In honour of Harry Potter Book Night I decided that I'm going to add some new chapters! Thanks to all of my readers who make me love writingJ~HogwartsPrincess89

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It had been two weeks since Draco and I had started dating which meant that Christmas break was over. The Weasleys and Harry had welcomed him with open arms (except for Ron but that was to be expected). He in turn had had an absolutely amazing Christmas and had only been pranked once by George and Ginny.

I looked over at my boyfriend and smiled fondly at him. He had fallen asleep with his head against the train window in his new Weasley jumper, blond hair a mess. As soon as he had received the jumper he had hugged Mrs. Weasley fiercely.

"Earth to Hermione. Quit drooling over your hunk of a boyfriend!" Ginny shook me out of my trance. I glared. "I was not drooling." She grinned "Were too. Anyways Harry finally inherited his parents' things, including a couple houses and he asked me to move in with him into Potter Manor when I'm done school. Isn't that brilliant?" I smiled. "I'm happy for you guys." She beamed back at me. "You should wake the Ferret up. Shouldn't you guys be in the Heads Compartment?"

"Merlin's beard! Not again." I poked Draco in the side, eliciting a grunt. "Wake up we're late for the prefects meeting!" He groaned. "How come every time you wake me up it's because we're late for something?" I ignored him and hauled him down the train into the compartment. "Sorry we're late everybody. We had to attend an urgent matter with some seventh years." Draco lied smoothly. Ernie MacMillan rolled his eyes at us. "I'm sure. Anyhow we have already been over everything we were supposed to be so I guess everyone's free to go."

"Sorry Ernie it really won't happen again." He raised an eyebrow. "No offense but I'm sure it will. See you around Hermione, Malfoy." Draco sighed. "Well at least we weren't the ones boring everyone else half to death. No what do you say we don't go find our friends, hog a whole carriage to ourselves and snog?" "How romantic of you." "Is that sarcasm I detect Miss Granger? I do believe that sarcasm is not tolerated at Hogwarts and you'll have to be punished." "Idiot." I shot back at him but the effect was lost amid my giggles. Needless to say, it was a while before we met up with our friends.

This time we found them all gathered around Luna at the Ravenclaw table. When we reached them I noticed they all looked very excited about something. "What happened?" I questioned. "There's going to be a ball! McGonagall decided to bring back the Yule Ball, except this time it's after Christmas. We only have four days to prepare though! There's a Hogsmeade trip scheduled for tomorrow and Wednesday so we can get our outfits."

I groaned. If there was one thing I hated more than anything it was dress shopping. Ginny became simply unbearable during shopping trips I could only shudder at what she might be like shopping for a ball gown. I looked over at her, but instead of finding her beaming at the prospect she was staring at her mashed potatoes sadly. My heart went out to her. The one time she could actually go to a ball with Harry and he wasn't here to ask her. I would make sure they went together if it was the last thing I did.

"I just remembered I forgot my book at the Burrow. Draco, can I borrow you're your owl to ask Mrs. Weasley for it?" I sent him a look that meant come with me. "I'll come with you." He replied.

Once we made it out of the Great Hall he turned to me. "What are you up to?" "This ball is the one time Ginny could actually go with Harry but he's not here. So I'm sending a letter to Anthony Goldstein…" "The Ravenclaw Quidditch Captain?" "Yes. They're really good friends so I'm going to owl him to meet me right now to ask him to fake ask Ginny to the ball to go as friends seeing as 'neither of them can go with who they want to.'" I drew bunny ears around the last part. "Then I'm going to go get Harry and see McGonagall so we can arrange him coming. So that when Ginny walks down the stairs expecting to be greeted by Anthony, she'll be greeted by none other than Harry himself come to be her date to the ball."

He blinked at me. "That's actually a great plan." I rolled my eyes at him. I hastily wrote a note to Anthony and sat down to wait for him. Draco stayed standing. "As much as I'd like to see you o through with this plan I have to go do detention for Trelawney, I kind of gave her the finger in class when I thought she wasn't looking." I rolled my eyes at him again, but kissed him nonetheless. "See you later."

A minute after Draco left Anthony Goldstein rushed around the corner. "Hermione. I came as quickly as I could, you said it was urgent." "In a manner of speaking. Now I know you're taking Padma to the ball but since Ginny doesn't know you guys are dating yet I need you and her to pretend you're not going together."

He raised his eyebrows. "And why would we do that?" "Because Ginny won't go to the ball without a date and seeing as Harry's not here I need you to pretend to take her as a friend so that I can have Harry surprise her on the day of the ball. So you'll still be going with Padma." He smiled. "That's really nice of you Hermione of course I'll do it." I let out a breath I didn't realize I'd been holding. "Thanks a million Anthony." I shot him my biggest smile. He smiled at me. "I'll go tell Padma right now."

With that taken care of, I had to okay it with the Headmistress. I ran back to my common room and flooed to Potter Manor. "Harry! Come down here!" He sprinted down the stairs, wand drawn. "Hermione! What's wrong?" "Nothing I just need you to come to Hogwarts with me right now it's nothing bad I'll explain when we get there." I threw a disillusionment spell over him and dragged him through his floo to McGonagall's office.

"Miss Granger, what do I owe this pleasure?" I took off the spell, revealing Harry. "Mr. Potter! Nice to see you again. What's this all about?" Harry shrugged. "I have no idea Professor. All I know is that Hermione dragged me out of my house to come talk to you." "Well we're having a Yule Ball on Friday and it's the one ball where you and Ginny could actually go together so I've set up a plan to surprise her with you as her date on the day of the ball. She'll probably owl you to tell you that she's going with Anthony as friends by the way. So I need Professor McGonagall's permission for you to come here for the night of the ball."

We turned to her. "Of course you can come, I'll send a letter to Kingsley to explain so he'll let you stay through until Sunday." "Thanks Professor!" Harry beamed. "And I'll make sure to have Anthony owl you the tie Ginny sends him so they match on the night of. Thanks for everything Professor!" She gave us a rare smile. "Of course."

I hugged Harry goodbye and made my way up to the Head's dorm. Draco wasn't back yet. I took my time getting ready in our magnificent bathroom, threw on some pajamas and settled myself on the couch with a book to wait up for him. An hour later he walked through the portrait looking exhausted, his hair sticking up every which way.

I smirked and was rewarded with a glare. "Your hair doesn't look that great right now either Granger so I wouldn't talk." "Oh it's Granger again is it?" He glared some more. "Stupid crystal balls, fireplaces and those awful fumes I think that's the worst detention I've ever served and that's counting the one in first year where Potter and I saw Voldemort." I rolled my eyes. "C'mon Drama Queen it's time for bed."

He smiled at that. "Just give me a sec to change." Over the Christmas holidays Mrs. Weasley had been sure to keep all of the couples as far away from each other's beds as possible. As a result none of us slept a wink and I was very excited to finally get some rest. "You can come in now." Draco called.

I slid under the covers and he threw his arms around me. I smiled into his chest, immediately falling asleep.