It was Halloween and everyone was preparing for the feast and ball that evening. It was decided this year that there would be a feast and ball for each holiday, to help boost morale. Draco and Blaise learned the truth about the girl on the train; it had been Hermione. Each boy had been a little shocked, but quickly recovered. What surprised Hermione was how nice they were being to her. Both boys found her to be actually decent to talk to, at least when she wasn't around Weasel and Pothead and she was very smart. After all, if they wanted a repeat performance, they would need to get and stay on her good side and trust me, they wanted many repeats.

Ron soon learned that Hermione ran on the motto, "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me!" She would not be taken a fool again. Sure she still loved Ron, as a best friend, but she had made the mistake of giving him her heart and he turned around the followed the first pretty girl that looked at him and in doing so lost his opportunity forever to be more than a best friend to her. Many guys however had not made this mistake and thought themselves in the running for the beauty's affections. Hermione had fun with her new found popularity, but she made sure to never stomp on someone's heart. It had happened to her and she was caring enough not to let any one else go through that feeling. Lavender and Parvati were a little jealous of her to say the least. Hermione alone had taken over both of their positions as the schools hottest commodity. For as much fun as Hermione was having, though, she was still the same old Hermione and school work come above all else and her marks showed that.

Hermione made her way to her room and laid her books on her bed. She decided that she would have a nice long soak in the tub before Ginny showed up so they could both get ready together. Hermione had many guys ask her to the ball, so many in fact that after the second day she had lost count. She had decided that she would go alone, after she caught two boys fighting over her; these two were brothers and Hermione realised if brothers were fighting over her, what was everyone else doing? She made an announcement that she would go solo. She stepped out of the bath and dried herself. She charmed her hair dry and wrapped her bath robe around her body. She had just sat to read a new book she had gotten, when Ginny came bouncing into her room. The younger girl had obviously just had a bath or shower and was carrying her costume in a garment bag. It had been decided that they would have a masked costume ball and to add to the mystery, the professors had charmed all of the masks to stay in place until midnight.

It had taken Ginny and Hermione all day to choose the perfect costumes in Hogsmeade, a few weekends before, but it had all been worth it. The girls did their makeup and hair and then carefully put on their gowns and masks. Ginny glanced at the clock and saw that they needed to be in the Great Hall in 10 minutes and it took that long to walk there from Hermione's room.

"We have to go now, if we want to make it in time!"

"Patience, young one. People of our beauty never arrive on the scheduled time, we arrive on our own time!" Hermione waved her hand at her friend dismissively.

"Wow, you're really are good at that, ever think of becoming nobility?" Ginny stuck her tongue out and laughed as she dodged a pillow aimed at her. Both girls were ready and left Hermione's room and made their way to the Great Hall. They could hear the music playing; Fred and George had been asked to DJ the ball. They entered and started to walk down the steps that Professor Flitwick had charmed in place. It seemed to both Ginny and Hermione that even though the music was playing and people were talking, the room was silent. Every eye turned to the door and watched as the two beauties descended the steps. Ginny leaned over to Hermione and whispered to her equally nervous friend, "Is this the kind of entrance you were going for?"

The crowd watched and wondered who these two were. Ginny was wearing a very, very sexy version of the Gryffindor uniform. Her plaid skirt reached just past her bum and her oxford shirt and vest reached just below her breasts and was tight. The tie hung down to her belly button and on her legs were a pair of grey thigh highs and high heeled mary janes. She had her hair up in a messy bun and her wand stuck through it. On her face was a mask with two golden lions on each end and they were each breathing red flames above Ginny's head. Suddenly every male wanted to deperately be in Gryffindor and all of the Gryffindor males were swelling with pride, despite who this girl was. Some rumours quickly started that is was a Slytherin taunting the Gryffindors.

Hermione's costume was one she normally would not wear. She had on an equally sexy short costume. She wore a very short strapless pinstripe dress that looked like it was supposed to be a man's suit, complete with tie and all. A pair of suspenders held it up around her neck. On her legs were a pair of fishnet stockings held up by garters that were attached to the bottom of her dress and on her feet were platform stilettos with laces that wrapped around her legs. She had a gun holster around her upper thigh and a fake gun inside, and on her head was a 1920's gangster bowlero that was partially covering the left side of her face. Her mask looked like a pair of velvet hand cuffs. The men couldn't choose who to stare at. Everyone held their breaths as the two girls reached the bottom and then seemed to be looking around the room.

