Room 308, Tuesday night

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Despite the papers in front of her, Hermione actually wasn't studying. She'd just finished the latest letter from Viktor and was trying to write back, but wasn't finding too much to say. This may have been a sign that she needed to get out more. Not that she was telling anyone else that because she'd never hear the end of it, but she did realize it.

The door was open.

[For one specifically.]

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Ferris leaned against the door frame. "Hi, whatcha doing?" He didn't wait for an answer. "Before you ask, I'm completely unarmed. No pillows or blankets or plans to mess up the common room in sight." He glanced around her room.

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"I'm very impressed you remembered," said Hermione, who kind of was. Most people, her words sort of disappeared from their heads as soon as she said them. "Hello. Did you need something?"

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"What? A guy can't stop by a floor mate's room to say hi these days? It was all the rage in the 80s." He was, as usual, making stuff up as he went along.

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"Well, you had said 'hi' quite a few words ago," she pointed out.

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"I thought it was a very good start to a conversation," Ferris protested, arms folded across his chest. "The hi leads into other things, like 'how are you?' and 'seen any good movies lately?' although I won't ask that last one because I'm afraid anyone from the future I ask will spoil the ending of the next 10 years of big summer movies."

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"The answer to the first question would be 'fine' and the second would be 'I don't see a lot of movies so I doubt that wouldbe an issue,'" she assured him. "Would you like to actually come inside?"

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"Sure." He gave as sheepish a smile as Ferris Bueller could actually manage, not being a very sheepish kind of guy. He took a few steps in and looked around. He did a turn on the spot slowly, then spun around to face her. "I hear there's a dance this week for Valentine's Day. Wanna go?"

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That was about the last thing she'd epected. Hermione blinked once or twice, and asked, "You want to go with me?"

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"You sound surprised. I thought we had the basics of conversation perfected. One of us greets the other, we exchange a few quips, you frown at me for something I'm doing, I assure you it's not as bad as it seems and then I ask you a question and you give an answer. Granted," he said, sitting down on one the edge of one of the beds, "I only have one conversation to base this on excluding this one, but I think it's a good trend that we started and I'd like to keep going with it. Wanna go to the dance with me?"

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She opened her mouth to say something, and closed it again. It wasn't like she had any reason to say no. No one else had asked her, though she hadn't been planning on going, and so far their conversations had been... interesting.

"Sure," Hermione said. "I'll go with you."

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"Great!" Ferris said, standing back up and clapping his hands together once. "I'll pick you up here half an hour before it starts."

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"I'll be ready," she promised. And then for some reason she added on a, "Thanks."

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He smiled at that, not laughing at her, but still a little amused at being thanked. "Hey, I should be thanking you. You don't know what it does to a guy's ego to be turned down." He headed for the door. "It's not pretty," he said, turning once he got there.

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"And no one needs to deal with that," Hermione said with a smile. "Good night, Ferris."

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"Night Hermione." He flashed her a smile which he then shared with the audience and headed down the hallway whistling Danke Schoen to himself.