"Olivia Hibbs"said Dumbledore happily looking on his right the door opened.

Harry's heart skipped a beat this girl was extremely pretty she had blonde hair with light blonde highlights that went just past her shoulders. She smiled as she approached Dumbledore. Then as Dumbledore turned to sit down McGonagall asked her to sit on the stool and place the hat on her head. Olivia did not seem to think this procedure unusual and sat down straight away and placed the hat on her head.

The sorting hat seemed to be talking to her for a while and it finally shouted "GRIFFINDOR". Everyone at their table jumped up and started applauding. Olivia hopped up and made her way over to their table. Harry looked next to him there was a large space and she seemed to be walking over to it. She sat herself next to Harry and started saying hello to everyone around her. Then Dumbledore stood up and clapped his hands twice and again like magic all their plates were full. Olivia turned around and faced Harry.

"Hello" she said in a cheery voice. "I'm Olivia ... Olivia Hibbs".

"Hi I'm Harry...Harry Potter" he said nervously.

"Oh my god you are" she said excitedly. She looked past him and saw Ron and Hermione.

"And you two must be Ron and Hermione" she said surveying them.

"You've heard of us?" said Ron looking astounded.

"Of course I have I read about the three of you in the Daily prophet and I also heard a lot about you three from Dumbledore" she said turning back to Harry.

"So How many times have all of you defeated Voldemort" she said as Harry looked at her he was so shocked that she could even say his name.

"Twice" said Harry. "You can't really count when we were in year four because I didn't defeat him he came back" said Harry nervously as he thought she would think he was a loon for saying he was still alive.

"Yeah I heard about that my mum works at the ministry she never believed Fudge when he said you were a loon... I think she even wrote you a letter saying she was on you're side".

"You're mum works at the ministry" Ron blurted out.

"Yes" she said.

"My dad works there to" said Ron proudly.

"Really? What department?" Olivia asked.

"Misuse of Muggle artifacts".

"Wow Cool. My mum works in the department of Mysteries" as she said this Ron and Hermione went quiet and turned to look at Harry. Harry had frozen on the spot he had lost all interest in his dinner.

"Did I say something wrong?" asked Olivia nervously. Harry was the one who answered this question.

"No don't worry you didn't say anything" said Harry trying to make his answer sound like it was a misunderstanding. But Ron and Hermione knew the truth Harry hated the department of mysteries. He thought Olivia seemed like a nice girl but he didn't have much interest in her now besides Ron seemed to dig her they spent the whole night talking after Harry and Hermione went to bed.

The next morning while they were on there way to charms they were all talking about there first year at Hogwarts.

"Yes it was so scary for the first year at a new school only I wasn't there for the battle with voldemort" said Ron adding the last bit with a sad look in his eyes.

Then Hermione said something that made Ron cheer right up.

"Well that's only because Ron here made a noble move to save us all... If he hadn't of done that Harry wouldn't have been able to go on and defeat voldemort".

"Thanks Hermione' said Ron smiling.

As they were walking along Hermione's bag split open.

"Oh No!" said Hermione as she bent down to collect her things.

"No Harry you all go ahead I will catch up tell Professor Flitwick I will be there shortly" said Hermione cleaning up one of the ink bottles that had smashed.

Just as Hermione had gotten up Draco Malfoy passed her it seemed like he was in a hurry Hermione glanced down at her time table.

'Oh great we have Charms with the Slytherin's'.

Hermione made her way up to the classroom door just a Malfoy was opening it. To her surprise he stepped back and let her go in first. As she walked in Ron and Harry turned around and looked at her. Their mouths dropped as they saw Malfoy come in after her.

'Oh my god' thought Hermione to herself 'Draco Malfoy just let me enter a room before him.... Maybe he has changed' thought Hermione sitting down. 'WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!!!!!? IT'S MALFOY! O.K just go on with the lesson and forget about it'.

The rest of the day was very uneventful. Ron got a pencil stuck up his nose and had to go to the hospital wing and get it removed. Harry, Hermione and Olivia were sitting in the great hall eating lunch waiting for Ron to get back from the hospital wing. Then Malfoy walked in with his usual group. Hermione quickly looked over and quickly turned back blushing as she realized she was smiling at him when he looked over!!

Draco looked over at the Gryffindor table surprised to see Hermione Granger staring at him and smiling!! Then she quickly looked away but he was happy anyway. Just recently Draco had a dream and it involved her. He couldn't remember all of but he did remember that it had involved him, Hermione, Harry and Ron. In this dream he and Hermione started going out and he was completely in love with her and vice-versa. He was also friends with Ron and Harry. It was a dream that he wished he was still in as he believed it was far better than his own world. But when she smiled at him it gave him hope that his dream may come true.

