But her two best friends were Ron and Harry and the only female friends were her dorm mates, and she wouldn’t really say that she was close to them. Following her appearance at the Yule Ball with Viktor and her sudden "discovery’ of her femininity, Lavender and Parvati had started to treat her like she was more than merely a swotty bookworm who could help them if they didn’t understand something. But they had quickly realised that Hermione hadn’t suddenly swapped her personality and when she had been reluctant to share details about her relationship with Viktor, their interest had disappeared again. It hadn’t stopped Lavender from thrusting a stack of her old beauty magazines at Hermione at the end of their fourth year.