Unexpected Dance!

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With that she walked down the corridor to the Gryffindor common room like she did every morning to meet Harry and Ron before breakfast. She entered and saw that they weren't down yet, so she walked up the stairs to the boy's dormitory, but stopped when she saw the sign on the door.

I would just like to say that I am so sorry it has taken me this long to write this chapter, I've been taking finals and have been really busy. Also some of the spells in this are actually from Harry Potter and the rest I just made up, so if you've never heard them before that's why.

"Hermione… Hermione."

She slowly opened her eyes to see Draco's face about two feet away from hers, "It's time honey."

"Time for what?" she questioned.

"The babies ready… look your stomach is glowing pink."

Hermione looked down to see her stomach about four times as big as before, and indeed, glowing pink. Hermione screamed at the thought of being pregnant. She sat strait up in bed when Draco rushed though the door. "Whautzz wonnng?" He said with a tooth brush stuck in his mouth completely surrounded with white foam. Hermione looked down at her stomach to see it was normal size again and her normal peachy skin color. "It was horrible." She said shaking her head.

"Why what happened?"

"I…… was pregnant."

The toothbrush dropped out of Draco's mouth onto the floor, leaving him with a ghostly white face, "P-p-p-preg-pregnant?"

"Calm down, it was only in a dream."

"Oh……… right. I knew that." With that he turned swiftly on his heel and returned to his dental practices.

It had been about a week since Harry had gotten mad at Hermione, and Ron had found out about Hermione's "little secret". Harry had been avoiding Hermione who was avoiding Ron, who was avoiding both, with all three avoiding Ginny after she had been nagging them to apologize to one another. Hermione had been spending a lot of her time with Draco lately because He was really her only friend left without Harry, Ron or Ginny. She had tried to befriend the Pavati, but just about lost her mind after only 10 minutes of talking to her. For all she could talk about was her new boyfriend that went to another wizarding school in Russia.

She know spent almost all her time with Draco, seeing as they lived in the same dorm, went to breakfast together, had classes together, had lunch and dinner together, studied together and went back to sleep in their dorms again together. (In separate beds, don't worry) to her, that really was a lot of togetherness with Draco.

But Hermione had important things to think about to keep her mind off her friendship troubles, the Christmas ball was only a week away and Hermione was frenzied about it. She still had to get the DJ, choose the food, and find the perfect tree and the most important thing of all, to find her perfect dress.

Hermione and Luna were going to Hogsmead this weekend to get their dresses for the ball, but she truly wanted to go with Ginny, for Ginny's fashion sense was much better. But she simply had to accept the fact that, well, her life sucked right now.

She walked down the corridors to the Main Hall for breakfast to find Harry Ron and Ginny sitting at the Gryffindor table. She grabbed her food and sat alone at the far end of the table, for they were sitting in about the middle. Ginny was very frustrated by all the separation between friends and stood up and walked over to her lonely old friend. Hermione looked up in bewilderment to see her, what she thought was, a previous friend standing before her.

"Hello." Ginny said.

"Umm… Hi."

"So… I can't wait for the ball."

"Yeah… do you have your dress get?"

"No! Are you kidding, it is so, so, so, hard to find just the right one!"

"I know what you mean."

"Do you have yours yet?" Ginny asked hoping.

"No."

"But Luna and I are going to find ours in Hogsmead this weekend."

"Oh." Ginny said, looking down disappointed.

"But you can come with us is you want." Hermione said with a smile.

"Oh, I wouldn't want to impose." She said sadly.

"No! I insist!" Then she softened into a low whisper. "I don't really trust what Luna will pick out for me to wear."

Ginny laughed at the thought. "Ok, when are you meeting Luna?"

"Around 8:30 on Saturday."

"Ok, I'll meet you at the Gryffindor common room on Saturday morning around……8:20." She smiled sweetly. "Bye." She turned without delay on her heel and skipped cheerily out of the hall. Harry and Ron seeing Ginny leave and noticed Hermione look over at them turned back to their food and quickly shoveled it into their mouths.

