Chapter 1: The heartbroken scandel
It was August 29th, the day before the Hogwarts Express took off to bring all eager witches and wizards to school. The Leaky Cauldron was full of Hogwarts Students, and in room 25 sat three girls who were the best of friends and all in Gryffindor, Lavender Brown, Ginny Weasley, and Hermione Granger.
"We should really be getting to bed. It is already a quarter past ten!" said Hermione.
"Oh please! We haven't even discussed who we want to hook up with this year." Said Lavender in a convincing voice to try to get Hermione's approval to stay up later.
"Oh, alright. So Lavender, since your so eager to discuss this, you go first."
"Well, I still want Ron really badly!" Said Lavender with an embarrassed tone. "Sorry, Ginny"
"Ugh, what a shocker, Ron again, for like what the Second year in a row! You have got to get moving on it! If I could chose any guy in the school it would be.. Oliver Wood!" Said Ginny grinning at the mention of Oliver's name.
"GINNY!" Hermione yelled. "He is now the new transfiguration teacher, you can't court a teacher!"
"What happened to McGonagall?" Lavender and Ginny both questioned.
"Well there are so many first years coming in, that she decided to have a lighter work load if they hired another teacher to take half the classes. And Oliver was the best Transifurationist in his year.!"
"Well, he can add that under being the hottest Keeper our Quidditch Team has ever had!"
"Well, Oliver is cute, but no comparison to Ron… Hey, Hermione, you never told us who you fancy!" Said Lavender looking at Hermione, Hermione squirmed, and rush to find an excuse not to tell them. "Blimey, its 10:30, I must be getting to bed!" And she got up and ran up the stairs and got into her bed, while Lavender and Ginny both looked at each other and rolled their eyes.
While walking up the stairs Lavender whispered, "She does this all the time.. maybe she doesn't like boys?"
"Oh, please, didn't you see the look in her eye, she is frightened to tell us who it is. She has been so touchy on the subject of boys ever since her and Viktor broke up."
"What happened to them anyway?" asked Lavender, she never got the full story of what happened, it happened last summer, and she was in the Bahama's all summer. Ginny and Lavender stopped on the stair they were at and sat down.
"Well, you know how she gets the Daily Prophet every day. Well, Viktor's team played the Irish Team in the world cup semi-finals. And Bulgaria won, but in the paper there were pictures of Viktor kissing a very pretty girl."
"No way!" Shrieked Lavender.
"So, she sent him an owl asking what was going on, and he denied everything. He even went lengths to say it wasn't him. And then a week later she was supposed to be going to visit his house in Bulgaria, when he sent her a letter a day before she was about to leave saying that the paper was true, he did have a new girlfriend, and her name was Gabrielle. Hermione was completely heart broken."
"Who was the girl" Asked Lavender
"Well I have no idea, but Hermione swears she has seen that face before."
Chapter 2: Changes
The next morning the girls god up, and put on their clothes.
"Good morning, the boys are downstairs eating breakfast already, I can hear them." Said lavender zipping up her red mini skirt, that was quite a bit shorter than Hermione's, because Lavender loved to show of her skinny legs.
Ginny rolled her eyes and said "Boys" After she huge a huge crash of something sounding like a fist or a mug slamming on the table. She finished getting dresses and looked at Hermione. "Herm, my goodness, you look like an old lady in those clothes." She said as she saw Hermione was wearing a knee length grey skirt with a loose button up white collared shirt.
"Hermione, you have a killer body, why don't you show it?" said Lavender giving uncertain looks at her outfit.
"What point is there to parade around in tight clothes any way?" Said Hermione trying to defend herself, but she knew they were right. Viktor always said her clothes didn't look to well on her.
Lavender looked up at Hermione, and then started rummaging through her trunk. After a few minutes she got up and screamed, "I FOUND IT!" She took out two articles of clothing and handed them to Hermione. Hermione held up a mini-jean skirt and a low cut blue shirt.
"I can't wear this, it will never fit me, it is way to tiny"
"Just try it on," Ginny said looking at lavender, and wondering what the outfit would look like on Hermione.
"Alright, I'll try it, but if it looks dreadful I am taking it off!" Hermione stopped away behind the changing curtains and came out a few minutes later looking unsure of her self.
"OH it looks so good!" said lavender shrieking.
"No, its way too short!" said Hermione looking at the mirror
"No its not, Herm, only wear it for a day and see what happens." Said Ginny approvingly.
"Alright then I guess I have no choice, off we go to breakfast then"
Ginny and Lavender walked down the stairs to the dining room before Hermione left the room. They found a table and sat down next to the boys table, where sat Neville, Ron, and Harry. A few minutes later, they were still waiting for Hermione.
