"I know, but I do need to have proper pronunciation for the spells. Unless you want to go back to filling in your eyebrows with a colored marker," she said pointedly. Everything was about perfection because that was how Hermione grew up. Simple as that. It was all she'd known and being praised for her hard work as a child just motivated her further to be ambitious and take on bigger tasks.

"Sounds like Christmas of two years ago all over again." She rolled her eyes. She couldn't even remember all of the details of that year, but it definitely hadn't blown over well.

His staring unnerved her, she had to admit. What was wrong now? She was just about to interrupt him and ask him if he wanted to talk to her about it later since he was apparently having a lot of trouble gathering his thoughts.

"…oh?" She feigned innocence. She wasn't that socially inept. She knew people had dates and people had romantic intentions for things like dances. She just never though that she and Ron would find themselves in that sort of situation. She also wasn't sure if she was ready for such a thing despite the fact there would virtually be no difference between if they went as friends or if they went as…whatever they would go as. Dates. "I just thought you would want to." 'Because why would you have a date like me?' She didn't even know how to dress for one of these things properly. "But...if you really want to we could try going as not-friends."

"Date" was still a scary word.