A/N- Hey, back again. So… I hope you enjoy this chapter. I think it's going to be short.

Love Reborn: Hehehehehe, evil little girl over here. I left a cliffhanger because… it's fun! lol!

Starry Skies: Corny? Tis tis tis. Sure I can make him like he acts in J.K Rowlings books but, it won't be toward Hermione, if that's what you meant. I wil TRY to make him like his old, old self.

Shivvyshiv435: Grrr! Girl you better get into the Draco/Hermione fics. But I KNOW since I KNOW you, you'll keep reading mine ;) Just read the really cool d/h fanfics I told you about.

Shivvyshiv435: (2nd review) Of course they do celebrate it. =-P Oh, and… when did you start calling yourself Kristy-Ditzy? Your supposed to hate when Larissa calls you that! lol!

K-chan: Tankoo! I see Draco's a bit OOC, but… whats a fanfic without a little OOC? lol! Tankoo for reading!!!!

Ethany Silvress: lol, of course me write moreeeee, I've had so many tests this week, I never finished.

Anyone else in my class: If you missed the french test, you're all chickens and our teacher shall give you a harder test. (She told us!)

Disclaimer: 1,2,3,4, who's the greatest one of all? Uh, me? lololol. Okie dokie smokie, I don't own Harry Potter *mumbles* anymore. What? Huh? I didn't mean that!

Rewinding:

"G'night Hermione." Draco said

With that, Hermione left his room and headed to her own.

Hermione took off her robe, hung it on the door, and got in bed. She closed her eyes when she realized…

'I'm going to the dance with Draco?!'

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Chapter 13: Hogsmeade Trip

The next morning Hermione woke up from a peaceful sleep with one thought still on her mind: 'I'm going to the dance with Draco?!' But that thought was soon forgotten as she left her room in her jean bell-bottoms decorated with sparkles, and a blue halter-top.

"Hermione!" Lavender yelled from downstairs in the Common Room.

"Yep?" Hermione said.

"Wanna come to Hogsmeade with Ginny, Harry, Ron, Seamus and me?" Lavender asked.

"Sure, what time are we leaving?" Hermione asked going down the stairs reaching the Common Room.

"As soon as Seamus comes down. We're gonna meet everyone else in the Gryffindor Common Room." Lavender answered.

"Okay."

"So, what are you gonna buy?" Lavender asked.

"A nice dress and a nice dress robe. We ARE supposed to be dressed formally like muggles. What about you?" Hermione said.

"Same as you, but the colors are going to totally be lavender, that's all I know!" Lavender excitedly said.

"Of course." Hermione smirked.

Just then Seamus came down the stairs in (sort of) baggy muggle jeans and a orange sweater.

"Ready?" Seamus asked when he reached the two standing girls.

"Ready." They both answered happily and laughed.

So all three of them left their Common Room and headed toward the Gryffindor Common Room.

"So Seamus, have any idea what your gonna wear?" Lavender asked.

"Just some jeans and a cut up shirt." He answered coolly.

Hermione and Lavender stared in shock.

Seamus burst out laughing, "I was only joking. I'm going to wear some nice fancy wizard clothes and a dress robe."

"But we're supposed to wear muggle clothes." Hermione said.

"Gotcha again." Seamus said. "I'm wearing uh… I think they call them tuxini's…"

"Tuxedo" Hermione corrected.

"Err, yeah that, without the jacket… 'cause… you know… the robes." Seamus said.

"Hey! Hermione! I just realize, we get to wear robes, that's not muggle style." Lavender said.

"True, oh well, robes go nicely with dressy stuff." Hermione answered.

"Yeah." Lavender agreed.

Just as Lavender said 'Yeah' they had reached the outside of the Gryffindor Common Room to see Harry, Ginny and Ron standing there.

"Hey guys." Ginny said.

"Hey Gin." Hermione hugged her friend.

"Hey Hermione." Harry and Ron said at the same time.

"Hey you guys." Hermione greeted hugging Harry then Ron.

"Hi Lavender." Ron blushed.

Hermione giggled a little and Harry laughed softly.

"Hi Ron." Lavender smiled.

"Okay guys lets get going to Hogsmeade." Hermione announced.

