Chapter 7: The Dance and the Truth

AN: it ends abruptly but then again most things in life usually do.

Meanwhile back in Gryffindor common room Ron was freaking out.

"Harry you said it was just a joke."

"It was, is. They must be up to something."

"Yeah right. Draco has two black eyes to prove that Blaise is mad about this."

"Ron, please calm down."

"I will not calm down I have to tell Hermione the truth and it has to be soon."

"Ron you wimp."

"I may be a wimp but I have a friend that may never trust me again."

"Okay do what you have to do, but don't say I didn't warn you."

"I won't."

"We had better get going to the Great Hall, my stomach is hungry."

Having concluded the meeting they made sure that no one was outside in the corridor when they all left to have dinner. Blaise and Ginny walked together and Draco and Hermione walked together. No one was going to think that they had anything up there sleeves. Though, it did seem strange that Hermione and Draco were walking together considering that Draco had supposedly slept with Ginny.

When they reached the Great Hall, Ron was waiting for Hermione. He needed to let the truth free.

"Hermione, I need to talk to you." Ron said

"Can it wait Ron until I get back to my room, where we can talk in private."

"I guess, but what I have to tell you I have to tell you tonight."

"Okay Ron. As soon as I get back I will send for you."

"Okay."

Everyone sat down and started eating. Though four people were not in the mood to eat at all. They were too much in suspense up to think about food, so they all left early.

When Hermione sat at the desk, she started on the invitations and Ron's note. When she finished Ron's note she sent it off but the invitations took a little longer.

"Draco, should we have it elegant formal, formal casual, or casual sexy?"

"Have what?" Asked Draco as he turned on the television

"The dance."

"Casual sexy."

"Thank you."

Having that accomplished Hermione knew the perfect way to word this but first she had to ask Dumbledore something, so she sent him a letter:

Dear Dumbledore,

I was wondering only this when it came to the party.

If there are already couples, do they have to slit for the dance?

Hermione

After a little while, she had her answer:

Hermione,

You have brought up an interesting point.

No, they do not have to split up.

Dumbledore

With that, she set out to make the invitations:

Draco and I, Hermione, welcome you to the first dance of the season.

It is a welcome back dance and a dance to show house unity. The house unity part is this, if you are not already a couple, you have to ask someone in your class to dance with you. If you already have someone, you DO NOT have to get another partner. The decorations and refreshments are going to be in the house colors. The dance is going to next weekend, and it will start at 7 in the evening. We hope that you have a good time, enjoy yourselves.

When she finished the first invitation, she made enough for everyone at Hogwarts to have one. After that was done, she sent them to everyone. Finally, after having completed that task, Ron finally made an appearance.

"Hermione, it's me, Ron."

"Come in Ron."

"Hi Hermione, I was hoping we could speak in private."

"Very well, Draco would you please go upstairs and get the thing ready."

"Okay, sure. I'll get the thing ready."

As they waited for Draco to go upstairs, Ron went to sit on the couch. When Draco was finally upstairs and out of sight Ron opened up.

"Hermione, I feel terrible about what happened to Draco. See the truth is that I was lying to you. Everything that I told you was a lie, and I am sorry. I never meant for it to go that far, I didn't want anyone to get hurt."

"Well, Ron thank you for your honesty. It is going to hard for me to trust you again. I may not ever trust you again.

When you cry wolf you should have a good reason for doing so."

"I know. It was all Harry's idea. He made me do it."

"He held a gun to your head while you lied to me, I think not. You did it on your own and I would appreciate it if you stopped lying."

"I am not lying about Harry being in on it. It was his idea."

"Okay Ron, thank you again. Is there anything else you need to tell me, I have to get ready for school tomorrow."

"No that was it."

"Okay, see you tomorrow."

"Yeah see you tomorrow."

When Ron left, Hermione ran upstairs to see if Draco had gotten everything on tape.

"Did we get everything?"

"We sure did and it was perfect him trying to lie again."

"I know, it makes it that much more perfect. We should send it to Dumbledore tonight. We have a lot to do tomorrow."

"Okay, no problem."

In matter of minutes, they had the tape sent to Dumbledore. Then after everything that had happened today, they went to sleep. They would worry about getting ready later. The next few weeks leading up to the dance passed by so fast that no one know where the time had gone. Before anyone knew that was going on it was the day before the dance. Everyone had his or her dates already set up and his or her outfits picked out. Ron had been punished for lying and Harry was no longer the golden child that he used to be.

The Great Hall looked perfect; it was exactly how Hermione had imagined it to be. Everything was going to be great. The year had started out rough but overall it was going to end great.