So you might be wondering where Hermione is at the moment. Well she was waiting near the front gates of Hogwarts, with permission of course. She was waiting for her special friend, a special someone. She waited as the distant sounds of a coach grew louder and louder. Finally, the coach halted to a stop. Hermione looked enthusiastically at the opening coach door.

Out stepped out a boy, about Hermione's age, maybe a tad bit older. He was decently dressed and looked foreign. He was tall and skinny, but in a good-looking way. He had brown hair and glittering violet-colored eyes, which were breath-taking. He had handsome features and a serene look on his face. When he saw Hermione, his face broke out into a huge grin/smile, showing straight, white teeth.

"Hello Hermione. How are you?" he said, smiling at her still. For someone looking foreign, he could speak perfect English, with a bit of an accent.

"Oh hello Dimitri! Oh I have missed you ever so!" Hermione said, suppressing a really high giggle. They two hugged and slowly walked up to the castle.

Harry and Ron were now sitting in the common room, staring at each other. Well more like glaring really.

"I was this close to asking Hermione out. This close!" Ron said quite loudly.

"Yea well you didn't. All you did was stutter. And besides I am going to ask her out the moment she comes back from wherever she went off too." With that, Harry ignored Ron in a snobbish way.

After what seemed to pass as decades, they finally heard Hermione. And she was...giggling! Ron and Harry stood up, both eying each other.

"Oh Dimitri, that is so funny." They heard Hermione say.

"Who the bloody goose is Dimitri?" Ron said, obviously spazzing out.

Then Hermione came in, hand in hand, with a handsome boy. Harry and Ron's mouth dropped in utter shock.

"I—I—Hermione—who is-­­--?" But Ron simply couldn't let out his words.

"Ron, Harry, this is Dimitri (giggle) He is my friend from Russia. Russia is a country Ron." She added because of the flabbergasted look no Ron's face. "Well anyways, Dimitri is staying at Hogwarts for the about 5 days, on permission of course. He'll be staying in your dorm. " Hermione said, smiling from ear to ear.

"Why is he here from Russia? "And is he...a wizard?" Ron said, his eyes bulging in shock.

"Don't be such a prat Ron, how could we let a non-magical person into Hogwarts, and why would I do such a thing?" Hermione said, giving Ron an omg-you-are-so-dumb-look.

"Yes, we all know Ron doesn't have much sense. But why is he here Hermione?" Harry said, giving Dimitri a suspicious look.

"Well I'm glad you asked. He is here on a foreign exchange program from a wizarding school in Russia. I already know him of course, we're family friends of sorts. (Another giggle)

"Well Dimitri, this is Ron and Harry, they are my best friends. Ron is a bit daft most of the time, but you will get used to him. And Harry tends to shout a lot and spaz because he is a bit weird, but you will get used to him too. Well I'll show you to your room then. "

"Well Harry and Ron, I am so pleased to meet you. Hermione has said a little about you, but I am sure we will get acquainted later during my stay. Well I suppose I will see you later." With that, Dimitri gave a smile with his perfect self and went up with Hermione.

After they left, Harry and Ron sat back down, obviously taking in on everything.

"I can't believe that just happened. Do you think Hermione fancies that foreign bloke?" asked Ron, his face in utter confusion.

Harry looked at Ron as if he was the stupidest thing on the face of the planet.

"Of course, you nitwit. Couldn't you see it? It's ever so obvious. Honestly you are so idiotic." Harry said, giving Ron a look.

"Yea well, it doesn't matter now does it? Hermione will obviously take that pretty boy di---whatever his name was to the ball."

"No Ron we cant let that happen! We can't let that slimy git take Hermione, we just cant!" "We will have to discuss this serious matter with Draco and see if his thick head has any brilliant ideas." Harry said.

Ron snorted at this statement but shut up when Harry glared at him.

But they had to meet with Draco and fast.

As Harry and Ron waited, Hermione and Dimitri came back down, both smiling. It was revolting.

"Ready to go to dinner then?" Hermione asked, still hand in hand with Dimitri.

"Yea…erm…sure." Harry said, Ron gave a sullen nod.

As the four went down to the Great Hall, they met Draco Malfoy on the way.

"Hello Hermione." Draco said, blushing. He gave a nasty look to Ron and Harry. It seemed he was oblivious to Dimitri.

"OH hey Malfoy. I would like you to meet Dimitri. He is my friend from Russia, which is a country." Hermione added as an after thought.

Draco finally seemed to know that Dimitri was holding hands with Hermione and that Gasp! Could it be? This boy was loads better looking than Draco.

Draco looked at Dimitri is awe and envy.

"I---hi-well I suppose I should get to dinner –er ---bye." Draco said quickly.

Hermione and Dimitri went off to the Great Hall. Harry told Malfoy to stay. Harry and Ron exchanged dark looks and then looked at Malfoy, who looked like his life had been crushed. It was a bit pathetic really.