Then they heard heels walking down the stairs and everyone looked up.
"Blimey, who is that?" said Ron looking at the girl walking down the stairs.
Lavender and Ginny giggled, Ginny said "I put a charm on her hair before we left the room! And told her to put on some make up."
"She looks really good"
Then Hermione walked towards her table and the boys sat up and straitened them selves out, but then Harry got a closer look at her and realized who she was and slouched in his chair and said, "Oh, hello Hermione"
Ron looked at Harry in disbelief, "Hermione? You look so much…. So much…"
"Different!" said Neville finishing Ron's sentence.
About an hour later breakfast was served and eaten and they were all ready to leave for the Hogwarts Express.
They all got on the train, and Ron and Hermione headed out for the prefect's lounge, and left Neville Harry, Ginny and Lavender behind.
Hermione walked in front of Ron, and all Ron could look at was Hermione's tight but in her skirt.
They both sat down in the Prefect's Lounge, and Hermione took a book out from her pocket and started reading.
Ron rolled his eyes and said, "Some things never change"
Then there was yelling outside the door, and a voice Ron and Hermione both recognized as Pansy Parkinson and Draco Malfoy.
"Pansy, stop it! I don't car, you want to go off and fool around with other boys, fine, but we're done!"
"Draco, I told you, I didn't mean to, I still love you!" Pansy pleaded.
"Don't say that! We are through!" Draco said as he slammed open the Prefect's door and Pansy went crying down the corridor. Draco looked to see if any of the prefects were laughing, but they all had their heads down. Then Draco looked at Hermione, didn't recognize her, and said "Who are you?"
Hermione looked up, and looked confused.. and said in a rather snotty voice "Hermione"
Draco had a look in his eye that she had never seen before when a boy looked at her, Then, seconds later, Pansy came back, with mascara smudged all over her face, and gave all of the prefects their orders and left. Everyone headed out to start patrolling, but Draco stayed. Hermione started to walk down the corridor, and then felt really bad for Draco, she could tell by the sound of his voice, he loved her so much.
She turned around and decided to go back to the lounge, and see how he was doing.
Lavender and Ginny both sat down with Neville and Harry, and moments later Ron arrived. Ginny looked at him and said, "Aren't you supposed to be patrolling?"
"No, I mean, who takes that seriously anyway…" Ron said, and then thought of Hermione and how much she took her prefect duties seriously. "Well, other than Hermione!" And everyone in the room laughed.
Lavender sighed, AHH, he is so adorable in his ripped jeans and button up blue and grey plaid shirt. And breaking the rules. What else could a girl want?
There was an awkward silence in the room, until Harry spoke. "Did you see Hermione earlier? I don't think I have ever seen her dress in something as sexy as that before! And her hair, I didn't know she could ever tame that bush!" Ron and Lavender started to laugh hard, but Neville and Ginny just looked at Harry with looks of distaste.
"Well, after her whole break up with Viktor, she could use a bit of an ego boost. And if she dressed like that everyday, she would have a boyfriend in no time." Ginny said, feeling bad for her best friend. It was hard enough having a boyfriend who you found out cheated on you, but having it all over the Daily Prophet and the Quibbler was even worse.
"That was horrible, but it had to happen some time didn't it? I mean he lives in Bulgaria, and we live in England… it wouldn't have worked anyways." Ron said. He never really liked the idea of Hermione having a boyfriend; he always had feelings for her, but never acted upon it because he knew Harry liked her too. While he spoke all Lavender could do is stare into his dreamy eyes… wishing she could only have him all to herself.
"How can you say that, just because he lives far away doesn't mean that he had the right to cheat on her!" Ginny said, and then stood up and left the room. Lavender said bye and then did a flirty wave to Ron, and then left to find Ginny. As they were walking down the hallway, they heard yelling inside a room. Ginny and Lavender leaned in to listen. Ginny immediately recognized the voices: Draco and Pansy.
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She opened the door quietly, and looked in to find huddled up in the corner of the lounge, not crying, but looking very hurt. Hermione looked around the lounge, which had off-white couches, and maroon carpeting. The ceiling was white, with gold embroidery… and then she looked back down at Draco who was now muttering under his breath, Hermione tried to listen closely, but couldn't recognize what he was saying. After a few moments of standing there she decided she had to do something incase Draco spotted her. She looked at her brown trunk on the floor, and decided to "pretend" to be looking for her prefect badge.
