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Chapter 7 PART ONE

Hermione woke up groggily to Janet McGratie yelling her name from the bathroom. The blinds on the windows were pulled up and the clock on the wall said that it was 7 o' clock.

"HERMIONE!!" came the annoyingly perky voice again.

"WHAT?!?!" Hermione yelled kicking off the covers, and sitting up. Janet emerged from the bathroom.

"Today's Friday." She said with a small smirk. Hermione never usually talked to her roommate and this was why.

"Great." She said heading off to the now empty, but perfumy bathroom. "I never even knew that you know about mornings, Janet." She said hotly closing the door. Janet had left a nice surprise for Hermione. She strayed her ugly makeup all over the counter and there were towels all over the floor. It was like swimming to try and get toì¥ÁY ¿ã bjbjóWóW -&'='=ãÿÿÿÿÿÿ]'''''''ÖÖÖÖÖ ì¥ÁY ¿ã bjbjóWóW -&'='=ãÿÿÿÿÿÿ]'''''''ÖÖÖÖÖ . But the sad thing is that they're bringing that girl with them."

Another girl spoke up, she was very pretty with lots of freckles. "I quite think that I should ask Ron to dance. But I think he likes that girl to, after what he did to Padma at the Yule Ball."

"Ugh.." Hermione groaned and put her head down on the desk. 'Don't let them see me.' She said inwardly. Why did every girl find Harry desirable? Yah sure he was handsome..and naturally kind, but that's no reason to love someone!

The rest of the day went horribly slow, she almost wished she hadn't dropped out of Divination. She'd atleast be able to collect her thoughts there. At lunch, she found Ron and Harry outside sitting by the lake, even though the sky threatened to pour any minute. She walked over slowly, trying to be quiet so that she could sort of just sit beside them and just be there, but sadly no. Parvarti and Lavender were walking towards her. They were smiling and waving.

"Umm.." She said once they stopped in front of her.

"Hermione, we have to be perfectly honest with you," Said Lavender lazily. "Since we're fellow Gryffindors, we're going to help you." Parvarti stifled a laugh.

" I don't need your help, thank you." Hermione said trying to push past them, but to no avail. Lavender and Parvarti had grabbed her under the arms and started dragging her towards Gryffindor Tower. They entered Lavender's room, which was very pink, and very blue. They sat Hermione down in from of the mirror and surveyed her dangerously. She was in shock to speak. Lavender then pulled out a pink make up bag (surprise) and started pulling a lot of tubes and glittery gunk out of it.

Hermione stood up abruptly. "HOW exactly do you plan on helping me?!"

Parvarti smiled and turned to Lavender. "I don't think she needs that much makeup, maybe just a little mascara, lip gloss, glitter, eye shadow.." She started counting out loud.

"I know what you mean," She said back to her friend. "You are naturally beautiful, Hermione. You just need to emphasize your features... a little." Lavender said slowly, walking towards her with outstretched arms.

"And please tell us you have pumps." Parvarti shoved her down in the seat.

"Pumps?" Hermione squeaked. 'Oh god help me!' Her mind screamed

Lavender was smirking as she whispered to Parvarti. Hermione eyed them reproachfully, and slowly stood up out of her seat. She edged towards the door, and Parvarti turned and called after her*. Hermione dashed out of the Gryffindor common room and crashed right into Ron.

"Ack!" He shouted, untangling his hand from her hair. Harry just laughed. Hermione stalked off towards the third floor bathroom to go and hide. She could hear Ron and Harry's heavy footsteps chambering after her. Lucky for her, she reached the bathroom about 30 seconds before them and locked the door. Ron banged loudly, being to stupid to use his wand to open the door. The door gave a loud click and sung open. Moaning Myrtle glided over the cubicle that Hermione hid in, silently giggling and saying how she'd 'rat' her out. Hermione glared at her and held her breath, praying that the two boys would just leave.

"Hermione," Harry called playfully taping on each of the doors. "Don't make me come in there, so I suggest you tell me why you are hiding."

"I'm not hiding from you, she said holding the door closed. Harry had found out which one she was in and was trying to get in. "I'm hiding from two VERY evil girls."

"What'd they try to do?" Came Ron's voice. "Try and steal your brain?" He obviously found that funny. Hermione stood on the toilet and peered over the top of the wall at Ron, who was silently convulsing with laughter.

