Chapter Thirty one: Shopping (again)
It was Sunday, The night prior was spent, talking and catching up.
Ron, still not quite sure what to do, dropped off Ray and went back to Gryffindor Tower to stay with Harry.
It was boring to say the least, they mostly talked. Mostly because of the 'let's get them out here' work today, they were all quite tired, so they actually went to be early.
All six of them spent the night in Head Tower, and woke up in the common room.
Hermione, hating to wake any of them before eight, went down to the kitchens at seven thirty to request breakfast to be brought up to the tower for when they woke. Dobby and the others were more then pleased to do so.
Hermione had one thing she wanted to do, however.
Sneaking up behind the green sofa, she spotted blonde hair, short, and ruffled.
"Oh," she cooed as she looked at Draco's face. "He looks far more innocent while sleeping; better wake him before his precious reputation is ruined." She grinned evilly.
Reaching over she cupped her hand over his mouth, then used the other to pinch his nostrils closed.
It took a second. Silence, stillness, and then WHAM! Draco was up. Hermione let go just as he started to leap. And once he was well awake she walked around to face him. "Good morning Draco."
He gave her a 'you have got to be kidding.' Look. "You Hermione Elizabeth Granger will be the death of me."
"Glad to hear it." And she plopped down on the couch.
"Sugar buzz." He said as he started to lie back down.
"Oh no you don't." she picked up his uncovered foot and started to tickle him. "Sleeping, you are too innocent for your reputation; I'm only trying to help."
"Help?" he gasped between cries of uncontrolled laughter. "Gods, will you keep me up all the time?"
"If that's what it takes." She answered simply, as she put his foot back down.
"Even the Slytherins know I sleep! It wont ruin my Rep I assure you!" he reached over to her and started to tickle her as well.
"Dr-Dra-Draco!" he was by far less merciless; Hermione could hardly speak during her attack.
"OH!" Ray's voice sounded as she woke up and saw the two. Draco was bent over Hermione tickling her armpits, and her stomach. "Tickle time!" she announced to the world as loud as he could, then went and started to tickle Draco off her friend.
Soon enough Dora, Hanna and Tom woke up and watched with knowing glances.
Dora walked over and tapped ray on her shoulder, the proceeded to tickle her, leaving Draco and Hermione to tickle each other.
"Breakfast!" a little house elf announced, and the four broke apart, and they all ate.
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"Alright!" Dora announced once they had reached Hogsmead. "Hanna, you and tom will take Ray and me to get Mione a gift. Draco you and Mione do as you please." She waved as the four left.
"I have a very strange feeling about this." Draco looked that the receding figures in a worried way.
"Well, you should, after all Dora and Ray are known as the winners of the drop dead shopping contest."
"Drop Dead Shopping Contest?" Draco looked at her like she had a third eye.
"Also known as DDSC, it's held every five years at home, the five most frequent shoppers of this one mall have to spend 2000 pounds in twelve hours, no stopping, constant spending, and if you finish spending it all before the time is up, you lose. At twelve hours, who ever have the most items to money left wins. Then they get to keep the stuff. The losers have to give it all back. Except food and drink, for obvious reasons." She explained, leaving Draco befuddled. "Well I have to meet up with Harry and Ron now, Bye!"
Draco grabbed her wrist. "Wait, did you ever compete?"
She looked back confused, "Once."
"Did you win?"
"Of course." She shrugged and left.
"DDSC huh?" he smiled and chuckled a bit, "muggles sure come up with the oddest things." And he turned to robe shop he preferred.
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Hermione found Harry Ron and Ginny in the three broomsticks. Of course, where else would they be?
Up at Fred and Georges, sure, but they just arrived.
She opened up the door and walked in; she took a seat at the table, and smiled. "Hay!"
"Mione!" Ron exclaimed. "Where's Ray?"
"Shopping."
"Dora?" Harry asked.
"Also Shopping." She explained. "So what are you three up to?"
"Just talking about your friends." Ginny answered well naturedly.
