After a long, peaceful night's sleep, Hermione opened her eyes with excitement. Today was the dance! She ran over to her mirror to make sure she had no unsightly marks or blemishes (such as a few days ago!) but to her excitement, nothing was out of the norm.

The other girls were slowly starting to wake up too. Hermione could hear squeals of laughter and others of terror. She suspected that a few had awoken to a pimple or two.

Hermione sighed and layed back to relax. She had the whole day ahead of her to herself. First, she wanted to take a nice, long bath.

Hermione went down to the bathrooms and enchanted a shower stall to be a juccuzi tub. She poured in some vanilla scented bubble bath and shed her clothes, stepping in gingerly to relax for an hour or so.

After her bath, Hermione wrapped up in a fluffy green towel and made herself invisible to head up to the dorms. Once there, she rummaged around in her trunks, looking for her outfit.

There it was! Hermione layed her dress on her bed for all the other girls to see. Meanwhile, she sat down and started on her hair. It took a lot of time to make it look good, so Hermione was happy she had started early.

She brushed all of the tangles out, then rubbed in some curling potion. She sat for half an hour with her head foaming, then rinsed it to find tons of curls spilling off of her head. The bad part was that along with the curls came frizz. After the curling potion had set, she poured on some sleeking potion to take care of the frizziness. That had to set for 45 minutes. Hermione wrapped her hair up in a towel and went to work on her face.

She spread some light cream-colored color over her hazel eyes, along with a touch of black eyeliner and some waterproof mascara. This made her eyes look 3 times bigger and better than normal. Hermione smiled at herself in the mirror at this effect. She took some sparkling pink blush and set it shimmering against her cheekbones. The last part of this was her smile. She put a charm on her teeth that made sure nothing got stuck inbetween them. Then she set another charm for never-fading minty breath that lasted 24 hours. Finally, she spread some pink lip gloss on her lips and set another charm to make sure it stayed shiny.

'Boy, would I be in trouble without magic!' Hermione thought to herself. Now that she had finished with her makeup, she was set to start on hair. When she took off the towel, long, silky curls spilled out. She loved her hair like this! She took a handful and twisted it on top of her head, fastening it with a sparkling clip in the back. Curls tipped off of her head from the clip and made a beautiful effect. Hermione took a few stray curls out of the clip to frame her face. She then performed a shining spell on her hair that was sure to make it sparkle and shine the night away.

"Hermione! You look . . . FANTASTIC!" Mandy exclaimed upon seeing her.

"Yeah, if only she wasn't in a towel," Hanna finished up.

Hermione looked down. She had forgotten that she was wearing nothing but the towel from her bath. Thankfully it had stayed put! She smiled at the girls and brought them to look at her dress.

"Oh . . . My. . . .GOD!" Hanna and Mandy screamed in unison.

Hermione's dress was bright green. It wasn't lime green, more like a shiny emerald green. It was cut to fall just below her knee, and had many gatherings so that if she spun it would fan out. It had green sequins covering the top portion, ending in a V right below her waist. The neck was cut in a low V, and ended as a halter in the back so that her whole back was shown. The material was the best part though, the entire thing was made of a silky, flowing material that looked sparkly under the light. Hermione was sure to stand out!

Hermione quickly dressed, then spun around for the other girls to see. They gasped. Hermione smiled at that, then reached for a bottle of muggle body spray. She sprayed some vanilla-scented perfume on her hair, then up into the air as she spun underneath. The final affect were her shoes - sparking silver dancing high heels.

She was finished. She looked and smelled beautiful. The other girls looked at her with pride and jealousy. The clock above them turned to 6:45, the arranged time for Hermione to meet Remus. She slowly walked down the staircase to the Gryffindor Common Room.

As she approached the bottom stair, somebody turned around to see her. Hermione sucked her breath in.

AN:

That was fun designing Hermione's outfit!

Thank you for all of your reviews, but keep sending them! Please read and review! It truly isn't that hard - just push that gray button at the bottom left hand side of the screen. Please?

I decided to make the dance a seperate chapter, so that will be next time.

Until then,

Meg