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Hermione was sitting on her bed with her head in her hands when there was a knock on the door. She had gone from furious, to angry, to annoyed and finally just plain upset. She could never understand how just one person would make her feel so many terrible emotions in such a short time span. Hermione rapidly wiped the tears from her face.
"Who is it?" she asked sharply as walked over to the mirror to try to make herself look semi-presentable. She knew it wouldn't be Malfoy, he never apologized for anything that he did or said.
"Ron" replied the muffled voice.
"patefacio" mumbled Hermione as she flicked her wand at the door. She walked over to her bed and sat down again. A moment later Ron walked in and sat next to her.
"I heard what he said to you…" Ron began.
"If you came in here to tell me how Malfoy is really a great guy and all that bull, you can save it. I've heard it all before."
"Actually that wasn't what I had in mind. What I was going to say was that he was a jerk for saying that to you. But… he does have a point."
"I can't believe you are saying this to me! You are supposed to be one of my best friends!" Hermione jumped up from the bed and grabbed her wand ready to throw a hex at her 'friend'.
"Will you sit and listen? You know I think that you're beautiful. Now put that thing away before you do something that you will regret."
Hermione stood in front of him for a moment and slowly lowered her wand. She sat back down with a "hmph!"
"As I was saying… I know how you feel you about wearing you muggle clothes while you're here and how you don't want to attract any more attention to the fact that you are a muggle born, but don't you think that you've gone a little far with it? I mean, Mya, you are a gorgeous girl, but its hard for people to see that when you hide behind baggy, not to mention ugly, clothing. You know how to look good. Who cares what the kids here think? You've already proven yourself to be the most powerful witch here. You'll be respected even more for being yourself and not being what people expect you to be." Ron looked really proud of himself after that little speech. But he was still a little worried about how she would react to finally hearing the truth.
Hermione was silent for a long time. Then she said something that Ron didn't expect. "You're right. I guess after that whole thing with Victor I just stopped caring about how I looked around here. I guess I figured, if I couldn't get a wizard to care about me, I should just accept my fate to be alone. After all, no muggle boy would want to be with me after he found out the truth."
"Hermione, Victor was…"
"A bastard, I know. Look I agree with you. Hogwarts will be seeing a whole new Hermione Granger beginning tomorrow!"
Hermione woke up early the next morning. She knew she had a lot of work to do if she wanted to look like her old self again in time for the Hogsmeade trip. After grabbing a bunch of grooming supplies buried deep in her trunk, she walked into the bathroom both she and Draco shared. After muttering a locking charm "nullus invado" on the door leading to Draco's bedroom, she began sorting through all her supplies until she came up with her warm vanilla sugar body wash. She poured a capful of the contents into the bathtub and turned on the warm water. When the tub was full, she quickly took off her pajamas and climbed in the scented water. She closed her eyes and relaxed; it had been a while since she had let herself take a nice bath instead of a quick shower.
After she had soaked for about thirty minutes she began to exfoliate her skin. She then shaved her legs and underarms being extra careful not to nick her skin. After she finished she jumped out the bath, drained the bath that magically began to clean itself and the water lever lowered, and wrapped herself in a towel.
Hermione walked over to the mirror and examined her reflection. 'I at least I had continued to do my eyebrows' she thought to herself. She combed a wave enhancing foam though her wet hair before the allowed it air dry. Never one to wear a lot of makeup she just put on a tinted moisturizer, lined her eyes with charcoal liner, black eyeliner and grey eye shadow.
Satisfied with her face she said the counter charm on Draco's door "invado" and went into her room to change. Luckily she had brought all of her muggle clothing to school, she just never wore them. She searched her closet for her favorite casual outfit and smiled when it was found. Hermione pulled on the shirt and skirt quickly and went over to her full length mirror. She looked just how she remembered. The shirt was multi layered; the top layer was a black, slightly loose, and sleeveless, and was slashed horizontally across the top while the second layer was just a cropped white tank top. A glimpse of her silver dangling belly ring could be seen. Her skirt was a lowrise, sandbasted denim mini. It wasn't short enough to look slutty, but enough for the boys to notice. The skirt was really low; a portion of the tattoo on her hip was visible. She slid on her black and white pumas and smiled to herself. The outfit was very urban and very hot. Looking at her clock, she hurried to put the finishing touches on her outfit.
"Hermione! Hurry up, we want to get out oh here!" yelled Pansy. She, Harry, Ron, Millie, and Draco were impatiently waiting in the common room to go to Hogsmeade. Blaise and Ginny had left the room a few minutes earlier and would meet them at The Three Broomsticks later in the afternoon.
"Ok, this is what we are going to do" said Harry looking at Draco. "You are going to wait for Hermione while the four of us head over. If you don't catch up to us meet us at that Zonko's in half hour."
"Why do I have wait for the evil wench?"
"Because you two have to get the letter from Dumbledore to take to that ministry. And after what I heard you did yesterday I think the least you could do is wait for her."
Draco, not feeling like arguing with Harry just sat on the couch and sulked. The other four left, happy that they no longer had to wait for Hermione. After a few minutes Draco became agitated and went up the steps and started banging on her door.
"Granger, get out here now! Ten more minutes of grooming will not make you look any better, we are leaving now!"
Just then her door opened. "Finally- " he started, but when he saw the girl in front of him he couldn't finish his sentence. He just couldn't keep his eyes from slowly roaming over her body. As his eyes slid lower and lower his heart rate began to speed up, but he barely noticed.
"Oh shit…"
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