ITS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chapter 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Chapter 4 will be up soon.

This chapter is dedicated to: Blackheart09, potter-me-, ilovestrawberries, HHr its what i believe, ZaShLeYSm14, Lily and James love 4 ever, FroBoy, Oraman Atsuri, Hotkat144, Demoness-MarlstonWells69ner, The Gryffindor Drummer, arti, Rock thy socks off- YAHOO, x-moi-aussi-x

In case your crazy I am not JK Rowling. I am not richer than the Queen and I do not have kids. Nor do I own Harry Potter.

Friday, September 19th. . . . . . .

Hermione awoke to tapping on the window. She pulled on her robe and walked over to it. She opened it to let the great horned owl in. It flew to her bed and waited for her to untie the packages on its leg. After she did so it flew off. She opened a note attached to the smallest package.

Hermione-A present from Remus and I. It belonged to Lily and was part of a set James gave her to wear at their wedding. I hope you wear it and think of her, James, and Harry. Your a lot like Lily. Happy Birthday 17th Hermione. Sirius

Inside the package was a white gold ring with a sapphire flanked by two small diamonds. In the other slightly larger package was a present form her parents. It was her grandmothers diamond necklace. She looked at the clock and grabbed her uniform to change.

She met up with the rest of the Gryffindor 6th years at the table. They were chatting as if it was a normal day and not Hermione's birthday. After breakfast she and Harry headed off to Potions. In class Snape told them they would be starting to brew a very complicated potion: The Polyjuice Potion. When they heard this Harry turned and winked at Hermione, who gave him a half-smile and a shurg in return.

"Happy Birthday. We wanted to surprise you in Transfiguration." he whispered

"Thanks Harry." she replied visibly happier.

Snape gave them directions during the rest of class so that no one would screw up the potion (too badly). Ther homework was to read over the proper way to make polyjuice so that they could begin on Monday. After class they slowly headed to McGonagall's room to give everyone else a chance to get there first.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY HERMIONE!!!!!!!!!!!" shouted Ron, Dean, Seamus, Neville, Lavender, Parvati, and Harry.

"I thought that you lot had fogotten about my birthday! Not that you've remembered before!" she said smiling and looking at her desk which was covered in streamers and a Happy Birthday sign.

"Hey, its not everyday our resident genius turns seventeen." said Ron

"Excuse me," said a drawling voice, " But we're here to learn not celebrate Granger's birthday."

"We're all ready to start class Malfoy. Look at the Gryffindor desks."

Sure enough all the Gryffindor desks had the homework due and were ready to take notes on the day's lesson. McGonagall chose this moment to start the lesson. After a couple classes and lunch, Harry went down to the kitchens to ask a favor of Dobby.

In Defense that day they learned about aura balls. Professor Martini even showed them and example of one. She taught them about the reasons for different colors and why they are created in the first place. After class they headed to dinner and scarfed it down. Then they ran upstairs to the common room.

"Presents, now!!!!!!!!!!!!!" shouted Hermione

"Yes 'Mione. Well give you your presents."

Her first gift was from Dean, Seamus, and Neville. It was a wooden jewelry box with a red orchid on it. Next was a card from Ginny, Parvati, and Lavender saying that they were going to give her a small makeover the next day. Ron went next by giving Hermione a leather diary. Harry went last first she opened the book More on the New Theory of Numerology.

"Harry! Thank you! Its perfect!" she exclaimed

Then she opened the package with the ring. The first thing she noticed was her misspelled nickname.

"Harry, my-"

"Sirius did it."

"So," said Ron sounding angry, "What next?"

"Lets play truth or dare!" said Ginny

"Okay. But we need one more to make it even."

"Hey Elizabeth! Come 'ere!' called Ginny, "We're playing Truth or dare and we need one more."

The blonde newcomer sat down next to Dean. The game went very quickly. The only notable dares were Harry and Seamus running around the common room screaming like banshees and then singing the school song to the tune of Oops! I did it again! Lavender and Elizabeth having to shout that they love Snape during a Potions class (Thanks to Senbongirl614), and Ron having to swim naked in the lake for 5 minutes. Hermione had to promise to dance with Ron (or Harry if Ron was otherwise engaged) the next time they heard music.

After that they had cake which Harry had Dobby make. It was white cake with mint chocolate chip ice cream inside, chocolate frosting and had "Happy Coming of Age Hermione" on it in frosting that flashed in red and gold.

Saturday, September 20th 6:30 AM. . . . . . .

"Wake up Hermione!" sang Parvati.

"Go away. Its six-thirty in the morning."

" No can do! I told the boys you'd be down a t noon so we have to get to work! So gte up or I'll let Ginny pour a bucket of ice water over you!"

"I'm up! I'm up!" she said pulling off the covers.

First they took Hermione's contacts away and gave her black/green rectangular frames. Next Lavender started to straighten her hair while Ginny and Parvati went through her clothes. After an hour Lavender was done. It was halfway down Hermine's back!

"Now I'm going to cut it in layers with the bottom layer at your neck. This'll give your hair a full lok without being so bushy."

"But won't it be bushy tomorrow?"

"No. This is a new product that Fred and George developed. Your hair will stay straight now."