She opened up the door more and walked in. Draco looked up and sneered and she opened up the trunk and started rummaging. Draco looked at her low cut shirt, and it was hanging down enough so that he could see the top half of her breasts, and he couldn't take his eyes off of her. She was so beautiful, but she was a filthy mud blood, that would never work.
"What exactly are you looking for?" asked Malfoy with a sense of impatience in his voice.
"My Prefects Badge, no one takes you seriously if you aren't wearing it." Said Hermione, wanting to end the small talk and talk to him about Pansy.
"Right…" Malfoy said trailing off his words and started to think again.
Hermione cleared her throat, "I heard you and Pansy yelling in the hallway" she started off, and Malfoy immediately looked defensive. "Now before you start to yell at me, just listen. I know what you must be thinking right now, and it's hard to have some one you love cheat on you like that, but you can't blame yo…"
Draco stood up and with a look of utter distaste said, "Do you honestly think that I need your condolences, you filthy little mud blood. Just because "your darling Viktor" he mocked in a girls voice, "cheated on you, doesn't mean you are about to give good advice. You don't know what happened" he said walking toward the door, and screamed, "SO SHUT UP" and then slammed the door.
Hermione just stood there and stared at the closed white door. I can't believe this. I am trying to help him, and all he does is yell. I know what he is going through, and for him to insult me, and especially bring up Viktor. That is ridiculous. Hermione started to sob, and then there was a gentle knock on the door, and Lavender and Ginny entered, with huge smiles on their faces.
"Did you hear?" asked Lavender giggling.
"Draco and Pansy broke up; they just got into a row outside! It was so exciting! They were yelling and screaming, and Pansy even smacked Malfoy across the face!" Ginny said, talking so fast that she didn't take a breath in between of any of the words.
Hermione opened her mouth to speak, the last thing she wanted to talk about was Draco, but Lavender started to speak again. "I guess she cheated on him… with, oh, Gin, what was that boys name… he was the Slytherin Captain a few years ago..."
"Oh, Marcus Flint, which is a complete down grade from Malfoy." Ginny said ecstatically.
"Malfoy was going to stop by her house and surprise her with flowers, and he flew up to her balcony on his broom, and looked through the open window and saw them snogging!"
"And then I heard that he threw the bouquet of flowers through the window and they hit Flint in the head," continued Ginny.
Both of the girls giggled, but Hermione barely smiled. Then she spoke with a harsh tone that almost could be mistaken for yelling, "That is horrible, you both know how much I hate Draco, but no one deserves to go through that!"
Ginny and Lavender both looked at each other and sighed, and then put their heads down. "Sorry," they both said at the same time.
"Oh, gosh, sorry you guys. I didn't mean to yell at you, it's just that… it isn't easy to go through." Hermione said, with tears swelling in her eyes. She took a deep breath because she did not want to start crying again
"No, I understand… well we better umm..." Ginny looked at lavender looking for a way to get out of the room.
"Well I am starving, do you want anything to eat?" Ginny and Hermione nodded no, and she went on, "Well, we better go change into our robes then… we have about 45 minutes until we arrive"
"Ok, I'll see you both in the Great Hall!" Hermione said relieved. She waited for the door to shut, and then sighed heavily as she sat down. Poor Draco. Well, maybe if he wasn't so rude and vulgar he could keep his girlfriends and not have them parading around behind him. But, what did I do wrong with Krum? I wasn't mean, or rude, and I wrote basically every day, and talked to him on the phone three times a week. Why did he do it? Trying to get her mind off things, she stood up, and decided to put on her robes. First she took off her shirt and put on her button up collared white shirt, and buttoned her shirt up to her bra and then stopped and turned around because the door opened, and in walked Draco with redness around his eyes, almost looking as he though he was crying. He looked at her half button up shirt and couldn't help but take his eyes off of her cleavage. She noticed what she was doing and started buttoning up her shirt very fast, and took her knee socks and grey skirt out of her trunk and started to head for the door.
"It isn't like I haven't seen it before, I have to change as well." Draco said, and had a mischievous smile on his face. In walked two of the Hufflepuff prefects, went to their trunks to get their clothes and then left the room. "And," Draco continued, "Where else are you going to go change… every one else is done, and if you go into another room, they are just going to be starring at you the whole time?"
"Why would I want to change in here with you? So you can hex me when I am least expecting it?" Hermione said with a flare. The last thing she needed was for Malfoy to anger her even more than he already did.
"Look," he said walking toward her, his face only inches away from hers, and looking into her eyes. "I am not in the mood to cause any one trouble, I'm sure you heard the rumors. Stop being stupid and just do it." Then Draco turned around and took off his T-shirt.