The group headed out of Hogwarts and went to some carriages set in front of the school. At certain times the carriages would leave to go to Hogsmeade (A/N- Sort of like the S train…S= Shuttle."

There were 4 carriages outside, the group decided to go to the one on the right end.

In 2 minutes the carriage started to leave. The horse neighing once in a while.

"I can't wait. It feels like I haven't been to Hogsmeade in decades!" Hermione said.

"Yeah!" Seamus agreed.

In about 10 minutes the carriage had reached Hogsmeade.

"Yes!" Ginny yelled jumping excitedly out of the car.

Hermione giggled at that.

Lavender, Hermione, Harry, Ron and Seamus left the carriage and headed into a shop that was put up in the summer, called: Dress Robes Galore! (A/N- LOLOL, I just love that word… Galore!)

"Wow!" Lavender exclaimed.

"It's AMAZING!" Hermione blurt out.

Lavender had spotted a whole section of different designed, lavender colored robes.

Hermione admired the whole girls' section. It was filled with all colors and different designed robes.

"I guess this is the girls section. Come on guys." Harry said, followed by Seamus and Ron going toward the back of the store where the boys' robes were.

Ginny had gone over to the red robes and was looking throughout the racks.

Hermione finally decided to actually explore the robes. She started out with looking at orange robes. 'These are nice designs, but their just not my color.' So she walked over to the gold robe section. 'These are pretty, but… just too bright for me.' Hermione then decided to take a look at the green robes. She flipped through the robes on the hangers and spotted one that really stood out to her.

Hermione picked up hanger with the robe on it.

"Wow," Hermione said.

The robe was green decorated with gold trimmings and had slits on the left and right slides. It was pretty heavy and touched the floor. On it were the outlines of flowers every here and there, the outline of the flowers gold also. Though there was no collar, there was a hood that was the same color as the robe, and Hermione was dazzled by it. So she kept it in her hand and decided to look at the baby blue section, since of course, baby blue was her favorite color.

Hermione walked slowly over to the baby blue section admiring the robes she was passing. When Hermione arrived at her destination there were no words to describe how shocked she was at all of the pretty blue robes.

Hermione rested the pretty green robe on the back of a chair nearby.

She started pulling out and placing black the baby blue robes she saw, and ran across a really beautiful one. The robe was a very pretty blue (not baby blue) and had baby blue (Yes baby blue) pearls around the low-neck line. There was no hood on it. It had stars twinkling over all over the robe, bigger stars here and there. It touched the floor on Hermione as she tried it on. Hermione simply loved it. She picked up the green robe and hurried back to the green section to put it back. She loved it, but she loved the blue robe even more. She gave a good-bye to the green robe and went to the cash register to pay for the blue one.

"That will be… 20 galleons and 2 sickles." The witch said.

Hermione pulled out her money. She had enough money, since she brought 60 galleons with her.

Hermione handed the witch 30 galleons, collected her change and waited for Ginny and Lavender to pay for theirs.

Just as Lavender was paying for hers, Hermione realized the boys were already standing by the door waiting for them.

Lavender, Hermione, and Ginny walked over to the guys and they left the store soon to realize connected to it was the Dress and Suit departments…

They walked to the door of the 2nd part of the store and saw a sign that said: Dreams Galore! (A/N- I Told Yah I Loved That Word!)

So all of them walked into the store and saw the store divided by a line in the middle to separate the girls and guys department.

Hermione, Lavender, and Ginny went to the girls' part, and Harry, Seamus, and Ron went to the guys' part of course.

Lavender immediately rushed over to the lavender dresses (A/N- Did you expect something else?). Ginny went to the red dresses, and Hermione went over to the blue dresses. Everyone seemed to want their dresses, the same color as their robes.

Flicking through the dresses Hermione found one that caught her eye… not literally. She picked up the hanger the dress was on. It seemed to be a blue dress with stars sparkling on them just like the robe she bought. It was strapless, and looked fit for whoever wore it until it got to the waist where it flowed out beautifully, not too much, and not too little. Hermione turned the dress around and saw in the back there was a bow where the waist would be. She absolutely adored it, and took it to the cash register. 'That wasn't so hard to look for.' Hermione thought.

"25 galleons." The witch smiled.

