----- ------ Hermione's P.O.V ------ ------

'So, were all just going to stand here then!'

'Well, I don't really care, because the second Ron goes to sleep tonight I'm going to jinx him something awful!'

'He can be such a horrible, nasty, hurtful, incredibly loyal, no! Not incredibly loyal! Incredibly impudent!'

Just as Sirius opened his mouth to make some sort of comment, a house elf wearing what appeared to be a towel tied in a toga like fashion came scampering around the corner carrying three heavy looking sacks.

"Mr. Harry, Ms. Hermione, Mr. Ronald!" it squeaked.

' That poor thing, the Dumbledore in this time doesn't even pay this house elf, this is unfair!' Hermione raged.

"Yeah thats us." said Harry, stepping forward to greet the creature.

The house elf swayed under the heavy load looking at James and then to Harry again.

"Good Lord." the house elf squeaked.

He then handed the bag with Harry James written in green ink to Harry's father, the one with Ronald Bilious to Peter, and the one with Hermione Jane to, well, Hermione.

'Poor creature,' Hermione thought. 'only one out of three. Well no wonder the poor darling is kept up in that dreadful kitchen all day.'

"I'm not Ron" squeaked Peter, sounding as if he rather wished that he was.

Peter handed the bag to Ron, who tore it open ruthlessly.

"School robes." moaned Ron.

James looked at Harry's bag.

"You middle name is James?" he asked.

'god.' Hermione thought.

"Yeah, named after my father." Harry said quickly.

Hermione shot him a warning glance.

"Interesting." said James.

"Well, lets go. I'm getting bored. Did Dumbledore give any of you any money?" Sirius asked.

"Yes." said Hermione, holding up a small velvet pouch that had come from the large bag.

Ron dug around in his for a moment and soon found a pouch like Hermione's.

Harry already had his in his hand.

"So, we'll need to get you to Hogsmead!" proclaimed Sirius in a very important sounding fashion.

"Finally, a bit of fun." He added.

"Maybe we shouldn't, if we got caught then we would be in a lot of trouble." Hermione tried to reason but Sirius had already grabbed her arm and took off running down the hall, the others following behind them.

"We should send James to go get Lilz, she can help you pick out clothes, and probably lend you some for today." said Sirius, showing no signs of slowing down.

"But we're going to have to skip class!" Hermione tried again.

"So?" Sirius asked looking back at her and tilting his head. He had such big, puppy dog eyes.

Hermione rolled her own brown ones, in an attempt to keep her very rule abiding reputation. Then, a thought hit her. She didn't have a reputation back here! She could be anybody she wanted, really. Oh well.

'This might actually not be too bad, Lily and I did get along quite well, and I really need to get away from all these boys.'

'Didn't think I'd ever say that sentence.'

They reached the common room and Sirius hollered the password.

"oceanography"

Sirius quite literally swooped Hermione off her feet, and flung them both through the portrait hole, and down onto the chesterfield beside a very agitated looking Lily.

"Hey Lilz, up for a trip to Hogsmeat?" Sirius asked, as Hermione tried to control her laughter.

"That sounds great."

"Hermione, what have you got there?" asked Lily.

'What cologne was he wearing!'

Hermione smiled over at her, and repositioned the bag on her lap.

"Some of my stuff, school robes, bit of money, copy's of my old grades and things I suppose." she said.

"Cool, so lets get you some muggle clothes and go to Hogsmead, shall we?" said Lily.

"What about us?" Ron asked the room in general.

"Well, I don't think you'll fit into any of my tang tops and skirts, sorry." said Lily,laughing.

The whole room burst out laughing, except for Ron.

And Hermione, who was having very disturbing mental images of Ron in a frilly little tank top and a mini skirt.

"Thats not what I meant." Ron tried to explain.

"I know, its just how it sounded." Remus said leading Ron and Harry to the boys dormitory's.

Lily and Hermione made their way up to the girls dormitories.

"So, what happened today?" asked Lily, opening her trunk and pulling out clothes a few clothes.

"Why?" asked Hermione.

"Oh, no reason ... You just seem oddly tense is all." Lily shrugged.

"Really?It is horribly obvious?"

"No, not really." Lily said, holding up a white summer top and inspecting it.

"Here. What about this?" Lily asked after a few minutes, hanging over a light blue shirt and a white peasant skirt.

"I think this shade of blue would look really nice on you." Lily added.

"Thanks Lily," said Hermione.

Hermione changed in the girls washrooms, and came back out and performed a fake runway show, complete with a twirl.

"So?" Hermione asked after Lily stopped giggling.

"I think we should curl your hair." she said finally.

"Um... doesn't that take hours?" Hermione asked cautiously .

"No, not the way I do it, come here." Lily said motioning with her finger.

Hermione sighed as Lily undid her pony tail and started to brush through her bushy mane of "muskrat" hair.

---- ----- FLASHBACK ------ -------

' It wont take too long, I just got this spell out of a magazine.' Lavender had pleaded,

'I should have known better, she was jealous of Ron and my friendship, she always was, why did I trust her?' Hermione thought now.

Lavender had raised her wand and started muttering spells.

'Take a look Hermione, RON will just love it!" Lavender squealed

'Lavender, I've told you a million times, there is nothing between Ron and I, were just friends again, thats all.' Hermione had said.

She looked in the mirror.

Her hair had been made even frizzier! Not only that it looked like a mini afro! Not to mention it was burnt. Hermione had to spend nearly the whole Sunday she could have been working on her homework, but instead she spent it in the potions classroom working on an antidote, Luckily Prof. Mcgonigal had taken pity on her and helped her transfigure it back to normal.