Friday was a very busy and exhausting day for every one, they had been handed mountains of homework from all of their teachers. For potions they would have to make two concoctions, and then write a 3 foot paper on how they were similar and different. Then in transfiguration they was to learn how to take an owl and turn it from an animal to a quill and have it be able to fly around the room and peck other people who try to steal it. Then in Defense against the Dark Arts, they were assigned an essay about many of the creatures that live within the Dark Forest. Also in muggle studies they had to write about what three muggle objects they think are most useful. Hermione was writing about the telephone, television and the cell phone, although Draco criticized almost every point she made about them. Also in astronomy they had to tell the philosophical theory's of why the stars were arraigned in the particular position. And finally in Ancient Ruins Hermione (They only of the trio to take the class) had to write a 4 and a half foot paper on Antonio Demister, the real reason why the hedge stones fell.

Also Hermione's door to her bedroom had decided to seal itself, and no one could reach the inside. Hermione had to barrow clothing from Ginny today, and had to explain to professor McGonagall that she didn't have her book because if was locked inside her room.

By the time Hermione had finished all of her homework it was already 1:30am and she was very exasperated. Hermione had fell asleep on the couch in the head common room, when Draco walked into the common room from patrol, which he had done on his own for Hermione still had to much work on account of spending nearly 3 or 4 hours trying to open her door with the charms teacher instead of doing her home work. When Draco saw her on the couch he knew he couldn't just leave her there, so he lifted her up in his arms, one under her knee's, while the other one was around her shoulders, letting her head rest lightly on his chest. He carried her into his room and placed her gently under the covers of his bed, he was also very tired so he went to the other side of the bed and slid in. Harry entered the room about a half an hour later, to apologize to them but when he saw them, he left the room immediately in a rage. For Hermione's head was resting on Draco's chest arms around each other and fast asleep.

Hermione woke up the next morning at about 8:45am looking around slowly she turned of to see Draco beside her and jumped slightly. Then she slowly got out of the bed, as not to disturb him from his slumber, and tuned to look at the clock. "Ahhh!" she screamed out loud at the fact that she was already twenty-five minute late to meat Ginny and Luna.

"What!" Draco bolted up.

"Nothing… go back to sleep."

"Ok" He said before falling back into a deep sleep.

Hermione ran to the bathroom and cast a spell on her hair to make it it's normal soft self again, then but on some clothes and set off at a rapid speed to the Gryffindor common. When she got there she practically yelled the password at the fat lady, who reluctantly let her in after scarring her out of her wits. Hermione immediately found Ginny and Luna sitting at the fire arms crossed glaring at her. "I-am-so-sorry!" She pleaded to them out of breath.

"What ever." Ginny said, and with a sigh, "Come on lets go."

The three exited the common room and headed to the main doors to head for Hogsmead to find there dresses, as Hermione continuously apologized to the other two about the hold up, well, that was until Ginny finally said, "Ok! We forgive you!" Hermione blushed, and they made there way to Hogsmead.

When they got there they went to a store called 'Ogdeum Empost dress wear' Ginny and Hermione couldn't wait to go in after seeing the magnificent dresses in the window. Luna how ever reluctantly went inside after seeing the, in her view, 'hideous' things they tried to pass as dresses. As soon as Ginny looked around she had already found the perfect dress, it was white, a halter top that was low-cut and had an elegant white flower under the V-neck. The fabric went down to about her knees, it was plain white with a white see-though netting over it. It was her dream dress and she raced to the fitting rooms to try it on. Hermione how ever was a bit more particular about finding her gown, and slowly walked the store. Soon she found two very beautiful dresses. One was a baby blue halter top dress, with a diagonal cut on the bottom that went down to her ankles; it was tight but only just enough. The other was a pink spaghetti strap dress that just barley touched the floor, with a tight waist and loose bottom, the chest area was ruffled and the back was low-cut.

Hermione held them out studying them closely, unable to make a decision, she went and found Ginny who was admiring her dress.

"Which one?"

Ginny looked up and after taking a good minute to look them over, "The blue one."

"Ok……Good choice." She said looking at Ginny's dress.