Hermione handed the witch 25 galleons, took the bag the dress was in and walked over to Lavender, and Ginny who were talking by the door.

Now all of them were waiting for the guys.

After 2 minutes of talking the guys walked over to them with their stuff and all of them headed out of the store.

"Now what? We got our stuff." Hermione said.

"Err… Lets go to that new restaurant." Harry said.

"Which one? Hogsmeade put up more stores and restaurants over the summer." Ron said.

"Err… How about that one over there… Olive Garden." (A/N- Disclaimer: I do not own anything or any part of Olive Garden, nor the name, it is just being used by the story and you will have to pretend that it really isn't a muggle place… Thank You… LOL!) Harry said pointing to a 2 floored restaurant.

"Okay, sounds cool." Lavender said.

The group went inside laughing and talking together.

"How many?" A young wizard asked.

"6." Hermione answered.

The wizard walked them to a round table fit for 6 people.

Hermione sat in between Lavender and Seamus, Harry sat between Seamus and Ginny, and Ron sat in between Ginny and Hermione.

"Hmm… Now what?" Ginny asked.

"Oh, I read in the Daily Prophet that you just say what you want and it'll appear on your plate." Hermione informed.

Just then transparent menus appeared in front of their faces.

"Corn, chicken, and sprite." Hermione said, and the food popped on her plate along with a goblet aside filled with sprite.

"New York Steak and broccoli and Pepsi." Lavender said. "That is so cool."

(A/N- Oooh, can we pretend muggle drinks are normal drinks? lol.)

Ginny got salad and chicken noodle soup with pumpkin juice. Harry ordered a salad and Dr. Pepper. Ron asked for a grilled cheese sandwich and pumpkin juice, and Seamus ordered crab legs, which came with butter and a sprite.

The whole time they talked and laughed until…

"Hello Hermione." Someone said.

Hermione turned around.

Draco.

"Hi Draco."

"What do you want Malfoy?" Harry asked.

"Chill Potter, I'm just here to see a *friend* of mine." Draco sneered.

"Whatever." Harry mumbled.

"Since when has our Hermione been your friend?" Ron asked.

"Pardon, but YOUR Hermione? I thought she was a person owned by nobody… but- maybe her parents." Draco said coolly with one eyebrow raised.

"Picky." Ron mumbled turning his head away.

"Listen Malfoy, nobody here wants your company… your not welcome here… get the point?… Go away!" Seamus stood up (A/N- Not in the way as if he had courage, but… physically… standing… err… yeah.)

"Seamus." Hermione whispered tugging on Seamus's shirt.

"Hey Seamus, I thought we were cool… being prefects and all. But calling me Malfoy again, are we now? What? Is it because you're with your Gryffindor friends? Because you don't think Slytherin and Gryffindor will mix in public? If you're gonna be this way… then fine, I'll play whatever little game you're playing at. " Draco spat, "Bye Hermione." He smiled at her, looked at everyone else at the table, raised an eyebrow and stormed away.

Seamus sat back down.

"Seamus, I thought you were cool with him, also." Hermione said.

"Cool? With a Slytherin? Yeah right." Seamus rolled his eyes.

"That wasn't really nice though, you talked to him and hang out with him in the Common Room before, and now you yell at him saying he's not wanted by ANYONE here." Hermione stated.

"Hermione? Have you gone nuts? Who cares if he wasn't nice to that… that… ferret?" Ron said.

"Ooh, good one Ron." Harry rolled his eyes. "Ferret…" He laughed.

"Shut-up, Harry" (Disclaimer: I do not own that line, it strictly comes from the movie Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone…… lol!)

"No I haven't gone 'nuts'" Hermione said ignoring Harry and Ron's side conversation. "I just don't understand how Seamus had a sudden change of how he acts toward Draco."

"I'm sorry Hermione, but I really have to protect my reputation toward Slytherins." Seamus whispered in Hermione's ear with his arm around her.

Hermione took his arm off of her, "What reputation?" She yelled. "You're… you're… UGG!" Hermione picked up her stuff and walked out of the restaurant. 'I can't believe him. What reputation? He has NO reputation to 'protect' as he says. He was cool with Draco and everything and then he goes and fusses at Draco.' Hermione stopped in her tracks. 'Why do I care so much about D-' Hermione bumped into someone while she was walking.

