A/n: Hello again, after about 2 months. Sorry about that. But this will be a good long chapter for you guys. And hopefully the best. So… Au Revior!

Previously, on Perfect: (a/n: for those of you who watch friends, haha. That's Phoebe's line!)

"What's going on, Hermione? Why is Ron so mad?" Harry asked quietly. He had just entered the Great Hall and hadn't heard anything.

"Um, I told Parvati Draco and I might be dating… well, are dating, but that's not the point… and Ron overheard…"

Harry exploded, just like she thought he would, about 3 minutes later. "Well I don't blame him! How could you go out with my arch-nemesis- well, one of them, anyway- , Hermione?" He then did something she never thought him capable of. He slapped her in the face.

Chapter 14: How could you?

"I just can't believe that Harry SLAPPED you! I didn't think he had it in him!" Ginny exclaimed for the third time in ten minutes.

"We know you're surprised, Ginny, but it happened. You can stop saying that now," Lavender sighed.

Hermione heaved a great sigh and pulled her sweatshirt over her head, dragging her feet over to the door. She turned around to face Ginny and Lavender again. "I guess I'm going to have to go talk to Harry and apologize," Hermione said reluctantly.

"APOLOGIZE?" shrieked Lavender and Ginny together. "Hermione, are you nuts? You don't have anything to apologize for! Sure, you're dating Draco Malfoy, his nemesis, but so WHAT!" Ginny cried loudly.

"Can you say it any louder? I don't think the Ravenclaw students heard you!" Hermione huffed.

"Yeah, we heard," A Ravenclaw girl called.

"Thanks, Gin," She muttered.

"Sorry, but still. What do you have to apologize for?" Ginny asked.

" I'm going out with his arch-nemesis for Merlin's sake!" She exclaimed.

"Yeah, okay. That's a good enough reason, I suppose," Ginny admitted.

"But shouldn't he apologize too, for slapping you?" Lavender asked, confused. "Weren't we just angry at him for slapping you, Hermione?"

"Yeah, well… He's been my best friend for 7 years, I think we should probably let him off the hook," Hermione said.

"Okay, fine. I give up," said Ginny. "Off you go."

"Thanks guys," Hermione grinned, turning around to go and find her best friend.

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"What do you mean, you're going to apologize?" Draco asked angrily, his eyebrows disappearing under his hair. Hermione had run into him on her way to meet Harry, and he had asked her where she was going. When he found out what she was going to do, well, he wasn't too happy..

"I think it's the right thing to do, Draco. I'm sorry if you don't support my decision, but… he's been my best friend for a while. I can't just leave that all behind," She said, twirling her hair around her finger.

Draco grabbed her hand from her hair and said, "I'm sorry, Hermione, I just am angry that Pothead, Weasley, and countless others know about us. Voldemort has a much bigger chance of finding out now."

"Well Draco, you haven't even asked me out for a second time, so I guess we can't say we're dating," Hermione said, giving him a half grin and punching him in the arm playfully.

"Hey, that's not fair. You know I care a lot about you. I just was trying to find the perfect moment," Draco admitted.

"And here it is…" Hermione leaned in and gave him a long, perfect kiss. "Do you have anything to say to that, Mr. Malfoy?"

"Um.. erm… uh.. wow," He spluttered, trying to find his words.

"Yes, I'm often told I have that effect on boys," Hermione grinned.

"Please tell me you'll go out with me again," Draco said softly. Hermione said nothing. Draco looked horrified, until Hermione leaned in again.

"You beat your ass I will, Draco Malfoy," She said, and kissed him again.

-oooo-

"Harry, I really am sorry. I just.. if you knew Draco like I do, you'd feel how I do too," Hermione said.

"I don't think I WANT to know Draco like you do," Harry chuckled.

"Oh, you're chuckling! That must mean you're close to forgiving me," Hermione said hopefully.

"Of course, Hermione. I can't be mad at you for long," Harry said, giving her a hug.

"Thanks, Harry. You have NO idea how much that means to me," She kissed him on the cheek and practically skipped out of the Gryffindor common room.

"Wait, Hermione."

"Yeah, Harry?"

"Are you going out with him again?"

"Does it really matter if I do? All that matters to me is that we're friends again," Hermione smiled.

"You are, aren't you," He said knowingly.

"Okay, I am, but I really like him Harry. He's a good person. I just wish you knew him now. If only you guys got along," She sighed.

"Hermione, no offense, but the day Malfoy and I get along will be the day that Voldemort dresses up in a tutu and does the tap dance to Yankee Doodle Dandy," Harry said.

"It could happen…" Hermione muttered.

"Uh-huh, in like a billion years. Sorry, Hermione," said Harry, escorting her out of the common room.

"Harry?"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks for forgiving me. It means so much that you can put the fact that Draco and I are dating behind you."

"Well, anything for you, Hermione," said Harry, then closed the common room door behind her, then turned back to Ron. Ron was crouched behind a chair and had been listening in on the conversation.

"You haven't forgiven her, have you."

"Nope."

A/n: That's the end of this chapter. I think Harry's a jerk in the chapter for telling Hermione he forgave her but not really meaning it. Okay, bye.