They went to the counter and paid for their dresses and found Luna to leave. When they got back on the street they looked around until Ginny and Hermione suddenly heard Luna scream in their ears, "This is it!"

"What's it?"

"My store." She said dreamily.

Hermione and Ginny looked up to see a store called 'dresses of the wild' they looked in the windows and dresses they personally found atrocious. "Oh." Ginny said with a gulp, "lovely."

They were about to walk into the store when Hermione saw Draco walking down the street, and gave him a look that said, "Help!" so he quickly walked over and said in a calm voice, "Luna," When she turned to him he said "I need to borrow Hermione for official head business."

"Oh, ok well Ginny and I will go in here then."

Ginny shot Hermione a pleading look, which Hermione gave to Draco who then turned to Luna and said, "Ginny needs to come too, it involves her."

"Ok." She said in her normal dreamy tone, and turned and entered the store. When she was fully inside Hermione turned to Draco and hugged him tightly, then broke away and said, "I love Luna but not her fashion choice." Ginny giggled, turned to Draco and put her hand out to shake, after a moment of perplexity he answered her hand with his and said, "Your welcome."

It was the day of the ball and everyone was ecstatic about what was to come that very night, unfortunately the golden trio where still broken. It was a Saturday and Hermione and Draco were in the main hall conducting preparation of decorations and such. Hagrid had brought in a beautiful Christmas tree to the front of the hall, much larger than even the normal colossal sized tree's. All the long tables had been transformed into smaller tables that would fit about four or five people. The tables had beautiful center pieces of white lilies, frozen in ice. (The ice would never melt but always be freezing cold.) The high table that was normally taken by the teachers of the school, was instead were the tree and DJ booth were placed. Alone the side was an extensive table full of food, and the walls had red and green velvet drapes adorning them. Also the ceiling was turned into a beautiful evening, and it was charmed to later on turn into a magnificent starry night sky. It was 5:00 and the ball was to start at 6:30, which meant that Hermione would have to leave soon to prepare. If she didn't then she would never have enough time, so Hermione and Draco both left about fifteen minutes later after giving the volunteers directions. They walked up the corridors toward the head common room, when the entered Hermione turned to Draco and said, "I'm taking my stuff and I'm going to Gryffindor tower to get ready with Ginny."

"Ok. But where are we going to meat?"

"Let's meat in the main hall, at about 6:15."

"Ok, see you later."

"Bye."

Hermione gathered her things and headed up for Gryffindor tower, when she got the she told the fat lady the password, but she didn't let her in. "Are you going to the ball?"

"Yes?" Hermione answered confused.

"Well, I'm not allowed to go.She said cocking her eyebrows.

"Oh, I'm sorry, but we were only allowed to have student come." She said felling rather bad for the poor woman"But I really must be going now, I've got to get ready and all."

"Yes, fine. Don't mind me or anything." She said depressed. "It's not like i wanted to go-." At that moment Ginny had burst out of the portal hole and in a hurry said,

"Come on! We've only got…..one hour eleven minutes and twenty three seconds before the ball! We've got to go!" Ginny pulled Hermione into the common room, then up to the girls dormitory and into her bathroom. Ginny was frantic, she had everything…… well, everywhere. Hermione quickly cleared an area and put her things down to start getting ready.

"Gee Ginny it's a little messy in her." "Oh, sorry it's just, I'm so anxious about the ball."

"I could tell." Hermione said sarcastically.

"Do you think Harry will like this?" Ginny asked holding up a necklace she had picked out.

"He'll love it."

