Next day

Sunday

8:00pm

Hermione was eating her dinner in the Great Hall with Ginny, Luna and Neville, apparently the three were now known as the Bronze three as she and Harry and Ron were the Golden three, Hermione didn't think such a group existed anymore, since Lavender joined and they somehow kicked her out.

Ginny gave Hermione a nudge, causing her to loose her thoughts. "Oi! Hermione!" she hissed.

"What?" she asked as she swallowed some carrot that she almost chocked on from the sudden jab.

"Why is McLaggen and Smith both staring at you?" she asked in a nervous and excited whisper.

The reason why Zacharias was, she knew. In three hours time, they were going to go out to Hogsmeade to meet up with Cedrid Diggory, now Edward Cullen. The reason why Cormac was... Did he have a crush on her? If he did, it would help her out with her mission to piss Ron off, it would be easier to ask him out or get him to ask her. "I promised I would help Zacharias with homework," she muttered. "Not sure about McLaggen. He's always staring at girls anyway."

"Your in first name terms with Smith now?" Ginny asked, wiggling her eyebrows. "Is there something you are not telling me?"

Hermione frowned, knowing she would have to explain her whole story to Ginny, why she and Zach were friends. When she finished her long story made short, Ginny sighed, frowned, then sighed again.

"Oh my God! Ron is such a blind git sometimes... Good luck with pissing him off," she said. "I know I'm his sister but he deserves it. Lavender only just noticed him, I bet you it's because he's keeper for Gryffindor. I never truly understood her except for what a slut she is."

"Watch your mouth Weaslette!" Draco muttered, walking passed the two. "Five points off for filthy language."

Ginny gave him the finger, causing him to gasp. He stuck the finger back and sauntered off with Blaise Zabini, who, Hermione had just noticed, had been watching Luna the whole time with a dreamy look on his face. Did he like her?

"Neville?" Hermione muttered. "Can you pass me some pudding?"

Before Neville even lifted his hand up, the pudding that Hermione had wanted started floating towards her, and landed on her plate. She turned her head around slightly and saw that it was Cormac McLaggen who had levitated the desert towards her as he wiggled his wand at her.

"Pudding?" he said from where he was.

"Thank you," Hermione muttered with a smile.

"Hermione!" Ginny whispered into her ear. "I think he likes you!"

Two hours later

Hermione stood up, after watching Neville eat for two hours with Luna and Ginny. It was incredible that Neville could eat on for two hours without stopping, he was as skinny as a stick! "Ginny, I'm going to go now," she announced as she stood up. "I need to go help Zacharias out with homework."

Ginny eyed her for a moment then smiled mysteriously. "Don't stay overnight with him."

Hermione rolled her eyes and muttered goodbyes to her three friends. She made her way to the entrance of the hall and found that Zacharias was already there. She nodded at him who nodded back with a smile in return.

"Now off to see the Cullens?" he said quietly.

She nodded. "Are we allowed out in Hogsmeade at such a time?"

"I got permission from Professor Sprout to stay over night there. I said that I was studying this creature called a Plimpey," he said. "Funny thing is that I don't think she knows that they actually live in water. That's the sad thing about being a Hufflepuff. We're too stupid to know anything, too loyal to betray, too coward-like to be brave, I'm useless, Hufflepuffs are all useless. Except for Ced."

The two were walking passed the greenhouses now with Zacharias leading the way.

"That's not true," Hermione said, putting a hand to his shoulder. "At least you're a nice guy who actually decided to befriend me. Not many people do that for me you know. And you're mistaken with what you are not. You are smart, you know stuff about Vampires and Plimpeys and everything. You are not too loyal, you lied to your head of house and you are brave, you decided to befriend me even though the Slytherins wouldn't want you too."

He smiled at her. "Thanks for cheering me up. Hagrid's going to take us to Hogsmeade, Professor Sprout insisted."

"'Mione! Smith!" Hagrid greeted them as they arrived at his hut. "N'ver thought that I'd see yer two coming together 'ere. Well we bet'er get going then. Exactly why are yer going?"

"Hagrid. Promise not to tell Harry, Ron or anyone," Hermione said suddenly feeling nervous. "Especially the teachers."

Hagrid nodded before his eyes went wide with shock. "Yer two aren't off to see ther doctors there are yer two?"

Hermione was confused and could tell Zacharias was too, but his eyes suddenly went wide and Zacharias blushed furiously, but the dark covered his face well. "What do you mean, Hagrid?" she asked.

Hagrid pointed at Zacharias accusingly. "Yer did not get Ms. Granger 'ere pregnant did you? Is this why Prof. Sprout decided night time, eh? Insisted I come along to make sure yer two don't get hurt or something? -" He turned to Hermione. "Fer how long? When ther baby due?"

Hermione blushed furiously finally understanding what had caused Hagrid such shock. "HAGRID! I'M NOT PREGNANT!"

There was a noise behind them and Hermione saw platinum blond hair running in mid air, or rather flying. Draco had followed the two of them here somehow and decided to eavesdrop on them being the Slytherin he was.

"Thanks Hagrid," she muttered. "Now ferret is going to go around telling everyone I'm pregnant with Zacharias' child. The perfect life."

