The next morning I woke to the whole quidditch team going out. They were on there way out to practice around 5:00 am.

I got up and sleepily went up the stairs to my dorm and entered quietly and went back to sleep in my four poster until I woke again around 9:00.

By the time I was up and dressed Lavender and Parvati were gone.

I was late for my first class but I made an excuse about finishing my homework. I know it was a lame reason but I couldn't think of any other at the time.

I did my best to avoid Ginny all day. I didn't feel much like fighting having not much sleep I didn't have the energy.

After my last class I left the castle for Hogsmead to do some shopping for things I'd need before leaving for America.

I needed to get some dress robes for the school dance. I found some violet robes made of velvet with small diamonds scattered over it.

I got the other things I needed and a couple of books for some light reading, and returned to the castle.

I lay the dress robes on my bed and put away the other things before going down to dinner. I didn't see Ginny or Lavender at dinner but I didn't think much of it.

I was reading one of my new books and eating when Harry and Ron jumped from the table.

"What's the rush?" I said looking up from my book. "Another practice." They answered running for the door.

I sighed, two in one day. Weren't they good enough just to have one practice a day?

I finished dinner and decided to get to my homework.

Back in the dorm, I was looking through my trunk for a quill and I noticed something wrong.

I got up and went over to the bed where the bag with my dress robes was lying. I had had them lying on my bed, unfolded so they didn't wrinkle, but the bag was now crumpled. I opened it and starred shocked at the contents. My beautiful robes had been ruined. Some bits looked cut up but others looked like someone in rage had torn them apart. Threads hung from pieces of velvet and diamonds had been pulled off and left small holes where they'd been sewn on.

I sighed and thought I knew who had done this. I considered running down to the Common Room and confronting the two criminals with the evidence, but instead, I picked up my books and went down to the common room.

I sat in a corner and worked. My friends weren't here so what was there to do. When Harry and Ron came in I joined them but when they started badgering me for answers to homework, I told them goodnight. I had just seen Lavender and Ginny going upstairs and I wanted to catch them if they were in our dorm. I came in the dorm dropped my books on my bed side table and turned to find them sitting on Lavenders bed talking and trying to look innocent.

"So, what did you two do when you weren't at dinner?" I asked them. "Or were you just late?"

Ginny smiled sweetly and said. "Hermione I have no idea what you're talking about."

I glared back anger coursed through me as I watched her acting as if she'd done nothing. I was not playing games with her I went over to where the torn robes lay and picked them up and turned.

"This is what you were doing wasn't it!" Ginny and Lavender really tried to look clueless but it failed. Lavender was looking down at the floor but Ginny started laughing.

I tossed the ruined robes to the floor and ran across the room and slapped her. "You little bitch how dare you, get over it you and Harry are not going to the dance!" I screamed at her I was so mad I was shaking.

Ginny got up still looking surprised at what I'd done she was about to leave but turned back. She picked up a paperweight from Lavender's bedside table.

"Ginny, don't!" Lavender cried. Maybe she hadn't had anything to do with what Ginny had done; after all she didn't seem to think the whole thing was funny or anything. Lavender had waited a second too late to stop Ginny.

Ginny threw the paperweight. I moved back against the wall and it soared past, crashing in to the wall beside me.

She was insane. Yes, I'd slapped her but that was one thing if I hadn't moved that paperweight could have killed me. The room was quiet fore a few seconds then she started shouting.

"Hermione Granger you think you're so perfect, with your perfect grade and now you get to go to the dance with Harry and…" She looked so enraged I thought she'd find something else to through.

I looked her in the eye hers full of nothing except hate and evil.

She headed for the door and said over her shoulder. "I'm going to make life here very hard for you." She shut the door hard behind her.

Lavender sat shaking she looked a little frightened.

"Hermione?"

"Yeah?"

"I didn't help her with..."

"I know I figured that out." I said as I lay down. I left the hangings open so we could talk.

"I think she's crazy or something," Lavender said.

"Who's crazy?" The door opened and a sleepy Parvati entered. I let Lavender tell her the story. When Lavender was done, Parvati said "I saw her she ran downstairs looking like she was ready to kill."

"Lets go everywhere in a pack in case she has some sort of plan that way your never alone Hermione." Lavender said she got up and blew the candles out.

"I guess that's a good idea but I'm not worried about her."

"She's obsessed with breaking you and Harry up. You can't let her win." Parvati said.

"I guess not I said as I fell into a much needed sleep."

The dance took place the following Saturday. The Great Hall was full of students dressed up and a dance floor was set up in the middle of the hall. Tables of punch and cookies and snacks were set up on one side of the room.

So far, Ginny hadn't done anything else. She wasn't at the dance I assumed she'd stayed back in the common room to sulk and seethe.

I didn't care though she was crazy and stupid to believe fighting with me and trying to kill me would get her what she wanted.

I smiled for two reasons. 1, I was here with Harry and she wasn't. And 2, I was dancing with him to one of my all time favourite songs.