Ginny was going to the ball with Harry, and she was so exited about it, for she hadn't been able to really be with Harry ever since the previous year when he had broken up with her because he wanted to keep her safe. Well, what exactly was he keeping her safe from cause so far, there was nothing that was particularly dangerous in their lives. (I mean something actually at Hogwarts that was attacking them.) But she was going to make herself irresistible tonight and he wasn't going to be able to say he wasn't in love with her. A little while later Hermione was finished with her appearance, but it was only 6:05, and she didn't have to meet Draco until 6:15 so she helped Ginny finish her appearance up. Hermione had her beautiful blue dress on, with baby blue high heels that matched. Also she was wearing a spectacular necklace that was a silver chain, with the outline of a heart that was made of real diamonds. Her hair was down, but her curls were more noticeable than normal, because she had put a spell on the so they were more curled but without the slightest frizz. She walked down the girls dormitory stairs into the common room to find all the boys, mostly in first though fourth year, for everyone else was getting ready for the ball, were staring at were. While all the girls were whispering. Hermione blushed, she took a deep breath, she hurried out of the common room for all of them starring at her were starting to freak her out. She hurried down to the great hall and arrived there promptly on time, and opened the doors to see Draco waiting for her, looking over what the volunteers had done since they had left. He looked over when the doors opened to see Hermione, standing there even more beautiful than normal. "Wow." Was the only thing he could say.

"Thanks." She said blushing. "You don't look to bad yourself."

They spend the next ten minutes doing final touches, but couldn't help but glance over at each other every ones in a while to look at how lovely/hansom the other one looked. At 6:25 there was only 5 minutes until the ball began and people were starting to line up out side the large wooden doors. When it was time to allow people to enter Hermione and Draco were standing in the empty space next to the DJ booth waiting for every one to enter. When everyone was inside Hermione cleared her throat and said into the microphone, "Hello everyone, welcome to the Christmas ball. I hope everyone has a good time. And I'd just like to say-"

Draco took the mike away from her before she could finish and said, "Here's come music."

Hermione gave Draco a disapproving look and stepped down off the "stage", to go look for Ginny, but when she found her she quickly turned and walked away, for she had forgotten that Harry was her date. "Hermione!" She heard from behind her and she slowly turned to see Ginny running up to her pulling Harry behind her. "Oh, hi."

"Great decorations!"

"Thanks." She said blushing, "Well, I really better go find Draco."

But as she was about to turn she heard Harry mumble something like "Draco, Draco, Draco." She turned back around and to his face said, "I'm sorry if your made at me but, and I'd like to be friends again but if you can't then kindly stay out of my life."

With that she turned swiftly on her heel and left. She found Draco and 'forced' him to dance with her, until her legs were about to give. She told him she would see him later and left to go find Ginny and get her to hang out without Harry. When she found her she was sitting alone at a table, fumbling with her thumbs. "Hey. Where's Harry?" she asked curiously.

"He's over there,(with a sigh) with dean and Seamus."

"Oh. Well, you and me, we can hang out."

"Ok."

Hermione and Ginny hung out for about an hour and Hermione decided she would go looking for Draco, to see what he was up to, so she said goodbye to Ginny and got up to find him. When Hermione was about half way through the crowd she heard someone behind her shout "Morsmordre!" Suddenly looked up to see, not the beautiful starry sky, but a black one with the green skull mark that belonged to 'him'. Before she knew it there were death eaters everywhere surrounding the ball. She looked around frantically for Draco but couldn't find him anywhere, so she reached inside her dress to a hidden pocket for her wand and pulled it out. She looked for the nearest death eater. (This wasn't easy though because everyone was running around trying to get out.)When she looked around again she saw one of them advancing on her and from the first thing that came to her mind she yelled out, "Rictusempra!" The death eater began to laugh uncontrollably and fell to the ground, while Hermione saw another one right behind the fallen one and had to duck from their spell. When she got back up she quickly blurted out, "Conjunctivitis!" which made the death eater's eyes close immediately and made her, as Hermione thought she was a women from her screams, grasp her eyes and kneel on the ground. When Hermione looked around again she saw that most of the other people had either left or they were against the walls, and to scared to move. Hermione turned around and saw another death eater and raised her wand to fight but was suddenly heard "Empum Noceore." and suddenly fell to the ground in pain. She then turned her head to see another death eater standing next to the first and the original pointing his wand at her. The first death eater started to say and curse but as soon as they did the second death eater stepped infront of her and fell to the ground. Hermione got up immediatly and sared at the frozen body on the ground, but then looked up and hit the original with a curse.

