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A/n: wow thanks for all of the reviews. As usual look for your name at the end. I also had a reviewer asking for a picture of what Hermione's dress looks like, I would be happy to send the picture if you want it, just email me asking for it and I will email it back, I can also send you a picture of her hair, it is entirely up to you.

Chapter 11

Saturday morning came with every single girl in Hogwarts rushing around to get everything organised for the ball that night. That is with one exception, Hermione. As she was always organised, she had gotten everything done the day before, her dress was due to arrive any moment, and her hairstyle was chosen. She just had to wait for the day to pass.

She walked down to the Great Hall to have breakfast. She was walking at a slow pace, just watching everyone rush around her in blind panic. She found it very amusing that they were rushing around, when they could have avoided it. When she reached the hall she immediately scanned the room for Draco, but the Slytherin blonde was nowhere to be found. She just assumed that he was getting ready for that night.

This was exactly, what he was doing. He was trying on various tuxedos he had had sent to him. He tried on one that was just a plain black blazer and trousers, with a white shirt and black bow tie. He was going to where that one but then he realised that more than likely every other male student at Hogwarts was planning on wearing. So he decided to go with a custom one. It was like the tux he had dismissed earlier, but it had silver lining inside, it had handcuffs with the Slytherin picture on them and it also came with a waist coat, but he decided not to wear that.

By the time he had finished picking out his clothes and sending the others back it was too late for breakfast, instead he decided to go down to the kitchen and get something from there.

Saturday night came to fast for the Hogwarts students. Mainly because they were not entirely ready. The girls were running in between each others rooms, trying to borrow each others things, and as usual Hermione was the only one not rushing around, she was doing her hair, she had decided that she was going to curl it, so she was spending and hour or two curling the separate sections of her hair with her wand. Once it was all curled she put it up with a few curls falling down to frame her face.

Her make-up was simple yet beautiful. She had decided that she would wear a pastel pink eye shadow, a little mascara and blush. She had tried many different types of lipstick on and ended up choosing a pale pink lip gloss.

Now it was all done, except for the dress. The dress had come earlier that day, and Hermione wouldn't let any of the other girls see what it looked like, even though many of them had tried to look while she was in the shower, but Hermione knew they would try to look so she put a simple charm on it that made the girls get a slight electric shock when they touched her cupboard door.

She slid the dress out of her cupboard and smiled as she slipped it on. The fabric felt like heaven against her skin. She fastened it up and turned around to look at herself in the full length mirror.

"Perfect" she said after a final look, she was running about ten minutes late which was unusual for Hermione but she wanted to look perfect and decided that ten minutes late wouldn't be too bad.

She walked out of her dorm room and into the Gryffindor common room. It seems that Hermione was the only person who was late as the common room was completely deserted, she figured there would a few stragglers but obviously she was wrong.

She walked down to the Great Hall where the ball was being held; she found it quite unnerving that she met no one on her way there. As she reached outside the hall she could hear the soft music of Frank Sinatra. She wondered who had chosen the music as Frank Sinatra was a muggle.

Draco looked at the entrance, Hermione was late, and she was never late. He was starting to get worried as Frank Sinatra – The way you look tonight started up. He looked around the hall and saw a few couples dancing, which in itself was unusual. Normally people wouldn't start to dance until halfway through the evening, but this time, this song all the couples started to dance.

"Some day, when I'm awfully low,
when the world is cold"

Draco looked back to the door and what he saw took his breath away. Hermione was wearing a floor length gown; it was black, strapless and hugged her perfect curves. It had a very elaborate embroidered pattern on the front in pink cotton and just as she turned to look around he saw that the pattern was also over the back. She looked angelic, her hair was curled and up, except for a few lose curls framing her face, she had a pink gloss on her lips.

"I will feel a glow just thinking of you...
And the way you look tonight"

Hermione had spotted Draco and with a smile she started to walk to him, it seemed to Draco that it was all happening in slow motion. He watched her as she moved towards him; her hips swaying gently, her smile never faltering.

"Yes you're lovely, with your smile so warm
and your cheeks so soft,
there is nothing for me but to love you,
and the way you look tonight."

When she finally reached him, she looked straight into his eyes "Hi". He suddenly found that he had lost the ability to speak "Hi… you… look…wow" Hermione blushed slightly "You don't look so bad yourself"

Draco smiled at her and took her in his arms and started to dance.

"With each word your tenderness grows,
tearing my fear apart...
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
it touches my foolish heart"

They were both dancing on the dance floor, swaying in tune with each other, completely immersed in each other, that they didn't notice that everyone else who was dancing, had stopped to watch them.

"Lovely ... never, ever change.
Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it?
'cause I love you ... just the way you look tonight"

Even though everyone in the room was shocked at them dancing together, none of them could help but think that they looked so beautiful together, dancing, in love.

"Mm, mm, mm, mm,
just the way you look to-night."

As the song ended Draco looked into Hermione's eyes and saw everything he felt towards her. "I love you" Hermione smiled and leaned in to kiss him, when their lips were about to touch Hermione replied "I love you too" and then she made the final move to close the distance between them. They kissed with so much passion that by the time they pulled away they were both breathless.

They continued to look into each others eyes and only broke their gaze as the next song came on and as people started to dance around them. Hermione could see that amongst the crowd that Ron and Harry were sitting at a table with their dates, two Ravenclaw girls who Hermione didn't know. Ron and Harry were obviously angry that she was with Draco but she decided that she would deal with them later, because at this exact moment in time, she could think of nothing but Draco, the man she loved.

She looked back to Draco and saw him staring at her with admiration in his eyes.

"Do I impress you that much?" She said with a little giggle. Draco smiled and pulled her to him to start dancing again. She put her head on his chest and then Draco leaned down and whispered in her ear "You always look beautiful to me, but tonight, you look like a goddess. I love you"

Hermione smiled and pulled Draco closer to her. They both swayed to the music together both thinking the same thing. That they were in love and this night… was the best night of their lives.

A/N: Ok there you go, all finished. I will be doing a sequel but im not sure what it's called yet, any suggestions? I hope you all enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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