"You are so pathetic!" Hermione scolded, now peering down at Harry. "And you too, this IS a girls washroom you know!!" But that didn't matter. The three of them were constantly in there since second year, and quiet frankly no one seemed to care.

"Just come out." Harry said sitting on the U-bend.

"Yah, and if they try to come and get you, who ever they are. You can hide behind us." Ron said trying to sound kind. Hermione hesitated before opening the door. She huffily shuffled over to where the boys were sitting and placed her hands on her hips. Ron was glaring at her, but still managed to smile. She tried as hard as she could to try and avert Harry's gaze but it was hard, with him being so sympathetic and everything.

"So." Ron pressed now nibbling on his nails.

"Ron, that's an awful habit," She tried as hard as she could to sound like no-it-all Hermione, but couldn't around them anymore. "And if you MUST now, I was hiding from Lavender and Parvarti. They seem to want to be my friend for an afternoon."

"Ick," Ron muttered wrinkling his nose. "How can you stand them?" Harry just looked out the window.

"Hermione---" And just as he said that, the *bell rang. "We're late for class." He smirked.

"Cripes!" Hermione squealed, hitting her forehead. The three of them ran out of the bathroom and down to the school grounds, totally not caring if they had their school books or not.

Care of Magical Creatures was insane, as always they had it with the Slytherins'. The most odd thing was; Goyle wasn't there. The whole lesson Draco and Crabbe were standing in the corner whispering and huddling around a piece of parchment, wands out. Hagrid didn't seem to mind though. It seemed that he preferred them not paying attention. But the sad thing for Hermione was that Lavender and Parvarti caught up with Hermione and would NOT leave her side at all during the lesson. Hermione looked to both Ron and Harry with pleading eyes, begging them to get her out of this, but being the idiots they were, they didn't!

"Git," She muttered to Ron as they scribbled notes. "Your-a-ruddy-git" She said in between breaths. He just laughed.

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After being through atleast an hour of torture with Lavender and Parvarti, Hermione felt like crying. And dying. Her eyelids were covered in heavy blue eye shadow and mascara, her lips were bright pink with lipstick AND gloss, and they forced her into a black denim skirt and very revealing halter. She had to admit, the skirt wasn't so bad, it was the makeup, halter and too strong smell of the perfume Ron gave her. Actually the perfume wasn't so bad either because it smelt like peppermint but there was way, way too much of it. When Lavender and Parvarti finally set her free, she covered her face in her hands and ran up to her room, locking herself in the bathroom.

It seemed that Crookshanks could feel her pain, so he was clawing on the outside of the door. Hermione spent forever in the bathroom scrubbing the make up off and fixing her clothes. She finally removed herself from the bathroom, still wearing the skirt, but now wearing, what she thought was a very pretty red T-shirt. Hermione rushed down the stairs to the Common Room, still hoping to catch Harry..and Ron of course.

Lucky for her, there they were. Ron looked really good, surprisingly and Harry looked gorgeous.

"Hey," he said standing up when he saw her. "You look great, I don't know why you were so worried about Lavender and Parvarti. It looks like they did a great job. "

"I guess," She said not wanting to argue.

Ron just smiled and the tree of them headed out towards the lake. It was dark and a little cloudy, Stars speckled the sky and the moon was bright. Hermione prayed to Danu (the moon), that nothing would go horribly wrong tonight. It seemed so perfect, with Ron chatting aimlessly, and Harry's arm brushing against hers. ****

It took awhile for them to find the lake house, with it being their first time there and all. You could hear the music from awhile away, it was so loud. The house looked rather beautiful, with its green roof and dock leading out to the lake. There were a lot people outside, Hermione noticed that most of them were Gryffindor. She too hesitated, but Harry grabbed her hand and lead her inside.

IT would've been a very beautiful house, if it weren't for all the empty bottles of butter beer and small articles of trash and clothing around.

"Hmmm.."Ron surveyed the surroundings. Practically everyone was dancing, and the patio doors were opened to reveal a band consisting of a few Hogwarts students, an elf and a dwarf playing drums.

"Looks like fun?" He questioned turning to Hermione and Harry.

"Yeah, Lets----" But Cho cut him off.

"HELLO HARRY." It was like she was talking to Hermione, or what she thought was a robot whom looked like Hermione.

"Hi, Cho." He smiled sweetly. Hermione could've killed him.

