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Ok. Expect Hermione to be slightly OOC. Ok, very OOC. Please don't review and moan about what she does in this chapter, because quite frankly I don't want to hear it.
At exactly seven the next morning, Parvati woke up and shouted, "COME ON GUYS! PARTY TIME! UP AND AT 'EM!"

Lavender threw a pillow at her friend, not even bothering to look if it hit her. Hermione pulled her blankets up to her chin, grinned and snuggled deeper into her bed.

Parvati approached the bottom of Lavender's bed and yanked on the covers. Lavender groaned and curled back under her bed sheets. Parvati sighed, "Accio blankets"

Bloody hell!" Lavender yelled, immediately waking up. "What time is it?"

"Seven," Parvati answered.

Lavender fell back onto the bed, turned over with her face in her pillow. She screamed, loudly. "One of these days I'm going to wake you up and you're going to hate it."

Sitting up, made a grab for the covers, but it was useless. She moaned. "I sometimes hate you Parvati."

Parvati grinned. "Well as long as you're awake and showered, I don't care."

Parvati frowned at Hermione's bed before walking over to it and prodding Hermione. "Hermione, come on. Wakey, wakey." Hermione swatted grumpily at Parvati, smacking her on the arm. Parvati jumped back and glared. She took a step closer and tried again. This time, Hermione hit her face.

"Ha!" laughed Lavender, who was watching the exchange with amusement. "Serves you right."

"Right." Grumbled Parvati, rolling her sleeves up. She stalked into the bathroom and returned a few seconds later with a cup filled with water.

"Parvati, you can't do that!" cried Lavender.

"Watch me." Frowned Parvati, before promptly tipping the contents of the cup over Hermione's face.

"EEEK!" Hermione spluttered, sitting up abruptly. She turned to glare at her friend. "Parvati. You complete and utter COW!" She angrily threw her pillow at her.

Parvati ducked it with ease. "Yeah well. You needed to get up. A lot has to be done."

"It's the bloody weekend!" cried Hermione, who would sleep until twelve everyday if she had the choice.

"Like I said. Lots of things to be done. Now get up!"

Hermione sighed. "The things I do for you. Honestly, it's the middle of the night!"

The other two girls snorted in amusement. With another sigh, Hermione stood up and made her way to the showers, her friends following close behind her.


Half an hour later, the three girls were finished with their showers and were either dressing or styling their hair. Hermione was currently sat on the small stool in the bathroom. Outside she heard Parvati and Lavender chatting animatedly about shoes. Hermione grinned and performed a drying spell on her hair. Then she frowned and cast a straightening charm on it as well. She shook her head, liking the look of her new style. She'd had curly hair for as long as she could remember. Straight was a new look, and she liked it very much.

"Hermione?" called Lavender. "Where are those black shoes that I want to wear?"

"You mean mine?" grinned Hermione, crossing the room to open her trunk. Lavender grinned and nodded. Hermione tossed them to her friend.

"Thanks." She said, putting the shoes on.

"I like the look." Said Parvati, who was rooting through her wardrobe. "Straight suits you."

Hermione grinned and flicked her hair over her shoulder.

"Oh, here's your skirt." Parvati called. She chucked the dark maroon skirt at Lavender who smiled gratefully.

Hermione pulled on her shoes and then glanced around. Parvati and Lavender were nearly ready. She leaned against her bed post and waited. And waited. And waited until-

"Ok, we're ready." Announced Parvati. Hermione started out the dorm room and down the stairs, Lavender close behind her. Parvati closed the door as she left, calling for her friends to wait up.


"Ok…" said Hermione, pouring cereal into a bowl. "Plan of action for today is?"

"Dunno. We'll just – err, what's that muggle phrase?"

"Go back to bed?" suggested Hermione.

Lavender giggled and grabbed a muffin and shoved it in her mouth. "Too true."

"Eww." Grimaced Parvati. "Do you have to do that? I am eating you know."

