Saturday came quickly, and before she knew it Hermione was sitting in the room of requirement, waiting to see how many people would turn up. The common room had been filled with discussions of how to make the best cactus/palm tree etc, and of the countries people were doing.

Hermione had laughed at the stupidity of some of the suggestions, and wondered once again how a first year intended to make the Empire State Building out of matchsticks. Obviously a muggle born, the youngster hadn't realised that transfiguration would solve the matter in seconds with half the trouble.

Just then the door opened and Minerva slipped in.

"You alright?" she asked in concern. "You look pale."

"It's nothing," Hermione dismissed airily, ignoring the voice in her head saying 'It's not nothing. Tell her.' "I'm just tired, and worried about the fact that if no-one turns up I'll have wasted a lot of people's time."

Minerva perched on the arm of the chair and slid her arm around the girl's shoulders. "Don't worry about it," she soothed. "Most of the teachers are going to do it, I know. There was just Sprout with reservations. And I heard Lavender and that lot discussing things they could use to cover important bits."

Hermione grinned slightly. "Why do I have a feeling that wasn't exactly how they put it?"

"Ok, I paraphrased it a little, but that was the gist of it."

The head girl grinned. If she knew Lavender and Parvati, there'd be something about boys in the original version. They were probably wondering how much they could keep uncovered. 'Mione was certain that once the photo's had been taken it would be almost impossible to keep the photo characters in the right places with everything covered.

The door opening prevented further discussion, and Ginny was soon seated comfortably in a squashy leather armchair, awaiting the arrival of the others. Sure enough, at dead on 11 o'clock the other teachers and students trouped through the door.

Once they were all seated on a variety of seats Hermione stood up and perched on a table near the front of the room.

"I'm glad to see so many of you are willing to do this. As you may know, Professor Dumbledore has arranged a camera for us, and I've come up with a few ideas for covers. For example, for December I thought we could do a scene in the dungeons, with us all making potions wearing tinsel hats etc. Of course, I'm open to suggestions."

The meeting went on for nearly 2 hours, with people giving ideas, and people trying ideas out. In the end they had twelve ideas they thought would work, and the December scene. Hermione called an end to the meeting just in time for lunch.

"I'll speak to Dumbledore about the camera. Shall we say, Wednesday at 7 o'clock in here?"

There was a chorus of agreements, and people started trickling out.

"Remember your tea tray designs," Hermione called after them.

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Authors note:

Thank you to everyone who reviewed. Quite a few people have commented that they didn't think McGonagall would be up for it. My response is that she's full of surprises.

As for what it said about them having the twelve scenes planned out, I desperately need ideas. I have a few thoughts, but any suggestions would be welcome.