Chapter 10

As Hermione dived into an already occupied bed, an owl came to their window. The owl tapped the window lightly and waited for someone to come and open it. James walked over to the window and opened it. A white owl flew in and it had one letter on its leg.

James opened the letter and read:

Since it is nearing Halloween, we have decided to have a Halloween masked ball. Your costume and date will have been chosen for you. You will take a personality test to be matched with the he or she of your dreams .Your test will be tomorrow from 7 from noon in your common room of your respected house. You will get your costume three hours before the ball. You will have a place to meet your dates thirty minutes before the ball. You cannot reveal yourself till the end of the ball. Its from 4th year to 7th year. Thank you and good night.

"A Halloween ball?" James said.

"Well, that's what is says," Lily said.

"I mean we have never done this before, it's kinda of strange."

"Dumbledore is strange. Nothing is ever right with him." Lily said.

"Maybe it's always for the better, you know, fate?" James said.

"I don't believe in fate James." Lily said.

"And you believe in magic?"

"If I can see it, feel it, then it's real but besides that no, I don't believe in fate. I dislike fate with a passion… its fate that made… never mind James."

"That made you what?" He asked.

"Never you mind James, never you mind."

"Lily what?" James said and grabbed her arm as she started to walk away.

"James!" Lily yelled and she jerked her arm out of his grasp, she stormed away and out of the portrait hole.

"Pms?" Draco asked as he came out of the bathroom and looked around.

James wacked him over the head rather hard with Hogwarts: A History. After recovering from the wack on the head, "I wonder what was wrong with her…" Draco muttered as he threw back the sheets of Hermione's bed, seeing she was in his.

"I don't know but after Kenny died she has been kinda off." James said.

"Put the pieces together man." Draco said.

"What?"

"After Kenny died? You don't think that they where…?" Draco lead off.

"They can't have been…" James muttered.

"Maybe not… maybe so." Draco said.

Around 3AM, Hermione woke up and she wasn't where she usually was. She walked over to her own bed and through back the blanket and fell asleep. When she woke up the next morning she was leaning against a very warm pillow. The pillow also had a name. Draco Malfoy.

After a few hours, Lily was rolling of the floor laughing. She had a camera in one hand and in the other was a piece of parchment.

Lily had gotten pictures of Hermione and Draco, together, my was this a shocker. In the hand with the parchment, Lily was taking her test to see whom she would go with to the Halloween Ball.

She took out her quill and continued to write her answers. When she was done, she folded it up and it disappeared. Lily looked over each of the pieces of parchment that had their names on them. Each one had different questions.

Each person took their own test and folded it and it disappeared. Hermione yawned again, not really talking in the fact she had spent the night with Draco.

The days went by and James tried and tried to get Lily to give him some of her answers, but alas it wasn't working. Hermione and Draco were getting closer and closer whether they liked it or not. The teenagers where also getting more clues to who killed Kenny. Lily seemed very into the case all of a sudden and she wouldn't refer to why.

The night right before Halloween, Hermione found Lily in the library, crying.

"Lily?" Hermione asked quietly.

"Um what?" Lily stuttered and she quickly wiped her eyes.

"Lily, are you ok?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine why do you ask?" She said, her eyes where blood shot and her face and nose red.

"No your not, you've been crying, tell me what's wrong." Hermione said.

"Different things Hermione…" She started to tell her story. When she was done, Hermione was in tears, and she was not ready to hear this at all. This really exposed who and why Kenny died.

Ok, now, (((dodges rotton apples, oranges, peaches, and pears))) don't hurt me! many things have been going on in my life like life. Oh wells, I plan to finnish them and send them back to Hogwarts and might make a sequel to see how Hermione and Draco get along... maybe... this story will be over before Halloween or on Halloween day. I am not sure but it will be complete soon! R'R please and... yeah I think thats it.

Peace xxx