Chapter Three

The three girls went straight to the back of the shop and Hermione cleared her throat and the ancient lady behind the counter looked up. She smiled a toothless smile but didn't say anything.

"Good evening I'm Hermione Granger Head Girl and we have an appointment with Ms. Bazine." She told the woman who nodded then disappeared into the back room. Hermione glanced nervously at the other girls who's brows were furrowed. Finally the old woman returned and beckoned the girls to follow. They did and were led into a small sitting room with a roaring fire. They were beckoned to sit before the old woman disappeared again.

"Well I hope she isn't Ms. Bazine or else its going to be rather hard to communicate with out her talking" Padama said glancing around the room. A second later another door opened and a woman stepped in levitating a tray with tea and biscuits. The girls stood up uncertainly. This woman was much younger maybe in her late forties with blonde hair streaked with gray. She was tall and thin and had rather large breasts.

"Hello girls. Please sit." she said setting the tray down on the coffee table. The three girls sat obediently and waited.

"I'm Barbie Bazine" she said her accent lightly accented with Russian.

"I am very glad you could make it. Tea?" she asked pouring out tea to the girls they took it gratefully and took a biscuit each when offered.

"I'm Hermione Granger and this is Padama Patil and Lelin Moon. We are very glad that you invited us to visit you Ms. Bazine." Hermione said.

"Oh its no problem my dear after all I wanted to hear more about this trip but business first. Now call me Barbie first off and about these blank books. I happened to have received a shipment of small pink journal like books a few months back. I received them by mistake and the company let me have them for half price. They've been sitting in the back of the store for the past two months forgotten but I remembered them when I got your letter" she said before taking a long drink of tea. The girls waited without breathing then she spoke again.

"I have about 150 of those books laying around and I'll give you 75 of them if you girls feel you need more than come back here and I'll cut you a deal on the rest of them" she said with a grin which spread to the three other faces present.

"Thank you Ms. Bazine! That's so generous of you!" Hermione said

"Yes we'll make sure we save one for you. We're making Glamour books out of them!" Lelin said.

"Glamour Books?"

The rest of the evening was spent with the discussion of the books and the trip that they were planning. Barbie turned out to be a bit of a party girl and a flirt and she regaled the girls with dozens of stories of her own youth. They had a great time and Hermione and the others were a little sad to be going.

"You girls will have to come back and visit sometime. I haven't had this much fun in years" Barbie said as she walked them out.

"We will next Hogsmeade weekend we'll stop buy for a chat!" Padama said beaming.

"And thank you again for everything!" Lelin said.

"Nothing to it I'm glad to help I'll send over the books first thing in the morning write me when you get them okay girls." Barbie said

"Thank you Barbie and we will. Thanks again for everything and you'll hear from us soon!" Hermione said

"Sure you girls walk carefully now its dark out now" she said and they nodded and said their goodbyes before heading back up to the castle.

"I can't believe how great she is!" Lelin said

"I know she was really generous to donate all those books I thought we would just get a discount but 75!" Hermione said. They talked all the way up to the castle and after peeking into the Great Hall and getting the confirmation that dinner was over Hermione took them down to the kitchens to eat.

Hermione spent the evening doing homework in the common room with Harry and Ron who said they had missed her and made her do half their homework. She was tired by the time she finished everything and wanted nothing more than to go to her bed and fall asleep. Hermione dreamt of a kiss that night. A kiss so full of passion and lust that it had her blushing in her sleep. When she woke the next morning her whole face turned completely red as she remembered her dream a kiss with none other than… Draco Malfoy

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Hermione was red in the face threw most of breakfast because every time she looked at Malfoy she remembered her dream and it seemed to her that he was watching her probably plotting ways to make fun of her horribly blushing face. She was thankful for the distraction that came a few minutes later.

"Oh Hermione" a singsong voice came from behind her and Hermione turned to face a grinning Susan Bones. Hannah Abbot stood behind her smiling as well.

"Morning" Hermione said with a warm smile.

"Guess what? I got the letter from my parents today and they said they would donate to our trip! 100 Galleons!" Susan said beaming and Hermione squealed

"Yes that's so great Susan! Oh thank them for me!" Hermione said digging through her bag and pulling out a small black planner. Where she wrote down Susan's name and the donation amount.

