Chapter 7

It was the day of the Hogsmade trip and Hermione really exited to meet her masked dance partner, so was Harry.
Hermione went down to breakfast and ate quickly, not seeing Ron or Harry anywhere, which was typical, they probably wouldn't be up for another hour or two. She walked to Hogsmade with Ginny and Dean. They parted when they reached the three broomsticks, because Ginny and Dean were going to the tea shop around the corner. Hermione went to the back of the pub and sat in the very back booth where she said she was going to meet this mysterious person and waited.
Harry was walking to Hogsmade after a rushed breakfast and on the way he was thinking about the possibilities of who this mysterious girl could be. When he reached the Three Broomsticks he started to walk over to the back booth, to his surprise Hermione was sitting there looking at her nails. "Hey Hermione what are you doing here all by yourself?" Harry asked sitting down on the other side of the booth. "Oh hi Harry, I'm waiting for someone to meet me here" she said and then asked, "what about you" "same" he responded. "who are you meeting, Ron?" Hermione asked him, "No some girl that I met at the ball, she wouldn't tell me her name and we decided to meet here, and you?" he explained. "same" she said, 'this is strange' she thought. "Hey do you want a butterbeer?" Harry asked her. "yeah sure" she said and Harry got up and made his way to the counter where he payed for the two butterbeers. He came back and sat down, opening hers for her and then his. "thanks" she said and he nodded in acknowledgement.
They sat and talked for a while, both looking up hopefully for someone who resembled their mystery date every time the bell rang when the door opened, no luck though.
2 rounds of butterbeer and 3 shots of Firewhisky later no one had showed up and they were starting to get impatient. Harry pulled out the note that the girl had wrote him and opened it, checking to see that he got the date and place correct. "whats that?" Hermione asked. "Its just the note that she wrote me, I was checking that I havent read it wrong, because she hasn't shown up yet." He handed her the note, she looked at it and her eyes went big. "How did you get this?" she asked. "an owl delivered it to me yesterday." he responded. "Well It must have been a mistake" she insisted.
"No, I'm pretty sure its not, why do you ask?"
"Because Harry, I wrote this"

"You wrote this?"
"Yes I think I'd know my own writing"
"well theres only one way to confirm this" harry said and as if she read his mind she pulled out the note that he had wrote to her. "well this is kind of ackward" she said, "just a little bit" harry said and they were quiet for a minute.
Harry was staring at her, 'how could I not have known that it was Hermione all this time' he thought to himself, 'the hair, the smile, the eyes the writing' he thought. "Harry?" Hermione asked waving a hand in front of his face. He snapped out of his thinking and then asked, "what?" "you were staring at me and freaking me out" she told him. "sorry I just cant believe that I didn't know it was you" Harry said. "yeah I know" she responded, "well I guess we're perfect for each other but we never relized it" Harry said. Hermione blushed. "I guess so" she said. "Hermione, theres only one thing left to do now" he said to her. "what?" she asked. He leaned over the counter and kissed her. "Well that was unexpected" she said once he leaned back and she opened her eyes. He smiled. "that was to get you back for the one you gave me at the dance." Harry said. "I guess that's fair enough" she responded. "so do you want to go and see where Ron and Lavender are or what?" Harry asked. "Sure" she responded and they got up and headed to the door. He opened it for her and she walked out with him following.
They walked down the busy street for a while not talking. Hermione was biting her lip thinking, and Harry was being drivin' wild by her doing that. He didn't know why buy it was really cute. They got to the alley between the Honeydukes and the Zonko's joke shop. Hermione grabbed Harry and shoved him in the alley, and she started kissing him. Harry didn't know what was going on at first but soon found himself enjoying it. When he got really into it both heard a laugh commming from beside them. Both leaped apart from each other and saw Ron and Lavender standing there laughing. "we just came to find you but you seem pretty busy already" Ron said through laughter. Hermione was all red and flustered now and she looked at lavender and said, "umm Lavender can I talk to you for a minute?" and she walked off with her fast, harry held on to her hand for a moment before letting her go off with her friend and then ron raised an eyebrow, "so" he began, "Is this the mysterious girl you were talking about?" he asked. "yeah she is" he responded watching her talk to Lavender across the street. She was grinning the whole time and glancing back at Harry. "so you going out now or what" Ron asked. "I don't know she kind of jumped on me and then you walked in on us" Harry said. "well good thing or else you guys would have been doing things that this innocent crowd doesn't need to see, save it for your dorm" Ron said and winked as Hermione and Lavender came back. "Well do you guys want to go walk around now" Lavender asked. All agreed and they set off both couples holding hands as they walked to the ink and parchment shop. Hermione went with lavender and they looked around for new quills while Harry and Ron were trying out the testers. 'hmm' harry thought and ripped off a piece of unmarked parchment and wrote another note to give to Hermione.
He folded it up and then walked over behind her and put it in one of her back pockets of her jeans. She turned around and gave an inquisitive look, but he didn't do anything. She opened it and it read, 'My dorm, 11:00 tonight?' she grinned. Walking over to him she put her hand in his back pocket and whispered in his ear, 'your on' and then kissed his neck. He raised an eyebrow and Hermione smiled and took his hand, they continued walking around in that manner for the rest of the Hogsmade day, sneaking kisses to each other while their friends wern't looking.