"Enjoying the party?" She said grabbing him by the wrist and pulling him away. Hermione opened her mouth to protest but Ron put a hand on her shoulder and said "No, we need to talk anyway." Pouting, Hermione followed Ron to a corner and sat on a small silver sofa.

"Finally, I can talk to you." Ron sighed, leaning deep into his seat.

"Well."Hermione said stiffly, not wanting to listen to what he had to say. Ron started babbling about some totally weird nonsense about Quidittch and Harry and Divination and Harry and Her and Harry..Hermione was annoyed. She closed her eyes and listened to the loud music .It reminded her of when she was a little girl, when she'd dance like mad in her room when she was angry.

"Hermione!" Ron yelled his eyes glaring into hers.

"What?!" She said pushing him away.

"Didn't you hear What I said!!" She didn't want to answer that, so she looked away. "Your being so stubborn! Maybe it is best you didn't hear!" Ron shouted standing up. Hermione followed his eyes out onto the dance floor where Harry stood laughing and holding a butter beer, talking with Cho.

"Okay fine, I'm listening." She said standing up too. Ron slowly turned to her, his lips pursed and solemn. She raised her eyebrows at him, then he turned and stalked off. 'Men!' Hermione thought stubbornly. Hermione turned, feeling so alone now that her two best friends had abandon her, but just as she looked around, a familiar red head was bobbing up and down to the music. Hermione rushed over and yelled: "Ginny!"

The redhead turned and smiled. "What are you doing here!" Hermione shouted feeling suddenly happy.

"I came with Dean!" Ginny pointed over her shoulder. Ginny and Dean had been 'stepping out' as she liked to all it, for about two years now. Hermione smiled slowly at Dean, who gave her an impatient smile that was pushing her away. So she slid back on to the over-stuffed silver sofa and played with the hem of her skirt. 'Some fun Harry promised me,' She thought pouting. 'Him and Cho are defiantly destined.' The music slowed from a fast-paced rumble to a semi-slow dance.

"Oh god," Hermione said to herself.

"May I ask what's troubling you?" Hermione's eyes shot up to meet those of who was speaking to her. A tall curly haired brunette greeted her.

"H-hello." Hermione felt herself blush. "It's nothing, I..Just got ditched."

"Oh," Said the boy, his smile fading. "Well, would it be alright if I asked you to dance? Not to intrude." He added holding out his hand. She took it with a small smile. The boy was very cute, not as tall as Harry, but still very cute. She awkwardly placed her hands on his shoulders as he slid his around her waist.

"So," She mumbled turning a deep crimson. "What is your name?" She wouldn't look him in the eye.

"Dylan," He said simply. "And your Hermione Granger. We bumped into each other at the Yule Ball remember?"

Something clicked. "Oh yes! Now I remember." His eyes were a brilliant blue. 'Periwinkle, almost.' She thought.

"I asked you to dance, but you were with that stiff- Krum." Dylan said letting his hands drop from her waist. The song was over. "Well, it's been nice talking with you."

Hermione just realized she was still holding onto his shoulders. "Uh- sorry." She said embarrassed. Dylan smiled and looked over her shoulder.

"Hi Harry," He said weakly. Hermione whirled around, feeling oddly unfaithful.

"Hey," He replied, now looking at Hermione. "You want to go for a walk? I can't find Ron anywhere." He gave a small laugh and lead the way to the door. They were half way across the dock when they finally spoke.

"Nice night." Harry said leaning against a small post which supported a wooden canopy.

"Yes, the Moon's beautiful isn't it." Harry looked to the sky, the light making him look evil and innocent at the same time. Hermione sat on the edge of the dock and took off her sandals.

"Come sit with me, Harry." She said patting the wood beside her. Harry reluctantly sat beside her, and took off his trainers, dangling his feet n the water beside hers. Hermione lay back onto the warm wood staring at the stars.

"Hermione?" Harry whispered laying beside her.

"Shh.." She looked at him, smiling. Harry's eyes glittered with brilliance, as he lay beside her. Not realizing what she was doing, Hermione rested her head on his elbow and listened to him breath. His breath smelt of butter beer, cakes and peppermint. 'He'd taste so good.' She thought, snapping her eyes open. 'Bad Hermione Bad!!' She mentally slapped herself, 'He's only your friend, remember!?'

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