Hi guys! Time for another chapter. I'm sorry I'm not updating as fast as I used to, but I've been kind of lazy these days so...yeah...sorry. blushes and looks down at feet Anyway here is an update so hope you enjoy and hope it isn't too horrible.

Disclaimer: I know by now you guys aren't idiots.

Hermione woke up the next morning exhausted. She rubbed her eyes and then the events of last

night came flooding into her mind.

"Oh, perfect." she muttered.

She climbed out of bed and went to change and wash her face. When she came out of the

bathroom she saw Parvati and Lavender waiting for her. They had a peculiar look on their

faces.

"Um hi." Hermione said looking at them curiously.

"Hi."

"So...er how was the ball last night?" she said trying to make their little conversation more

interesting and less awkward.

"Oh it was very interesting." said Parvati.

"Very interesting." added Lavender.

"Oh." Hermione said. Was that a blush creeping into her cheeks?

"Do you know why it was interesting?" asked Lavender inquiringly.

"No. I wasn't there."

"Oh you weren't were you?" said Parvati in a tone that was making Hermione nervous.

"No. I was...I went home for the holidays. I got back really late last night."

Oh please let them believe me please please please!

"Ah, I see." Lavender said.

"Well then, we'll tell you why it was so interesting." Parvati replied.

"You see there was a girl—''

"Of a mysterious identity—''

"Looking gorgeous—''

"And taking the whole ball by storm." Parvati finished. She was positively glaring at Hermione

now.

"Oh. That's...interesting."

Oh no am I blushing?!

"Yes, quite."

"And did you know she left without giving her name or what school she went to?" asked

Lavender.

"No, I didn't."

Stupid acting skills.

"Well she did. No one knows who she is. But me and Lavender have a pretty good idea who

she is." Parvati said.

She started walking around.

"Yes. See we believe that this girl was actually—"

"A Gryffindor." said Parvati.

"Imagine the odds of that."

"And we also have reason to believe that she is a 6th year."

Uh oh. But the only three Gryffindor 6th years are Parvati, Lavender and...

"What gives you that idea?" asked Hermione in a slight hysterical voice.

"Well you see," said Lavender pacing around Hermione, "this morning as me and Parvati woke

up we found the exact same dress that the girl wore to the ball—''

"RIGHT UNDER YOUR BED!" Parvati revealed the white gown Hermione wore to the ball

from under her bed.

"That isn't mine!" exclaimed Hermione frantically. "Its...its...oh yes it is mine. Yes it was me

yesterday." she sat down, sighing.

"Hermione, why didn't you just say so?" asked Lavender in a surprisingly not-so-mean voice.

"Because...because..." Hermione broke off and told them the whole story but replacing the part

where she discovered her true feelings about one of her best friends with "but something came

up and I had to leave in a rush."

"Oh." Parvati and Lavender looked at each other.

"Listen Hermione, we're sorry." said Parvati.

"Yeah, we didn't know you felt like that." Lavender added.

"But for the record we do realize that your much more then some bossy know- it-all."

"And once we tell people, everyone will know it too."

"No!" yelped Hermione suddenly.

"Why not? That was why you came in the first place wasn't it?" Lavender said.

"Well yes but...but I'm just glad someone knows it. Besides I don't think I want everyone to

know. I don't want to attract too much attention." Hermione said smiling.

"Well if you're sure..."

"I'm sure."

"Alright. We won't tell. Hey Lavender we have to go meet Kristian and Kyle before they

leave." said Parvati.

"Our dates." explained Lavender. "They're from Beauxbatons. The people from Beauxbatons

and Durmstrang leave today."

"Well we have to go."

"See you."

The two girls left and Hermione gave a sigh, except this time was a sigh of relief. It wasn't so

bad having a few people find out that it was her. And she also realized that Parvati and

Lavender weren't as bad as she made them out to be.

She put away the dress that was on her bed away in her trunk (though it barely fit) and sat

down. Hermione looked at herself in the mirror and saw that her makeup was gone but her hair

was still a little curly. She took a brush and began to brush her hair. The door opened suddenly

and Harry and Ron were standing in the doorway.

"What are you two doing here? How did you even get here?" said Hermione remembering the

stone slide.

"Well me and Ron were getting worried about you since we didn't see you at all last night,"

Harry said giving Hermione a wink; she glared. "we checked Hogwarts a History to see if they

had a spell for preventing the stone slide to come out. They did."

"Wait a minute." said Hermione. "You're telling me that you actually opened Hogwarts a

History just so you could come up and see me without landing on your—''

"Yup. You really ought to give us a gold medal. It wasn't amusing asking Neville if we could

borrow his copy just so we could get into the girl's dormitories." said Ron grinning.

Hermione laughed.

Ron blinked. There was something familiar about her laugh...

"Well let's have a snowball fight. We didn't get to have one at all yesterday." he said still

grinning.

"I don't know..."began Hermione.

"Hey Ron tell Hermione about the ball last night. About what happened." said Harry wearing a

sly smile.

"Oh yeah. Well what happened was—"

"You know what," Hermione said interrupting Ron suddenly "that snowball fight sounds like a

good idea. Last one outside buys butterbeer for us!" And with that she ran out of the dormitory.

Ron looked at Harry curiously, but shrugged and sped off to catch up with her.

Yes I know you guys want to kill me because: I gave such a...misleading title. grins wickedly This is the end of the chapter but the story isn't done yet. But you all know that when you click that little review button and type in a few words I tend to write better chapters.