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Disclaimer: Everyone who has read up to this point should have gotten the memo about this, but this is the LAST TIME I WILL SAY IT. I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters. JK Rowling does (Lucky her!).


It really isn't "Goodbye"after all

Chapter 5: Hermione and Matt, Part:1 1

Hermione sat in the barber chair at Wild Hair looking at herself, looking at what she had done to herself. She couldn't believe that she actually did this to herself. She looked...she looked...AMAZING!

She couldn't believe it, under all of the hair under all of the ugliness was actually pretty hott. She had her hair cut to her shoulders, she also had it straigtened and highlighed with light blue highlights.(You would think that it wouldn't look good but it looks pretty good). She had her eyeborws done so her face looked like it had more character in it. She also had gotten her tongue and navel pierced, you know being a hair/piercing salon. She thought 'why not'. But now she regretted it. It hurt alot afterwards (A/N: I can back her up on that!).

She came out of the back and into the lobby where Matt was waiting for her. Every guy in that place was staring at her with their mouths hanging open and drooling all over themselves.

Matt finally looked up, because he heard some of the guys talking about something, and when he did he immediately found the source of it all. He couldn't believe that was her. She looked AMAZING. He knew that he had to have her, if he didn't get her then no one would.

Hermione walked over to Matt and with her all of the eyes that were looking at her followed. "So, what do you think?" said Hermione in a hopeful voice.

"You look amazing Hermione, I can't believe it, it's amazing!" he said with his mouth hanging open letting alittle drool come out.

Hermione realised this and started to giggle. "Really? do you think that I look good?" Hermione asked.

"Are you kidding, I don't even know what to say except, you're pretty hott!" Matt said making Hermione blush. "Come on, i'll take you out to lunch." he said holding out his arm.

Hermione took it and they headed out of the barber shop and down the road.


"Hermione? can I ask you something?" Matt said in a kind of scared tone of voice.

Hermione picking up on his tone looked up from her salad and looked him in the face with a worried expression. "Sure Matt, you can ask me anything." Hermione said her expression turing into a smile.

"Ok, what if I were to ask you out sometime?" he asked.

Hermione looked at him for a minute with a blank expression on her face. Her mind immediately went to Harry and their little "moment" on the platform. Then her mind just had to start arguing with her again.

Hermione what are you doing, answer him, you know you want to go out with him.

No I don't, what about Harry and what about what happened on the platform?

Well what about it, it was only a caught up in the moment thing. Besides he hasn't written you all summer and you've written him like what? 10, 11, 12 times?

I know but this is Harry we're talking about, he wouldn't just do that to me, would he?

Just go for it with Matt, he's cute, he's smart, he's funny AND HE'S ASKING YOU OUT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

And with that Hermione said to Matt, "Sure I would love to go out with you Matt." She then jumped up and hugged him.

And Matt, who was looking at her, for the past five minutes, aruguing with herself was so relieved that she said yes. But now he was in this bone-crushing hug and all he wanted now was to breathe again.

"H-Hermione...I-I..." Matt tried to say but he was starting to feel the life being sucked out of him. But to much of his relief she let go. Catching his breath he said " I'm glad... you don't know how long i've wanted to ask you out. I know you didn't think that I even noticed you but since the first time I saw you I thought that you were the most beautiful thing in the world."

Hermione blushed at this. She didn't even think that anybody even thought that she was pretty before but now, people were sure to notice her.

"I'm glad that you're glad Matt, now where are you going to take me?" Hermione asked, still blushing.

"Well, I was thinking that we could go out tonight and grab some dinner and go see a movie." He said.

"Thats a great idea, pick me up at 8 then,ok?" Hermione said getting up again.

Matt just nodded his head. And with that they made their way back to the hotel. Matt dropped Hermione off at her room and headed back downstairs where someone was waiting for him.


Matt went into the employee locker room and spoke, " Well, she said yes, now what exactly is supposed to be happening tonight?" he asked, it would have seemed like he was talking to himself except that there was someone standing in the shadows.

"Well..." , said the figure stepping out into the light, he had a hood on so you couldnt see his face, holding what appeared to be a stack of letters, "You're going to seduce her," the figure said handing Matt a pill bottle filled with white pills, "and then we'll see what happens form there."

"But what if it dosen't work?" said Matt holding the pill bottle.

"It will work, I need it to work, Granger has to be out of the picture for us to get Potter and then destroy him", said the figure.

"Well we have his little love notes aleady, and hers too." Matt said gesturing to the stack of letters that the figure was holding.

"Yes, but thats still not enough to get to him, he needs to feel weak and helpless." said the figure.

"Ok, well how about we send her back to Hogwarts but brainwash her first?" Matt suggested.

"Thats pretty good but we can't brainwash her just yet, we need to find out somethings about Potter first, so we will send her back to school but... but you're going with her." said the figure, thinking that this was just the most wonderful idea anybody could have come up with.

"W-What? I can't go to Hogwarts, I can't just leave Tolkser." (Wizarding school in America). Matt said.

"You can and you will." said the figure. "And besides if you don't then I will have no choice but to destroy you."

"Ok, fine. But what am I going to tell her when I show up at Hogwarts unannounced?" asked Matt.

"We'll worry about that later," said the figure."But now you need to get ready for your date," said the figure in a mocking sort of voice.

Matt just gave him a disgusted look and walked out of the room with it still on his face.

Making sure that he was alone he pulled off his hood and said , "Yes, once I have Granger on my side, no one will be able to stop me from getting to Potter. Once he realizes that his little girlfriend has fallen for someone else he'll be heartbroken and weak and vulnerable and very easy to get to. With that the figure pulled his hood on and stepped back into the shadows and disappeared.


Hermione was in her room gettting ready. She had come back from her afternoon with Matt and felt very tired so she decided to take a nap. She woke up at 7:30 and wasnow rushing around with only a towel on and scattering make-up all over the floor as she desperately tired to find the right eyeshadow.

She was just putting the finishing touches on her mascara when someone knocked on her door. She crossed the huge hotel room to the door. She then opened the door to a very handsome looking Matt holding white roses.

"Ready to go?" He asked holding out is arm like he did when they were in the barber shop.

"Yes",she said grabbing her purse and taking his arm as they left her hotel room.

Hermione didn't know what was planned for their big night out on the town, but rest assured she wouldn't remember a thingthat did happen tomarrow.


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