Scowling, Parvati turned to stare round the room. Lavender pulled a grotesque face behind her back. Hermione laughed loudly, which she hastily turned into a cough when Parvati glared at her.

"Ok…" said Hermione changing the subject. "Are you finished? Only we have quite a bit to do."

Downing a glass of orange juice and grabbing a few scones, the other two girls followed Hermione out of the hall.


"Ok…" called Parvati. "Who's got some paper and a pen?"

Reaching into her bedside table, Hermione dug out a small swirly notebook and a feathered pen.

"Right." Said Parvati, scribbling something down on the notebook. "First thing. We need to push all the bed's together."

"Then." Added Hermione. "Get the food and drink."

"Oooh! And get our pyjamas together."

"Ok." Said Parvati. "Let's get this show on the road!"


The dorm room, the girls were proud to say, looked amazing. It had taken four long hours but it was worth it. All the beds had been pushed together and pushed to the back of the room, so in the end it looked like one massive bed covered in crisps and chocolate. Hermione had charmed the ceiling to look like a night sky with comets and twinkling stars. Coloured drapes were hung from the ceiling to the disguise the mess their bedroom usually was.

"Ooh." Cooed Lavender. "It looks amazing. Can't we keep it like this all the time?"

Hermione snorted. "There's no way I'd want to sleep in the same bed as you Lav, you snore so loudly!"

"I do not! Tell her Parvati!"

Parvati grinned sheepishly. "Err, actually… you do snore. Very loudly in fact, it's very distracting."

Lavender scoffed. "As if, I have never snored in my life!"

"Whatever."


"Right." Said Parvati from the armchair she was lounging in. "I suppose I better go fetch Padma."

She stood up and stretched. "I'll see you two upstairs." And off she went.

Lavender squealed. "Oh! I am SO excited! Let's go up!"

Hermione nodded and made her way towards her dormitory. "Ginny." She called across the room. "You coming up."

Ginny nodded happily and stuffed a piece of parchment into her bag. "Sure. I'll meet you up there. I've just gotta get my stuff."


"What are you wearing Ginny?" giggled Lavender, pulling on her pyjama bottoms.

"My birthday present from Dean." She replied, giving her friends an exaggerated twirl. "Gorgeous isn't it?"

Parvati's eyes widened. "He bought you that! I went out for him for THREE months and I didn't get one present! You've only been seeing him for two weeks! That's unfair!"

Giggling the five girls finished changing into their pyjamas (or short, short nighties in Ginny's case…). Then they all plonked themselves on the bed and set about eating the mountain load of chocolate that was heaped on the bed.

"… and everyone kept staring at me."

"Didn't that strike you as odd?" asked Hermione, helping herself to another chocolate éclair.

Padma giggled. "Well no. I just thought that they were looking at me because I looked really pretty. But anyway, eventually this old woman pointed out my skirt was tucked into my underwear! I was SO embarrassed."

"Hold on, hold on! Why is everyone wittering on about old women and underwear." Parvati frowned at them all. "I thought this was supposed to be a fun sleepover!"

"So if you're not interested in talking about embarrassing moments." Asked Lavender pointedly, grabbing a handful of popcorn. "What do you want to talk about?"

Parvati gathered her long, skinny legs under her and widened her eyes at them. "Ghost stories! That's what we're going to do! Tell ghost stories!"

"Yeah? And I guess you happen to have a good ghost story, do you?" Padma smirked at Parvati, as she helped herself to another fun-size Snickers.

"Course I do!" Parvati smirked back. "Are you ready? Is everyone sitting comfortably?"

As she said that, Hermione noticed Lavender sinking deeper into the large blanket she'd wrapped around herself.

"Get on with it!" teased Ginny, pinging a Wotsit at her head. "And this better be scary!"

"Oh it is!" beamed Parvati, picking the Wotsit out of her hair and flicking it back at Ginny. "Because it's a true story."