'-raco' Her thought finished.

"What a pleasant surprise, Hermione."

"Draco."

"Yes, that's my name."

"Uh-uh-um Hi. Yeah, pleasant surprise." Hermione stutterted.

"What was up with Seamus back there?" Draco asked.

"I really don't know, but I left everybody there because of what he was saying." Hermione said.

"Oh. Well, would you like to join me? I'm going to The Three Broomsticks to take butterbeer to go." Draco offered. (A/N- THANK YOU LARISSA!I still don't understand how I forgot the name of the restaurant!)

"Sure, why not?" Hermione said.

Together they walked down the hill to The Three Broomsticks.

"Two butter beers please." Draco said.

"You can drink TWO?" Hermione asked amazed.

"Err, I probably could… but I'm not." Draco said.

"So why did you order two?" Hermione asked.

"Because I'm ordering one for you."

"But whoever orders it is charged for i- DRACO! You're not paying for my drink!" Hermione said.

"Already ordered it… guess I am." Draco said simply.

Hermione rolled her eyes.

"You're not getting away with it." Hermione mumbled.

"Uh-huh, sure." Draco said taking the butterbeers and handing the witch 10 sickles.

Hermione took her butterbeer doing a strange motion around him to get it.

"Thank you." Hermione smiled.

"Okay, I'm going to head back to Hogwarts."

"I guess I will too, nothing else to do. I got to get my stuff ready for tomorrow." Hermione said.

"Can I take a peak at what you bought?" Draco smirked.

"No way! You have to wait." Hermione stuck her tongue out.

"Fine! Fine!" Draco said playfully.

Both of them walked to the carriages that take them back to Hogwarts.

"There's none here… Oh! There's one!" Hermione said pointing to a free carriage.

They walked over to the carriage Hermione was pointing to and climbed in.

Suddenly the carriage started to move and they jerked forward a little bit.

15 minutes later they arrived back at the familiar castle to them.

Hermione and Draco got out of the carriage and began to walk towards the entrance to Hogwarts.

"Salaxe" (A/N- Parts of 3 names put together, 2 other people can guess who…lol!)

The portrait swung open.

"So what do you think their gonna do to me?" Hermione asked Draco.

"Huh?" He said.

"Seamus, Harry and all of them." Hermione clarified.

"Oh. Dunno. But I have something in store for Seamus." Draco smirked.

Hermione turned around to go hang up her cloak.

All of a sudden…

"HERMIONE!!!!" Draco shouted.

Hermione slowly turned around to face him

"Yes?" She asked sweetly… TOO sweetly.

"I told you I was paying for it. I was wondering why you do that weird movement around me when I gave you that butterbeer!" Draco said.

"Yeah but-"

"Hermione take it back!" Draco said holding out 5 sickles that he got from inside his cloak pocket.

"No, Draco." Hermione said turning back around and hanging up her clock on a (err…) cloak hanger.

"Hermione!" Draco yelled at Hermione who was running up the stairs to her room. "Okay, Hermione… I'll keep it, thank you!" Draco said nicely… too nicely.

"You're welcome!" Hermione's voice came from her room.

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Hermione took her bags and put them on her bed.

From inside a bag she pulled out the dress she bought and put it up against her.

'This is beautiful. I can't wait!' (A/N- AGG! As I finished typing that line I thought about Hilary Duff's song… I Can't Wait… *shiverz* Woah, I have too many A/N's in here… okay… err… uh… bye?)

Then Hermione took the dress over to her step in closet. She pulled out a hanger and hung the dress up.

Hermione walked back out and took out of the other bag, the beautiful cloak she bought that coincidentally matched it. She walked to the closet and hung that up too.

The bags were soon stuffed under her bed and Hermione was in her bed falling asleep with one thought STILL in her mind.

'I'm going to the dance with Draco?!'

But now the thought didn't bother her much, and she fell asleep smiling.

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A/N- I thought that that was a cute ending… But that's me =-) So… tell me what you think about it. It took about a week or over to write! This was 9 pages… 3,072 words. I think that's one of the most words I've ever had. I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Ooh, and I got a new email addy! Mara_Malfoy@Swirvemail.com . Go Draco!

~HuGz~

Mara-Potter