take some time to think about it.

Thanks to my reviewers…

Linz: Here's you "little more h/hr!"I hope you liked this chapter!

Colibi: Thanks! And that's so sweet that ya used to do that with your roommate :0)

Gundamharecore: lol, Jebus? That's funny! Hehe. Thanks for the review!

Hyperwhich: Lol, your welcome and I love ya too! Hehe. What's coming up is for me to know, and you to find out ::wink wink:: Draco is on his way to becoming a good guy. Mione is really having those bad dreams, but you'll find out why near the end. And I really don't think Harry minds that much either…

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