"Oh," Mione bent onto the table, "what do you want to know?"
"Why is Dora in Slytherin?"
"Because she has no real desire to be noble, nor is she loyal, she's smart, but in a cunning way, and she likes being sly and tricky, she goes about things in an odd way to reach her means, and so on and such forth." She answered simply.
"What does ray plan to do with her life?" Ginny asked. "She doesn't seem to brave, so why is she in Gryffindor?"
"The hat has plans for her." Ron explained, "But what is she doing after school?"
"She plans on being a designer, but that might not be the first thing she does." Mione winked at Ron, because he knew this as well.
It was quite ironic, how Ron had figured out so much in so little of time, but then again, none of them were really good at keeping secrets from people they didn't need to.
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Ray was walking around the Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes as a suggestion from Ron. Tome was with he, wondering why she choose this shop.
"Hullo!" a shop owner wearing red walked up to Ray.
"Hello. I was wondering if you had something for Hermione Granger."
The man looked at her shocked. "No we aren't holding anything for Mione."
Ray laughed. "No! Her Birthday is tomorrow and I need a gift!"
"A friend of Mione's? I haven't see you around before what's your name?"
"Rachel Smith. I just transferred to Hogwarts on a temporary stay. Off and on lessons."
"I see, I'm"
"Fred Weasley yes I know." She smiled at him.
"How?" Fred regarded her in the oddest way.
"Ron told me."
Fred shook his head. "Brother Dearest had better stop telling everyone he meets."
"Well, onto the subject of a gift?"
"George and I just had this wonderful idea for an item, possibly she would enjoy the plans?" he thought to himself. "And the theory, of course!" he hit his fists together. "George!" he called to the back.
A man Walked out, that could have easily been Fred's clone, except one had a scar on his nose. So she was safe talking with them. "What is it?"
"This is Ray, a Friend of Mione's; she is here to get a gift for Hermione's Birthday. I suggested the plans and the theory to our newest idea?"
"We don't have to patented," George looked thoughtful, "yeah that sounds fine with me, however," he looked at Ray, "you will add us in on the card?"
"Of course!" Ray looked at them shocked.
"Alright then, let me get them" and Fred went into the back.
"While your waiting, how about a gummy?"
Ray smiled at him kindly. "Why thank you," she said taking a grape one, "I always wanted to see how I'd look with purple hair." She said sweetly, totally shocking George.
"How?"
"Ron." And she ate it.
Tom looked on as her hair changed to a deep Purple. It actually looked rather nice on her.
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Dora, being the logical person she was, decided to get Hermione a dress.
After all, she knew someone was bound to get her a book, She guessed that Draco wouldn't get her clothing, and such, a dress would be unique.
She was with Hanna since Tom hated clothing shopping. Thus they split up in the tome square.
Dora looked at all the robes and vowed that Ray should be doing this not her, but still. She hated most of the clothing, since they were just plays on robes.
Then she spotted it. A light sage green Dress like robe, with black transparent cloth over it, the sleeves were cut in a faerie way with a ragged but elegant looked about them, and so was the under gown. They black transparent over coat was in no way restricting, it also looked like a regular dress, with angle sleeves. It looked like black mist was surrounding the gown. It had a very low oval neck line.
"Hanna!" she called to the red head on the other side of the store. Hanna came straight over.
"What?"
"Look at this!" She took it off the hanger and held it out to shown Hanna.
"Beautiful!" she awed. "One sec." and she shifted through the selection. She found a deep purplish red one, and sky blue, then gold like one. "We'll get these too."
They all looked slightly different. Hermione's one looked like a faerie outfit, The gold one seemed a little Vampish. It had a halter neck strap and a tight gown with a single slit on the side that went up to the thigh, all in gold as the under coat. The black top was far looser at the bottom and was sewn with the slit as one. It went up to the neck and attached to a choker that was covered with diamonds. The sleeves were longer on the transparent over coat; they were puffy and ended at cuffs that matched the choker.
