Author's Note: Thank you all again for the requests! This chapter's idea came from Anandini77, also. It's short, but there're loads more to come! I doubt this story will ever be truly complete, but who cares?

Tina left the library after a few minutes, having met and redirected Krum's giggling lady friends. She decided to go back to the common room and wait for Hermione.

"Fairy lights," she said, giving the Fat Lady the new password. The portrait hole swung open and Tina found the common room deserted, all except for one person sitting reading by the fire. Her first impression was that it might be Hermione, but Hermione was at dinner with Harry and Ron. Tina crept closer to see who it was. Her jaw dropped.

It was Neville.

"Neville?" she asked incredulously. He jumped.

"Oh, Tina, hello," Neville replied, clutching his chest. "Why aren't you with your friends?"

"Hermione's in the library and Harry and Ron went to visit the kitchens," Tina replied dully. "Plus, I've got homework. Stupid Snape and his poison antidotes. I'd like to tell him what he can do with that bezoar. He can--"

"Shhh!" cried Neville, looking horrorstruck but amused. "Don't want someone to hear you and go running to Snape, do you?"

"Why would they? Everyone feels the same about him. And in case you didn't notice, there's no one in here."

"True," he muttered. "Let's not talk about Snape anymore." He added with a shiver.

"Okay," said Tina, seating herself in an armchair by the fire. "Who're you planning on taking to the ball?"

Neville gave an odd sort of jerk. "I…erm...no one," he finished timidly. "I mean…I've got someone in mind, but I don't know if she'll go with me."

"Who is it then?" Tina asked, grinning.

"Well…" Neville didn't seem particularly keen on divulging such a thing. "It's...Hermione."

Tina's jaw dropped. "What?" she asked, hardly believing that she had spent the entire day so far helping boys ask Hermione to the ball. "You like Hermione?"

"No," said Neville quickly, going quite red. "I mean, I don't fancy her. It's just that ever since I came to Hogwarts she's been really nice and helpful to me with everything. But how do I ask her?"

"Well," said Tina pointedly. "Tell her everything you just told me. That's the perfect way to ask a girl out."

"Really?" said Neville. "You think that's all right?"

"'Course it is," said Tina. "Only…" she paused. She didn't want to hurt Neville's feelings, but she knew he'd feel worse if he had to find out at the last second. "I think she might be going with someone else." Oh, sure, play dumb, she thought feeling slightly annoyed with herself.

"She is?" asked Neville, looking worried once again. "Then what will I do?"

"You can still ask her," said Tina hurriedly. "I might be wrong. But if she's really going with someone else you'll just have to ask another girl who you like." She added as an afterthought, "as a friend."

At this, Neville looked up at her meaningfully.

"Oh, no," Tina said, reading his mind, but smiling once again. "Not me. I'm going with someone, too."

Neville grinned sheepishly. "I suppose there's Ginny," he said thoughtfully. "And she's in third year so no one can have asked her, right?"

"Right," said Tina, glad to see Neville thinking again. "But you can still ask Hermione."

"Of course," he replied. "Thanks, though. At least now I can ask her."

At that moment, who should walk through the portrait hole, but Hermione. Neville suddenly looked quite horrified again, and Tina had a look that felt to her like it said 'Curse the timing!' However, Hermione didn't really seem to notice.

"Hello Tina," she said cheerfully, her cheeks rather pink. "Hullo, Neville," she added, seeing him by the fire.

"Um…" said Tina, thinking there was no time like the present. "I'm gonna…go up to the dormitory and get my homework."

"Good idea," said Hermione. "I'll come too--"

"No!" said Tina with a bi too much enthusiasm. "I mean, erm…well, since I'm going up I'll get yours for you. You can stay down here and...talk to Neville." She raised her eyebrows at Neville, hinting what she meant. Hermione looked from one of them to the other, seeming extremely confused. While she was looking at Neville, Tina snuck him an encouraging smile. Then she disappeared up the staircase to the girls' dormitories.

Tina rummaged through her bag and pulled out several pieces of parchment and her quill and ink. Then she found her Potions' book and went through Hermione's bag to find the same things.

On her way down the spiral staircase, Tina stopped, hearing voices. It sounded like Neville and Hermione. Good, she thought. At least he got up the courage to ask her.

"So…will you?" Tina heard Neville say.

"Oh, Neville…that's very nice of you," Hermione sounded as though she was about to drop a rather large bombshell.

"Oh, crap, I was right," muttered Tina. She didn't know whether she should feel annoyed and stupid or proud and gleeful. However, she didn't have much time to decide because Hermione spoke again.

"But, I'm sorry, I can't, I'm…I'm already going with someone." In the fraction of a second pause that followed this Tina decided that she felt proud and gleeful. However, Neville didn't seem too thrilled.

"Oh," he said quietly. "Well, that's fine. Thanks anyway." Footsteps followed, and disappeared up the staircase to the boys' dormitories. Tina took the opportunity to go back down into the common room.

"So," she said, unable to stop herself from smiling. "Did he ask you?"

Hermione looked up at Tina, growing redder by the second.

"Who, Neville?" she asked, trying to look innocent. "Yes, he just--"

"No," said Tina, grinning even more. "You know who I mean."

"No, I don't think I do."

"Oh, come on, I'm the reason you two are together! You have to tell me!"

Now it was Hermione's turn to grin. She looked extremely prone to another fit of giggles, but she also looked rather sly and wicked.

"Oh, all right," she said. "He did."

They both squealed, and if someone had walked into the common room at that point, they would've found the scene incredibly strange, because Hermione Granger rarely giggled, let alone squealed.

"Oh, wow!" cried Tina. "This is so COOL! I mean, you…and…and Krum! Viktor Krum! Gosh, you're just surrounded by celebrities, my friend. I mean, first Harry, now Vik. What, do famous people just gravitate toward you?"

Hermione didn't answer, she was just smiling.

"Okay, so what did he say? I mean, how did he ask you?"

"Oh, that," said Hermione, blushing again. "He just sort of…talked to me, that's all. He was waiting when I got there, and he told me that he had only been going to the library all those times so that he could talk to me."

"No!"

"Yes!"

"You know what," said Tina thoughtfully. "You're enjoying this."

"Oh, I am not," said Hermione.

"Yes, you are," pressed Tina. "Oh, go on, just admit it. You're flattered that he likes you."

"Well, I…might be…a little." Said Hermione gingerly. "All right, fine, so I'm flattered! Are you happy now?"

"Yeah, I just wanted to hear it from you. Anyway, we had better start on our homework, or Harry and Ron'll show up and start asking questions."

"Right," said Hermione, straightening up. "I don't want them to know. They'll just tease me. Especially Ron."

"Oh, yeah," said Tina.

They opened up their Potion books and started on their homework.

A/N Yay! Girl moment! LONG REVIEWS and you have to review this and the previous one as well…hehehe.