Title: Falling for You
Author: Evie DuGrey
Chapter Title: Chapter Eight: Shopping.
Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns Harry Potter and I made up the dresses along with the help of my friend Jackie J Thanks!
Summary: Hermione and the gang's 7th year at Hogwarts. Stuff's gonna happen. HG/DM.
A/N Hey guys! I just finished my copy of OotP and I loved it! Well anyway, thanks for all of your reviews, which was surprisingly a lot considering the day I uploaded was the say of the OotP book launch, but thanks anyway! Also, a couple of you said that I'm making them seem American instead of Brittish and I'm sorry about this but I'm Australian and I've never been to America or Brittain so I'm just writing the way I speak here. Anyway, enough with my ramblings! On with the story!
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Hermione awoke early weekend of the Hogsmeade excursion.
The meeting with Dumbledore, weeks before had been quite uneventful. He just said that the boys would have to organise decorations and the lay-out of the hall, and Cho and Hermione would have to find entertainment and organise a menu, which didn't help Hermione's work load, what with the cheerleading practises twice a week now.
She had arranged to go to Hogsmeade with Cho and Lavender because the girls didn't want their dates to see their dresses before the big night. Hermione didn't really care, considering that she wasn't going to be going with Harry or Ron anyway, but decided to go with the girls anyway.
She dressed quickly in a pair of black mytiko flares and a Gryffindor hoodie and woke Cho.
"Mother of Merlin 'Mione I'm up already!" she grumbled, getting out of bed. Cho gathered her clothes together and went into the bathroom, locking the door behind her.
Hermione banged on the door. "I'm going to get Lavender! I'll see you in a minute!"
"Okay!" Cho called back.
Hermione walked out of the Head common room and towards the Gryffindor common room.
On the way, she passed Malfoy and Pansy making out outside the Prefect bathroom. Hermione felt a pang of jealousy, seeing Draco like that but simply passed it off as hunger pains.
"Jeez! Get a bloody room!" She called.
Pansy detached herself from Malfoy's face "I'm sorry what was that? Did the little Mudblood have something to say? Is she just a wittle bit jealous that I've got Draco now and not her?" she asked cruelly.
"Yes actually Parkinson, I did have something to say! I said get-a-bloody-room!" Hermione smiled innocently and began to walk off again, but changed her mind and turned around and said, "Oh by the way, 20 points off Slytherin for irresponsible behaviour in the corridors. And a further ten for using the most over-used insult ever on the Head Girl!" She winked and continued walking towards the Gryffindor common room before Malfoy could start taking points off her.
When she got there, she walked over to the girls' dormitories and knocked on the door.
"Come in!" Someone called from the inside.
She walked in and found Lavender sitting down on her bed, revising her Divination homework. "Hey Lav! You ready to go?" Hermione asked
"Just a minute. Foldeo" Lavender put the folding spell on her star charts and they began to fold themselves up. "Alright, I'm ready."
Hermione smiled at her and walked back out of the room again, with Lavender behind her.
"Are you getting new dress robes or muggle formal wear?" Lavender asked when they got back to the common room, and they were seated around the burning fire, Cho now out of the shower.
"I think I'll get muggle wear." Cho replied.
"Yeah me too." Hermione joined in.
"Okay well if you two are, I suppose I will too," Lavender joined in "I heard that there's actually a new shop opening down at Hogsmeade that sells all sorts of muggle clothes. I think I'll get my stuff from there. What do you think?"
"Yeah, okay I'll go there too." Cho agreed.
Hermione shrugged her shoulders. "Sure, okay."
"Well then what are we waiting for?" Lavender said enthusiastically.
The three girls picked up their bags and walked out of the common room and towards Hogsmeade.
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"Does this make my bum look big?" Cho asked anxiously.
Hermione laughed. "No Cho, you're butt is perfectly in proportion with the rest of your body."
Cho smiled and surveyed herself in the mirror once more. She was wearing a blue one-shoulder dress that fitted tightly until the waist and then flowed out until it reached her ankles where it had little white flowers on it. "This is the one. I'm going to go pay for it." She said with a smile.
Lavender was the next girl to pick out a dress for. Hermione and Cho searched and searched until finally Hermione found a beautiful yellow dress with wide white strips around the side, which criss-crossed at the back. Hermione passed it over the curtain of the changing room and waited for her to come out.
Lavender loved the dress and went to pay for it along with Cho.
When the two girls got back from the cash register, they went on search for Hermione's dress, but they both came back, ten minutes later, empty handed.
"We couldn't find anything we thought you'd like"
"That's okay, we can g-" Hermione was cut off by a woman tapping her on the shoulder. She turned around.
"Are you three from Hogwarts?" She asked, eagerly.
"Er, yes." Hermione replied.
"Well, I know you have a ball coming up and I overheard you two saying that you couldn't find her a dress. I just thought I might be able to help. You see, we just received a huge delivery and most of the new stock is out the back. If you'd just accompany me, I think I have something you'd be rather interested in."
Hermione looked from Cho to Lavender and just shrugged. The lady had already began to walk out the back to Hermione got up and began to follow her.
The back store room was a white room out the back of the shop, and today it was filled with some of the nicest dresses Hermione had ever seen. The shop assistant that was helping them walked over to a rack in the middle of the room and searched through it until finally she pulled out a dress.
Hermione gasped. It was perfect. At the bottom of the dress it was a very dark shade of green, but as the dress went up the green got lighter and lighter and it finished with wide strip of white. It was a bustier dress and flared out at the bottom, and it had a sort of v-shaped waistline.
"Can I try that on?" Hermione asked in awe.
"Absolutely."
Hermione went to try it on and came out a few minutes later. The dress fitted like a dream and looked like one too.
Cho and Lavender nodded, that this dress was, the one.
Hermione giggled in excitement. "Alright, I'm going to go change. Can you guys go pay for this for me?" She passed the girls a few dozen galleons and went back into the changing room feeling confident that she had bought the best dress in the whole shop.
The two girls walked out of the shop, with their purchases in their hands and headed back to Hogwarts.
A/N: Do you guys like this chapter? I had to put it the shopping somewhere. The next scene is going to be the match! YAY! That's going to be fun to write. Okay now dedications….
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