*flashback*
4th year

Hermione Granger was never considered ugly by everyone at Hogwarts, yes she had lots of hair and her teeth weren't perfect but it got better for her, she was considered cute in her first year, smart in her second, and finally pretty in her third, as she got older she learnt how to calm her hair and style it better, she never did it to impress others or make herself look nice for other people, she did it for herself. But there was one night she wanted to show everyone how nice she can look and that was the Yule Ball, Ron of most people doubted she would even show up, she wanted to prove him wrong, she wanted him to be amazed at how she looks and who she is going with, she wanted Ron to be jealous.

"Ginny where is my hairspray?" Hermione shouts rushing through her bags.

"That's the muggle thing for hair right? In a large can? Check under the cabinet!" Ginny says putting her dress on and sipping it up.

"Trying to impress someone Hermione?" Lavender says in the corner of the room shorting out her dress straps, Hermione picks up the hairspray and rolls her eyes.

"Not necessarily" Hermione says spraying some hairspray on her hair and closing her eyes.

"You are! You want to impress Krum don't you?" Lavender says smiling.

"Nope definitely my brother" Ginny says.

"I'm not trying to impress anyone I just want to look nice, it's a special night and I want it to be special"
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"Hermione I'm going to go in with Neville I'll see you soon" Ginny says walking out Hermione's dorm. Hermione puts on her shoes and stares at herself in the mirror, she likes blue, she likes her hair, but will other people?

Hermione finally walks out her dorm and makes her way to the great hall, she hears the crowd of people grow louder the closer she gets, she peaks her head around the corner and sees a group of people in front of the great hall greeting each other, her eyes land on Harry who is staring at Cho Chang, she can't see Ron, maybe he didn't show after all.

Hermione starts making her way down the stairs smiling at Harry who finally fixed his eyes upon her smiling back, Krum comes forward and takes Hermione's hand as she waves at Harry and walks past entering the great hall where she spots Ron staring at her, she smiles and holds her head up high.

The night was long, especially after the fight Ron and Hermione had. Hermione found herself crying on the stairs she felt special on earlier that night, she holds her heels in her hands as tears still ran down her cheek, there was still couples dancing in the hall, but she was alone out on the staircase, trying to hold herself together before seeing Ginny and Lavender to have girl talk over what happened and how special the night was, all she wanted to do was impress Ron, but it backfired.

"Why are you always crying" A voice says, Hermione's eyes meets Dracos as he stands in front of her with his hands in his suits pockets. Hermione sniffs her nose and wipes her eyes.

"Great, come to make my night even worse?" Hermione asks sarcastically, Draco sits down next to Hermione but keeps his distance.

"Not everyone had a great night Granger, I ditched my date an hour in, found her laying her eyes on Krum" Draco says.

"Didn't you take Pansy?" Hermione asks, Draco nods his head.

"My Mother made me, it's apart of the family, marry into pure blood. But Granger you are always crying you need to stop and suck it up, Krum is something special all the girls want him but he chose you, so I don't get why you are crying" Draco says standing up and walking down the stairs.

"It wasn't Krum, it was Ron, I don't even know why I'm telling you this but I've been sitting here for an hour and I'm mad and tired" Hermione says putting her head in her hands.

"Weasley was jealous then?" Draco asks, Hermione shakes her head then nods.

"I don't know, I wanted to make him jealous but then I felt bad, I like Krum he's great but I guess I kinda always had a thing for Ron, I guess I was just a stupid girl with a crush, he was probably just looking out for me since Krum is older"

"He's right, Krum is older" Draco says, Hermione throws her heel to the side.

"If you are just going to agree with everyone Ron said and make me feel even worse then go piss off" Hermione says, Draco sneers.

"I never agree with a Weasley, Krum is three years older than you, I think that's alright for the future but you are a minor, he isn't. I see your intentions with Weasley, you had every right to make him jealous, everyone knows there is something between you two, apart from him of course, he was definitely jealous, he probably saw you enter the hall all beautiful and thought to himself 'I screwed up that one'"

"You think I looked beautiful?" Hermione asks, Draco rolls his eyes.

"I never saw you enter the hall, but I'm sure Weasley did say you are beautiful"

"He never" Hermione says, Draco takes off his blazer and throws it over his arm.

"Forget him then, if a guy you like doesn't compliment you then forget him" Draco says finally starting to walk away.

"Why are you being nice to me?" Hermione asks, Draco turns around and looks Hermione up and down, he throws his blazer over at her as she catches it.

"Your skin is pale" Draco says walking into the great hall leaving Hermione holding his blazer, Hermione looks at the blazer and sees blue inside, the same blue as her dress. Hermione looks back at the great hall entrance confused then decided to throw the blazer over her shoulders and sit there for five more minutes before making her way to bed.

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Hermione wakes up with a headache, she sees her dress on her chair and Dracos Blazer hanging over it, flashbacks come back into her head like she was drunk. Hermione crawls out of bed and drags herself to the bathroom and looks at herself in the mirror, her hair is all messed up and she looks awful, her eyes are puffy and her cheeks are red.

"Im never going to another ball again" Hermione says as she sits down at the Gryffindor table next to Ginny.

"You looked like you had a great night! Unless I missed something" Ginny says, Hermione opens her mouth to respond but Ron and Harry walk over and sit down next to Ginny, silence came as Ginny looked at the boys then Hermione.

"Alright I definitely missed something" Ginny says grabbing a fork and stabbing a pancake to put on her plate.

"Oh yes Ginny, you missed so much, why don't you tell her Hermione" Ron says taking some bacon for himself, Hermione let's out a sign and takes some pancakes and eggs completely ignoring Ron.

"How was your night Ginny?" Harry asks, Ginny smiles and starts to talk about Neville and her dress, followed by the music they played.

As Hermione made her way back to her dorm with Ginny, Ginny spots the blazer on Hermione's chair and picks it up.

"What's this?" Ginny asks, Hermione turns around and runs towards Ginny trying to take the blazer away.

"It's nothing, give it back"

"It is something, who's it is? Who gave you this? It can't be Krums because he didn't wear a suit, it's blue maybe a Ravenclaw, but you don't know a Ravenclaw, was it my brother, is that why you acted weird this morning?"

"Ginny please give it back I need to give it back to him"

"Him who is him tell me and I'll give it back" Hermione stops and signs, she looks down to her feet as Ginny puts the blazer on her arm.

"Ron yelled at me and told me Krum was way to old for me and basically held an attitude with me the entire evening, we had a fight afterwards and he went to bed but I was upset so I sat on the stairs, that's when Malfoy came along and spoke to me like we were friends"

"Malfoy? Draco Malfoy? The guy who bullied you for years?" Ginny asks

"Yeah, we talked and he basically said I'm beautiful but I don't know if he said it or not I can't remember but he gave my his blazer because I looked pale and that was it" Hermione says, Ginny throws the blazer at Hermione and smiles.

"Draco Malloy likes Hermione granger, I never saw that coming"

"He doesn't like me" Hermione says folding the blazer and setting it down on the chair.

"He called you beautiful" Ginny said shrugging.

"I'm not sure if he did it's complicated, I'm not beautiful to him anyways I'm filthy remember" Hermione says crossing her arms, Ginny let's out a big sigh and throws a pillow at her.

"Go return his blazer then and ask him"

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*present*

Ginny makes her way through Hermione's old dorm looking through her closet and other furniture for evidence, as she reaches the old chest of drawers in the corner she opens the bottom drawer and sees a blazer with blue inside tucked at the bottom, she pulls it out and smiles at it.

"She never returned it after all" Ginny says to herself smiling.