About a half-hour later Ginny and Parvati came in and explained what they did to her clothes. They had sorted them into three piles: 'Hell No' , 'Maybe', and 'Hell Yes'. Once Lavender was done with her they would have her try the clothes on and alter them as needed. After the clothes revamping she was given a basic make up course and then she got dressed to show her new look to the boys. They were waiting in the common room with their eyes fixed on the stairs to the girls dorms. When she appeared at the bottom of the stairs their mouths dropped. She was wearing a long white tee with a V-neck under a black and red striped pullover with a deep V-neck. She had on dark blue jeans and white converses. Everyone agreed that she looked amazing.

The rest of the month passed fairly quickly with lessons, homework, and more homework. The days started to blend into one another until mid-October.The Trio was coming from Transfiguration to dinner. Waiting at the entrance to the Great hall was Luna Lovegood. Her blue eyes seemed to be scanning the groups of students going in. Her eyes stopped on Harry, and she came rushing over.

"Hello Harry, Hermione, Ronald."

"Hey Luna. How's your year been so far?" asked Harry.

"Quite well. You?"

"Not bad."

"Ronald, I was wondering if you don't already have a date, if you'd like to come to the Halloween Ball with me?"

For a moment Ron looked like a deer caught in the headlights (if you catch my muggle drift). He swallowed a couple times before speaking.

"Sure, Luna" he said.

"Great! I'm having your costume checked for Misbobbits but you'll have it by next week." she said heading off to the Ravenclaw table.

"Misbobbits?" asked Hermione as they sat at the Gryffindor table.

"Who are you going with Harry?" asked Ron

"Well since your going with Luna I was thinking about asking Hermione."

"I'd love to go with you Harry."

Halloween . . . . . . . . (AKA All Hallow's Eve or Samhain(sah- VEEN) )

The girls (Hermione, Parvati, Lavender, Ginny, and Luna) started to get ready at 3PM for the dance which started at seven. Luna had the prettiest dress. It was red and the neckline plunged to her waist and was covered by red lace. When they asked her who she was she replied that she was Morgana. Hermione's costume was the second prettiest. She and Harry were going as Beauty and the Beast (only Harry flat out refused to be a beast). They met four of the boys downstairsand wited for Neville to come down. When he finally did everyone started laughing becaise he was dressed as. . . . . . SUPERMAN! (A/N: Again thanks to Senbongirl614. She came up with the idea for Neville to be Superman.)

"He's so manly" said Random first year girl # 1.

"He can save my world any day." said Random first year boy #1. (AWKWARD TURTLE!)

"Stop laughing! My Gran sent it for me to wear!" he said.

Of course that just made everyone laugh even harder. Harry and Hermione were the first ones to stop.

"Come on Nev. You, Me, and 'Mione' ll head down to the hall." said Harry offering Hermione his arm.

"Hold on. We-We're coming" said Dean still snickering.

So the ten of them headed down to the Great Hall. Cho, dressed as Cleopatra, and Roger, dressed as Julius Caesar, were greeting everyone at the doors. She gave Harry and Hermione a dirty look as they walked by. The Hall was decorated beautifully with bright orange pumpkins, black bats, and floatin, flickering candles. At the Far end of the hall was Lee Jordan and the Weasley twins. Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny headed over to see them. As it turns out Lee was the DJ for the night and Fred and George had just tagged along. He playing all muggle music because he worked for a muggle radio station but he assured them that it was all good stuff. The first song he played was "You Shook Me All Night Long" by (a band) ACDC. Luna dragged Ron out onto the floor.

"You have a promise to keep Miss Granger" said Harry.

"I suppose your right." she replied.

So they headed out on to the dance floor and danced the night away. Lee played lots of good songs and a good time was had by all. Everyone laughed at Snape who came as Neville's grandmother (he lost a bet). After the dance the 6th years decided to play twister. Parvati was the spinner and managed to knock everyone but Harry and Hermione down and position them right over each other. Now they were waiting for them to fall.

"This might take a while everyone." said Lavender, "Why don't we all go up to bed and they can just tell us who won."

Everyone agreed except Ron.

"Ron this is Harry and Hermione we're talking about nothing will happen between them." said Parvati .

Ron looked thoughtful for a second and then agreed (A/N: I wonder if his head hurts now.)

They stayed that wayuntil about a half-hour later when Harry fell, taking Hermione with him. After this happened she leaned her head back and began to laugh a full, throaty laugh. As she did so she brought her head back to its original position. Then she saw Harry's eyes and the laugh abrupty stopped. His emerald orbs were so intense all she could do was stare at them. Suddenly his lips were on hers in a heated kiss. But almost immediately as it had started it stopped. She could no longer feel the warmth of his body on hers. She got up to find him sitting there knees to his chin with his arms about his legs.

"I'm sorry." he said, " I don't know what came over me. We should probably just forget that ever happened."

"Yes. Alright. We'll I'll see you later today, then Harry." she said not knowing why she felt so sad.

She headed to her dorm and fell asleep in her costume. Harry on the other hand stayed down in the common room trying to figure out why he had kissed her. It hit him like a ton of hippogriffs as he was pacing in front of the empty fireplace.

"Bloody Hell! I'm in love with her!"

IT'S FINALLY FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its a MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to Senbongirl614 for beta-ing this chappie in her spare time between AP English and work. R&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!