Only a few others were fighting again the masked men and woman too, among them she saw Harry, Ron, Ginny, Dean, Seamus, and many of the teachers. But she could find Draco anywhere. So she started to look at the ground at the people for had been knocked down, but she still couldn't find him. She decided to keep fighting and that she would find him later, so she ran over to Ginny who was trying to fight against 3 death eaters all on her own. "Incarcerous!" Hermione yelled over Ginny's shoulder at one of the, she was guessing, men and in an instant he was bound by heavy ropes that had appeared from out of thin air. Ginny turned around to see who had helped her and smiled to see it was Hermione but was hit with a spell and was knocked over. Hermione said a spell to stun one of the death eaters and bent down to see if Ginny was ok. Then, she dove out of the way from a spell from the other death eater. When she got back up she said the incantation for a spell that knocked the death eater off their feet and made them fly back into the wall behind them about thirty feet away. Hermione suddenly saw Harry out of the corner of her eye running toward her as she was kneeling down next to Ginny who had been hit by thestunning spell and was unable to move. Hermione said a counter curse to let Ginny be able to move again and Harry kneeled down next to her, "Thanks." He said out of breath. "Your welcome." "I'm sorry." He said in a kind pleading voice. "It's not your fault Run's mad at me." "Friends?" Hermione asked hopefully. "Yeah, friends." "Locomotor Mortis!" Hermione suddenly shouted pointing her wand, making a death eater fall to the ground with legs locked. "Come on we better get up." She said and helped Ginny off the ground. But when Harry turned around he saw Ron surrounded by death eaters, and more advancing on him. "Ron!" Harry said in a low whisper running over to him. Hermione spun around to see him and immediately ran to him, and cast a spell on one of the death eaters making them fall to the ground.

After it was all over Hermione looked around at all who had fallen, and start to walk around and see who they were. Ginny had gone to go get Madame Pomphrey, to help everyone she could. Hermione walked around and saw Dean and Seamus petrified on the ground together, and cast a spell on them to make them so they rose up in the air and were laid them down by the doors, to make it a little easier for Ginny. She kept walking around and would occasionally bend down and unmask a death eater to see who it was. And she saw Harry and Ron walking around too. She stopped at one masked person and bent down; she raised the mask and said sarcastically, "Gee, what a surprise." Harry walked over and saw Pansy Parkington lying on the ground petrified. "Wow, I never would have thought she would have been a death eater." Harry said looking at Hermione with a smirk. Hermione got up and continued to look around, she bent down by another death eater and carefully took off the mask, but when she saw the face she fainted. Harry and Ron saw her fall and rushed over to her. When they got there they saw the face of the young death eater and were in shock. It was Malfoy lying right there, in front of their eyes, "I knew he was no good!" Ron said.
Hermione sat in the hospital wing, waiting for Harry and Ron to return, finally the big wooden door's opened and they entered with each one holding a large pile of books in their arms. They put them down next to Hermione and with a sigh, "Bye Hermione, find us when you're aloud out of this prison." Harry said, with a furious tone. Hermione began to do her homework for all of her classes and kept focus on only that, until Professor McGonagall came in and he immediately asked, "Why do I have to be here?" she said angerily, "We already know he's a death eater."

The headmaster looked at her with disappointment and said, "Even if he was dressed as a death eater, Miss Granger, we still have to wait to here if he admits to being a part of that party. And, since you are the other head you must stay to wait for him to wake up."

"Ok."

Hermione said in a disappointed mood.The headmaster left and Hermione returned to her homework to keep her mind off of the boy lying before her. She had about 2 feet of her 3 foot 5 inch transfiguration essay finished, and she was in deep thought when she was disturbed, "Hermione?" She heard a scratchy voice ask from in front of her. But she didn't answer.

"Hermione is this you?" Draco asked a little clearer.

"Yes. And now that you're awake, I can leave."

"Why are you leaving?"

"Because you're a death eater!" She yelled trying to block the tears, Madame Pomfrey popped her head out of the curtains and raised her eyebrows with interest. "And you told me you weren't." She continued, much more quietly, but with more emotion. Madame Pompfrey shock her head slowly with dissapointment.

