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AN - This chapter tells of the girls getting ready for the dance and the working around the problems Hermione's interventions have caused.
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Hermione sat at her dressing table peering in the mirror. Her hair was piled on top of her head in a mass of rollers thanks to Kallie Jennerson, her nails were a soft blue courtesy of Larissa Goodmane and her face was green from the avocado facemask Pavarti had given her. It was the same for every dance they would help each other out so they all looked perfect.
"Ok you can rinse now" Pavarti called over from her own dressing table. Each girl took a face cloth from a little basin of warm water and washed their mask off.
"Ok we need to get in to our dresses before we do makeup" Lavender instructed
"What if we smudge?" Larissa asked
"We wont" Hermione answered confidently. She picked up her wand smiling at her "protection spell" they all giggled how muggles got along without magic was beyond them even those who had previously. They carried on gossiping and giggling while they got changed. Hermione spared a quick thought for Hannah, but after a moment it as gone.
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In the Hufflepuff girls dormitory a similar scene was unfolding. Hannah had her hair in loose ringlets held in a ponytail. She was leaning over Susan's dress scrubbing at it. She held it up for her to see Abigail gasped opening her eyes Susan screeched in delight the brown muddy marks had been washed away and the dress was as good as new.
Susan rushed at Hannah hugging her like there was no tomorrow "Thank you so much" she said happily
"No probz" Hannah replied returning the hug "I told you magical wash for stubborn stains would work" she was immediately enveloped in another hug.
"Why don't you put it on" Abby suggested, Susan smiled and went to do so.
Hannah slipped into her own dress. It was a gorgeous pale purple it had an off the shoulder bodice and an above the knee cut. Her shoes were also pale purple strappy sandals. She pulled her honey blonde hair from its pony and let it flow down around her shoulders in soft curls. She wore a little makeup light and sparkly to give her a bit of shimmer. She sprayed her hair and shoulders with glitter that shone in the light. She was ready. She sat down on her bed watching as Susan brushed her neckline red hair straight and Abby, well she wasn't sure what Abby was doing. She watched as she pulled everything from her trunk and threw it round the room. Her ankle length powdered pink dress still hung from her curtain rail.
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Hermione smiled as she looked at her reflection. Her dress was periwinkle blue and clung to her nicely defining her curves. Sitting just above the knee it had spaghetti straps and the back crisscrossed all the way down to her waist. Her chocolate brown hair hung in corkscrew ringlets down her back. Some had been left to shape her face setting it all of nicely. Her coffee brown eyes shone in the light. Slipping in to her matching sandals she waited as the rest of the girls added the finishing touches to there outfit Hannah's shoe lay forgotten at the bottom of her trunk.
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"It's no use it's lost!" Abby wailed. Hannah looked up from the book she was reading. Emma by Jane Austen. Abby had borrowed it earlier in the week from Hermione and had talked about it so much she'd had to read it before she returned it.
"What's lost?" she asked her forlorn friend
"My sandal" she replied "you know my baby pink one's well one's missing, I put them in the shoe box under my bed and now one's gone"
"Maybe you misplaced it" Hannah rationalized
"How can you misplace one shoe?" she sighed flopping down on her bed. Susan came and sat down beside her
"Well it can't have gone very far" she said reasonably "and who would take one shoe?" She picked up the photo from Abby's bedside table, it showed all the 5th year Hufflepuff's on their very first day of school, and they all had one. Susan couldn't help but smile at how much they had changed.
Hannah came and stood beside her "We should take another, of us all in our fling gear" she commented the other girls nodded in agreement "and I think Summer has some frosted pink sandals, they're not baby pink but they'll go. You're a size 4 right"
Abby nodded suddenly brightening all was not lost. Hannah headed for the common room where summer was waiting with the other Hufflepuff's. It was almost time for the much awaited spring fling to begin!
AN - Who indeed hope you liked it please R&R it's much appreciated