The Purplish red one looked like an Italian Renaissance dress. On this one, the transparent black overcoat didn't float over the dress; it stayed together as if a single cloth, that broke around the collar line. The black went to a 'V' neck while the purplish red did a wave type thing in a regular collar, a bit higher then the 'V' line. The sleeves had a gold binding just above the elbows, where the regular sleeves turned into angle cuffs. IT stayed a bit stiff she noted around the chest, and then went out slightly in a loose free moving skirt.
The last one, the one she liked, the sky blue one, was a mix between the gold and the Purple ones. It had the Purples skirt, the gold's sleeves and the purple's collar.
"Why the extra dresses?" Dora asked innocently.
"We have at least one ball or dance during the year, so why not?" Hanna responded as she got appropriate sizes. "I see you like the blue one so that's yours, I have the gold so do your think Ray would like this one?" she held up the purple one.
"Of course, purple is her favorite color." Dora pointed out.
"Good, then it is done, come on lets go buy these." And they went to check out.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Draco just happened to be watching them, he noted the green dress, and heard the other dresses assignments. He just wondered who got the green one.
Hermione. She got it. They were shopping for gifts, and Hermione liked green so, it fit.
He thought back to when he saw her up in her room, how he had thought that she looked like a faerie, the dress, he decided, would fit her perfectly.
Hanna had the same Idea Draco did when he entered the shop. They were bound to have a dance of some form this year, why not get something nice before it was all picked over?
He spotted some rather nice black robes, deep and dark ones that seemed to capture the light, except if you held them one way, then they turned into a deep silver color.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
AN:
it's not the party yet, but it will be next time. So wait a bit longer.
I'm very sorry I didn't have this up for a while, but I was trying to rush things and got a mean block. That's why you don't have the party.
I find that if you just write with no problems you're usually going at a correct pace. You get blocks when you're either rushing things, or taking them too slowly. So that's my excuse.
^_^
Oh well, you know the deal, review! I love them all dearly.
Byes!
Relena
It was Sunday, The night prior was spent, talking and catching up.
Ron, still not quite sure what to do, dropped off Ray and went back to Gryffindor Tower to stay with Harry.
It was boring to say the least, they mostly talked. Mostly because of the 'let's get them out here' work today, they were all quite tired, so they actually went to be early.
All six of them spent the night in Head Tower, and woke up in the common room.
Hermione, hating to wake any of them before eight, went down to the kitchens at seven thirty to request breakfast to be brought up to the tower for when they woke. Dobby and the others were more then pleased to do so.
Hermione had one thing she wanted to do, however.
Sneaking up behind the green sofa, she spotted blonde hair, short, and ruffled.
"Oh," she cooed as she looked at Draco's face. "He looks far more innocent while sleeping; better wake him before his precious reputation is ruined." She grinned evilly.
Reaching over she cupped her hand over his mouth, then used the other to pinch his nostrils closed.
It took a second. Silence, stillness, and then WHAM! Draco was up. Hermione let go just as he started to leap. And once he was well awake she walked around to face him. "Good morning Draco."
He gave her a 'you have got to be kidding.' Look. "You Hermione Elizabeth Granger will be the death of me."
"Glad to hear it." And she plopped down on the couch.
"Sugar buzz." He said as he started to lie back down.
"Oh no you don't." she picked up his uncovered foot and started to tickle him. "Sleeping, you are too innocent for your reputation; I'm only trying to help."
"Help?" he gasped between cries of uncontrolled laughter. "Gods, will you keep me up all the time?"
"If that's what it takes." She answered simply, as she put his foot back down.
"Even the Slytherins know I sleep! It wont ruin my Rep I assure you!" he reached over to her and started to tickle her as well.
"Dr-Dra-Draco!" he was by far less merciless; Hermione could hardly speak during her attack.
"OH!" Ray's voice sounded as she woke up and saw the two. Draco was bent over Hermione tickling her armpits, and her stomach. "Tickle time!" she announced to the world as loud as he could, then went and started to tickle Draco off her friend.