"Oh yeah?" Padma widened her eyes at her sister. "And how do you know that?"

"I just do." Replied Parvati in a husky voice, as she dimmed the lights slightly, casting eerie shadows across the wall. "Now do you all promise to shut up while I tell this?"

Everyone grunted and squeaked "Yes", depending on how reluctant/scared they were to hear Parvati's ghost story.

"Ok." Parvati began, once everyone was silent. "There was this teenage couple, right, and they lived in this tiny village that was, like, in the middle of nowhere. So anyway, one night they took their parents car and-"

"What's a car?" frowned Lavender.

"It's a box on wheels or something." Explained Ginny. "Dad enchanted one once and it-"

"RIGHT!" butted in Parvati, trying to get everyone's attention back. "So anyway, after the disco-"

"What disco?" interrupted Padma.

"Just one that they decided to go to."

"But you didn't say they were going to a disco."

"It doesn't matter." Said Parvati through gritted teeth. "So, they're driving home, only there's this huge storm, and the main road to their town is blocked off."

"By what?" piped up Hermione. "A tree or something?"

"I don't know what!" said Parvati irritably. "That's not important!"

"Ok…" Hermione replied in a tiny, chastened voice.

"So the road was blocked by something, and they had to take a side road through these daaaaaaarrkkkk wooooooddddssss…and then –blam! – Their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and they don't know what to do!"

"Couldn't they have apparated away?" Padma suggested.

"They're muggles!" snapped Parvati. "So they've broken down, right? And the guy says to the girl 'You stay here – I'll walk back up the main road and get help.' And so he goes, and the girl waits for ages and ages, and then –thump – something bangs on the roof of the car."

Hermione glanced around quickly at her friends and saw that Lavender had practically disappeared into her pink blanket.

"And then she hears it again!" Parvati went on, wild-eyed and acting out the thump-thump with her hand on the mattress. "Thump-thump-thump! And she doesn't know what it could be, but-"

"But," Ginny interrupts, lazily helping herself to more nibbles. "It turns out to be the head of her boyfriend that some maniac in the woods has cut off."

Parvati pursed her lips and stared blackly at Ginny for ruining her scary story.

"What?" Ginny shrugged. "I heard that years ago when I was little! Fred and George used to try and creep me out!"

Ok, so Parvati's true story might not have been so true (It was just one of those freaky yarns people like to pass around), but it had still cast a certain black mood over everyone in the room, that funny stories about underwear certainly hadn't.

"So…" said Hermione brightly. "Who's up for pizza?"

"What's pizza?" asked Ginny, wrinkling her nose.

"This is pizza." Hermione declared, shoving one of the boxes under Ginny's nose.

"Looks nice." Commented Padma. "What's on it?"

"Well it's cheese and tomato but you can add your own toppings."

Ginny studied the box as Hermione heated the pizza with her wand. "What's the bottom thing made of?"

"Bread." Replied Hermione.

"How do you eat it?" asked Parvati.

"You cut it into slices and eat it with your hands." Answered Hermione.

"Yeah silly." Said Lavender before ramming the pizza cutter into Parvati's arm.

"Ow!" yelled Parvati, rubbing her arm. "What the hell did you do that for?"

"Lavender, don't mess with the pizza cutter." Smirked Hermione, taking the sharp object off her.

"Yes mum. I wasn't messing with it!"

Hermione tutted and Parvati frowned. "Yeah, you were maiming me with it!"

Within a few minutes, everyone had been handed a plate and a slice of pizza. They were now fighting over which topping they were going to have.

"Lavender! You are such a pig! You've taken all the bloody pepperoni!"

"And?"

"And? AND! You said you didn't like pepperoni!"

Lavender shrugged. "Do now."

Once everyone had finished, Padma smirked and rubbed her hands together. "Ok everyone. It's time to play truth or dare!"