"What are you talking about?" He asked confused, "I'm not a death eater."

Hermione got up and walked over to the other side of Draco's bed and said, "When what are these?" She said holding up a pair of the robes that a death eater would wear if they were attacking. Draco stared at them for several moments and then said, "I'm not a death eater. Go get me a truth potion and I'll drink it." He took a deep breath. "Or I could just tell you what really happened."

"Fine tell me."

Draco walked around the dance looking for his date, or so he hoped that's what she was. He walked out of the two large wooden doors to see if she was there, but she wasn't so he turned around to leave when he was hit from behind with a curse. Everything around him got dizzy and he slowly fell to the ground. Draco woke to a group of dark figures standing beside him, and others lying beside him. He got up slowly to see they were death eaters and the people on the ground were other students, and his friends, then one of the masked men standing in the corner handed him a mask. Draco looked around and tied to figure out were they were, until they all started to move forward. Draco looked to were they were going, but still did not move, but then a slight pain hit him in his back, and he heard a soft relaxing voice say, "Hello, Draco." He was so confused, who had said that? He was pretty sure that the voice came from inside of his head, so he must have been going crazy. He felt very peaceful though, like he was floating of on a cloud. "Draco, walk forward please." "What?" He took a deep breath, "Why?" He thought to himself."Please, Draco, Walk forward!" The voice said more powerfully.All of a sudden his legs started to move forward and he was walking with everyone else. But where was he going? He kept walked over to a balcony, and then stopped and out of own free will looked over. When he looked down he saw the ball, and he saw Hermione walking beneath him, he tried to yell out to her to warn her that they were up there, but nothing came out of his mouth. His legs started moving again and he was soaring down on a rope to the ground, everyone started to scream, and when he tried to warn them he couldn't. He saw a death eater attacking an innocent girl about twenty feet away and pointed his wand toward him to make him stop. But He head the voice inside his head again. "Don't! Attack the mudblood in front of you!" Unwillingly he turned and pointed his wand at the girl and cast a spell, the girl fell to the ground and he turned to another boy, he raised his wand and said, "Octium Parctus." The boy fell to the ground shacking uncontrollably, Draco tried to say sorry to him but it didn't work. He turned and saw Hermione, as soon as he did he realized she was fighting against another death eater, and rushed over to help. When he got there he raised his wand and said, "Empum Noceore." But instead of hitting the death eater he hit Hermione. She fell to the ground and Draco stood there shocked, the other death eater pointed there wand at Hermione, but right as the said the curse Draco stepped in front of them and was hit by the spell. He fell to the ground.

"And that's when I woke up here."

"Really?" Hermione asked, "That was you?" Her tears stopping.

"Yes." He said quietly.

Hermione smiled, "thank you."

"You believe me?" He said both confused and hoping.

"Should I not?"

"No, no, you should." He said smiling, yes smiling not smirking, "you should." He said quieter.

"Good."

Hermione sat in the common room alone, she was on the windowsill bench looking out at the forbidden forest, where there was a unicorn walking slightly around. Hermione thought she was looking for food. Hermione kept drawing it, until she heard a noise from behind her, so she turned around to see Draco standing there.

"Hi." She said happily.

"Hi."

"So, I was wondering, something."

"And what are you wondering?" He said sitting down on the couch.

"Well, what are you doing for Christmas?"

"Probably just staying here why?"

"Well… I thought maybe you'd like to come to my Christmas party."

"Sure." He said glad he wouldn't have to spend another boring vacation at the castle, "I'd love to."

"Great! It's the day after tomorrow."

"Gee thanks for the ahead of time notice."

"Sorry, you were kind of in a coma." She said with a smile.

"Oh, so now it's my fault." He Said getting out to chase her, seeing her get off the windowsill slowly.

Thanks for all the reviews, I'm just going to post the next chapter instead of waiting for 5 reviews, but I really would like to hear your review, so please don't make me sad, and just send a 30 second review.  Also I'm going to try and write a new story, so check out my profile thing, in a week or so, and you might find a new story.

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