"What's that?" Susan asked looking at Hermione's planner.

"Oh I just want to keep track of the donations." she said tucking her planner away.

"Cool well I'll see you later Hermione." she said and they waved and returned back to the Hufflepuff table.

"What did Susan say?" Lelin asked sitting down beside Hermione and taking a piece of toast. The Gryffindor's all stared at her.

"Oh her parents are donating a hundred Galleons!" Hermione said with a grin.

"Awesome I'm still waiting for my parents to write back" she said with a grin and a second later two owls swooped in carrying a large package between them. They landed between Hermione and Lelin and both girls gasped.

"it's the books!" Hermione said excitedly as her and Lelin ripped open the box.

"Awesome!" Lelin said as she pulled out a thin novel sized book with velvet pink covering.

"Those are great are they for the Glamour Books?" Pavarti asked coming over with Padama.

"Yes! Oh these are great Hermione can I write Barbie and tell her we got them!?" Padama asked pulling out a piece of parchment. Hermione nodded.

"So who's going to be writing down all the spells and stuff? I have bad hand writing" Lelin said looking around at the girls around her.

"Oh Hannah you should do it! She has the best handwriting!" Susan said from next to Padama. Hannah blushed.

"She's right don't they have you write out the choir books for Flitwick?" Pavarti asked and Hannah nodded modestly.

"Oh Hannah could you do it?" Hermione asked smiling.

"Ok I will. I'll do it in History of Magic" she said and Hermione frowned but shrugged her shoulders and handed her a book. Lelin removed a long roll of Parchment from her bag and handed it to Hannah.

"I rewrote all the spells and potions last night and reorganized them into categories. Sally-Anne helped me so it was fairly quick." Lelin said referring to her Slytherin dorm mate.

"Thanks Lelin" Hannah said taking the parchment and tucking it into her own bag along with one of the pink books.

"Great so I'm going to talk to Flitwick and see if we can't leave the books locked up in his classroom. He's got all those cabinets for pillows and things maybe he's got some space for the books. Also when Hannah is finished a simple copying charm will work and our work will be done. We should have the boys help us so if we do have the copying charms tonight I'll tell you guys and we can spread the word to the guys. Also Lelin is collecting the money for the books so anyone who still needs to pay or sign up on the list send them to Lelin, please. I think that's it for now. I have charms right now so I'll ask and we'll know by lunch time." Hermione said once again with her planner in hand as she organized her to do list.

The girls all nodded or spoke their understanding before dispersing to head for class. Hermione arrived early to charms and asked Flitwick if they could use his cabinets for storage. He agreed of course and offered his classroom for their use that night. At lunch Hermione got a copy of Lelin's list and took it to McGonagall for her approval. Surprisingly the Transfiguration Professor had it back to her by the end of lunch and Hermione nearly had a heart attack when McGonagall handed her a Galleon and told her to put her name down on the list. After dinner the girls all sat around chatting in the Charms classroom as Hannah put the finishing touches on the Glamour books. Lelin arrived last of the girls and she looked slightly frustrated.

"Hermione I was just bombarded by a bunch of girls! We've got 100 names on the list now! We're going to need more books." she said pulling the list out of her inside pocket and showing it to Hermione who was silent for a few moments.

"Ok this is what we'll do. Tonight we'll copy the books we have and we'll set a deadline for the books. Tomorrow at the end of dinner and then it's to late to sign up. Then we'll contact Barbie and get the rest of the books that we need to pay for. Then we'll hand them out when we have it all organized and ready." Hermione said and the girls nodded their understanding. The girls managed to copy all the books and the boys still hadn't shown up. The girls were complaining about lack of commitment when they heard laughing voices in the hall outside. Lelin and Hermione went over and tore the door open before it could be opened Hermione glared hands on her hips. The boys looked sheepish.

"So where have you boys been?" Lelin asked casually and Hermione raised a brow.

"Well you see" Neville said who was towards the front of the group.

"There was a fight in the entrance hall!" Harry said with a laugh and Hermione stared.

"A fight?" she asked serious.

"Yeah it was awesome because they were fighting like muggle's and they were tearing each other's clothes off." Ron said.

"Yeah you should have seen it the one fifth year with bigger ti-" Blaise started but was cut off by Lelin.

