"Lavender, are you sure you know what you are doing?" Hermione asked Lavender before she started fixing Hermione's hair and makeup for the dance.
"Of course I do. There is this simple spell I know that changes everything for you. All I have to say is Ahsoma airo upmah and imagine what I want you to look like," Lavender said beaming proudly.
"Okay," Hermione said feeling very uneasy and unsure. She didn't trust to many people with wands especially after witnessing Seamus Finnegan blow up a feather attempting to do the Wingardium Leviosa charm in first year.
There was only about an hour before the dance, Hermione was excited but feeling pretty nervous about what was suppose to take place that night at the Hogwarts Dance. She wanted to look stunning at the dance, instead of her normal bushy hair and little or no makeup at all self. Normally, she was quite content with her appearance, but for some reason tonight she wanted to look perfect. Lavender was getting her wand and Hermione was left sitting in the girl's dormitory bathroom in front of a mirror and plopped on a stool. She found herself thinking about the worst things that could possibly happened when Lavender came back with her wand.
"I found it," she said waving her wand around. Lavender then looked at Hermione with intense thought, she was trying to think of what she thought Hermione should look like at the dance. When she pictured it in her mind she waved her wand at Hermione and said," Ahsoma airo upmah."
Right when lavender uttered the charm Hermione suddenly felt a shock run up her spine and she felt as if the room was spinning around and around. After the room seemed to stop turning to slowly turned around to look in the mirror, when she did she didn't see the normal Hermione. She was wearing a gorgeous blue strapless dress it was long and utterly ravishing. At the top of the dress and at the bottom where what looked like white snowflakes, and her shoes were black strappy heals on, her toes which where now painted and looked like a French Pedicure, her finger nails where the same. Also, on her wrist was a beautiful silver bracelet and around her neck was a silver string like chain with a blue heart hanging above her chest. Her face had the perfect amount of makeup, a little bit of blush, a very light sort of pale blue eye shadow swept across her eyelids, and mascara and eyeliner on her eyes also. Hermione's hair was perfect, it was up in a beautiful flower clip made of diamonds and the metal part holding her hair up. Part of the hair was hanging out of the top and flowed down to the top of her neck practically covering the beautiful clip. Hermione looked ravishing.
She stood at the mirror with her eyes wide open as she studied the dress closely. Lavender's mouth was wide open with drool practically coming out of it at the beauty of the dress.
"Hermione, you look absolutely gorgeous. I did good if I do say so myself," Lavender said smiling brightly with her arms crossed.
"Yeah thank you. It is magnificent. I love it." Hermione said happily twisting turning while watching the dress in the mirror.
"Your welcome. Oh my! I just remembered!"
Hermione stopped smiling then asked," What?"
"Well you are walking to the Great Hall for the dance with Ron and Harry right?"
"Yes so," Hermione said not fully understanding what Lavender was getting at.
"Well then Ron will see you before you get to the dance."
"Oh yeah, but that really doesn't matter does it?"
"Yes, but I have an idea. You can have a big black cloak wrapped around you until you get to the dance!" Lavender squealed her smile returning to her face.
"Okay, whatever you say." Hermione said still studying the beautiful gown that she couldn't believe she was actually wearing.
"Well now I have to go get ready!" Lavender said running Hermione out of the bathroom and quickly grabbing a big cloak out of her trunk and throwing it to Hermione. Next, she ran over to a small closet that was in the corner of the dormitory and pulling out a big black bag with a hanger at the top, which it was hanging from, and then she ran back into the bathroom. Obviously, she wasn't using her charm to get ready for the dance.
Hermione sat on the bed imagining what that night would be like (while the other girls being: Ginny, Lavender, and Parvati got ready), but of course she knew it would not turn out the way she was imagining. She was imagining it being absolutely perfect, but she also knew that nothing in life was perfect. Which was just the way she wanted it, unperfect. Afterall it is the stupid and funny things the make the best kind of memory.
"It's 5:55, we had better go get Hermione and go down to the Great Hall," Ron said while moving to the door.
"Oh yeah," Harry said following Ron out of the dormitory and down to the common room. Harry didn't end up asking Ginny to the dance although she didn't get a date. Harry decided that he would ask her to dance and tell her that he fancied her, even though he knew Ron would kill him.
Ron looked around for something to throw at the girl's door because neither he nor any other boy was allowed to go up to the girl's dormitory. They couldn't even if they had wanted to because if a boy put one foot on the first step all the stairs would slant and turn into a slippery slide like thing. Ron kept looking around but then he spotted a tiny pebble in near the fireplace, he sauntered over to it and picked it up and said," Aha!"
Ron then, chucked the pebble hard at the door and easily hit it, it made a loud "clank" noise and Ron yelled," HERMIONE COME ON!"
They waited a couple of seconds and then Hermione opened the door and stepped out. She was of course wearing her black cloak so that she could hide her wondrous light blue but not to light dress. Ron could still see the beauty of her face and hair, when she walked down the stairs Ron said," Wow! Hermione you look beautiful, but what is up with the cloak?"
"Oh I'm just waiting till we get to the dance," she said smiling.
"Why?" Harry asked.
"I don't know. Just nervous I guess, and a little cold," she lied.
The two boys looked at each other and shrugged. When Hermione reached the bottom of the stairs Ron stepped next to her and held out his arm which was bent at the elbow and said," Milady?"
"Why of course my fine gentleman," she said putting her arm bent at the elbow in with his.
A/N: The next chapter will be at the dance and what happens. I hope you like this chapter. Please review this time. Please :P! I hope those of you who bought the Harry Potter book enjoy it. I know I will. So Happy Reading! And please review!