Soon enough Dora, Hanna and Tom woke up and watched with knowing glances.
Dora walked over and tapped ray on her shoulder, the proceeded to tickle her, leaving Draco and Hermione to tickle each other.
"Breakfast!" a little house elf announced, and the four broke apart, and they all ate.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Alright!" Dora announced once they had reached Hogsmead. "Hanna, you and tom will take Ray and me to get Mione a gift. Draco you and Mione do as you please." She waved as the four left.
"I have a very strange feeling about this." Draco looked that the receding figures in a worried way.
"Well, you should, after all Dora and Ray are known as the winners of the drop dead shopping contest."
"Drop Dead Shopping Contest?" Draco looked at her like she had a third eye.
"Also known as DDSC, it's held every five years at home, the five most frequent shoppers of this one mall have to spend 2000 pounds in twelve hours, no stopping, constant spending, and if you finish spending it all before the time is up, you lose. At twelve hours, who ever have the most items to money left wins. Then they get to keep the stuff. The losers have to give it all back. Except food and drink, for obvious reasons." She explained, leaving Draco befuddled. "Well I have to meet up with Harry and Ron now, Bye!"
Draco grabbed her wrist. "Wait, did you ever compete?"
She looked back confused, "Once."
"Did you win?"
"Of course." She shrugged and left.
"DDSC huh?" he smiled and chuckled a bit, "muggles sure come up with the oddest things." And he turned to robe shop he preferred.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Hermione found Harry Ron and Ginny in the three broomsticks. Of course, where else would they be?
Up at Fred and Georges, sure, but they just arrived.
She opened up the door and walked in; she took a seat at the table, and smiled. "Hay!"
"Mione!" Ron exclaimed. "Where's Ray?"
"Shopping."
"Dora?" Harry asked.
"Also Shopping." She explained. "So what are you three up to?"
"Just talking about your friends." Ginny answered well naturedly.
"Oh," Mione bent onto the table, "what do you want to know?"
"Why is Dora in Slytherin?"
"Because she has no real desire to be noble, nor is she loyal, she's smart, but in a cunning way, and she likes being sly and tricky, she goes about things in an odd way to reach her means, and so on and such forth." She answered simply.
"What does ray plan to do with her life?" Ginny asked. "She doesn't seem to brave, so why is she in Gryffindor?"
"The hat has plans for her." Ron explained, "But what is she doing after school?"
"She plans on being a designer, but that might not be the first thing she does." Mione winked at Ron, because he knew this as well.
It was quite ironic, how Ron had figured out so much in so little of time, but then again, none of them were really good at keeping secrets from people they didn't need to.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Ray was walking around the Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes as a suggestion from Ron. Tome was with he, wondering why she choose this shop.
"Hullo!" a shop owner wearing red walked up to Ray.
"Hello. I was wondering if you had something for Hermione Granger."
The man looked at her shocked. "No we aren't holding anything for Mione."
Ray laughed. "No! Her Birthday is tomorrow and I need a gift!"
"A friend of Mione's? I haven't see you around before what's your name?"
"Rachel Smith. I just transferred to Hogwarts on a temporary stay. Off and on lessons."
"I see, I'm"
"Fred Weasley yes I know." She smiled at him.
"How?" Fred regarded her in the oddest way.
"Ron told me."
Fred shook his head. "Brother Dearest had better stop telling everyone he meets."
"Well, onto the subject of a gift?"
"George and I just had this wonderful idea for an item, possibly she would enjoy the plans?" he thought to himself. "And the theory, of course!" he hit his fists together. "George!" he called to the back.
A man Walked out, that could have easily been Fred's clone, except one had a scar on his nose. So she was safe talking with them. "What is it?"
"This is Ray, a Friend of Mione's; she is here to get a gift for Hermione's Birthday. I suggested the plans and the theory to our newest idea?"