The rest of the month flew by. Suddenly it was September and there was a rumor that Dumbledore was planning a ball for everyone on the same day as the Halloween Feast. Everyone had already started asking people to go with them. Two pretty good looking guys one from Ravenclaw and one from Hufflepuff had asked Hermione to go with them she said she would think about it. "It wouldn't hurt now would it" she said as she surveyed them walking away. As for Ron two girls a year younger than him had asked him to go but for the first time Ron had to say no as he was already going with Olivia. Harry on the other hand had 4 girls from Hufflepuff 3 from raven claw and even two girls from Gryffindor had asked him to go.

"Harry so have you decided who you want to go with yet?" asked Ron.

"Well actually I think I am going to go with the second Hufflepuff she was pretty and she seemed really interesting....what was her name again?" said Harry looking at Ron.

"Ummm Amanda? No that was the first one..... Meaghan?" said Ron trying to think.

"Yes it was Meaghan Clarke" said Harry happily.

"I think I will go with her" he said.

Harry walked off over to the Hufflepuff table to talk to that girl from what Ron saw she looked like the happiest girl in the world she jumped up and down then after a while she finally realized everyone else was staring at her so she quickly hugged Harry and ran off.

The next night at dinner Dumbledore announced that the rumor of the ball was indeed true and that it will be held on Halloween. Harry had gotten to know Meaghan after she came over to apologize for the way she had acted the day before.

"That's okay" said Harry smiling.

They spent the whole day together talking by the lake. Harry really thought this girl was wonderful. They actually had heaps in common they both liked quidditch and they both hated professor Snape she even like's hot fudge sundae's (Harry's favorite). Harry was really glad he had picked her to go with. Hermione was not as prepared she could not choose out of the two guys who wanted to go with her. She kept saying stuff like

"Well if I go with him I will have fun and laugh but on the other hand if I go with this guy then I will be with someone who pansy wants to probably go with....Oh I like that"

Harry had actually had enough of ok I will choose him or no I really want to go with him. As they walked to potions Hermione was still on the topic of choosing a guy for the ball while Ron was trying to bring something else up. Potions was not all that bad except for when Snape yelled at Neville for not reading the instructions properly all the slytherin's laughed at this including Malfoy but Harry noticed that when Snape told Hermione she was a know it all again Malfoy scowled at him. Ron seemed to notice this to because his expression had changed from his usual his right you know look to she is keeping something from us look. The rest of the lesson Ron and Harry carried on their own private conversation.

Hermione had to go to a prefects meeting at 7:00pm that night Ron had decided that being a prefect was too hard for him as he could barely finish his homework let alone that and extra jobs so he let Seamus Finnegan take over. Hermione returned at about 9:30pm and she did not look too happy.

"Hermione....What's wrong?" said Harry and Ron at the same time. Hermione looked up and said something but hey could not understand.

"Herm say that again a little louder" said Ron.

"I....I have to pp ...Pack my things" said Hermione sadly.

"WHY" said Ron and Harry loudly.

"Because Dumbledore told us that the Prefect dormitories are ready now" said Hermione but Harry had the feeling that this was not what was bothering her.

"Well that's not that bad. Is it?" said Ron.

"Well Dumbledore thought that since there is so much hatred between houses that Prefects should set examples and show that we can all be civil so we were paired with a different person from a different house" Hermione didn't want to finish with who she was paired with.

"Herm who are you paired with" said Ron looking her in her eye's.

"Draco Malfoy"whispered Hermione.

"WHAT" yelled Ron.

"He paired you with that stupid git.....Do you ....Do you have to share a room?" said Ron looking at her seriously.

"Yes" croaked Hermione.

"Bu...but he has a crush on you what if he tries to pull something" said Ron again very seriously.

"I don't know he didn't seem too happy about sharing a room with me maybe his over it now" said Hermione hopefully.

"What did you mean by he didn't seem 'too' happy" said Ron accusingly.

"Well he did smile at first then he looked over at me and stopped" said Hermione sadly.

"When do you have to move in with your new roomie?" asked Harry.

"Now" said Hermione even more sadly. She walked off to her dormitory her head bowed it looked as though she was crying.

"I think we should go have a little chat with her new 'Roomie" don't you Harry?

"Yes" replied Harry.