Title: Falling for You
Author: Evie DuGrey
Chapter Title: Chapter Seven: Conversations and Announcements.
Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns Harry Potter. And the book 'Looking for Alibrandi' is written by Melina Marchetta and is published by Penguin. It's a good book. You should read it.
Summary: Hermione and the gang's 7th year at Hogwarts. Stuff's gonna happen. HG/DM.
A/N: Umm thanks to my reviewers! Which wasn't actually a lotL but ne way please still review!
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Hermione studied for about two hours before finally taking a break. She realized that lunch would have finished long ago and she had missed it, so she went into the common room to make herself a cup of coffee.
She walked over to the coffee maker, which she had called 'Caffy' and had brought from home and bewitched to work at Hogwarts. She made herself some coffee and walked over to a couch and sat down.
She looked over at the coffee table and saw a book. Looking For Alibrandi. She picked it up and looked inside the cover. 'Cho Chang' was written in it. Hermione had already read the book and it was a muggle story and she figured it was Cho's book and she probably wouldn't mind her reading it so she picked it up and began to read.
You know, a wonderful thing happened to me when I reflected back on my year
'One day' came
Because I finally understood.
A few hours later, Hermione had finished the book. She closed it and put it down on the table, just as Draco and Tristan walked in. Hermione stood up and attempted to talk to him.
"Dra- Malfoy. We need to talk."
Draco signalled for Tristan to leave them alone and Tristan walked over to their dorms
"We've got nothing to talk about."
"Malfoy."
"What do you want to talk about?" He asked impatiently
"You know perfectly well what I want to talk about. It was a mistake. We just got caught up in the moment." She said, looking at her toes.
He smirked. "Oh. You mean our little 'encounter'. Don't worry. I won't tell Potty and Weasel about our little secret."
Hermione smiled a little bit. At least he was talking to her now. "Thanks."
"Well, must go. Got plenty more fans waiting for me out there. You can't be the only girl I get with this week and I wouldn't want to keep the other girls waiting now would I?" He smirked once more and called out, "Landies! Come on, I want to go again" and walked back out of the common room with Landies in tow, checking out Hermione as he walked out.
*Why is he always so moody? One moment he's the sweetest guy ever and just fun to hang around with and the next he goes back to this egotistical, arrogant prick. I mean, what's with that?*
Hermione went out of the common room too and decided to go down to the Gryffindor common room.
She whispered the password to the Fat Lady (Lion heart) and walked in. Harry and Ron were playing a game of wizard chess so she walked over and sat down next to Ron.
"Hey guys."
Harry and Ron looked up. "Oh, hey 'Mione. What's up?" Harry asked.
"Nothing much, I just thought I'd drop by and visit you."
"Okay." He replied
"Checkmate." Ron grinned madly at Harry. "I won, I won!" Ron started to do a victory lap around the common room and Hermione laughed at him.
"So 'Mione are you going to try out for the Gryffindor Quidditch team? It should be good and Gryffindor need a new Chaser anyway. And I'm the captain so I might be able to sneak you in." Harry said.
"Oh, Maybe Harry, I don't know. I'm not the best at flying. Besides, I've got enough to worry about as it is with my O.L.W.S coming up later this year and me being Head Girl and all. Maybe another time."
Harry shook his head. "It's up to you, but you don't know what your missing out on!"
Hermione smiled. "I'll think about it Harry."
Ron came back from his victory lap and put his hands over his belly.
"Time for dinner! Come on guys I'm STARVING over here!"
Hermione and Harry got up and walked with Ron down to the Great Hall.
When they got there, they sat down at the Gryffindor table and Hermione helped herself to pasta and pumpkin juice.
At the end of dinner, Dumbledore stood up to make an announcement.
"Students, I have an announcement to make. In exactly two months from now, Hogwarts will be having a Queen of Hearts dance." There was an excited murmur from all of the tables. "But being a Queen of Hearts dance, it means that instead of the traditional boys asking the girls to go, the girls must ask the boys. There will be a Hogsmeade weekend in a few weeks for all of you to pick out outfits, however it is not compulsory for you to wear dress robes, you may wear muggle formal wear if you wish. The Head Boy and Girl and the prefects will all be organizing it. Could you all please meet me in my office tomorrow morning for a meeting? That is all. You may go back to your dormitories now."
As soon as Dumbledore was finished talking, a large cheer erupted from the tables.
"Oh my god 'Mione! What are we going to do?" Parvati called out in distress. "Did you know about this?"
"Calm down Parv, I had no idea about this. And what are we going to do? Well ask a guy to come with us. DUH!"
Hermione made arrangements with the boys for the Hogsmeade weekend and walked back to her common room, thinking about what she was going to wear for the ball, but more importantly, who she was going to ask.
A/N Sorry about this chap… I just needed to get Hermione and Draco to talk a bit more and to get in the fact that there is gonna be a ball. Landies isn't doing much at the moment but he'll come into play soon. Anyway, I'll hopefully get the rest of this out by the time the fifth book comes out (it's only 2 sleeps away) because I want you guys to keep reading but I've got a lot of tests to study for, but I'll try anyway.