a/n: ok so no one liked the voldy thing. I only put it in there as a joke anyway. I reworked the chapter for you. don't hate me for the voldy thing. Please review as always.

It was Hermione. She stood there singing softly and very beautifully.

She stood there in a gorgeous green dress that hung off the shoulder and had a fitted bodice and a white underskirt that peeped out from a slit in the green silk. It had a white lining on the bodice and white gauzy trimming on the sleeves. A jade and clear crystal necklace hung about her neck and she had matching drooping earrings, not to mention a bracelet hanging loosely on her wrist. Her hair was in a half up half down do and it sparkled with glitter.

She looked amazing. Everyone's jaws dropped open.

And she was singing. And they had never heard her singing before. It was quite a startling revelation to them that she could sing and had the guts to sing on the stage. They thought she was too shy to perform something like that.

Hermione looked down at her friends as they crowded round the stage. She smiled, raised the braceleted hand and clicked her fingers. The song changed abruptly.

Now it was more upbeat and everyone recognised it, because it was the theme tune for a very famous muggle television series, 'Friends'. Even though the song was written for a male voice she sang it as though it was made, not only for a female voice, but as though it was written for her voice.

They all laughed and started dancing.

After that she sang Chain of Fools originally sung by Aretha Franklin. This song was an incredibly difficult one and she managed it really well.

Unfortunately the effect was broken when she finished singing and dismounted from the stage. She ruined the perfection by tripping down the steps. Harry and Ron rushed to pick her up.

"Okay, that was embarrassing!" she said laughing.

"We didn't think so!" chorused all her friends and the boys dropped down to one knee before her.

"Boys get up this instant!"

"Maybe we like being in awe of such divinity."

"Harry, I am not divine. I may look it but I'm not. Get up."

"No."

"Get up or I will make you…"

Hermione drew her wand out of her purse. The boys still didn't move. She replaced the wand.

"Girls, get them up."

The girls were unable to move them. The wand came out again.

"You leave me with no choice."

A snowball of enormous magnitude floated in through the doors. It hovered over the group of boys.

"Get up or I will let it drop."

Draco got hurriedly to his feet. Well, he didn't want to ruin his dress robes. Ron followed. He knew better than to mess with Hermione. The twins also stood. Even the infamous Weasley twins weren't a match for Hermione when she was armed with a big snowball. Vincent and Gregory as usual followed Draco's lead and rose. Neville cast one terrified glance at the snowball and then at Hermione's wand before getting up. Or at least he would have done had he not tripped up on his cloak and fallen flat on his face. Dean and Seamus pulled him up as they also rose.

Only Harry stayed on the ground. Hermione looked at him and then at the snowball. Shutting her eyes she waved her wand.

Everyone flinched waiting for the impact…

But it didn't come.

Instead the snowball zoomed back out of the hall.

Upon seeing this Harry reached forward and took her hand and kissed it before he got gingerly to his feet.

By the end of the night they were all exhausted and ready to go to bed but not willing to leave the celebrations.

Hermione sat on Harry's lap by one of the tables. She was snuggled in to him and looked like she was about to nod off. He looked similarly tired, but it has to be said that he looked very content sitting there.

In fact their position was being copied by all their friends who sat nearby.

Ron had actually fallen asleep with Luna in his lap.

The ball ended and everyone got up to leave, but they left Ron there.

"Shall we wake him up?" Hermione asked the group at large.

"Not before Colin takes a picture of him. Colin! One more picture." Ginny pointed to her brother and Colin snapped the picture.

"How do we wake him?"

Here followed a general array of awakening techniques. For e.g. Fred and George started shouting at him to wake him up. Hermione tried prodding him, and when that failed she kicked him.

He didn't even stir when Draco poured a jug of icy cold water over him.

Eventually Luna sat on his lap heavily and snogged him. Surprisingly this worked and he woke in a rush and started flailing his arms around in surprise.

He gazed around in total surprise at the laughter that appeared to be coming from all sides.

"I know who wears the trousers in this relationship." Ginny said giggling.

"Who's that, then?" Pansy asked, and she stopped chuckling abruptly.

"Luna of course!"

"I wear trousers." Ron said bemusedly.

Everyone laughed again.

"Did you two give him those pills again?" Harry accused the twins.

Pause. The twins looked incredibly guilty.

"Harry wears trousers too."

"Get him upstairs, Harry." Hermione hissed at Harry.

Harry pecked her on the lips before hauling Ron up from his seat and escorting him out of the hall.

"He wears trousers too!"