I have been sick almost all week and I finally got the strength to type this. I hate being sick, I have to miss school and I'm not on here as much. Well I've made you wait long enough. Anyone one who want to yell at me can email me or do it in a review, either way I'll get it.
The next day was an early start for Draco and Hermione. They left the castle around 7:30(a.m.) for the town of Hogsmeade. It was a nice quiet walk since neither had anything to say. Once they arrived in Hogsmeade Hermione quickly grabbed onto Draco's arm and dashed into a store. Luckily it wasn't a book store and it was a store for dress robes.
"My God, Hermione. Are you going to try on every single robe in this place?" Draco asked.
"If I have to, I will. At least you don't have to worry anymore, I already picked yours out. Which by the way looks really nice on you, if I do say so myself. Just please, quit complaining." Hermione answered.
"Okay." said Draco walking away.
He walked over to one of the racks and picked out two long flowing dresses for Hermione. One was blue the other was green and silver.
"Hey Hermione, why don't you try these on? I think they would go really well with your eye color, too." Draco stated.
"Well Draco Malfoy, you sure have an eye for style. I'll defiantly try these on, these absolutely gorgeous." She commented.
"Good, I'm glad you like them. Now go try them on. I'm dying to see what they look like on you." Draco said with a devilish grin.
Hermione went into the dressing room. Draco mean-while paced the area in front of the room waiting. She emerged 3 minutes later in the blue dress. The dress outlined the curves of her body and hung down all the way to her feet. Draco let out a small whistle when he saw her. She twirled around and the bottom of the dress swirled around her.
"Wow! You look great, amazing actually." Draco exclaimed.
"Are you saying I never look this good?" Hermione questioned jokingly.
"No, I'm just saying you look more gorgeous then you do in those uniforms we usually wear." Draco said defensibly. "Let me see how the other one looks.
"Okay, hold on a second." Hermione said rushing back into the room.
"I can do that, if I have to." Draco said.
When she emerged Draco resized how good he did picking the dresses out. This dress wasn't quite as tight as the last, but it was a tad bit longer.
"Well, I surely cannot decide, so you pick." Hermione ordered.
"I'm leaning toward the green and silver one. It will go better with my robe." Draco decided.
"Sounds good to me, now let's go to the Hogshead." Hermione said.
"Okay, I have to pay for these first." Draco reminded her.
"Oh, I knew that, I'm not going to steal them. I would never do such a thing." Hermione said aggravated.
"Okay, what-ever you say." Draco said putting the clothes on the register and handing the cashier the money for them.
They went to the hogshead, ordered two butter-beers to go, and headed back to the castle. When they reached the castle it was nearly dinner. They ran up to their rooms and put the stuff they bought for tomorrow away, and then went down to dinner.
"What are you wearing to the dance tomorrow, Hermione?" Ron asked.
"You'll have to wait until tomorrow and see." Hermione told him.
"Fine then, I'm not telling you what I'm wearing or who I'm going with." Ron pouted.
"That's okay with me Ron. I'll find out tomorrow anyway. Now I need to finish up so I can start getting the decorations ready." Hermione said finishing up on her food.
She, Draco, Jordan, Ben, Justin, and Padma got up as well. Dumbledore followed them out of the hall to check up on the plans.
Ben and Jordan explained the plans to him while the others listened. When they finished Dumbledore pulled Draco and Hermione to the side and asked…
"I have added a new area to the castle. You two will be sharing a common room, but will have your own bathroom and bedroom. We are adding a few rooms to your old tower for the new students. If you will follow me I will show you where it is. Your belongings are already there for you." He explained.
"Okay, Professor, that sounds great. Why are we the ones sharing though?" Hermione asked.
"You two seem to be getting along just fine with each other, so I just figured you wouldn't mind" Dumbledore answered.
"Well that's fine with me, how about you, Hermione?" Draco added.
"Yeah, that's fine." Hermione stated.
Dumbledore showed them where it was then let them go back to the others to get the decorating started. When they reached their old rooms Jordan, Ben, Justin, and Padma were already headed downstairs.
"We decided we should get started on this since the new students will be arriving tomorrow. Plus everything was sorted into groups on what room they go in." Padma confessed.
"Okay." Hermione shrugged.