"So you guys watched a fight in the entrance hall and got a free show?" she asked with a smile and Hermione faced her. The boys all nodded with stupid grins.

"Oh well I guess that's to bad for us girls huh Hermione? Who are we gonna play strip poker with now?" Lelin asked giving Hermione a pointed look. Hermione caught on and put a look of disappointment on.

"I was looking forward to it too. I wore my lace knickers for Merlin's sake" Hermione said and she stormed back into the room to hide the laugh that was threatening to burst from her. She heard the boys stuttering as she conjured a pack of cards and handed them to Padama who had heard the conversation.

"I… we didn't get that much of a show… we could still play with you girls" she heard one of the guys say.

"I thought we were playing strip poker Lelin?" Padama said appearing in the doorway and shuffling the cards.

"No the boys got a free show already." Lelin said.

"That's okay we can play by ourselves" Parvati said suddenly as she appeared beside Lelin. She but her arm around Lelin then promptly slammed the door in the boys face.

A second later the girls started roaring with laughter as the boys continued to hammer at the door.

"Oh that is funny" Hannah said from on top of one of the school desks.

"You should have seen the look on their face when I went out" Padama said and they laughed harder.

After about ten minutes they left the room and returned to their common rooms the boys still talking behind them. Hermione went up to her dorm and searched around for her Arithmancy book she had to study for a test. She glanced up tiredly an hour later at Pavarti who was tossing all her clothes in a pile.

"What are you doing?" Hermione asked getting out of bed and closing her book.

"The house elves are coming for laundry tonight thought I'd get it ready." she said and continued her task. Hermione sighed and glanced around at her dirty clothes bucket. It was filled to the top. She had forgotten to do her own laundry in the excitement of the last few days. She usually went down to the wash room herself but she had forgotten she laid in bed figuring she would just do it tomorrow. She fell asleep and once again dreamed of a kiss with Malfoy.

She had just been heading to the kitchen for a snack when someone grabbed her and pulled her into an alcove. She didn't want to be caught wearing just a small pair of shorts and a tank top but she didn't mind being caught by him. She knew it was him even before he turned her around to look him in the eye. She bit her lip as she stared into his gray eyes.

"You're turning into quite the stalker" she said huskily as he moved closer to her.

"It's a new hobby, stalking the most beautiful woman in Hogwarts" he said very near her lips. Her heart raced and she knew he was going to kiss her…

"Hermione get up or you'll be late!" Pavarti said suddenly very near her. Hermione groaned and glanced at her clock before she jumped out of bed with a curse. She ran to the shower and then brushed her teeth before bursting back into the room and heading for her wardrobe. She grabbed her wand and did the hair spell that she had memorized the morning before then tore open her closet and began to dig through her muggle clothes for her robes.

"Ugh where are my robes!" she hissed out glancing around the room. Parvati looked at her through the mirror.

"The house elves must have taken them last night" she said before turning back to stare at herself.

"What?" Hermione said

"The house elves came last night for the laundry they must have taken yours to. After all you usually finish your own laundry the night before." Parvati said

"No nononononono" Hermione said going back to her wardrobe and pulling out a black robe from the very corner of the closet.

"You have one there what are you panicking about?" Parvati said going to her own bed to slip on her shoes.

"These robes are to small! Ginny gave them to me last year and they fit me tight that's why I've never worn them!"

"Well try them on" she said and Hermione slipped them over her head.

"They're to tight" Hermione moaned to her reflection as she stared at the body hugging clothes.

"What do you mean they're tight? They fit you perfect!"

"No they don't"

"Yes they do. I didn't know you had a body under all those shapeless clothes that you usually wear" Parvati said admiring Hermione who was digging frantically through her trunk. She paused to glare at Parvati.

"Can I wear something of yours?"

"Sure but all my clothes are charmed to shape the body not hide it" Hermione groaned and gave up she sat on her bed instead with a defeated sigh.

"Come on Hermione you look fabulous. You have a great body all the guys will love it and I think you look great. Lets go to breakfast before you change your mind." Parvati said leading the way to the door. Hermione sighed after a moment then grabbed her book bag and followed the girl out.

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I hope you guys like it more humor and flirting next chapter will start Hermione and Draco's attraction and tons of flirting please review and tell me what you think!

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