"Not if I interrupt," Zacharias muttered who was blushing more furiously than she was.
He took his wand out and fired a spell at the running 'ferret'. Draco suddenly tripped over, fell and froze. Zacharias quickly fired another spell. "There. He's forgotten what he's seen now and he's asleep. Would be a laugh to see him waking up here tomorrow morning." He turned to face Hagrid. "You're not going to tell on me are you?"

"Not bothe'ed to," Hagrid muttered. "Off we go te Hogsmeade then. I won't ask yer any more questions."

Five minutes later

Hosgmeade

Hermione and Zacharias had been left to do as they pleased as Hagrid decided to go for butterbeer. Seeing as Hagrid was out of sight, Zacharias led Hermione towards where Cedric said he would be. "Are you sure they will come?" she asked. "What if this was all a joke? What if you were just lying to me? You're not trying to-"

Zacharias nodded, though Hermione couldn't see him because of the dark. "They'll be by the Candy shop. They promised they'll come. I'm a Hufflepuff, loyal and not a liar. ... Not really a liar."

Hermione could see eight figures ahead of her and wondered if they were the Cullen family. She could smell autumn leaves and toothpaste and was starting to feel heavenly. She then remembered that Vampires smelled different to everyone according to what you liked. She gulped as the idea really hit her, she was going to meet VAMPIRES!!!

"Ced?" Zacharias said. "Edward? Diggory? Cullen? Edward?"

In less than a second, the whole Cullen family surrounded them. Hermione thought that they were going to die, she could hardly see them properly because of the dark. She took her wand out of her pocket and muttered, "Lumos." Suddenly, she could see eight extremely BEAUTIFUL people in front of her. Zacharias hadn't been joking about the 'hottness' of them, they literally left her breathless.

"Hermione? What a pleasant surprise!" Cedric... Edward said. He was gorgeous, not that he never was. "I thought that Zachaias was going to come alone. Are you two dating or something?"

Zacharias blushed and shook his head before saying, "So is this Bella?" he asked. "She's more beautiful than you said she would be!"
He turned to face Hermione. "I forgot to tell you that Cedric's got married to Bella. She's hot ain't she?"

Hermione nodded. They were all beautiful. The muscular looking one reminded her of Viktor. He was tall, muscular and handsome. He nodded and introduced himself as 'Emmett'. The other male who looked more cute than hot with wild blond hair introduced himself as 'Jasper'. The hyper one was 'Alice' and the really, really, really, beautiful one was 'Rosalie'.

"Nice to meet you, Ms. Granger I believe?" a handsome young man who looked no older than twenty two said. "My name is Carlisle Cullen and I am the father of these beautiful five children. My wife, she's called Esme. Nice to meet you."

Carlise is hot.. Hermione thought. She saw a smirk appear on Cedric's- Edward's face. "What?" she asked.
He leaned closer to her and Hermione thought she saw Bella, his wife, glare furiously at her. She gulped.

"Just to let you know Hermione," Edward said. "I can read people's minds."

Hermione blushed feriously which caused Jasper to shuffle his feet and growl a bit. Hermione thought back to her books and referred to the page on such behaviors. He was still having trouble with control, she made sure not to blush or anything. The father looks hardly older than twenty two. Esme looks twenty seven. Emmett looks nineteen. Jasper looks twenty. Alice looks seventeen. Rosalie looks nineteen. Bella looks eighteen. And Cedric... Edward seventeen. How does that work? she thought. She then realised how it all worked thinking about the transformation of a vampire and everything.

"I see I don't need to explain anything," Edward said. "You're the brightest witch of your time after all. How's Harry?"

"Who is this Harry Potter?" Jasper asked.

"He's the chosen one," Zacharias explained. "He destroyed Voldemort a couple of months ago actually, Hermione helped out."

Hermione realised that he had left Ron out of the explanation, not that she cared. She smiled shyly when a look of shock and approval went around the Vampire family.

"Well, me and Emmett will go for a hunt, okay?' Rosalie announced. "I'm tired of this conversation."

She started to leave leaving Hermione slightly offended. Had she said something wrong?

"Don't worry about my wife," Emmett muttered apologetically. "She's always like that. See ya."

He left with Jasper in his grip.

"So you two want know about us Vampires?" Esme asked.

Hermione and Zacharias nodded.

Two hours later

Hermione couldn't believe all of the information she got, Zacharias and herself will probably get the highest marks for their essay and test that was coming up soon. She said goodbye to the Cullen family with Zacharias and was starting to leave when someone suddenly grabbed her hand. She gasped, thinking that they were going to kill her.

"Hermione?" Alice said. "I just had a vision on you."

"What?" She asked, suddenly feeling scared.

"You'll be going to the Christmas ball with this cocky vain boy. McLaggen or something," She said with a serious look on her face. "I've had several vision on you before coming here. I want you to be careful. There are two boys will seriously and truly fall in love with you, there is also this other boy but he will just have an infatuation on you. The two boys who will seriously love you... you will get to know them both better this year, only one of them will be your soul mate... Be careful."

Before Hermione could blink, Alice and the Cullens were gone.

"Done talking?" Zacharias asked, when he too, realised that they were gone.

Hermione nodded. "Yeah... I think so."
She was still thinking about what Alice had told her.

"What did Alice say?"

"Just something..." she muttered. "Never mind. Let's go find Hagrid."

A/N

How was it? Short chapter, soz, next chapter will have more of Cormac and less Zacharias.