She and Draco followed the rest downstairs to the Great Hall and Entrance Hall. They decided to split up into groups rather than tackle one room at a time. The boys were sent to decorate the Great Hall while the girls decorated the Entrance Hall.
"I can't believe they're going to be here tomorrow. He could have given us a better warning than what he did. I am going to go crazy before we get this done" Jordan complained.
"The sooner you quit complaining, the faster we can get this done." Hermione scold.
"If you would both stop bickering we could get started on this." Padma insisted.
"Fine, I will." Jordan pouted.
They worked on decorating for three hours straight. When they were done they put an invisibility spell on the decorations then headed up to bed. Draco and Hermione started for their separate dorms when Padma called to them.
"Hey where're you two going?" she asked.
"Oh, right, sorry, we forgot to tell you. Dumbledore pretty much kicked us out of your tower and gave us our own. The new students will be staying with you." Hermione apologized.
"Okay, we'll see you in the morning then, at breakfast I presume." said Justin.
"Yeah, that sounds about right. Well, goodnight to you." Draco added.
As soon as they got to their common room they went to their separate rooms and went to sleep as soon as their heads hit their pillows.
Hermione dreaded the time she had to wake up. The classes were supposed to start an hour ahead of the normal time. The day raced by though and soon it was lunch. No-one could hear each other talk because everyone was excited about the ball that night after dinner, since that is when the students arrive. Dinner was set for 5:00 and the students were to arrive at 6:30. Dinner was the same as lunch, as soon as the dessert dishes were cleared Dumbledore stood up and gleamed at the students before him.
"In about one hour our new students will be arriving. There will be twelve new students coming that I know of. I will not hold you here any longer as I know you want to go and get ready. I do need the prefects to come down in 45 minutes to get the final touches of the decorations put up. The rest of you are to come down in 50 minutes and go into the Great Hall." Dumbledore announced.
Students from every house got up and rushed to the doors to their houses. Draco and Hermione hurriedly got dressed. Hermione fixed her hair with a spell so that her hair was up in a messy bun with two small bunches of hair framing her face. All Draco did was gelled his.( A/N: Don't worry he still looks gorgeous girls, LOL). They left their dorm and worked their way to Jordan, Padma, Ben, and Justin's common room. They met Padma just as she was rushing up to Jordan's room from her own.
"Whoa, Padma, slow down a bit. We need to tell you that we are going to go down and take care of that stuff real quick so you have more time to get ready." Draco hollered after her.
"Okay, sounds good, because I really am going to wear myself out trying to get ready. So I'll see you in about 10 minutes then." Padma said finally stopping in front of them.
"Well you may want to slow down a bit otherwise you might end up breaking something in the room or in your body." Hermione warned as she turned and headed out the door.
5 minutes till 6:30 all the students were gathered where they were supposed to be, or in the Prefects' case in their position at the oak front doors. The entire castle was so silent you could hear the pipes throughout the castle dripping and gurgling. At last there was a knock on the doors and Padma and Justin opened them. Each student walked in and introduced him or herself. The Prefects finally learned the names of the students from America. The names of the students were: Alison, Brian, A-Kay, Chase, Luke, Jessica, Michelle, Jeremy, Josh, Tim, Ashlynn, and Morgan. Dumbledore greeted them with a speech.
"I would firstly like to welcome you to our gracious school. I am the headmaster here at Hogwarts. If you would please follow me through these doors you will get to see your new class mates. I would like you to go up in front of the large table where most of the teachers will be seated. Then I would like you to introduce yourselves to the others and maybe tell them a bit about you." Dumbledore smiled and led them on in.
They introduced themselves one at a time, starting with Michelle and ending with Chase. As they finished and stepped down Dumbledore led them to the Prefects while a stage magically appeared in a corner and a muggle rapper started to rap.
"This guy is my favorite rapper." Alison commented.
"Even I, a pureblood Slytherin, know that this is Eminem." Draco sneered.
"Draco, this is Never Enough, you know the one our password used to be before Dumbledore moved us into our new dorm." Hermione pointed out.
"Yeah it is." Draco agreed as the song turned to Every Time by Brittney Spears. "Hey Hermione would you like to dance.
"Of course Draco." Hermione giggled.
So sorry to leave you all hanging but the night is not over for them. I really thought you deserved a long chapter since this is only the second one this week. See ya'lls L8r then. Please review ill luv ya for it.
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