-----END OF TACKY LITTLE FLASHBACK THINGER----

Hermione closed her eyes, since what Lavender had done, Hermione had never let anybody else touch her hair.

But this was Lily, and Lily was nice and wouldn't do nasty things like Lavender.

"All done." Lily announced.

"That was only, like, 5 minutes."said Hermione, astounded.

"I told you I worked fast." said Lily proudly, now going back over to her trunk to search for an outfit for herself.

Hermione looked in front of a mirror, her hair was, indeed, in perfect curls.

After helping Lily with an outfit, they where just in the middle of makeup when;

"Get your pretty girl asses down here." Hermione recognized Sirius' voice.

Almost instantly any other girls in the dorm recognized his voice and ran out to him.

"Sad." said Hermione to Lily. She had to admit, there was nothing wrong with the way Sirius looked, and he acted very sweet. And in the future, although he did seem very reckless he was also a good person and all. But Cedric Diggory had also been very cute, and very popular indeed, but he didn't have people swooning over him like that. Victor did though, but that might have been more because he was an international Quidditch player.

"I know."

Lily got changed into a sheer type long blue skirt and a white top that looked like she had purchased them together.

(remember its 1975)

Lily also got her hair straightened by Hermione, who, amazingly enough didn't do a completely horrible job.

"Lets go." said Lily, and the girls finally decided to go down stairs, figuring they had let Sirius and them wait long enough.
Hermione had to admit, being more of a girly type girl was a bit fun.

The boys were waiting downstairs for them.

"Took you long enough!" said Sirius, tapping his foot dramatically.

Lily and Hermione both rolled their eyes.

"You look fine." Ron commented a few minutes later as they walked along through the castle.

"So do you." She replied curtly.

Sirius glanced at them and muttered something to James that sounded an awful lot like "Shes going to be a challenge." but Hermione figured shes imagined it , only she hadn't.

They reached a tunnel behind a painting of metal shapes. Said tunnel was damp and rather gross but Hermione could stomach it, it just felt like a tunnel her Ron and Harry would have taken to save the world once or twice.

'I wonder if Voldemort is in power right now...' Hermione found herself thinking.

'yes, of course he is, but why then doesn't anybody talk about him?'

'Well, that should be obvious, nobody here had a Prophesy told saying "Neither shall live while the other is alive" or some other rubbish like that.'

"What did you say Hermione?" asked Sirius, who had somehow sneaked up beside her when she wasn't paying attention.

She hadn't realized she had said part of her thought out loud.

"Oh, just muttering things, nothing important." said Hermione quickly.

"Ok." Sirius agreed, still looking skeptical.

They finally reached Hogsmead, and they all took in the fresh air.

Hermione got stuck with Ron for a bit when they all split up, mainly just because she knew Harry would want to be with his parents and future godfather.

"Its great to be here, isn't it Ron." Hermione stated, her tone the exact same all through her sentence.

"Sure." replied Ron, not even looking at her.

"I'm just so happy right now about everything I could do a cartwheel."said Hermione, for a moment forgetting that she was angry at the lanky red head beside her.

"A what?" asked Ron.

"A cartwheel." said Hermione.

"You don't know how to do a cartwheel?" she asked, raising her eyebrows.

"I don't even know what a cart -a wadda is." said Ron, eyebrows furrowed.

"I'll teach you!" said Hermione brightly.

"First put your arms like this." Hermione put her arms over her head and Ron followed.

"Then you do this."she said, flipping over in a nicely done cartwheel.

"Simple." said Ron, although for some reason he looked slightly red in the ears.

Ron did the same thing almost, he went sideways and landed on his arse.

Hermione laughed and so did Ron after a moment.

"Simple!" Hermione mocked.

Ron rolled his eyes and tried again, this time doing more of a somersault.

He sat there for a minute looking up at her, then they both broke out laughing.

"Its funny." Hermione started. "One, when I was about eight or so, we where practicing cartwheels, and I was wearing a skirt and it flew up and showed off my pretty pink knickers." She laughed.

"Um, Hermione?" said Ron catiousley.

Suddenly the girls expression went grim.

"Ron, look at me right now and tell me I'm not wearing a skirt."

After a bit more of that and finally some shopping, Hermione parted with Ron when he went into Zonko's.

She looked around for anybody, after not finding any familiar faces, Hermione started to walk to The Three Broomsticks, she stopped short however when she saw Sirius in the alley.

"Hey Sirius!" Hermione waved coming over to him.

"Hermione.." said Sirius.

Hermione didn't have any time to react, he had grabbed her and put her up against the wall.

"Sirius!" she gasped in surprise.

But as Sirius leaned into kiss her, Hermione found herself unable to protest, the smell of his cologne filled her lungs. The whole seen was just so gosh darn romantic!

------ ------ Ron's P.O.V ------ ------

'I wonder where Hermione went.'

'Well, on the plus side shes not angry at me any more I spose.'

'I hope she likes these sugar quills, I remember her telling me they were her favorite.'

'Maybe she went to The Three Broomsticks, I bet thats it, we always meet there after a bit.'

Ron turned a corner and proceeded to walk to the three broomsticks, but something caught his eye.

Pause for dramatic string quartet ensemble.

Ron stood there, looking at Sirius and Hermione. He couldn't think of anything else to do, then he turned and walked into The Three Broomsticks.

'I guess she was still miffed at me after all.'

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Alright, I must say I'm pretty gosh darn proud. I got a short, lame flashback-ish thing, AND a crushed Ron, and a confused Hermione all in one chapter! Hoorah!

Anyways, its rewritten now, although slightly different then the original I must say, but I hope its better.

Anyways, please review so I know I'm doing okay.

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KatrinaLee