Everyone was seated in the Great Hall and Professor McGonagall had just made the usual announcements; Professor Slughorn was taking over for Snape. There were fewer first years this year than any other year. Hermione was sitting at the head table because of her Head Girl status. She could see down at the other end of the table was the Head Boy, Draco Malfoy. Professor McGonagall had forgotten to announce the Head Girl and Head Boy due to her nervousness of being a new Headmistress. Hermione could hear quite a few students whispering and blatantly staring at her. Younger ones were inquiring if she were a teacher, and if they would be lucky enough to have her for their class. Older ones were trying to rack their brains to come up with a recollection of her. No one could think of ever meeting her before; surely they would have remembered someone this gorgeous. She obviously had to be a new teacher, but she looked their age. The meal was fairly dull and nothing out of the ordinary happened. It wasn't until after the meal, in the common room, that it got interesting.

Hermione wanted to greet her friends and catch up with happenings over the summer. It was decided this year that the Head Boy and Girl would be housed in their own houses, but have their own rooms. For several years each of the Head Girls had graduated Hogwarts either pregnant or with an infant, courtesy of the Head Boy. They wanted house unity, but that was just over kill. Each decsion had to be made by both the Head Girl and Boy, if one disagreed it could not go through.

Hermione was very happy not to have to share a space with Draco. Yes he was gorgeous, but his ego kind of nullified that. She reached the Fat Lady and told her the password, "daisies". They had decided that it would be a good idea to have all of their passwords be words that Neville could easily remember. After 6 years, he still needed to be reminded constantly of the password and when they changed every month, it could start to wear on one's nerves. Last May when they had found Neville sleeping on the floor outside of the common room because he couldn't remember the password and it was too late at night for anyone else to be up, it was put to a vote and decided that all of their passwords would be flower names.

Hermione entered the room and a few of the first years stopped and gaped. They looked wildly around and wondered if there was a surprise inspection by a teacher on the first night. Hermione just shook her head and smiled. Her eyes scanned the room, until she found her target. There sitting on one of the couches was Ginny Weasley. Her and Ginny had kept in touch over the summer and Hermione had sent Ginny a picture of her in France. It was Ginny's idea not to tell anyone about Hermione's changes. She figured it was her body, so she should get the privelage of showing everyone. As Hermione made her way to Ginny, she took her robes off and threw them across one of the armchairs. She quietly placed her hands over Ginny's eyes and whispered, "Guess who!"

Ginny turned to look at her best female friend and let out the biggest screech. There standing behind her, was Hermione, who had changed into a short flirty flare jean skirt that barely reached her mid thighs and a cap sleeve shirt that read, "Can I See Your Wand?" in gold sparkly letters that flashed and swirled, her long hair was down and softly curled and she wore a pair of Converse hightop platforms with thigh high striped tights. Everyone in the common room stared at the two hyper girls. Ron and Harry, who had been up in their room catching up with the rest of their roommates, jumped at the scream.

"It's Ginny!" Harry exclaimed, recognizing the voice. All five boys raced down the stairs to come into the common room just in time to witness two females jumping up and down screaming and hugging each other. Many males in the room were witnessing a real live fantasy right before their eyes. Two absolutley gorgeous girls hugging and kissing(on the cheeks, you pervys!) and jumping up and down. Everyone knew that Ginny belonged to Harry and no one would step into the Boy-Who-Lived's terrritory, but the other girl didn't belong to anyone, as far as they knew.

When Ron had entered the room, Lavender came and attached herself to his arm. Seeing the perfect female jumping with his sister left a weird feeling in Ron's stomach. He didn't want this girl thinking he was attached to anyone, especially Lavender. Sure Lav was pretty, but she had too many quirks that Ron was getting quickly annoyed with and besides, she didn't hold a candle to this new girl. He shrugged her off his arm and gave her a dirty look. Lavender dropped her arm and flipped her hair over her shoulder and flounced back to Parvati. Lavender was one of the girls, that no matter how many times she was dismissed, the guy would aways come back. She didn't need to worry, Ron would come crawling back soon, but in the mean time, there was that tasty dish in Ravenclaw to occupy her time with. She and Parvati decided to head up to their dorms and turn in for the night, after all being this beautiful took lots of work and sleep!

Ginny and the new girl fell onto the couch and rolled onto the floor in a tangle of limbs, thus increasing every males fantasy. When the girls untangled themselves, Harry and Ron made their way over. Hermione seeing her two best friends ran and attacked them. The two boys, to say the least, were stunned, as were the rest of their roommates witnessing the attack. It wasn't everyday that you had a fabulous female jump up and wrap her legs around your waist and then do the same to your best friend. Each of the boys secretly hoped this was the way she greeted every male.

"Oh my gods, Ron and Harry, you guys look great!"

Ron and Harry were confused for a moment. Ginny came over and wrapped her arm around Harry's waist. She thought she would be helpful.

"Maybe if you showed them your tattoo?"

Hermione pulled her shirt down in the back until the tattoo on her shoulder blade was exposed and there in front of Ron and Harry was a silver wolf howling at the moon. The girl adjusted her top and turned around to face her friends.

"Both of you also have a tattoo on your shoulder blade, but Ron's is a kodiak bear and Harry's is an african lion! They represent something very important to us."

Only four people knew what they meant, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny. Everyone else thought it was their favourite animals; at least that's what they told people who asked. Ginny did not have a tattoo yet because she was not an animagus yet, but she was working on it. When she changed, she would go out and get her tattoo. The other three had completed their animagus training half way through their 6th year. Realization struck the boys like a ton of bricks. This was their bushy haired best friend. Some of the boys in the room were still confused and were wondering why Ron and Harry were hugging her back.

"Hermione! I can't believe that's you!"

"Well it is me, Ronald."

Yes this was Hermione, no one said the name "Ronald" like her, not even his mother. Wow she was hot, maybe he could get back together with her?

After going and greeting the rest of the boys, Hermione and Ginny sat down on the couch with their entourage sitting on the floor around them. Both girls caught each other up on every little detail of their summer. None of the guys said a word, they were too caught up in every word the girls were saying. Through Hermione's story they learned that she was single. This started a series of wheels turning in many minds. Some of the boys were enjoying the view of Ginny. Just because she was on the no touch list, didn't mean they couldn't look. Harry noticed this and sat closer to Ginny and leaned onto her legs and she started to absently start playing with his hair and rubbing his neck.

The younger kids had gone to bed a log time ago and even some of the older ones were nodding off. They decided that there would be plenty of time to catch up with everyone and said their goodnights and headed off to bed, not knowing that this was the probably the last time all of them would sit together like this.