"We don't have to patented," George looked thoughtful, "yeah that sounds fine with me, however," he looked at Ray, "you will add us in on the card?"
"Of course!" Ray looked at them shocked.
"Alright then, let me get them" and Fred went into the back.
"While your waiting, how about a gummy?"
Ray smiled at him kindly. "Why thank you," she said taking a grape one, "I always wanted to see how I'd look with purple hair." She said sweetly, totally shocking George.
"How?"
"Ron." And she ate it.
Tom looked on as her hair changed to a deep Purple. It actually looked rather nice on her.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Dora, being the logical person she was, decided to get Hermione a dress.
After all, she knew someone was bound to get her a book, She guessed that Draco wouldn't get her clothing, and such, a dress would be unique.
She was with Hanna since Tom hated clothing shopping. Thus they split up in the tome square.
Dora looked at all the robes and vowed that Ray should be doing this not her, but still. She hated most of the clothing, since they were just plays on robes.
Then she spotted it. A light sage green Dress like robe, with black transparent cloth over it, the sleeves were cut in a faerie way with a ragged but elegant looked about them, and so was the under gown. They black transparent over coat was in no way restricting, it also looked like a regular dress, with angle sleeves. It looked like black mist was surrounding the gown. It had a very low oval neck line.
"Hanna!" she called to the red head on the other side of the store. Hanna came straight over.
"What?"
"Look at this!" She took it off the hanger and held it out to shown Hanna.
"Beautiful!" she awed. "One sec." and she shifted through the selection. She found a deep purplish red one, and sky blue, then gold like one. "We'll get these too."
They all looked slightly different. Hermione's one looked like a faerie outfit, The gold one seemed a little Vampish. It had a halter neck strap and a tight gown with a single slit on the side that went up to the thigh, all in gold as the under coat. The black top was far looser at the bottom and was sewn with the slit as one. It went up to the neck and attached to a choker that was covered with diamonds. The sleeves were longer on the transparent over coat; they were puffy and ended at cuffs that matched the choker.
The Purplish red one looked like an Italian Renaissance dress. On this one, the transparent black overcoat didn't float over the dress; it stayed together as if a single cloth, that broke around the collar line. The black went to a 'V' neck while the purplish red did a wave type thing in a regular collar, a bit higher then the 'V' line. The sleeves had a gold binding just above the elbows, where the regular sleeves turned into angle cuffs. IT stayed a bit stiff she noted around the chest, and then went out slightly in a loose free moving skirt.
The last one, the one she liked, the sky blue one, was a mix between the gold and the Purple ones. It had the Purples skirt, the gold's sleeves and the purple's collar.
"Why the extra dresses?" Dora asked innocently.
"We have at least one ball or dance during the year, so why not?" Hanna responded as she got appropriate sizes. "I see you like the blue one so that's yours, I have the gold so do your think Ray would like this one?" she held up the purple one.
"Of course, purple is her favorite color." Dora pointed out.
"Good, then it is done, come on lets go buy these." And they went to check out.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Draco just happened to be watching them, he noted the green dress, and heard the other dresses assignments. He just wondered who got the green one.
Hermione. She got it. They were shopping for gifts, and Hermione liked green so, it fit.
He thought back to when he saw her up in her room, how he had thought that she looked like a faerie, the dress, he decided, would fit her perfectly.
Hanna had the same Idea Draco did when he entered the shop. They were bound to have a dance of some form this year, why not get something nice before it was all picked over?
He spotted some rather nice black robes, deep and dark ones that seemed to capture the light, except if you held them one way, then they turned into a deep silver color.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
AN:
it's not the party yet, but it will be next time. So wait a bit longer.
I'm very sorry I didn't have this up for a while, but I was trying to rush things and got a mean block. That's why you don't have the party.
I find that if you just write with no problems you're usually going at a correct pace. You get blocks when you're either rushing things, or taking them too slowly. So that's my excuse.
^_^
Oh well, you know the deal, review! I love them all dearly.
Byes!
Relena