"Look Malfoy, Ron and I think Hermione fancies that Russian bloke and might take him to the ball! We have to do something so she doesn't. So have any brilliant plans, which I doubt." Harry said, looking at Malfoy.

"I. Hold on a bit. He's Russian right?" Draco asked.

"Yes I think we already established that" Harry said, his voice clearly annoyed by Malfoy's increasing stupidity.

"Well maybe we can give him "English" lessons but they're really going to be insults. So when he uses "English" towards Hermione, he'll actually insult her, thus causing her to get mad and leave him!" Draco finished of his plan by cackling though it turned into a violent cough.

"OH yea that's simply marvelous except you are forgetting one little thing Malfoy!" Harry said in a somewhat calm voice.

Malfoy stared blankly at Harry, surprised there could be such a flaw in his intelligent plan.

"Your plan is sheer brilliance except that git ALREADY knows English, and quite well too!" Harry said haughtily.

"OH well I didn't know that." Malfoy said quietly, crushed that his plan was not going to be used.

"Well I have a plan" Harry said, whispering. He had a maniacal glint in his emerald green eyes.

"I think we should devise some plan thingy to make Dimitri really messed up and weird so that Hermione wouldn't like him anymore.

"A plan thingy?" Malfoy asked in disbelief.

"Well I couldn't think of any other clever words." Harry said in a whiney voice.

"Oh who cares? Look, that's a good idea Harry but what can we do to him?" He's perfect, I have to admit. What are we going to do?" Ron asked, looking at Harry.

"Ok well he's in our dorm right? So we can mess with his stuff and make his life miserable!" Harry said, his face filled with glee and eyes glinting with evil.

"Harry you're starting to frighten me." Ron said in a quivering voice.

"Oh right sorry about that." Harry said.

"Hmm but I don't share a dorm with you because I am not in Gryffindor. How am I supposed to help?" Malfoy sneered.

"Oh yea we forgot about you. I think you'll be allowed to spend the night, as much as I despise you." Ron said scathingly, truly horrified that Draco Malfoy will spend the night at their dorm. It was a thought that made people shudder with fright.

"Ohmygosh! It's like a sleepover!" Malfoy squealed.

"Malfoy you're very queer. This is strictly business. We don't have time to have a sleepover." Harry said, making a nasty face at Malfoy.

"Oh it was just an idea." Malfoy said quietly to himself.

"Well I suppose we only have about a day to make sure Hermione doesn't go out with that kid. We have to make sure Hermione doesn't take that bloke." Harry said.

Ron and Draco nodded in agreement.

With that being agreed on, the three boys now planned on how to get rid of Dimitri.

The three boys trudged down to the Great Hall. All their planning made them skip dinner but they could still have some desert. Draco went off to his to posse.

And Harry and Ron went to sit at their table. They saw Hermione and Dimitri in an intense conversation. Harry saw Ron give them a scathing look.

Harry just stared at the pair of them, his eye twitching in anger.

"Umm…Harry you do know your eye is twitching violently." Asked a worried Ron.

"Err…what? Oh yea sure." Harry said, completely distracted.

The plates finally cleared and the students went up to bed. When Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Dimitri were about to go through the portrait hole, Malfoy ran towards them.

"Hey wait up!" He gasped.

"Umm Malfoy what are you doing here?" Hermione asked.

"Oh I—uh—am spending the night over, so we can have better house relations" Draco said, finishing of lamely.

Hermione looked at him funnily but didn't say anything about it. She smiled to Dimitri and bade the boys good night and went off to bed. The boys went into the dorm and were getting ready to go to bed.

"Oh Dimitri. Did you hear about the ball?" Ron asked casually.

"Yea I bet you would take Hermione, huh?" Malfoy asked.

Dimitri looked at them in surprise. "Oh there is a ball?" "Well in that case, I'll gladly take Hermione." He said, smiling and showing of his pretty-boy teeth.

"Great now they made him know about the ball and ask out Hermione. Just great." Thought Harry furiously.

But Harry recovered quickly.

"Hey Dimitri, if you are going to ask out Hermione, you should know some things about her. For example, she utterly hates house-elves, the ones that work. Yea she totally despises them." Harry said, laughing evilly in his head.

Ron and Malfoy looked at him in surprise. Harry just mouthed, "Go with it" and the two boys nodded.

"Yea she absolutely hates them!" Ron said, trying hard not to grin.

"Well thank you so much! I will tell her I hate them too tomorrow. The she will go with me the ball!" Dimitri said in his excited foreign accent.

Dimitri went to bed early, while Harry, Ron, and Malfoy were still awake.

"Oh Hahahaha this is going to be funny. When he says that Hermione, she'll surely hate him then and there!" squealed Malfoy.

"OH yes this is going to be good" Harry said, as Ron grinned and nodded.

The three boys then went to bed, waiting for the next day to come.

Unknown to them, however, their plan wasn't going to work as they expected it to be. In fact it was going to bring a turn of events.