"Hermione!" Parvati shrieked. She ducked behind the bed as Hermione fired another hex at her and then jumped up again once it was safe. "I didn't mean to drop the bag!"

"What were you two doing!" Hermione shot a glare in Padma's direction who was hiding behind the bed too. "Do you realize that you could have gotten into a lot of trouble if a professor had seen you with alcohol? Why the hell did you have alcohol anyway?"

"We only went down the hall!" Padma shouted. "We didn't think that anyone would be coming along so late at night!"

"What happened?" Ginny asked She had been waiting in the dormitory with Lavender for the twins and Hermione to finish doing their dares, when the twins, alcohol and lemons in their arms, had come running into the room with looks of amusement on their faces. They spent the better part of ten minutes staring dumbly at each other before Hermione came into the room and began firing hexes.

"Well after I stole Snape's underwear, I was walking down the corridor when Professor Lupin suddenly appeared next to me. It's then that I notice those two, walking down the hall, not even attempting to hide the alcohol. I had to try and distract Lupin-"

"Well, it worked!" Parvati stated, as if that made the situation better. When Hermione glared at her once again she ducked back behind the couch.

"I don't see the problem," Lavender said.

"You two can come out now," Ginny said. "Hermione's put her wand away."

The twins peeped over the mattress, confirming that Hermione had actually put her wand away. There was dead silence before Padma exchanged a look with Parvati, one not missed by the others.

"So, come on you guys… then what happened?" Ginny asked.

"When Hermione first started distracting Lupin." explained Padma, struggling to keep a straight face. "I dropped the bag of lemons by accident. Anyway, Lupin started to turn around to see what had made the noise when Hermione suddenly shouts 'I stole Snape's underwear'…" it was a this point that Padma found she could not continue because she was laughing too hard.

"Then Lupin turned to stare at her. Then tried to turn around to see what had made the noise" continued Parvati with a giggle. "So she unzipped the bag and pulled some of Snape's underwear out-"

"And she rammed it on his head!" shrieked Padma before howling with laughter.

"Are you serious?" Lavender asked. Her jaw dropped as she looked back at her friend. "But…Hermione, he's a professor."

"I know!" Hermione shouted. She stood up and began to pace back and forth. "I can't believe I did it! I'm going to get into so much trouble!"

"Don't worry Hermione. You won't get that told off. I mean, Professor Lupin likes you."

Hermione smiled at Ginny's attempt to cheer her up. "Come on guys, I need to seriously get drunk."

The other girls widened their eyes in surprise. "Hermione." Gasped Parvati. "You don't drink!"

Hermione grinned nervously. " Yeah well, tonight has just sucked beyond redemption."

"Shall we play 'I never' then?" Parvati asked. The others agreed and sat around the small table in the common room. They put out the lemons, salt, tequila and shot glasses.

"Hermione, want to start?" Padma offered.

"Hell yes," Hermione breathed. She bit her lip nervously before saying, "I never… cheated on a test."

All of the girls (except Hermione) licked the salt off their wrists, downed the shot and then bit the lemon. They grimaced and then Lavender continued. "I never… rammed underwear on my teacher's head."

"You are such a bitch, Lav." Hermione replied. Still, she smiled and took the shot happily. Yes, she thought, alcohol makes any situation look a little better.


It was three in the morning and the sleepover was finally winding down (after several of their fellow Gryffindor's came into complain).

"The secret to making the best, most perfect hot chocolate," Parvati declared as Hermione slowly poured hot chocolate into the five mugs. "Is to put these little marshmallows in the cup first,"

"So the chocolate brings out the flavour?" asked Padma

"No," answered Parvati

"So they absorb the chocolate better?" asked Hermione.

"No," answered Parvati

"So they melt faster?" asked Ginny

"No," grinned Parvati. "So you can fit at least forty of fifty of them in,"

Lavender laughed "I wondered why you always ate it with a fork,"