Hermione spotted the Gryffindor group first and grabbed Ginny's arm and pulled the girl over to their friends. As the girls got closer some of the Gryfindor boys became very nervous. Were these girls really in Gryffindor, no one recgonized them. Trust me, they would know if girls this gorgeous were in their own house, they had observed the girls in their house before and other gorgeous girls from all other houses for that matter. No one they had ever seen came close to these two. Seamus stepped forward and asked the sexy gangster to dance. She smiled and took his hand. Ginny was looking for Harry when she spotted him, he was flirting with some tart in a fairy costume. It was hard to miss his jet black hair and striking green eyes. She marched over to her straying boyfriend and decided to have a little fun.

"Hey, sweetie," she purred out. "Would you like to dance with me?"

Harry looked at the beauty and nervously adjusted his crusader costume.

"I'm kind of with someone already and we were just going to dance."

"Oh, what is your friends name?" So I can kill her and you after, Ginny thought in her head.

"She is my girlfriend, Ginny Weasley." Ginny was shocked by what Harry had just said. She knew that girl was not her. She looked like her, but it was not her. She could only think of one way to get to the bottom of this. She marched over to her two identical brother and grabbed them by the ears and pulled them towards Harry and the girl. Both boys were protesting their treatment when Ginny turned to them and told them to suck it up.

"Please tell Mr.Potter, that he in fact, is not flirting with his girlfriend because she is standing in front of him, talking to him right now!" Harry's head swung back and forth between the two girls and then to the twins.

The fairy girl laughed and put her hand on Harry's arm. Ginny had to admit, this girl was a good actress. If Ginny were any one else, she would have thought it was Ginny (confusing, I know!). "I know a lot of girls want to go out with Harry, but accusing me of not being who I am; that is just taking it a little too far," the hussy cooed.

"Well, why don't we ask these two gentlemen here, after all they are Ginny's brothers! Fred and George, ask us both a question that only the true Ginny would know!"

Both Fred and George stuck their heads together and were whispering to one another. Ginny was getting impatient and told them to move it along, and the other girl yelled at Ginny, "I don't know who you think you are, but don't yell at my brothers!"

George cleared his throat and announced, "We have two questions for each of you!"

"Well go ahead, we don't have all night!" Ginny wanted this hussy exposed.

"First we need something to write on, so you don't copy each others answers!" Fred waved his wand and the girls were holding a parchment and quill. "First question is, how did we get the start up money for our business? Second one, which one of us is which?"

Ginny wrote down her answers. Fred and George had told her that Harry gave them the Tri-Wizard Tournament money he had won to open their shop, they had yet to tell any one else. She was also the only one in her family who could tell the twins apart each and every time, besides the twins themselves. She handed her answers back to George. He and Fred looked at her answers and both smiled.

"I do believe we have a winner!" The other girl looked up from her writing shocked. Harry glared at the fairy and turned to the school girl.

"Are you two sure it's Ginny?"

"As sure as we know that we're twins! She got the answers correct and we only told Ginny where we got the money from. She is also the only one who has ever been able to tell us apart. And then we had a major clue when she became agitated with us and this imposter here stuck up for us. The real Ginny would never stick up for us, unless we were being accused of something we didn't do, so she would never stick up for us!" Both twins gave their famous mischievious grin.

"Besides that, did you hear and see the way she treated us? Not a care for our safety or the fact that she was inflicting bodiy harm on us. Only our Ginny could be so cruel!" Fred said smiling.

George leaned on Fred and wiped his eye, "We taught her well didn't we? She's a regular heartless bitch. I don't think I have ever been prouder; this is a night to remember!"

"Shut up you two bafoons and get back to the music or I'll show you heartless bitch!"

"We want to find out who this is first!"

Ginny grabbed a hold of the girl's arm before she could escape. "You had better tell us who you are or we will report you to the professors. You know you can actually spend time in Azkaban for impersonating another wizard while intending to do harm?" The girl looked nervous, but decided that these four knowing was better than going to prison.

"It's me, Lavender!" They were shocked.

"Why did you do this?"

"I wanted Ron back and he had no intention to come back to me. He is with Susan Bones now and I got jealous. I figured that if I got between Harry and Ginny and made it look like Harry had cheated on Ginny, then Ron would get angry at Harry. Losing his best friend, he would be devastated and I would be conviently available all the time for him. He would realise how good we were together and come back to me!"